Nanotechnology development in surgical applications: recent trends and developments

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This paper gives a detailed analysis of nanotechnology's rising involvement in numerous surgical fields. We investigate the use of nanotechnology in orthopedic surgery, neurosurgery, plastic surgery, surgical oncology, heart surgery, vascular surgery, ophthalmic surgery, thoracic surgery, and minimally invasive surgery. The paper details how nanotechnology helps with arthroplasty, chondrogenesis, tissue regeneration, wound healing, and more. It also discusses the employment of nanomaterials in implant surfaces, bone grafting, and breast implants, among other things. The article also explores various nanotechnology uses, including stem cell-incorporated nano scaffolds, nano-surgery, hemostasis, nerve healing, nanorobots, and diagnostic applications. The ethical and safety implications of using nanotechnology in surgery are also addressed. The future possibilities of nanotechnology are investigated, pointing to a possible route for improved patient outcomes. The essay finishes with a comment on nanotechnology's transformational influence in surgical applications and its promise for future breakthroughs.

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The cellular and molecular mechanisms underpinning tissue repair and its failure to heal are still poorly understood, and current therapies are limited. Poor wound healing after trauma, surgery, acute illness, or chronic disease conditions affects millions of people worldwide each year and is the consequence of poorly regulated elements of the healthy tissue repair response, including inflammation, angiogenesis, matrix deposition, and cell recruitment. Failure of one or several of these cellular processes is generally linked to an underlying clinical condition, such as vascular disease, diabetes, or aging, which are all frequently associated with healing pathologies. The search for clinical strategies that might improve the body's natural repair mechanisms will need to be based on a thorough understanding of the basic biology of repair and regeneration. In this review, we highlight emerging concepts in tissue regeneration and repair, and provide some perspectives on how to translate current knowledge into viable clinical approaches for treating patients with wound-healing pathologies.

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Nanotoxicology: An Emerging Discipline Evolving from Studies of Ultrafine Particles

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Although humans have been exposed to airborne nanosized particles (NSPs; < 100 nm) throughout their evolutionary stages, such exposure has increased dramatically over the last century due to anthropogenic sources. The rapidly developing field of nanotechnology is likely to become yet another source through inhalation, ingestion, skin uptake, and injection of engineered nanomaterials. Information about safety and potential hazards is urgently needed. Results of older bio-kinetic studies with NSPs and newer epidemiologic and toxicologic studies with airborne ultrafine particles can be viewed as the basis for the expanding field of nanotoxicology, which can be defined as safety evaluation of engineered nanostructures and nanodevices. Collectively, some emerging concepts of nanotoxicology can be identified from the results of these studies. When inhaled, specific sizes of NSPs are efficiently deposited by diffusional mechanisms in all regions of the respiratory tract. The small size facilitates uptake into cells and transcytosis across epithelial and endothelial cells into the blood and lymph circulation to reach potentially sensitive target sites such as bone marrow, lymph nodes, spleen, and heart. Access to the central nervous system and ganglia via translocation along axons and dendrites of neurons has also been observed. NSPs penetrating the skin distribute via uptake into lymphatic channels. Endocytosis and biokinetics are largely dependent on NSP surface chemistry (coating) and in vivo surface modifications. The greater surface area per mass compared with larger-sized particles of the same chemistry renders NSPs more active biologically. This activity includes a potential for inflammatory and pro-oxidant, but also antioxidant, activity, which can explain early findings showing mixed results in terms of toxicity of NSPs to environmentally relevant species. Evidence of mitochondrial distribution and oxidative stress response after NSP endocytosis points to a need for basic research on their interactions with subcellular structures. Additional considerations for assessing safety of engineered NSPs include careful selections of appropriate and relevant doses/concentrations, the likelihood of increased effects in a compromised organism, and also the benefits of possible desirable effects. An interdisciplinary team approach (e.g., toxicology, materials science, medicine, molecular biology, and bioinformatics, to name a few) is mandatory for nanotoxicology research to arrive at an appropriate risk assessment.

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Mahnaz Amiri: mahnazamiri96@yahoo.com

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Journal ID (nlm-ta): Eur J Med Res

Journal ID (iso-abbrev): Eur J Med Res

Title: European Journal of Medical Research

Publisher: BioMed Central (London )

ISSN (Print): 0949-2321

ISSN (Electronic): 2047-783X

Publication date (Electronic): 24 November 2023

Publication date PMC-release: 24 November 2023

Publication date Collection: 2023

Volume: 28

Electronic Location Identifier: 537

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[1 ]Student Research Committee, Faculty of Allied Medicine, Kerman University of Medical Sciences, ( https://ror.org/02kxbqc24) Kerman, Iran

[2 ]Department of Hematology and Medical Laboratory Sciences, Faculty of Allied Medicine, Kerman University of Medical Sciences, ( https://ror.org/02kxbqc24) Kerman, Iran

[3 ]Cell Therapy and Regenerative Medicine Comprehensive Center, Kerman University of Medical Sciences, ( https://ror.org/02kxbqc24) Kerman, Iran

[4 ]Neuroscience Research Center, Institute of Neuropharmacology, Kerman University of Medical Science, ( https://ror.org/02kxbqc24) Kerman, Iran

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Publisher ID: 1429

DOI: 10.1186/s40001-023-01429-4

PMC ID: 10668503

PubMed ID: 38001554

SO-VID: e2eecf4b-d7ed-4d06-8601-28fcb7d9214d

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Date received : 6 December 2022

Date accepted : 3 October 2023

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Funded by: FundRef http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100004621, Kerman University of Medical Sciences;

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Keywords: nanotechnology,tissue/organ engineering,surgery,implant material,wound healing

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