Drug Delivery System
Online ISSN : 1881-2732
Print ISSN : 0913-5006
ISSN-L : 0913-5006
Volume 26, Issue 1
Displaying 1-6 of 6 articles from this issue
Feature articles “Development of Innovative Diagnosis and Therapeutic Systems based on Nanobiotechnology” Editor : Kazunori Kataoka
  • Takahiro Ochiya
    2011 Volume 26 Issue 1 Pages 10-14
    Published: 2011
    Released on J-STAGE: April 25, 2011
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    The existence of circulating miRNAs in the blood of cancer patients has raised the possibility that miRNAs may serve as a novel diagnostic marker. However, the secretory mechanism and biological function, as well as the meaning of the existence of extracellular miRNAs, remain largely unclear.
    In this review, we summarize the usefulness of circulating miRNA for cancer diagnosis, prognosis, and therapeutics.
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  • Akira Matsumoto, Yuji Miyahara
    2011 Volume 26 Issue 1 Pages 15-19
    Published: 2011
    Released on J-STAGE: April 25, 2011
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    Herein presented is an overview of the current trend and future perspective of biosensors and the related fields that show rapid advancement as fusion technologies between micro-/nanoelectronics and medicine/biology. Particular attention has been paid to current effort to develop new biosensing principles exploiting a variety of nano-structures and attempts of bio-transistors providing a label-free electrical biosensing platform.
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  • Yasuhiro Matsumura
    2011 Volume 26 Issue 1 Pages 20-28
    Published: 2011
    Released on J-STAGE: April 25, 2011
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    Anticancer agents categorized in DDS based on nanotechnology have been approved. Regarding a pipeline of clinical development of micelle carrier system, total 6 clinical trials are now underway not only in Japan but also in other countries.
    In this chapter, clinical status of other formulations of DDS as well as micelle carriers will be described. In addition, cancer stromal targeting therapy recently proposed by us will be discussed.
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  • Nobuhiro Nishiyama, Kazunori Kataoka
    2011 Volume 26 Issue 1 Pages 29-36
    Published: 2011
    Released on J-STAGE: April 25, 2011
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    The development of intelligent drug delivery systems(DDS)is essential to the establishment of the advanced medicine including the treatment of intractable diseases, molecular therapy using plasmid DNA and siRNA, regenerative medicine and non-invasive diagnosis and surgical treatment, although several DDS have been approved for clinical use.
    In this paper, we review the current state and future prospects of intelligent DDS.
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  • Hiroshi Iseki
    2011 Volume 26 Issue 1 Pages 37-45
    Published: 2011
    Released on J-STAGE: April 25, 2011
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    The precise navigation surgery using nano device is a symbol of the innovative minimal invasive surgery system that harmonizes the photo-physics technology in the Drug Delivery Systems(DDS)with the image-guided and robot-assisted technology. This nano device can be used as the device that concentrates a photo-sensitizer uniquely in a lesion and it realizes a faster and more precise navigation surgery than the existing PDT(photodynamic therapy)or HIFU(high intensity focused ultrasound)therapy. Finally we propose to materialize the first chemical surgery in the world without the invasive surgical resection for patients.
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  • Shinsuke Ohba, Ung-il Chung
    2011 Volume 26 Issue 1 Pages 46-51
    Published: 2011
    Released on J-STAGE: April 25, 2011
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    Regenerative medicine aims to regenerate tissues or organs by combining medical findings with engineering techniques. To develop novel tissue-regeneration system, we need to efficiently activate tissue-regeneration signal in vivo by providing carriers with DDS functions.
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