Photodynamic and photothermal therapies: synergy opportunities for nanomedicine

M Overchuk, RA Weersink, BC Wilson, G Zheng - ACS nano, 2023 - ACS Publications
Tumoricidal photodynamic (PDT) and photothermal (PTT) therapies harness light to
eliminate cancer cells with spatiotemporal precision by either generating reactive oxygen …

Emerging blood–brain-barrier-crossing nanotechnology for brain cancer theranostics

W Tang, W Fan, J Lau, L Deng, Z Shen… - Chemical Society …, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
Brain cancer, especially the most common type of glioblastoma, is highly invasive and
known as one of the most devastating and deadly neoplasms. Despite surgical and medical …

Nanotechnology for multimodal synergistic cancer therapy

W Fan, B Yung, P Huang, X Chen - Chemical reviews, 2017 - ACS Publications
The complexity, diversity, and heterogeneity of tumors seriously undermine the therapeutic
potential of treatment. Therefore, the current trend in clinical research has gradually shifted …

Chemo-photothermal therapy combination elicits anti-tumor immunity against advanced metastatic cancer

J Nam, S Son, LJ Ochyl, R Kuai… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Photothermal therapy (PTT) is a promising cancer treatment modality, but PTT generally
requires direct access to the source of light irradiation, thus precluding its utility against …

Near-infrared light-controllable on-demand antibiotics release using thermo-sensitive hydrogel-based drug reservoir for combating bacterial infection

G Gao, YW Jiang, HR Jia, FG Wu - Biomaterials, 2019 - Elsevier
A near-infrared (NIR) light-triggerable thermo-sensitive hydrogel-based drug reservoir that
can realize on-demand antibiotics release and hyperthermia-assisted bacterial inactivation …

Recent advances in nanomaterial-based synergistic combination cancer immunotherapy

W Sang, Z Zhang, Y Dai, X Chen - Chemical Society Reviews, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
In recent years, conventional treatments including surgery, chemotherapy and radiotherapy
have been the main approaches in tumour therapy. Cancer immunotherapy is a new …

Gold nanoparticle‐mediated photothermal therapy: applications and opportunities for multimodal cancer treatment

RS Riley, ES Day - Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Photothermal therapy (PTT), in which nanoparticles embedded within tumors generate heat
in response to exogenously applied laser light, has been well documented as an …

Biodegradable black phosphorus-based nanospheres for in vivo photothermal cancer therapy

J Shao, H **e, H Huang, Z Li, Z Sun, Y Xu… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
Photothermal therapy (PTT) offers many advantages such as high efficiency and minimal
invasiveness, but clinical adoption of PTT nanoagents have been stifled by unresolved …

Hyaluronic acid and albumin based nanoparticles for drug delivery

C Lei, XR Liu, QB Chen, Y Li, JL Zhou, LY Zhou… - Journal of Controlled …, 2021 - Elsevier
Albumin, a multifunctional protein, is widely used to prepare nanocarriers. Hyaluronic acid
(HA) is a natural glycosaminoglycan that can specifically bind receptors, such as cluster of …

Ultrasmall black phosphorus quantum dots: synthesis and use as photothermal agents

Z Sun, H **e, S Tang, XF Yu, Z Guo… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Black phosphorus quantum dots (BPQDs) were synthesized using a liquid exfoliation
method that combined probe sonication and bath sonication. With a lateral size of …