Diverse applications of nanomedicine

B Pelaz, C Alexiou, RA Alvarez-Puebla, F Alves… - ACS …, 2017 - ACS Publications
The design and use of materials in the nanoscale size range for addressing medical and
health-related issues continues to receive increasing interest. Research in nanomedicine …

Endohedral fullerenes

AA Popov, S Yang, L Dunsch - Chemical reviews, 2013 - ACS Publications
One of the attractive properties of the hollow carbon clusters, known as fullerenes, is the
possibility to use them as robust containers for other species. Although an IUPAC …

Carbon‐based nanomaterials for cancer therapy via targeting tumor microenvironment

J Saleem, L Wang, C Chen - Advanced healthcare materials, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Cancer remains one of the major health problems all over the world and conventional
therapeutic approaches have failed to attain an effective cure. Tumor microenvironments …

Current status and future developments of endohedral metallofullerenes

X Lu, L Feng, T Akasaka, S Nagase - Chemical Society Reviews, 2012 - pubs.rsc.org
Endohedral metallofullerenes (EMFs), a new class of hybrid molecules formed by
encapsulation of metallic species inside fullerene cages, exhibit unique properties that differ …

Nanomedicine for targeted cancer therapy: towards the overcoming of drug resistance

A Shapira, YD Livney, HJ Broxterman… - Drug resistance updates, 2011 - Elsevier
Anticancer drug resistance almost invariably emerges and poses major obstacles towards
curative therapy of various human malignancies. In the current review we will distinguish …

Nanopreparations to overcome multidrug resistance in cancer

NR Patel, BS Pattni, AH Abouzeid… - Advanced drug delivery …, 2013 - Elsevier
Multidrug resistance is the most widely exploited phenomenon by which cancer eludes
chemotherapy. Broad variety of factors, ranging from the cellular ones, such as over …

Inorganic nanoparticles in cancer therapy

S Bhattacharyya, RA Kudgus, R Bhattacharya… - Pharmaceutical …, 2011 - Springer
Nanotechnology is an evolving field with enormous potential for biomedical applications.
The growing interest to use inorganic nanoparticles in medicine is due to the unique size …

What do we know about the ecotoxicological implications of the rare earth element gadolinium in aquatic ecosystems?

G Trapasso, S Chiesa, R Freitas, E Pereira - Science of the Total …, 2021 - Elsevier
Gadolinium (Gd) is one of the most commercially exploited rare earth elements, commonly
employed in magnetic resonance imaging as a contrast agent. The present review was …

Low-toxic and safe nanomaterials by surface-chemical design, carbon nanotubes, fullerenes, metallofullerenes, and graphenes

L Yan, F Zhao, S Li, Z Hu, Y Zhao - Nanoscale, 2011 - pubs.rsc.org
The toxicity grade for a bulk material can be approximately determined by three factors
(chemical composition, dose, and exposure route). However, for a nanomaterial it depends …