Nanobiotechnology in Diagnosis, Drug Delivery and Treatment

List of Contributors vii Preface xi 1 Nanotechnology: A New Era in the Revolution of Drug Delivery, Diagnosis, and Treatment of Diseases 1 Avinash P. Ingle, Patrycja GoliDska, Alka Yadav, Mehdi Razzaghi-Abyaneh, Mrunali Patel, Rashmin Patel, Yulia Plekhanova, Anatoly Reshetilov, and Mahendra Rai 2 Selenium Nanocomposites in Diagnosis, Drug Delivery, and Treatment 25 Irina A. Shurygina and Michael G. Shurygin 3 Emerging Applications of Nanomaterials in the Diagnosis and Treatment of Gastrointestinal Disorders 47 Patrycja GoliDska and Magdalena Wypij 4 Nanotheranostics: Novel Materials for Targeted Therapy and Diagnosis 63 Sougata Ghosh and Rohini Kitture 5 Aptamer-Incorporated Nanoparticle Systems for Drug Delivery 95 Fahimeh Charbgoo, Seyed Mohammad Taghdisi, Rezvan Yazdian-Robati, Khalil Abnous, Mohammad Ramezani, and Mona Alibolandi 6 Application of Nanotechnology in Transdermal Drug Delivery 113 Dilesh Jagdish Singhavi and Shagufta Khan 7 Superparamagnetic Iron Oxide Nanoparticle-Based Drug Delivery in Cancer Therapeutics 129 Dipak Maity, Atul Sudame, and Ganeshlenin Kandasamy 8 Virus-Like Nanoparticle-Mediated Delivery of Cancer Therapeutics 153 Yasser Shahzad, Abid Mehmood Yousaf, Talib Hussain, and Syed A.A. Rizvi 9 Magnetic Nanoparticles: An Emergent Platform for Future Cancer Theranostics 171 Parinaz Nezhad-Mokhtari, Fatemeh Salahpour-Anarjan, Armin Rezanezhad, and Abolfazl Akbarzadeh 10 Chitosan Nanoparticles: A Novel Antimicrobial Agent 197 Divya Koilparambil, Sherin Varghese, and Jisha Manakulam Shaikmoideen 11 Sulfur Nanoparticles: Biosynthesis, Antibacterial Applications, and Their Mechanism of Action 217 Priti Paralikar and Mahendra Rai 12 Role of Nanotechnology in the Management of Indoor Fungi 229 Erasmo Gmez-Espinosa, Leyanet Barberia-Roque, and Natalia Bellotti 13 Nanotechnology for Antifungal Therapy 259 Jacqueline Teixeira da Silva and Andre Correa Amaral 14 Chitosan Conjugate of Biogenic Silver Nanoparticles: A Promising Drug Formulation with Antimicrobial and Anticancer Activities 273 Smitha Vijayan and Jisha Manakulam Shaikmoideen 15 Leishmaniasis: Where Infection and Nanoparticles Meet 295 Mohammad Imani and Azam Dehghan 16 Theranostics and Vaccines: Current Status and Future Expectations 359 Thais Francine Ribeiro Alves, Fernando Batain, Ceclia Torqueti de Barros, Kessie Marie Moura Crescencio, Venncio Alves do Amaral, Mariana Silveira de Alcntara Chaud, Dcio Lus Portella, and Marco Vincius Chaud 17 Toxicological Concerns of Nanomaterials Used in Biomedical Applications 375 Avinash P. Ingle, Indarchand Gupta, and Mahendra Rai Index 399