A review of the common neurodegenerative disorders: current therapeutic approaches and the potential role of nanotherapeutics

RNL Lamptey, B Chaulagain, R Trivedi… - International journal of …, 2022 - mdpi.com
Neurodegenerative disorders are primarily characterized by neuron loss. The most common
neurodegenerative disorders include Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease. Although there …

Light: a magical tool for controlled drug delivery

Y Tao, HF Chan, B Shi, M Li… - Advanced Functional …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Light is a particularly appealing tool for on‐demand drug delivery due to its noninvasive
nature, ease of application, and exquisite temporal and spatial control. Great progress is …

Selective naked-eye detection of SARS-CoV-2 mediated by N gene targeted antisense oligonucleotide capped plasmonic nanoparticles

P Moitra, M Alafeef, K Dighe, MB Frieman, D Pan - ACS nano, 2020 - ACS Publications
The current outbreak of the pandemic coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by the
severe acute respiratory syndrome-coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) demands its rapid …

Nanochemistry and nanomedicine for nanoparticle-based diagnostics and therapy

G Chen, I Roy, C Yang, PN Prasad - Chemical reviews, 2016 - ACS Publications
Nanoparticles are generally defined as any particulate material for which at least one
dimension lies in the range of 1− 100 nm. 1− 3 They can exist in various shapes, such as …

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 …

A review on advances of treatment modalities for Alzheimer's disease

ES Thoe, A Fauzi, YQ Tang, S Chamyuang, AYY Chia - Life sciences, 2021 - Elsevier
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a multifactorial neurodegenerative disease which is mainly
characterized by progressive impairment in cognition, emotion, language and memory in …

Polydopamine-based multifunctional (nano) materials for cancer therapy

R Mrówczyński - ACS applied materials & interfaces, 2017 - ACS Publications
Since Lee published a pioneering paper about polydopamine (PDA), application of that
polymer in a number of areas has grown enormously in the last 10 years and is still growing …

Recent advances in different modal imaging-guided photothermal therapy

Q Chen, J Wen, H Li, Y Xu, F Liu, S Sun - Biomaterials, 2016 - Elsevier
Photothermal therapy (PTT) has recently attracted considerable attention owing to its
controllable treatment process, high tumour eradication efficiency and minimal side effects …

[HTML][HTML] Small interfering RNA for cancer treatment: overcoming hurdles in delivery

NB Charbe, ND Amnerkar, B Ramesh… - … Pharmaceutica Sinica B, 2020 - Elsevier
In many ways, cancer cells are different from healthy cells. A lot of tactical nano-based drug
delivery systems are based on the difference between cancer and healthy cells. Currently …

Enhancement of photodynamic cancer therapy by physical and chemical factors

M Yang, T Yang, C Mao - Angewandte Chemie International …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
The viable use of photodynamic therapy (PDT) in cancer therapy has never been fully
realized because of its undesirable effects on healthy tissues. Herein we summarize some …