Metallic nanoparticles are gradually emerging as important materials because of their novel shape and size-dependent chemical and physical properties that differ drastically from their …
Peptide-based drug delivery systems have become a mainstay in the contemporary medicinal field, resulting in the design and development of better pharmaceutical …
Nanotechnology has recently received much interest in various fields, including medicine. South Africa (SA) was the first country in Africa to adopt the technology with the aim of …
L Singh, R Parboosing, HG Kruger… - Advances in Natural …, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
The clinical utility of important therapeutic agents is often limited by the poor permeability of biological membranes. Cell penetrating peptides are usually employed to circumvent this …
Advancements in nanotechnology have provided insight into the unique opportunities for the application of nanomaterials such as gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) in medicine due to their …
E Harrison, JWJ Hamilton, M Macias-Montero… - …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
We report herein on the synthesis of mixed monolayer gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) capped with both polyethylene glycol (PEG) and one of three peptides. Either a receptor-mediated …
The HIV integrase enzyme represents an important target for HIV inhibition because it is essential for viral replication and there is no cellular counterpart. Blocking HIV replication at …
Targeted delivery of siRNA controlled by near‐infrared light using hollow gold nanoshells has been demonstrated in cancer and stem cells models. Here, a universal surface module …