Aptamers: Tools for Nanotherapy and Molecular Imaging

Content: 1. History of aptamer development / Nasa Savory, Koichi Abe, Taiki Saito, and Kazunori Ikebukuro --
2. Thioredoxin-based peptide aptamers : development and applications / David S. Burz, Sergey Reverdatto, and Alexander Shekhtman --
3. Aptamer selection methodologies / Penmetcha K.R. Kumar --
4. Selection and application of catalytically active oligonucleotides / Rachel Gysbers, Kha Tram, Sepehr Manochehry, Dingran Chang, and Yingfu Li --
5. Stem-cell-specific aptamers for targeted cancer therapy / Hadi Al. Shamaileh, Dongxi Xiang, Tao Wang, Wang Yin, Wei Duan, and Sarah Shigdar --
6. Aptamers as therapeutic tools in neurological diseases / Lukas Aaldering, Shilpa Krishnan, Sue Fletcher, Stephen D. Wilton, and Rakesh N. Veedu --
7. Aptamers in bacterial, viral, and parasitic diseases / Henning Ulrich, Arquimedes Cheffer, Flávia M. Zimbres, Attila Tárnok, and Carsten Wrenger --
8. Aptamers as tools for targeted drug delivery / Anila Mathew and D. Sakthi Kumar --
9. Aptamer-liposome conjugates : current art and future prospects / Oliver Ries and Stefan Vogel --
10. Aptamers in medical diagnosis / Veli Cengiz Ozalp, Murat Kavruk, Ozlem Dilek, and Abdullah Tahir Bayrac --
11. Molecular imaging utilizing aptamer-targeted probes / Nicholas Fletcher and Kristofer Thurecht --
12. First therapeutic aptamer : VEGF-targeting macugen / Marissa Leonard and Xiaoting Zhang --
13. Aptamers : scope, limitations, and future prospects / John G. Bruno.