Nanomaterials: applications in cancer imaging and therapy

JA Barreto, W O'Malley, M Kubeil, B Graham… - Advanced …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
The application of nanomaterials (NMs) in biomedicine is increasing rapidly and offers
excellent prospects for the development of new non‐invasive strategies for the diagnosis …

Carbon nanotubes as vectors for gene therapy: past achievements, present challenges and future goals

K Bates, K Kostarelos - Advanced drug delivery reviews, 2013 - Elsevier
Promising therapeutic and prophylactic effects have been achieved following advances in
the gene therapy research arena, giving birth to the new generation of disease-modifying …

Bioapplications of poly (amidoamine)(PAMAM) dendrimers in nanomedicine

N Taghavi Pourianazar, P Mutlu, U Gunduz - Journal of Nanoparticle …, 2014 - Springer
Abstract Poly (amidoamine)(PAMAM) dendrimers are a novel class of spherical, well-
designed branching polymers with interior cavities and abundant terminal groups on the …

A structural study on ethylenediamine-and poly (amidoamine)-functionalized graphene oxide: simultaneous reduction, functionalization, and formation of 3D structure

F Samadaei, M Salami-Kalajahi… - RSC …, 2015 - pubs.rsc.org
Graphene oxide (GO) nanosheets were simultaneously modified and reduced with
ethylenediamine (EDA). Then, EDA-treated GO (RGO-NH2) was exposed to iterative …

Aptamer-targeted delivery of Bcl-xL shRNA using alkyl modified PAMAM dendrimers into lung cancer cells

S Ayatollahi, Z Salmasi, M Hashemi, S Askarian… - The international journal …, 2017 - Elsevier
RNAi-based gene therapy has been recently considered as a promising approach against
cancer. Targeted delivery of drug, gene or therapeutic RNAi-based systems to tumor cells is …

Structure‐invertible nanoparticles for triggered co‐delivery of nucleic acids and hydrophobic drugs for combination cancer therapy

K Wang, Q Hu, W Zhu, M Zhao, Y **… - Advanced Functional …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Here, a new type of structure‐invertible, redox‐responsive polymeric nanoparticle for the
efficient co‐delivery of nucleic acids and hydrophobic drugs in vitro and in vivo is reported …

[PDF][PDF] PAMAM-dendrimer enhanced antibacterial effect of vancomycin hydrochloride against gram-negative bacteria

A Serri, A Mahboubi, A Zarghi… - Journal of Pharmacy …, 2019 - frontierspartnerships.org
Purpose: The antibacterial activity of some antibiotics is specific to either Gram-positive or
Gramnegative bacteria. There are different mechanisms behind such insensitivities like …

Micro and nanotechnologies in heart valve tissue engineering

A Hasan, J Saliba, HP Modarres, A Bakhaty… - Biomaterials, 2016 - Elsevier
Due to the increased morbidity and mortality resulting from heart valve diseases, there is a
growing demand for off-the-shelf implantable tissue engineered heart valves (TEHVs) …

Improved GFP gene transfection mediated by polyamidoamine dendrimer-functionalized multi-walled carbon nanotubes with high biocompatibility

W Qin, K Yang, H Tang, L Tan, Q **e, M Ma… - Colloids and Surfaces B …, 2011 - Elsevier
The multi-walled carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs)-polyamidoamine (PAMAM) hybrid was
prepared by covalent linkage approach, and characterized by transmission electron …

Reversal of P-glycoprotein-mediated multidrug resistance by CD44 antibody-targeted nanocomplexes for short hairpin RNA-encoding plasmid DNA delivery

J Gu, X Fang, J Hao, X Sha - Biomaterials, 2015 - Elsevier
Multidrug resistance (MDR) remains one of the major reasons for the reductions in efficacy
of many chemotherapeutic agents in cancer therapy. As a classical MDR phenotype of …