Nanomedicine : a systems engineering approach

✍ Scribed by Xi, Ning; Zhang, Mingjun

• Publisher: Pan Stanford Pub
• Year: 2009
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 349
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book offers a fundamental and comprehensive overview of nanomedicine from a systems engineering perspective, making it the first book in the field of quantitative nanomedicine based on systems theory. It will advance knowledge of nanoscale science and engineering by efficiently employing quantitative tools for fundamental biomedical engineering and biological science research. The book starts by introducing the concept of nanomedicine, and provides basic mathematical modeling techniques that can be used to model nanoscale biomedical and biological systems. It then demonstrates how this id.  Read more...

Abstract:

Offers a fundamental and comprehensive overview of nanomedicine from a systems engineering perspective. This book introduces the concept of nanomedicine, and provides basic mathematical modeling techniques that can be used to model nanoscale biomedical and biological systems.  Read more...

✦ Table of Contents

Content: Cover
Preface
List of Contributors
Contents
Nanomedicine: Dynamic Integration of Nanotechnology with Biomedical Science
Fundamental Mathematical Modeling Techniques for Nano Bio-Systems
A Mathematical Formulation of the Central Dogma of Molecular Biology
System Approach to Characterize Living Drosophila Embryos for Biomedical Investigations
Learning Signaling Pathway Structures
Computational Modeling of Tumor Biobarriers: Implications for Delivery of Nano-Based Therapeutics.

✦ Subjects

Nanomedicine.;Nanotechnology -- Mathematical models.;Biomedical engineering -- Mathematical models.;Drug delivery systems.;MEDICAL -- Instruments & Supplies.;Models, Theoretical.;Systems Biology.;TECHNOLOGY / Material Science;SCIENCE / Life Sciences / General;SCIENCE / Quantum Theory