Metal nanoparticles as a promising technology in targeted cancer treatment

JJ Xu, WC Zhang, YW Guo, XY Chen, YN Zhang - Drug Delivery, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Traditional anticancer treatments have several limitations, but cancer is still one of the
deadliest diseases. As a result, new anticancer drugs are required for the treatment of …

Metal-based nanoparticle in cancer treatment: lessons learned and challenges

A Hheidari, J Mohammadi, M Ghodousi… - … in Bioengineering and …, 2024 - frontiersin.org
Cancer, being one of the deadliest diseases, poses significant challenges despite the
existence of traditional treatment approaches. This has led to a growing demand for …

Antibacterial, anti-biofilm and anticancer potentials of green synthesized silver nanoparticles using benzoin gum (Styrax benzoin) extract

J Du, H Singh, TH Yi - Bioprocess and biosystems engineering, 2016 - Springer
This study described a simple and green approach for the synthesis of silver nanoparticles
(AgNPs) employing benzoin gum water extract as a reducing and capping agent and their …

Anti-cancer and anti-oxidant properties of ethanolic leaf extract of Thymus vulgaris and its bio-functionalized silver nanoparticles

Z Heidari, A Salehzadeh, SA Sadat Shandiz… - 3 Biotech, 2018 - Springer
This study highlights the anti-oxidant and anti-cancer activities of bio-functionalized Thymus
vulgaris silver nanoparticles (TVAgNPs) and bioactive compounds were compared using the …

Applications of nanotechnology for regenerative medicine; healing tissues at the nanoscale

Y Yang, A Chawla, J Zhang, A Esa, HL Jang… - … of regenerative medicine, 2019 - Elsevier
Regenerative medicine involves the development of methods to repair and replace
diseased or damaged cells, tissues, or organs to restore or establish normal tissue functions …

Pharmacology, toxicity and pharmacokinetics of acetylshikonin: a review

Z Zhang, J Bai, Y Zeng, M Cai, Y Yao, H Wu… - Pharmaceutical …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
Context Acetylshikonin, a naphthoquinone derivative, is mainly extracted from some species
of the family Boraginaceae, such as Lithospermum erythrorhizon Sieb. et Zucc., Arnebia …

Green synthesis of silver nanoparticles using Schizophyllum commune and Geopora sumneriana extracts and evaluation of their anticancer and antimicrobial …

N Gökşen Tosun, Ö Kaplan, İ Türkekul… - Particulate Science …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Silver nanoparticles (AgNPs) have big potentials in designing next-generation anticancer
and antimicrobial agents. Here, AgNPs were synthesized with green chemistry using edible …

Remarkable effect of jacalin in diminishing the protein corona interference in the antibacterial activity of pectin-capped copper sulfide nanoparticles

SB Subramaniyan, S Vijayakumar, S Megarajan… - ACS …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Herein, we report a new strategy based on jacalin functionalization to diminish the impact of
biological fluids in the antibacterial applications of nanoparticles (NPs). Precoating pectin …

[HTML][HTML] Potential anti-proliferative activity of AgNPs synthesized using M. longifolia in 4T1 cell line through ROS generation and cell membrane damage

MK Sarkar, V Vadivel, MRC Raja… - Journal of Photochemistry …, 2018 - Elsevier
To overcome the problem of breast cancer, silver nanoparticles (AgNPs) synthesized using
Indian medicinal plant Madhuca longifolia could be explored as an alternative anticancer …

Oxidative stress mediated cytotoxicity in leukemia cells induced by active phyto-constituents isolated from traditional herbal drugs of West Bengal

MK Sarkar, SK Mahapatra, V Vadivel - Journal of ethnopharmacology, 2020 - Elsevier
Ethnopharmacological relevance In search of safe and effective therapeutic agents as
alternative to synthetic chemotherapeutics for the treatment of leukemia, the herbal drugs …