Photodynamic and photothermal therapies: synergy opportunities for nanomedicine

M Overchuk, RA Weersink, BC Wilson, G Zheng - ACS nano, 2023 - ACS Publications
Tumoricidal photodynamic (PDT) and photothermal (PTT) therapies harness light to
eliminate cancer cells with spatiotemporal precision by either generating reactive oxygen …

Emerging strategies in enhancing singlet oxygen generation of nano-photosensitizers toward advanced phototherapy

M Tavakkoli Yaraki, B Liu, YN Tan - Nano-Micro Letters, 2022 - Springer
The great promise of photodynamic therapy (PDT) has thrusted the rapid progress of
developing highly effective photosensitizers (PS) in killing cancerous cells and bacteria. To …

The basic properties of gold nanoparticles and their applications in tumor diagnosis and treatment

X Bai, Y Wang, Z Song, Y Feng, Y Chen… - International journal of …, 2020 - mdpi.com
Gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) have been widely studied and applied in the field of tumor
diagnosis and treatment because of their special fundamental properties. In order to make …

Recent progress in cancer thermal therapy using gold nanoparticles

NS Abadeer, CJ Murphy - Nanomaterials and Neoplasms, 2021 - taylorfrancis.com
Gold nanoparticles are especially suited to thermal destruction of cancer due to their ease of
surface functionalization and photothermal heating ability. This chapter reviews the progress …

[HTML][HTML] Nanotechnology advances in the detection and treatment of cancer: an overview

S Mosleh-Shirazi, M Abbasi, M reza Moaddeli… - …, 2022 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Over the last few years, progress has been made across the nanomedicine landscape, in
particular, the invention of contemporary nanostructures for cancer diagnosis and …

Understanding and advancement in gold nanoparticle targeted photothermal therapy of cancer

N Gupta, R Malviya - Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA)-Reviews on …, 2021 - Elsevier
The present communication summarizes the importance, understanding and advancement
in the photothermal therapy of cancer using gold nanoparticles. Photothermal therapy was …

Chemistry, biology, and medicine of fluorescent nanomaterials and related systems: new insights into biosensing, bioimaging, genomics, diagnostics, and therapy

J Yao, M Yang, Y Duan - Chemical reviews, 2014 - ACS Publications
2. INTRODUCTION The investigation of many fundamental processes in life sciences
requires straightforward tools for fast, sensitive, reliable, and reproducible detection of …

[HTML][HTML] Indocyanine green-incorporating nanoparticles for cancer theranostics

H Wang, X Li, BWC Tse, H Yang, CA Thorling, Y Liu… - Theranostics, 2018 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Indocyanine green (ICG) is a near-infrared dye that has been used in the clinic for retinal
angiography, and defining cardiovascular and liver function for over 50 years. Recently …

Highly Efficient Far‐Red/NIR‐Absorbing Neutral Ir (III) Complex Micelles for Potent Photodynamic/Photothermal Therapy

B Liu, J Jiao, W Xu, M Zhang, P Cui, Z Guo… - Advanced …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
A critical issue in photodynamic therapy (PDT) is inadequate reactive oxygen species (ROS)
generation in tumors, causing inevitable survival of tumor cells that usually results in tumor …

Near-infrared light and tumor microenvironment dual responsive size-switchable nanocapsules for multimodal tumor theranostics

Z Wang, Y Ju, Z Ali, H Yin, F Sheng, J Lin… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Smart drug delivery systems (SDDSs) for cancer treatment are of considerable interest in the
field of theranostics. However, developing SDDSs with early diagnostic capability, enhanced …