title: [Nanotechnology future of medicine].
abstract: Nanotechnology enables to produce products with new, exactly specified, unique properties. Those products are finding application in various branches of electronic, chemical, food and textile industry as well as in medicine, pharmacy, agriculture, architectural engineering, aviation and in defense. In this paper structures used in nanomedicine were characterized. Possibilities and first effort of application of nanotechnology in diagnostics and therapy were also described. Nanotechnology provides tools which allow to identifying changes and taking repair operations on cellular and molecular level and applying therapy oriented for specific structures in cell. Great hope are being associated with entering nanotechnology into the regenerative medicine. It requires astute recognition bases of tissue regeneration biology--initiating signals as well as the intricate control system of the progress of this process. However application of nanotechnology in tissue engineering allows to avoiding problems associated with loss properties of implants what is frequent cause of performing another surgical procedure at present.
authors.affiliation: Medical University of Silesia, Katowice, Poland, Faculty of Pharmacy with Laboratory Medicine, Department of Cell Biology.
authors.forename: Katarzyna
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Terlega
authors.forename: Małgorzata
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Latocha
mesh_terms: D005544:Forecasting; D050997:Nanomedicine / Q000639:trends*; D049329:Nanostructures / Q000627:therapeutic use; D044968:Regenerative Medicine; D023822:Tissue Engineering