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Record Nr.

UNINA9910409690903321

Autore

Bueno Juan

Titolo

Preclinical Evaluation of Antimicrobial Nanodrugs / / by Juan Bueno

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2020

ISBN

3-030-43855-4

Edizione

[1st ed. 2020.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (125 pages)

Collana

Nanotechnology in the Life Sciences, , 2523-8027

Disciplina

615.792

Soggetti

Medical microbiology

Microbial genetics

Microbial genomics

Nanotechnology

Pharmaceutical technology

Plant breeding

Plant biochemistry

Medical Microbiology

Microbial Genetics and Genomics

Pharmaceutical Sciences/Technology

Plant Breeding/Biotechnology

Plant Biochemistry

Nanotecnologia

Farmacologia

Microbiologia

Llibres electrònics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Preface -- 1. Antimicrobial screening, foundations and interpretation -- 2. Antimicrobial activity of nanomaterials, from selection to application -- 3. Synergy and antagonism, the criteria of the formulation -- 4. In vitro Nanotoxicity, towards the development of safe and effective treatments -- 5. ADMETox, bringing nanotechnology closer to Lipinski's rule of five -- 6. Antimicrobial nanotechnology in



preventing the transmission of infectious disease -- 7. Nanotechnology in the discovery of new antimicrobial drugs: is a new scientific revolution possible? -- 8. Nanotechnology beyond the antibiosis -- Index. .

Sommario/riassunto

Translational medicine addresses the gap between research and the clinical application of new discoveries. To efficiently deliver new drugs to care centers, a preclinical evaluation, both in vitro and in vivo, is required to ensure that the most active and least toxic compounds are selected as well as to predict clinical outcome. Antimicrobial nanomedicines have been shown to have higher specificity in their therapeutic targets and the ability to serve as adjuvants, increasing the effectiveness of pre-existing immune compounds. The design and development of new standardized protocols for evaluating antimicrobial nanomedicines is needed for both the industry and clinical laboratory. These protocols must aim to evaluate laboratory activity and present models of pharmacokinetic-pharmacodynamic and toxicokinetic behavior that predict absorption and distribution. Likewise, these protocols must follow a theranostics approach, be able to detect promising formulations, diagnose the infectious disease, and determine the correct treatment to implement a personalized therapeutic behavior. Given the possibilities that nanotechnology offers, not updating to new screening platforms is inadequate as it prevents the correct application of discoveries, increasing the effect of the valley of death between innovations and their use. This book is structured to discuss the fundamentals taken into account for the design of robust, reproducible and automatable evaluation platforms. These vital platforms should enable the discovery of new medicines with which to face antimicrobial resistance (RAM), one of the great problems of our time.