Special Issue "Magnetic Nanoparticles (MNPs) in Biomedical Applications"
A special issue of Pharmaceuticals (ISSN 1424-8247). This special issue belongs to the section "Pharmaceutical Technology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 March 2024 | Viewed by 1844
Special Issue Editor
Interests: combination of photodynamic therapy and magnetic hyperthermia; iron oxide magnetic nanoparticles
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Magnetic nanoparticles are currently reshaping medical nanotechnologies and applications. Publications on biomedical applications of magnetic nanoparticles increased by more than three orders of magnitude over the past two decades, with a corresponding increase in patents, clinical trials, clinical applications, and medical devices. Examples include magnetic resonance imaging, magnetic hyperthermia for cancer, bone, brain, liver, and pancreas therapies, targeted drug delivery, tissue engineering, biosensors, and other biomedical applications. Synthetic and characterization approaches have also increased, providing insights into an increasing range of nano-morphologies including spheres, crystals, rods, stars, flowers, wires, and sheets, and these are increasingly engineered into multi-functional nanoconjugates used in bio-environmental and stimulus-responsive drug delivery and release.
Paramagnetic and superparamagnetic metal, alloy, chalcogenide, and ferrite nanoparticles of iron, nickel, cobalt, gadolinium, and other metals are commonly used. Biocompatibility is achieved through polymeric, biomimetic membrane encapsulation, cloaking, and functionalization with target cell membrane and internal component molecules such as aptamers and folate for cancer cell targeting. These developments have led to novel innovations promising reduction of disease burden. The special issue will publish research and review articles on the foregoing and other relevant reflections, perspectives, and research investigations.
The range of articles includes disease detection and diagnosis, therapeutic applications, image-guided theragnostic, combination therapies, design and fabrication of nanoconjugates for biomedical applications, in-vitro, in-vivo, and clinical applications, and biomedical devices. Environmental applications aimed at reducing the burden of disease are considered to be an important part of biomedical disease prevention.
Prof. Dr. Sandile Phinda Songca
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- magnetic nanoparticles
- magnetic resonance imaging
- magnetic hyperthermia
- cancer therapy
- bone therapy
- magnetically targeted drug delivery
- magnetic hyperthermia drug release
- antimicrobial
- tissue engineering
- biosensors
