Nanotech News

February 2013

Additional Publications of Note for February

Therapeutics

Codelivery of an optimal drug/siRNA combination using mesoporous silica nanoparticles to overcome drug resistance in breast cancer in vitro and in vivo
ACS Nano
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Photosensitizer-incorporated quadruplex DNA-gated nanovechicles for light-triggered, targeted dual drug delivery to cancer cells
Small
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Bacteriophage bionanowire as a carrier for both cancer-targeting peptides and photosensitizers and its use in selective cancer cell killing by photodynamic therapy
Small
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Nanofiber-based delivery of therapeutic peptides to the brain
ACS Nano
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The effect of cell cluster size on intracellular nanoparticle-mediated hyperthermia: is it possible to treat microscopic tumors?
Nanomedicine
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Polydopamine-enabled surface functionalization of gold nanorods for cancer cell-targeted imaging and photothermal therapy
Nanomedicine
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Formulation development of albumin based theragnostic nanoparticles as a potential delivery system for tumor targeting
Journal of Drug Targeting
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Efficiency and mechanism of intracellular paclitaxel delivery by novel nanopolymer-based tumor-targeted delivery system, Nanoxel(TM)
Clinical and Translational Oncology
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Development of high boron content liposomes and their promising antitumor effect for neutron capture therapy of cancers
Bioconjugate Chemistry
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Transferrin conjugation does not increase the efficiency of liposomal Foscan during in vitro photodynamic therapy of oesophageal cancer
European Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences
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Targeted nanoparticle delivery of Doxorubicin into placental tissues to treat ectopic pregnancies
Endocrinology
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Impact of beam quality on megavoltage radiotherapy treatment techniques utilizing gold nanoparticles for dose enhancement
Physics in Medicine and Biology
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Cell-specific multifunctional processing of heterogeneous cell systems in a single laser pulse treatment
ACS Nano
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Carbon nanotubes enhance the internalization of drugs by cancer cells and decrease their chemoresistance to cytostatics
Nanotechnology
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De novo design of a tumor-penetrating peptide
Cancer Research
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Diagnostics & Biosensors

A microfluidic electrochemiluminescent device for detecting cancer biomarker proteins
Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry
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Detection of cancer cells using a peptide nanotube-folic acid modified graphene electrode
Analyst
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Quantification of ovarian cancer markers with integrated microfluidic concentration gradient and imaging nanohole surface plasmon resonance
Analyst
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Imaging

Synthesis and characterization of anti-EGFR fluorescent nanoparticles for optical molecular imaging
Bioconjugate Chemistry
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NIR fluorophore-hollow gold nanosphere complex for cancer enzyme-triggered detection and hyperthermia.
Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology
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Nano Devices & Materials

Fabricating a reversible and regenerable raman-active substrate with a biomolecule-controlled DNA nanomachine
Journal of the American Chemical Society
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An Exceptionally simple strategy for DNA-functionalized upconversion nanoparticles as biocompatible agents for nano-assembly, DNA delivery and imaging
Journal of the American Chemical Society
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Cationic nanoparticles have superior transvascular flux into solid tumors: insights from a mathematical model
Annals of Biomedical Engineering
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From phage display to nanoparticle delivery: functionalizing liposomes with multivalent peptides improves targeting to a cancer biomarker
Bioconjugate Chemistry
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Magnetic core-shell nanoparticles for drug delivery by nebulization
Journal of Nanobiotechnology
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Dendrimer nanoscaffolds for potential theranostics of prostate cancer with a focus on radiochemistry
Molecular Pharmacology
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Theranostic magnetic core–plasmonic shell star shape nanoparticle for the isolation of targeted rare tumor cells from whole blood, fluorescence imaging, and photothermal destruction of cancer
Molecular Pharmacology
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Programmable nanoparticle functionalization for in vivo targeting
FASEB Journal
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