Carbon dots: an innovative tool for drug delivery in brain tumors

G Calabrese, G De Luca, G Nocito, MG Rizzo… - International Journal of …, 2021 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary The pharmacological treatment of tumors of the central nervous system
poses major challenges due to the presence of physical obstacles, ie, the blood-brain …

Carbon dots as promising tools for cancer diagnosis and therapy

G Nocito, G Calabrese, S Forte, S Petralia, C Puglisi… - Cancers, 2021 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Diagnostic approaches and chemotherapeutic delivery based on
nanotechnologies, such as nanoparticles (NPs), could be promising candidates for the new …

Advanced nitric oxide donors: Chemical structure of NO drugs, NO nanomedicines and biomedical applications

Y Yang, Z Huang, LL Li - Nanoscale, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Nitric oxide (NO), as an endogenous diatomic molecule, plays a key regulatory role in many
physiological and pathological processes. This diatomic free radical has been shown to …

Gas therapy: an emerging “green” strategy for anticancer therapeutics

Q Jin, Y Deng, F Jia, Z Tang, J Ji - Advanced Therapeutics, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
As an emerging area, gas therapy has attracted more and more attention in treating many
diseases including cancer. The fabrication of stimuli‐responsive delivery systems with on …

Au, Pd and maghemite nanofunctionalized hydroxyapatite scaffolds for bone regeneration

G Calabrese, S Petralia, C Fabbi, S Forte… - Regenerative …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Nanotechnology plays a key role in the development of innovative scaffolds for bone tissue
engineering (BTE) allowing the incorporation of nanomaterials able to improve cell …

A ruthenium-nitrosyl-functionalized nanoplatform for the targeting of liver cancer cells and NIR-light-controlled delivery of nitric oxide combined with photothermal …

YH Li, M Guo, SW Shi, QL Zhang, SP Yang… - Journal of Materials …, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
The development of light-controlled nitric oxide (NO)-releasing nanoplatforms that are
capable of specifically targeting liver cancer cell lines and delivering an optimal amount of …

[HTML][HTML] Direct and indirect approaches to red-shift photoactivated nitric oxide release

HM Elbeheiry, M Schulz - Coordination Chemistry Reviews, 2024 - Elsevier
Nitric oxide (NO) is an important biochemical molecule that is endogenously produced to act
for instance as neurotransmitter, effect cell growth, or to regulate the immune response …

A efficient light-controlled nitric oxide releaser in aqueous solution and its red fluorescence imaging in lysosome

R Shen, Y Qian - Dyes and Pigments, 2020 - Elsevier
In this work, a sensitive light-controlled turn on nitric oxide releaser, chromenylium-aniline-N-
nitroso (CA-NO), was developed, which could release nitric oxide in pure water media and …

Electrical properties and oxygen functionalities in ethanol-treated and thermally modified graphene oxide

S Scalese, S Baldo, D D'Angelo, S Filice… - Journal of Applied …, 2017 - pubs.aip.org
Graphene-based materials are among the most innovative and promising materials for the
development of high-performance sensing devices, mainly due to the large surface area and …

Light-triggered unconventional therapies with engineered inorganic nanoparticles

A Fraix, S Sortino - Advances in Inorganic Chemistry, 2022 - Elsevier
The utilization of nanomaterials to release therapeutic agents under the control of light
stimuli to enhance the therapeutic efficacy is one of the major challenges in nanomedicine …