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- Title
Neuroscience nanotechnology: progress, opportunities and challenges.
- Authors
Silva, Gabriel A.
- Abstract
Nanotechnologies exploit materials and devices with a functional organization that has been engineered at the nanometre scale. The application of nanotechnology in cell biology and physiology enables targeted interactions at a fundamental molecular level. In neuroscience, this entails specific interactions with neurons and glial cells. Examples of current research include technologies that are designed to better interact with neural cells, advanced molecular imaging technologies, materials and hybrid molecules used in neural regeneration, neuroprotection, and targeted delivery of drugs and small molecules across the blood–brain barrier.
- Subjects
NEUROSCIENCES; NANOTECHNOLOGY; CYTOLOGY; NEUROGLIA; IMAGING systems; BLOOD-brain barrier
- Publication
Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2006, Vol 7, Issue 1, p65
- ISSN
1471-003X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1038/nrn1827