Chitin and its derivatives: Structural properties and biomedical applications

SI Ahmad, R Ahmad, MS Khan, R Kant… - International Journal of …, 2020 - Elsevier
Chitin, a polysaccharide that occurs abundantly in nature after cellulose, has attracted the
interest of the scientific community due to its plenty of availability and low cost. Mostly, it is …

Ultrasmall inorganic nanoparticles: State-of-the-art and perspectives for biomedical applications

K Zarschler, L Rocks, N Licciardello, L Boselli… - … , Biology and Medicine, 2016 - Elsevier
Ultrasmall nanoparticulate materials with core sizes in the 1-3 nm range bridge the gap
between single molecules and classical, larger-sized nanomaterials, not only in terms of …

Hybrid hydrogel composed of carboxymethylcellulose–silver nanoparticles–doxorubicin for anticancer and antibacterial therapies against melanoma skin cancer cells

NSV Capanema, IC Carvalho… - ACS Applied Nano …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Malignant melanoma is the utmost severe form of skin cancer, causing the vast majority of
deaths related to skin cancer in humans. Although melanoma is treatable at its early stages …

[HTML][HTML] Carbon dots: Opportunities and challenges in cancer therapy

T Bhattacharya, GH Shin, JT Kim - Pharmaceutics, 2023 - mdpi.com
Recently, carbon dots (CDs) have been actively studied and reported for their various
properties. In particular, the specific characteristics of carbon dots have been considered as …

Advancement in biopolymer assisted cancer theranostics

T Bhattacharya, S Preetam, B Ghosh… - ACS Applied Bio …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Applications of nanotechnology have increased the importance of research and
nanocarriers, which have revolutionized the method of drug delivery to treat several …

Extracellular polymeric substances sustain photoreduction of Cr (VI) by Shewanella oneidensis-CdS biohybrid system

S Zhang, C Li, C Ke, S Liu, Q Yao, W Huang, Z Dang… - Water Research, 2023 - Elsevier
Photosensitized biohybrid system (PBS) enables bacteria to exploit light energy harvested
by semiconductors for rapid pollutants transformation, possessing a promising future for …

Chitosan‐based multifunctional nanomedicines and theranostics for targeted therapy of cancer

M Fathi, S Majidi, PS Zangabad, J Barar… - Medicinal research …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Nanotechnology as an emerging field has established inevitable impacts on nano‐
biomedicine and treatment of formidable diseases, inflammations, and malignancies. In this …

[HTML][HTML] Antibody–biopolymer conjugates in oncology: a review

VP Chavda, PC Balar, D Teli, M Davidson, J Bojarska… - Molecules, 2023 - mdpi.com
Cancer is one of the most prevalent diseases and affects a large proportion of the population
worldwide. Conventional treatments in the management include chemotherapy …

Silica-coated super-paramagnetic iron oxide nanoparticles (SPIONPs): a new type contrast agent of T 1 magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)

MZ Iqbal, X Ma, T Chen, W Ren, L Xiang… - Journal of Materials …, 2015 - pubs.rsc.org
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), a sophisticated promising three-dimensional
tomographic noninvasive diagnostic technique, has an intrinsic advantage in safety …

Bifunctional magnetopolymersomes of iron oxide nanoparticles and carboxymethylcellulose conjugated with doxorubicin for hyperthermo-chemotherapy of brain …

SM Carvalho, AG Leonel, AAP Mansur… - Biomaterials …, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
Glioblastoma is the most aggressive primary brain cancer, which has no cure yet. Emerging
nanotheranostic alternatives such as magnetic iron oxide nanoparticles (MIONs) have great …