Foreword Preface Editors Contributors Introduction; Akira Tsuda and Peter Gehr Section I: Gas Phase Deposition; Akira Tsuda and Frank S. Henry Section II: Airway/Alveolar Surface Interaction with the Lung Surface; Peter Gehr and Akira Tsuda Role of the Biomolecule Corona in Nanoparticle Fate and Behavior; Iseult Lynch Interaction with Alveolar Lining Fluid; Vincent Castranova, Dale W. Porter, and Robert R. Mercer Interaction with Lung Macrophages; Barry Weinberger, Patrick J. Sinko, Jeffrey D. Laskin, and Debra L. Laskin Section III: Crossing Epithelial Cells Interactions with Alveolar Epithelium; Farnoosh Fazlollahi, Yong Ho Kim, Arnold Sipos, Zea Borok, Kwang-Jin Kim, and Edward D. Crandall Mechanistic Aspects of Cellular Uptake; Lennart Treuel, Xiue Jiang, and Gerd Ulrich Nienhaus Cellular Uptake and Intracellular Trafficking; Barbara Rothen-Rutishauser, Dagmar A. Kuhn, Dimitri Vanhecke, Fabian Herzog, Alke Petri-Fink, and Martin J.D. Clift Section IV: Translocation Translocation across the Air–Blood Tissue Barrier; Fabian Blank, Christophe von Garnier, Peter Gehr, and Barbara Rothen-Rutishauser The Pulmonary Lymphatic System; Akira Tsuda Translocation and Accumulation in the Body; Wolfgang G. Kreyling Section V: Drug Delivery to the Respiratory Tract Practical Considerations for Drug Delivery to the Respiratory Tract; John S. Patton Drug and Gene Delivery in the Lungs; Satoshi Uchida, Keiji Itaka, and Kazunori Kataoka Bio-Nanocapsules: Novel Drug Delivery; Shun’ichi Kuroda Section VI: Special Issues Physicochemical, Colloidal, and Transport Properties; Heinrich Hofmann, Lionel Maurizi, Marie-Gabrielle Beuzelin, Usawadee Sakulkhu, and Vianney Bernau Dosimetry for In Vitro Nanotoxicology: Too Complicated to Consider, Too Important to Ignore; Joel M. Cohen and Philip Demokritou Potential for Nose-to-Brain Delivery of Drugs; Lisbeth Illum The Developing Lungs; Akira Tsuda and Frank S. Henry Nanotoxicology; Dominique Balharry, Eva Gubbins, Helinor Johnston, Ali Kermanizadeh, and Vicki Stone Summary; Peter Gehr and Akira Tsuda Index