Cancer nanotechnology: current status and perspectives

JA Kemp, YJ Kwon - Nano convergence, 2021 - Springer
Modern medicine has been waging a war on cancer for nearly a century with no tangible
end in sight. Cancer treatments have significantly progressed, but the need to increase …

Gold nanoparticles for photothermal cancer therapy

JB Vines, JH Yoon, NE Ryu, DJ Lim, H Park - Frontiers in chemistry, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Gold is a multifunctional material that has been utilized in medicinal applications for
centuries because it has been recognized for its bacteriostatic, anticorrosive, and …

Biomedical applications of functionalized gold nanoparticles: a review

K Nejati, M Dadashpour, T Gharibi, H Mellatyar… - Journal of Cluster …, 2021 - Springer
Metal nanoparticles are widely applied in various biomedical applications because of their
unique physicochemical properties. The new and unique properties of gold nanoparticles …

Gold nanoparticles as radiosensitizers in cancer radiotherapy

Y Chen, J Yang, S Fu, J Wu - International Journal of …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
The rapid development of nanotechnology offers a variety of potential therapeutic strategies
for cancer treatment. High atomic element nanomaterials are often utilized as …

N-Heterocyclic Carbenes in Materials Chemistry

CA Smith, MR Narouz, PA Lummis, I Singh… - Chemical …, 2019 - ACS Publications
N-Heterocyclic carbenes (NHCs) have become one of the most widely studied class of
ligands in molecular chemistry and have found applications in fields as varied as catalysis …

Green synthesis of gold nanoparticles using plant extracts as beneficial prospect for cancer theranostics

KK Bharadwaj, B Rabha, S Pati, T Sarkar… - Molecules, 2021 - mdpi.com
Gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) have been widely explored and are well-known for their
medical applications. Chemical and physical synthesis methods are a way to make AuNPs …

Therapeutic targeting of trained immunity

WJM Mulder, J Ochando, LAB Joosten… - Nature reviews Drug …, 2019 - nature.com
Immunotherapy is revolutionizing the treatment of diseases in which dysregulated immune
responses have an important role. However, most of the immunotherapy strategies currently …

MicroRNA delivery through nanoparticles

SWL Lee, C Paoletti, M Campisi, T Osaki… - Journal of Controlled …, 2019 - Elsevier
MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are attracting a growing interest in the scientific community due to
their central role in the etiology of major diseases. On the other hand, nanoparticle carriers …

[HTML][HTML] The smart drug delivery system and its clinical potential

D Liu, F Yang, F **ong, N Gu - Theranostics, 2016 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
With the unprecedented progresses of biomedical nanotechnology during the past few
decades, conventional drug delivery systems (DDSs) have been involved into smart DDSs …

Gold nanoparticles for applications in cancer radiotherapy: Mechanisms and recent advancements

S Her, DA Jaffray, C Allen - Advanced drug delivery reviews, 2017 - Elsevier
Gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) have emerged as novel radiosensitizers owing to their high X-
ray absorption, synthetic versatility, and unique chemical, electronic and optical properties …