Smart nanomaterials in cancer theranostics: challenges and opportunities

BK Kashyap, VV Singh, MK Solanki, A Kumar… - ACS …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Cancer is ranked as the second leading cause of death globally. Traditional cancer
therapies including chemotherapy are flawed, with off-target and on-target toxicities on the …

[HTML][HTML] Emerging applications of nanotechnology in healthcare systems: Grand challenges and perspectives

S Anjum, S Ishaque, H Fatima, W Farooq, C Hano… - Pharmaceuticals, 2021 - mdpi.com
Healthcare, as a basic human right, has often become the focus of the development of
innovative technologies. Technological progress has significantly contributed to the …

Nanomedical approaches in the realm of rheumatoid arthritis

AF Radu, SG Bungau - Ageing research reviews, 2023 - Elsevier
Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a heterogeneous autoimmune inflammatory disorder defined by
the damage to the bone and cartilage in the synovium, which causes joint impairment and …

Aptamer chemistry

P Röthlisberger, M Hollenstein - Advanced drug delivery reviews, 2018 - Elsevier
Aptamers are single-stranded DNA or RNA molecules capable of tightly binding to specific
targets. These functional nucleic acids are obtained by an in vitro Darwinian evolution …

Platinum nanoparticles in biomedicine: Preparation, anti-cancer activity, and drug delivery vehicles

A Abed, M Derakhshan, M Karimi… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Cancer is the main cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide, excluding infectious disease.
Because of their lack of specificity in chemotherapy agents are used for cancer treatment …

Cancer active targeting by nanoparticles: a comprehensive review of literature

R Bazak, M Houri, S El Achy, S Kamel… - Journal of cancer research …, 2015 - Springer
Purpose Cancer is one of the leading causes of death, and thus, the scientific community
has but great efforts to improve cancer management. Among the major challenges in cancer …

Chemistry, biology, and medicine of fluorescent nanomaterials and related systems: new insights into biosensing, bioimaging, genomics, diagnostics, and therapy

J Yao, M Yang, Y Duan - Chemical reviews, 2014 - ACS Publications
2. INTRODUCTION The investigation of many fundamental processes in life sciences
requires straightforward tools for fast, sensitive, reliable, and reproducible detection of …

A review of aptamer-based SERS biosensors: Design strategies and applications

M Muhammad, Q Huang - Talanta, 2021 - Elsevier
Surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy, due to its high sensitivity, unique vibrational
fingerprint identification of molecules and easy operation, has been extensively applied in …

Ligand-directed active tumor-targeting polymeric nanoparticles for cancer chemotherapy

Y Zhong, F Meng, C Deng, Z Zhong - Biomacromolecules, 2014 - ACS Publications
In recent years, polymeric nanoparticles have appeared as a most viable and versatile
delivery system for targeted cancer therapy. Various in vivo studies have demonstrated that …

Biosensor technology for pesticides—a review

N Verma, A Bhardwaj - Applied biochemistry and biotechnology, 2015 - Springer
Pesticides, due to their lucrative outcomes, are majorly implicated in agricultural fields for
crop production enhancement. Due to their pest removal properties, pesticides of various …