Mito‐bomb: targeting mitochondria for cancer therapy

X Guo, N Yang, W Ji, H Zhang, X Dong… - Advanced …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Cancer has been one of the most common life‐threatening diseases for a long time.
Traditional cancer therapies such as surgery, chemotherapy (CT), and radiotherapy (RT) …

Photothermal therapy

D Zhi, T Yang, J O'hagan, S Zhang… - Journal of Controlled …, 2020 - Elsevier
Microneedles (MNs), as an effective minimally invasive delivery route, when used to
puncture the skin, can bypass the skin's stratum corneum (SC) to enter the skin …

Smart nanomaterials in cancer theranostics: challenges and opportunities

BK Kashyap, VV Singh, MK Solanki, A Kumar… - ACS …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Cancer is ranked as the second leading cause of death globally. Traditional cancer
therapies including chemotherapy are flawed, with off-target and on-target toxicities on the …

[HTML][HTML] Stimuli-responsive nanocarriers for drug delivery, tumor imaging, therapy and theranostics

P Mi - Theranostics, 2020 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
In recent years, much progress has been motivated in stimuli-responsive nanocarriers,
which could response to the intrinsic physicochemical and pathological factors in diseased …

[HTML][HTML] Upconversion NIR-II fluorophores for mitochondria-targeted cancer imaging and photothermal therapy

H Zhou, X Zeng, A Li, W Zhou, L Tang, W Hu… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
NIR-II fluorophores have shown great promise for biomedical applications with superior in
vivo optical properties. To date, few small-molecule NIR-II fluorophores have been …

Nanostructured particles assembled from natural building blocks for advanced therapies

Y Ju, H Liao, JJ Richardson, J Guo… - Chemical Society …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Advanced treatments based on immune system manipulation, gene transcription and
regulation, specific organ and cell targeting, and/or photon energy conversion have …

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 …

Graphene quantum dots (GQDs) for bioimaging and drug delivery applications: a review

MC Biswas, MT Islam, PK Nandy… - ACS Materials …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Quantum dots (QDs) exhibit unique physicochemical and optical properties that are suitable
for photovoltaic cells, light-emitting diodes, and optoelectronic devices; however, unlike …

Ferritin: a multifunctional nanoplatform for biological detection, imaging diagnosis, and drug delivery

N Song, J Zhang, J Zhai, J Hong, C Yuan… - Accounts of chemical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Conspectus Ferritins are spherical iron storage proteins within cells that are composed of a
combination of 24 subunits of two types, heavy-chain ferritin (HFn) and light-chain ferritin …

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 …