Nanotech News

June 2012

Additional Publications of Note for June

Therapeutics

Mesoporous silica nanoparticles for the improved anticancer efficacy of cis-platin.
International Journal of Pharmaceutics
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Inhibition of neuroblastoma tumor growth by targeted delivery of microRNA-34a using anti-disialoganglioside GD(2) coated nanoparticles.
PLoS One
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Reversing multidrug resistance in breast cancer cells by silencing ABC transporter genes with nanoparticle-facilitated delivery of target siRNAs.
International Journal of Nanomedicine
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Topophore C: a liposomal nanoparticle formulation of topotecan for treatment of ovarian cancer.
Investigational New Drugs
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Lipid-based nanoparticle delivery of pre-miR-107 inhibits the tumorigenicity of head and neck squamous cell carcinoma.
Molecular Therapy
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Vincristine-sulphate-loaded liposome-templated calcium phosphate nanoshell as potential tumor-targeting delivery system
Journal of Liposome Research
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Assembly of aptamer switch probes and photosensitizer on gold nanorods for targeted photothermal and photodynamic cancer therapy.
ACS Nano
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Multifunctional PEGylated 2C5-immunoliposomes containing pH-sensitive bonds and TAT peptide for enhanced tumor cell internalization and cytotoxicity.
Journal of Controlled Release
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Nanoparticle delivery of pooled siRNA for effective treatment of non-small cell lung cancer.
Molecular Pharmaceutics
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Development and optimization of oil-filled lipid nanoparticles containing docetaxel conjugates designed to control the drug release rate in vitro and in vivo.
International Journal of Nanomedicine
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β-Casein nanoparticle-based oral drug delivery system for potential treatment of gastric carcinoma: stability, target-activated release and cytotoxicity.
European Journal of Pharmaceutics and Biopharmaceutics
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Revival of the abandoned therapeutic wortmannin by nanoparticle drug delivery
Proceedings of the National Academies of Science
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Diagnostics and Biosensors

Pattern recognition of cancer cells using aptamer-conjugated magnetic nanoparticles.
ACS Nano
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Nanoparticle analysis of circulating cell-derived vesicles in ovarian cancer patients.
Analytical Biochemistry
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Real-time cell analysis of human cancer cell lines after chemotherapy with functionalized magnetic nanoparticles
Anticancer Research
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Imaging

Europium-doped gadolinium sulfide nanoparticles as a dual-mode imaging agent for T(1)-weighted MR and photoluminescence imaging.
Biomaterials
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Multi-dye theranostic nanoparticle platform for bioimaging and cancer therapy.
International Journal of Nanomedicine
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The effect of nanoparticle polyethylene glycol surface density on ligand-directed tumor targeting studied in vivo by dual modality imaging.
ACS Nano
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Estimation of minimum doses for optimized quantum dot contrast-enhanced vascular imaging in vivo
Small
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In vivo targeting and positron emission tomography imaging of tumor vasculature with ⁶⁶Ga-labeled nano-graphene
Biomaterials
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New clathrin-based nanoplatforms for magnetic resonance imaging
PLoS One
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Nano Devices and Materials

Effect of aspect ratio and deformability on nanoparticle extravasation through nanopores
Langmuir
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Incorporation and controlled release of silyl ether prodrugs from PRINT nanoparticles.
Journal of the American Chemical Society
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Nanobiology

Tumor necrosis factor interaction with gold nanoparticles.
Nanoscale
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Ionizing radiation increases systemic nanoparticle tumor accumulation.
Nanomedicine
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Tuning nanoparticle uptake: live-cell imaging reveals two distinct endocytosis mechanisms mediated by natural and artificial EGFR targeting ligand.
Nano Letters
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Blood-nanoparticle interactions and in vivo biodistribution: impact of surface PEG and ligand properties
Molecular Pharmaceutics
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