Carbon nanotubes: an emerging drug carrier for targeting cancer cells

V Rastogi, P Yadav, SS Bhattacharya… - Journal of drug …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
During recent years carbon nanotubes (CNTs) have been attracted by many researchers as
a drug delivery carrier. CNTs are the third allotropic form of carbon‐fullerenes which were …

Cells electrical characterization: dielectric properties, mixture, and modeling theories

N Nasir, M Al Ahmad - Journal of Engineering, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Electrical detection of biotic materials and their properties is always crucial in Biomedical
Engineering. It emphasizes elaborate analysis of a certain disease diagnosis using …

Mechanical properties of cancer cytoskeleton depend on actin filaments to microtubules content: investigating different grades of colon cancer cell lines

M Pachenari, SM Seyedpour, M Janmaleki… - Journal of …, 2014 - Elsevier
Biomechanical properties of cancer cells have been proposed as promising biomarkers to
investigate cancer progression. Cytoskeletal reorganization alters these characteristics in …

Spongy graphene electrode in electrochemical detection of leukemia at single-cell levels

O Akhavan, E Ghaderi, R Rahighi, M Abdolahad - Carbon, 2014 - Elsevier
Mg 2+-charged spongy graphene electrodes (SGEs) were fabricated by using
electrophoretic deposition of chemically exfoliated graphene oxide sheets on graphite rods …

[HTML][HTML] Single cell electrical characterization techniques

MA Mansor, MR Ahmad - International journal of molecular sciences, 2015 - mdpi.com
Electrical properties of living cells have been proven to play significant roles in
understanding of various biological activities including disease progression both at the …

[HTML][HTML] Pancreatic stellate cells activated by mutant KRAS-mediated PAI-1 upregulation foster pancreatic cancer progression via IL-8

HC Wang, YL Lin, CC Hsu, YJ Chao, YC Hou… - Theranostics, 2019 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Background: The dense fibrotic stroma enveloping pancreatic tumors is a major cause of
drug resistance. Pancreatic stellate cells (PSCs) in the stroma can be activated to induce …

A frequency-based hypothesis for mechanically targeting and selectively attacking cancer cells

M Fraldi, A Cugno, L Deseri… - Journal of the Royal …, 2015 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Experimental studies recently performed on single cancer and healthy cells have
demonstrated that the former are about 70% softer than the latter, regardless of the cell lines …

Effects of charge and surface defects of multi-walled carbon nanotubes on the disruption of model cell membranes

W Jiang, Q Wang, X Qu, L Wang, X Wei, D Zhu… - Science of the Total …, 2017 - Elsevier
The direct contact between multi-walled carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs) and cell membranes
causes membrane disruption, potentially leading to cytotoxicity. However, the role of …

Monitoring the spreading stage of lung cells by silicon nanowire electrical cell impedance sensor for cancer detection purposes

H Abiri, M Abdolahad, M Gharooni, SA Hosseini… - Biosensors and …, 2015 - Elsevier
We developed a silicon nanowire based electrical cell impedance sensor (SiNW-ECIS) as
an instrument that detects cancerous cultured living lung cells by monitoring their spreading …

Single-cell resolution diagnosis of cancer cells by carbon nanotube electrical spectroscopy

M Abdolahad, M Janmaleki, M Taghinejad… - Nanoscale, 2013 - pubs.rsc.org
We report the use of vertically aligned carbon nanotubes (VACNTs) as electrical
endoscopes (biosensors) for cancer metastatic diagnosis at single-cell resolution. The …