Nanotech News

January 2012

Additional Publications of Note for January

Therapeutics

Gold Nanorods Could Improve Radiation Therapy of Head and Neck Cancer
Advanced Healthcare Materials
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Multifunctional Mesoporous Composite Nanocapsules for Highly Efficient MRI-Guided High-Intensity Focused Ultrasound Cancer Surgery
Angewandte Chemie International Edition
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Targeting Gold Nanoshells on Silica Nanorattles: a Drug Cocktail to Fight Breast Tumors via a Single Irradiation with Near-Infrared Laser Light
Advanced Materials
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Silk-Based Nanocomplexes with Tumor-Homing Peptides for Tumor-Specific Gene Delivery
Macromolecular Bioscience
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Lipid nanoparticle siRNA systems for silencing the androgen receptor in human prostate cancer in vivo
International Journal of Cancer
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A Polymeric Nanoparticle Encapsulated Small Molecule Inhibitor of Hedgehog Signaling (NanoHHI) Bypasses Secondary Mutational Resistance to Smoothened Antagonists
Molecular Cancer Therapeutics
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A Polymeric Nanoparticle Encapsulated Hedgehog Pathway Inhibitor HPI-1 (NanoHHI) Inhibits Systemic Metastases in an Orthotopic Model of Human Hepatocellular Carcinoma
Clinical Cancer Research
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Surface-modified silica nanoparticles for tumor-targeted delivery of camptothecin and its biological evaluation
Journal of Controlled Release
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Targeted Delivery of Cisplatin to Lung Cancer Using ScFvEGFR-Heparin-Cisplatin Nanoparticles
ACS Nano
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Antitumor activity of IHL-305, a novel pegylated liposome containing irinotecan, in human xenograft models
Oncology Reports
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Cationic albumin nanoparticles for enhanced drug delivery to treat breast cancer: preparation and in vitro assessment
Journal of Drug Delivery
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Ultrasound activated nano-encapsulated targeted drug delivery and tumour cell poration
Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology
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The impact of gold nanoparticles on hTERT gene expression leading to termination of malignant tumor
Gene
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Cisplatin@US-tube carbon nanocapsules for enhanced chemotherapeutic delivery
Biomaterials
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Preclinical pharmacokinetic, biodistribution, and anti-cancer efficacy studies of a docetaxel-carboxymethylcellulose nanoparticle in mouse models
Biomaterials
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Minimal-invasive magnetic heating of tumors does not alter intra-tumoral nanoparticle accumulation, allowing for repeated therapy sessions: an in vivo study in mice
Nanotechnology
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Paclitaxel/Tetrandrine Coloaded Nanoparticles Effectively Promote the Apoptosis of Gastric Cancer Cells Based on "Oxidation Therapy"
Molecular Pharmaceutics
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Thio-glucose bound gold nanoparticles enhance radio-cytotoxic targeting of ovarian cancer
Nanotechnology
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Image-guided prostate cancer therapy using aptamer-functionalized thermally cross-linked superparamagnetic iron oxide nanoparticles
Small
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Magnetic nanoparticle biodistribution following intratumoral administration
Nanotechnology
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Systemic Delivery of siRNA via LCP Nanoparticle Efficiently Inhibits Lung Metastasis
Molecular Therapy
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Diagnostics and Biosensors

Ultra-sensitive suspended graphene nanocomposite cancer sensors with strong suppression of electrical noise
Biosensors and Bioelectronics
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CD33 monoclonal antibody conjugated Au cluster nano-bioprobe for targeted flow-cytometric detection of acute myeloid leukaemia
Nanotechnology
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Raman spectroscopy as a detection and analysis tool for in vitro specific targeting of pancreatic cancer cells by EGF-conjugated, single-walled carbon nanotubes
Journal of Applied Toxicology
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Imaging

Multifunctional Mesoporous Silica Nanospheres with Cleavable Gd(III) Chelates as MRI Contrast Agents: Synthesis, Characterization, Target-Specificity, and Renal Clearance
Small
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Detection of breast cancer cells using targeted magnetic nanoparticles and ultra-sensitive magnetic field sensors
Breast Cancer Research
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Silver Nanoplate Contrast Agents for in Vivo Molecular Photoacoustic Imaging
ACS Nano
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Polypyrrole Nanoparticles: A Potential Optical Coherence Tomography Contrast Agent for Cancer Imaging
Advanced Materials
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A Novel Clinically Translatable Fluorescent Nanoparticle for Targeted Molecular Imaging of Tumors in Living Subjects
Nano Letters
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Two-Order Targeted Brain Tumor Imaging by Using an Optical/Paramagnetic Nanoprobe across the Blood Brain Barrier
ACS Nano
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Molecular imaging of a cancer-targeting theragnostics probe using a nucleolin aptamer- and microRNA-221 molecular beacon-conjugated nanoparticle
Biomaterials
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Fabrication of SERS-fluorescence dual modal nanoprobes and application to multiplex cancer cell imaging
Nanoscale
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Targeted gold nanoparticles enable molecular CT imaging of cancer: an in vivo study
International Journal of Nanomedicine
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Nanobiology

Evaluation of cancer stem cell migration using compartmentalizing microfluidic devices and live cell imaging
Journal of Visualized Experiments
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Nanowire-based single-cell endoscopy
Nature Nanotechnology
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Label-free imaging of semiconducting and metallic carbon nanotubes in cells and mice using transient absorption microscopy
Nature Nanotechnology
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Nanodevices and Materials

Photo-and pH-Triggered Release of Anticancer Drugs from Mesoporous Silica-Coated Pd@Ag Nanoparticles
Advanced Functional Materials
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Cargo-Towing Fuel-Free Magnetic Nanoswimmers for Targeted Drug Delivery
Small
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Micelle-Encapsulated Thiostrepton as an Effective Nanomedicine for Inhibiting Tumor Growth and for Suppressing FOXM1 in Human Xenografts
Molecular Cancer Therapeutics
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Nuclear Targeting Dynamics of Gold Nanoclusters for Enhanced Therapy of HER2(+) Breast Cancer
ACS Nano
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Combined ATRP and 'Click' Chemistry for Designing Stable Tumor-Targeting Superparamagnetic Iron Oxide Nanoparticles
Langmuir
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Smart Hybrid Materials Equipped by Nanoreservoirs of Therapeutics
ACS Nano
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Quantitative Replacement of Cetyl Trimethylammonium Bromide by Cationic Thiol Ligands on the Surface of Gold Nanorods and Their Extremely Large Uptake by Cancer Cells
Angewandte Chemie International Edition
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Dendrimer-based multivalent methotrexates as dual acting nanoconjugates for cancer cell targeting
European Journal of Medicinal Chemistry
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