Recent advances in nanomaterial‐assisted combinational sonodynamic cancer therapy

S Liang, X Deng, P Ma, Z Cheng, J Lin - Advanced Materials, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Ultrasound (US)‐triggered sonodynamic therapy (SDT), as a promising noninvasive
therapeutic modality, has received ever‐increasing attention in recent years. Its specialized …

Nanocomposites based on lanthanide-doped upconversion nanoparticles: diverse designs and applications

K Du, J Feng, X Gao, H Zhang - Light: Science & Applications, 2022 - nature.com
Lanthanide-doped upconversion nanoparticles (UCNPs) have aroused extraordinary
interest due to the unique physical and chemical properties. Combining UCNPs with other …

Reactive oxygen species generating systems meeting challenges of photodynamic cancer therapy

Z Zhou, J Song, L Nie, X Chen - Chemical society reviews, 2016 - pubs.rsc.org
The reactive oxygen species (ROS)-mediated mechanism is the major cause underlying the
efficacy of photodynamic therapy (PDT). The PDT procedure is based on the cascade of …

Overcoming the Achilles' heel of photodynamic therapy

W Fan, P Huang, X Chen - Chemical Society Reviews, 2016 - pubs.rsc.org
Photodynamic therapy (PDT) has been applied to treat a wide range of medical conditions,
including wet age-related macular degeneration psoriasis, atherosclerosis, viral infection …

Nanoparticles in biomedical applications

K McNamara, SAM Tofail - Advances in Physics: X, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
Nanoparticles are defined as solid colloidal particles ranging in size from 10 to 1000 nm.
Nanoparticles offer many benefits to larger particles such as increased surface-to-volume …

Surface modified lanthanide upconversion nanoparticles for drug delivery, cellular uptake mechanism, and current challenges in NIR-driven therapies

AA Ansari, AK Parchur, G Chen - Coordination chemistry reviews, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract Lanthanides (Ln 3+) are a particular class of optical materials and are regularly
utilized as a structure block for architectures of optoelectronic frameworks because of their …

Role of reactive oxygen species (ROS) in therapeutics and drug resistance in cancer and bacteria

AT Dharmaraja - Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, 2017 - ACS Publications
Evading persistent drug resistance in cancer and bacteria is quintessential to restore health
in humans, and impels intervention strategies. A distinct property of the cancer phenotype is …

Nanoparticles in photodynamic therapy

SS Lucky, KC Soo, Y Zhang - Chemical reviews, 2015 - ACS Publications
Cancer accounted for 7.6 million deaths (around 13% of all deaths) worldwide in 2008.(1)
Almost 13 million cancer cases are newly diagnosed every year, and deaths are projected to …

Inorganic nanomaterials with intrinsic singlet oxygen generation for photodynamic therapy

MR Younis, G He, J Qu, J Lin, P Huang… - Advanced …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Inorganic nanomaterials with intrinsic singlet oxygen (1O2) generation capacity, are
emerged yet dynamically developing materials as nano‐photosensitizers (NPSs) for …

Type I photodynamic therapy by organic–inorganic hybrid materials: From strategies to applications

YY Wang, YC Liu, H Sun, DS Guo - Coordination Chemistry Reviews, 2019 - Elsevier
Photodynamic therapy (PDT) is a promising approach for treatment of cancer and bacterial
infection. Upon excitation by light, photosensitizers (PSs) produce reactive oxygen species …