Enabling nanomaterial, nanofabrication and cellular technologies for nanoneuromedicines

Surya K. Mallapragada, Timothy M. Brenza, Jo Ellyn M. McMillan, Balaji Narasimhan, Donald S. Sakaguchi, Anup D. Sharma, Svitlana Zbarska, Howard E. Gendelman

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Abstract

Nanoparticulate delivery systems represent an area of particular promise for nanoneuromedicines. They possess significant potential for desperately needed therapies designed to combat a range of disorders associated with aging. As such, the field was selected as the focus for the 2014 meeting of the American Society for Nanomedicine. Regenerative, protective, immune modulatory, anti-microbial and anti-inflammatory products, or imaging agents are readily encapsulated in or conjugated to nanoparticles and as such facilitate the delivery of drug payloads to specific action sites across the blood-brain barrier. Diagnostic imaging serves to precisely monitor disease onset and progression while neural stem cell replacement can regenerate damaged tissue through control of stem cell fates. These, taken together, can improve disease burden and limit systemic toxicities. Such enabling technologies serve to protect the nervous system against a broad range of degenerative, traumatic, metabolic, infectious and immune disorders.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)715-729
Number of pages15
JournalNanomedicine: Nanotechnology, Biology, and Medicine
Volume11
Issue number3
DOIs
StatePublished - 2015

Keywords

  • Drug development
  • Nanoformulation
  • Nanoneuromedicine
  • Nanotechnology
  • Targeting

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Bioengineering
  • Medicine (miscellaneous)
  • Molecular Medicine
  • Biomedical Engineering
  • General Materials Science
  • Pharmaceutical Science

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