Nanoparticle-based technologies offer exciting new approaches to disease diagnostics and
therapeutics. To take advantage of unique properties of nanoscale materials and structures …

Timely diagnosis and appropriate antitumoral treatments remain of utmost importance, since
cancer remains a leading cause of death worldwide. Within this context, nanotechnology …

The physics of mass transport within body compartments and across biological barriers
differentiates cancers from healthy tissues. Variants of nanoparticles can be manufactured in …

Nanoparticles are efficient to safely deliver therapeutic and imaging contrast agents to
tumors for cancer diagnostic and therapy, if they can escape the reticuloendothelial system …

Porous silicon (pSi) is emerging as a promising material in the development of nanovectors
for the systemic delivery of therapeutic and imaging agents. The integration of …

Purpose Gene therapy has shown extensive potential to treat human diseases occurring
from the defection of genes like various types of cancers. The cationic polymers, as non-viral …

Over the last few decades a great variety of nanotechnology based platforms have been
synthesized and fabricated to improve the delivery of active compounds to a disease site …

Nanoparticles are designed to deliver therapeutics and diagnostics selectively to tumors.
Their size, shape, charge, material, coating, and cargo determine their individual …

The majority of heart attacks occur when there is a sudden rupture of atherosclerotic plaque,
exposing prothrombotic emboli to coronary blood flow, forming clots that can cause …

Background Uncoordinated cellular proliferation and dysregulated angiogenesis in solid
tumors are coupled with inadequate tissue, blood, and lymphatic vascularization …