Nanotechnology in pulmonary medicine.
Curr Opin Pharmacol
; 56: 85-92, 2021 02.
Article
in English
| MEDLINE | ID: covidwho-985149
ABSTRACT
Nanotechnology in medicine-nanomedicine-is extensively employed to diagnose, treat, and prevent pulmonary diseases. Over the last few years, this brave new world has made remarkable progress, offering opportunities to address historical clinical challenges in pulmonary diseases including multidrug resistance, adverse side effects of conventional therapeutic agents, novel imaging, and earlier disease detection. Nanomedicine is also being applied to tackle the new emerging infectious diseases, including severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus (SARS-CoV), Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus (MERS-CoV), influenza A virus subtype H1N1 (A/H1N1), and more recently, severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). In this review we provide both a historical overview of the application of nanomedicine to respiratory diseases and more recent cutting-edge approaches such as nanoparticle-mediated combination therapies, novel double-targeted nondrug delivery system for targeting, stimuli-responsive nanoparticles, and theranostic imaging in the diagnosis and treatment of pulmonary diseases.
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Full text:
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Collection:
International databases
Database:
MEDLINE
Main subject:
Respiratory Tract Diseases
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Pulmonary Medicine
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Nanotechnology
Type of study:
Prognostic study
Limits:
Animals
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Humans
Language:
English
Journal:
Curr Opin Pharmacol
Journal subject:
Pharmacology
Year:
2021
Document Type:
Article
Affiliation country:
J.coph.2020.11.002
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