Cancer nanotechnology : methods and protocols

1. What Is cancer nanotechnology? / Stephen R. Grobmyer, Nobutaka Iwakuma, Parvesh Sharma, and Brij M. Moudgil -- 2. Molecular-targeted therapy for cancer and nanotechnology / Steven N. Hochwald -- 3. Enhanced permeability and retention (EPR) effect for anticancer nanomedicine drug targeting / Khaled Greish -- 4. Nanoparticle characterization for cancer nanotechnology and other biological applications / Scott C. Brown, Maria Palazuelos, Parvesh Sharma, Kevin W. Powers, Stephen M. Roberts, Stephen R. Grobmyer, and Brij M. Moudgil -- 5. Multimodal nanoparticulate bioimaging contrast agents / Parvesh Sharma, Amit Singh, Scott C. Brown, Niclas Bengtsson, Glenn A. Walter, Stephen R. Grobmyer, Nobutaka Iwakuma, Swadeshmukul Santra, Edward W. Scott, and Brij M. Moudgil -- 6. Gold nanocages for cancer imaging and therapy / Leslie Au, Jingyi Chen, Lihong V. Wang, and Younan Xia -- 7. Nanoshells for photothermal cancer therapy / Jennifer G. Morton, Emily S. Day, Naomi J. Halas, and Jennifer L. West -- 8. Gold nanorods: multifunctional agents for cancer imaging and therapy / Alexander Wei, Alexei P. Leonov, and Qingshan Wei -- 9. Polymeric micelles: polyethylene glycol-phosphatidylethanolamine (PEG-PE)-based micelles as an example / Rupa R. Sawant and Vladimir P. Torchilin -- 10. Fluorescent silica nanoparticles for cancer imaging / Swadeshmukul Santra -- 11. Polymeric nanoparticles for drug delivery / Juliana M. Chan, Pedro M. Valencia, Liangfang Zhang, Robert Langer, and Omid C. Farokhzad -- 12. Synthesis, characterization, and functionalization of gold nanoparticles for cancer imaging / Gary A. Craig, Peter J. Allen, and Michael D. Mason -- 13. Identification of pancreatic cancer-specific cell-surface markers for development of targeting ligands / David L. Morse, Galen Hostetter, Yoganand Balagurunathan, Robert J. Gillies, and Haiyong Han -- 14. Preparation and characterization of doxorubicin liposomes / Guoqin Niu, Brian Cogburn, and Jeffrey Hughes -- 15. PEGylated nanocarriers for systemic delivery / N.K. Jain and Manoj Nahar -- 16. Nanoparticle-aptamer conjugates for cancer cell targeting and detection / M. Carmen Estévez, Yu-Fen Huang, Huaizhi Kang, Meghan B. O'Donoghue, Suwussa Bamrungsap, Jilin Yan, Xiaolan Chen, and Weihong Tan -- 17. Targeting of nanoparticles: folate receptor / Sumith A. Kularatne and Philip S. Low -- 18. Magnetic aerosol targeting of nanoparticles to cancer: nanomagnetosols / Carsten Rudolph, Bernhard Gleich, and Andreas W. Flemmer -- 19. LHRH-targeted nanoparticles for cancer therapeutics / Tamara Minko, Mahesh L. Patil, Min Zhang, Jayant J. Khandare, Maha Saad, Pooja Chandna, and Oleh Taratula -- 20. Antibody targeting of nanoparticles to tumor-specific receptors: immunoliposomes / Miriam Rothdiener, Julia Beuttler, Sylvia K.E. Messerschmidt, and Roland E. Kontermann -- 21. Photoacoustic tomography for imaging nanoparticles / Zhen Yuan and Huabei Jiang -- 22. Current applications of nanotechnology for magnetic resonance imaging of apoptosis / Gustav J. Strijkers, Geralda A.F. van Tilborg, Tessa Geelen, Chris P.M. Reutelingsperger, and Klaas Nicolay -- 23. Applications of gold nanorods for cancer imaging and photothermal therapy / Xiaohua Huang, Ivan H. El-Sayed, and Mostafa A. El-Sayed -- 24. Use of nanoparticles for targeted, noninvasive thermal destruction of malignant cells / Paul Cherukuri and Steven A. Curley -- 25. Colloidal gold: a novel nanoparticle for targeted cancer therapeutics / Anathea C. Powell, Giulio F. Paciotti, and Steven K. Libutti -- 26. Liposomal doxorubicin and nab-paclitaxel: nanoparticle cancer chemotherapy in current clinical use / Alexander Gaitanis and Stephen Staal.