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Record Nr.

UNINA9910137464103321

Autore

Couvreur Patrick

Titolo

Les nanotechnologies peuvent-elles contribuer à traiter des maladies sévères / / Patrick Couvreur

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Collège de France, 2010

France : , : Collège de France Fayard, , 2010

ISBN

2-8218-1470-4

2-7226-0098-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (60 pages) : digital file(s)

Collana

Leçons inaugurales ; ; 211

Soggetti

Health & Biological Sciences

Biomedical Engineering

Lingua di pubblicazione

Francese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Sommario/riassunto

Inaugural lecture delivered on January 21, 2010, Chair of Technological Innovation Liliane Bettencourt (2009-2010). The design of nanotechnologies capable of transporting drugs in the body and releasing them in a specific manner at the level of the site of action makes it possible to increase the therapeutic activity and to reduce the toxicity of many drugs. These “nanovectors” are capable of protecting the active molecule from degradation by the enzymes of the organism, of targeting it selectively towards the target tissue or cell, and of controlling its release. More specific than traditional pharmaceutical formulations, “nanomedicines” make it possible to design new therapeutic strategies in the fight against severe diseases: cancers, intracellular infections, metabolic or neurodegenerative diseases, etc. The Chair of Technological Innovation at the Collège de France was created with the support of the Bettencourt-Schueller Foundation.