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Correction to: Quantum dots as targeted doxorubicin drug delivery nanosystems in human lung cancer cells

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Authors: Monika Ruzycka-Ayoush, Patrycja Kowalik, Agata Kowalczyk, Piotr Bujak, Anna M. Nowicka, Maria Wojewodzka, Marcin Kruszewski and Ireneusz P. Grudzinski

Quantum dots as targeted doxorubicin drug delivery nanosystems in human lung cancer cells

Lung cancer is one of the most frequently diagnosed cancers all over the world and is also one of the leading causes of cancer-related mortality. The main treatment option for small cell lung cancer, conventio...

Authors: Monika Ruzycka-Ayoush, Patrycja Kowalik, Agata Kowalczyk, Piotr Bujak, Anna M. Nowicka, Maria Wojewodzka, Marcin Kruszewski and Ireneusz P. Grudzinski

Investigating the effect of outer layer of magnetic particles on cervical cancer cells HeLa by magnetic fluid hyperthermia

Magnetic fluid hyperthermia (MFH) is a successful nanotechnology application in recent decade where a biocompatible magnetic fluid is used to kill cancer cells in a controlled heating using AC magnetic field. ...

Authors: Anand Bhardwaj, Neeraj Jain and Kinnari Parekh

Non-invasive transdermal delivery of chemotherapeutic molecules in vivo using superparamagnetic iron oxide nanoparticles

The skin is both a target and a potential conduit for the delivery of drugs, but its cornified cell layer resists penetration by most molecules. This study investigated the potential of superparamagnetic iron ...

Authors: Vanisri Raviraj, Binh T. T. Pham, Byung J. Kim, Nguyen T. H. Pham, Lai F. Kok, Nicole Painter, Naomi C. Delic, Stephen K. Jones, Brian S. Hawkett and J. Guy Lyons

Targeting BMI-1 with PLGA–PEG nanoparticle-containing PTC209 modulates the behavior of human glioblastoma stem cells and cancer cells

Despite advances in glioblastoma (GBM) treatments, current approaches have failed to improve the overall survival of patients. The oncogene BMI-1, a core member of the polycomb group proteins, is a potential n...

Authors: Elham Poonaki, Fatemeh Ariakia, Mohammad Jalili-Nik, Mehdi Shafiee Ardestani, Gholamhossein Tondro, Fariborz Samini, Sepideh Ghasemi, Sajad Sahab-Negah and Ali Gorji

Excretable, ultrasmall hexagonal NaGdF₄:Yb50% nanoparticles for bimodal imaging and radiosensitization

In this study, we report on the synthesis, imaging, and radiosensitizing properties of ultrasmall β-NaGdF₄:Yb50% nanoparticles as a multifunctional theranostic platform. The synthesized nanoparticles act as poten...

Authors: Jossana A. Damasco, Tymish Y. Ohulchanskyy, Supriya Mahajan, Guanying Chen, Ajay Singh, Hilliard L. Kutscher, Haoyuan Huang, Steven G. Turowski, Joseph A. Spernyak, Anurag K. Singh, Jonathan F. Lovell, Mukund Seshadri and Paras N. Prasad

Curcumin-enriched Gemini surfactant nanoparticles exhibited tumoricidal effects on human 3D spheroid HT-29 cells in vitro

Here, we examined the tumoricidal effect of Gemini surfactant nanoparticles enriched with curcumin on 3D spheroid HT-29 cells. The delivery of curcumin and other phytocompounds to the tumor niche is an importa...

Authors: Zohre Zibaei, Esmaeil Babaei, Arezoo Rezaie Nezhad Zamani, Reza Rahbarghazi and Hewa Jalal Azeez

Graphene oxide nanofilm and chicken embryo extract decrease the invasiveness of HepG2 liver cancer cells

The extracellular matrix (ECM) is a mosaic of various structural and functional proteins that cooperate with the cell, regulate adhesion, and consequently manage its further fate. Liver destruction is accompan...

Authors: Malwina Sosnowska, Marta Kutwin, Barbara Strojny, Piotr Koczoń, Jarosław Szczepaniak, Jaśmina Bałaban, Karolina Daniluk, Sławomir Jaworski, André Chwalibog, Wiesław Bielawski and Ewa Sawosz

Experimental conditions influence the formation and composition of the corona around gold nanoparticles

Ovarian cancer is one of the deadliest gynecological malignancies. While the overall survival of ovarian cancer patients has slightly improved in recent years in the developed world, it remains clinically chal...

Authors: Md. Nazir Hossen, Chandra Kumar Elechalawar, Virginie Sjoelund, Kathleen Moore, Robert Mannel, Resham Bhattacharya and Priyabrata Mukherjee

Nanomedicine-mediated induction of immunogenic cell death and prevention of PD-L1 overexpression for enhanced hepatocellular carcinoma therapy

The present study aims to develop a nanoparticle encapsulating doxorubicin (DOX) and programmed death-ligand 1 (PD-L1) siRNA and evaluate its anti-tumor effects on hepatoma carcinoma (HCC).

Authors: Hanzhang Zhu, Weijiang Zhou, Yafeng Wan, Ke Ge, Jun Lu and Changku Jia

Nanomicelles potentiate histone deacetylase inhibitor efficacy in vitro

Amphiphilic block copolymers used as nanomicelle drug carriers can effectively overcome poor drug solubility and specificity issues. Hence, these platforms have a broad applicability in cancer treatment. In th...

Authors: S. Pisano, X. Wang, J. Garcia-Parra, A. Gazze, K. Edwards, V. Feltracco, Y. Hu, L. He, D. Gonzalez, L. W. Francis, R. S. Conlan and C. Li

Synthesis and analysis of silver–copper alloy nanoparticles of different ratios manifest anticancer activity in breast cancer cells

Breast cancer is therapeutically very challenging to treat as it has the main four known genetic alterations, which result in the existence of several phenotypes leading to the difference in the mode of therap...

Authors: Sara Al Tamimi, Sarmadia Ashraf, Tahir Abdulrehman, Aijaz Parray, Said A. Mansour, Yousef Haik and Shahnaz Qadri

Nanotechnology approaches to addressing HER2-positive breast cancer

Breast cancer is a major cause of cancer-associated deaths in the United States. It was estimated that 12% of women in the U.S. will develop invasive breast cancer in their lifetime. The human epidermal growth...

Authors: Bryan E. White, Molly K. White, Het Adhvaryu, Issam Makhoul, Zeid A. Nima, Alexandru S. Biris and Nawab Ali

Algae-meditated route to cuprous oxide (Cu₂O) nanoparticle: differential expression profile of MALAT1 and GAS5 LncRNAs and cytotoxic effect in human breast cancer

Breast cancer (BC), as the most widely recognized disease in women worldwide, represents about 30% of all cancers impacting women. This study was aimed to synthesize Cu₂O nanoparticles from the cystoseira myrica ...

Authors: Parisa Taherzadeh-Soureshjani and Mohammad Chehelgerdi

Cockle shell-derived aragonite calcium carbonate nanoparticle for targeting cancer and breast cancer stem cells

Cockle shell-derived aragonite calcium carbonate nanoparticles (CACNP) have demonstrated prospect as nano-sized drug carriers for targeting cancer cells. CACNP is biocompatible, biodegradable and its biomateri...

Authors: Kehinde Muibat Ibiyeye, Sherifat Banke Idris and Abu Bakar Zakaria Zuki

Enhanced MRI-guided radiotherapy with gadolinium-based nanoparticles: preclinical evaluation with an MRI-linac

The AGuIX^® (NH TherAguix) nanoparticle has been developed to enhance radiotherapy treatment and provide strong MR contrast. These two properties have previously been investigated separately and progressed to clin...

Authors: H. L. Byrne, G. Le Duc, F. Lux, O. Tillement, N. M. Holmes, A. James, U. Jelen, B. Dong, G. Liney, T. L. Roberts and Z. Kuncic

Elucidating the fate of nanoparticles among key cell components of the tumor microenvironment for promoting cancer nanotechnology

Successful integration of nanotechnology into the current paradigm of cancer therapy requires proper understanding of the interface between nanoparticles (NPs) and cancer cells, as well as other key components...

Authors: Kyle Bromma, Aaron Bannister, Antonia Kowalewski, Leah Cicon and Devika B. Chithrani

Cancer research, treatment, and COVID-19

Authors: Steven A. Curley, Frederick Currell, Sunil Krishnan and Zeljka Krpetic

Doxorubicin-loaded hollow gold nanospheres for dual photothermal ablation and chemoembolization therapy

Doxorubicin-loaded hollow gold nanospheres (Dox@HAuNS) are a promising technology for simultaneous trans-arterial tumor-targeted chemotherapy delivery and thermal ablation. We evaluated the efficacy of intra-a...

Authors: Rahul A. Sheth, Xiaoxia Wen, Junjie Li, Marites P. Melancon, Xin Ji, Y. Andrew Wang, Cheng-Hui Hsiao, Diana S.-L. Chow, Elizabeth M. Whitley, Chun Li and Sanjay Gupta

Comparative study on contrast enhancement of Magnevist and Magnevist-loaded nanoparticles in pancreatic cancer PDX model monitored by MRI

The aim of this study was to compare contrast enhancement of Magnevist^® (gadopentate dimeglumine (Mag)) to that of PEGylated Magnevist^®-loaded liposomal nanoparticles (Mag-Lnps) in pancreatic cancer patient-deriv...

Authors: Kevin Affram, Taylor Smith, Shannon Helsper, Jens T. Rosenberg, Bo Han, Jose Trevino and Edward Agyare

Reducing the effective dose of cisplatin using gold nanoparticles as carriers

Nanotechnology is a frequent treatment for cancer. Nanomaterials are the vehicles which deliver drugs in smaller but equally effective quantities. The aim of this investigation is to synthesize gold nanopartic...

Authors: M. A. González-López, E. M. Gutiérrez-Cárdenas, C. Sánchez-Cruz, J. F. Hernández-Paz, I. Pérez, J. J. Olivares-Trejo and O. Hernández-González

Preferential drug delivery to tumor cells than normal cells using a tunable niosome–chitosan double package nanodelivery system: a novel in vitro model

We previously described the properties of a targeted drug delivery system (DDS) in a cell-free system. Here, in this comparative cell-based study (normal and tumor cells), we provide a quantitative analysis of...

Authors: Marzenna Wiranowska, Rupin Singh, Rana Falahat, Eva Williams, Joseph O. Johnson and Norma Alcantar

A [60]fullerene nanoconjugate with gemcitabine: synthesis, biophysical properties and biological evaluation for treating pancreatic cancer

The first-line chemotherapy drug that is used to treat pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma is gemcitabine. Unfortunately, its effectiveness is hampered by its chemo-resistance, low vascularization and drug biodis...

Authors: Paweł Nalepa, Robert Gawecki, Grzegorz Szewczyk, Katarzyna Balin, Mateusz Dulski, Mieczysław Sajewicz, Anna Mrozek-Wilczkiewicz, Robert Musioł, Jaroslaw Polanski and Maciej Serda

Dye-doped silica nanoparticles: synthesis, surface chemistry and bioapplications

Fluorescent silica nanoparticles have been extensively utilised in a broad range of biological applications and are facilitated by their predictable, well-understood, flexible chemistry and apparent biocompati...

Authors: Vladimir Gubala, Giorgia Giovannini, Filip Kunc, Marco P. Monopoli and Colin J. Moore

Nanomedicine review: clinical developments in liposomal applications

In recent years, disease treatment has evolved strategies that require increase in pharmaceutical agent’s efficacy and selectivity while decreasing their toxicity in normal tissues. These requirements have led...

Authors: Esteban Beltrán-Gracia, Adolfo López-Camacho, Inocencio Higuera-Ciapara, Jesús B Velázquez-Fernández and Alba A Vallejo-Cardona

A comparison of the radiosensitisation ability of 22 different element metal oxide nanoparticles using clinical megavoltage X-rays

A wide range of nanoparticles (NPs), composed of different elements and their compounds, are being developed by several groups as possible radiosensitisers, with some already in clinical trials. However, no sy...

Authors: Alexandra Guerreiro, Nicholas Chatterton, Eleanor M. Crabb and Jon P. Golding

Science vs. technology in radiation therapy from X-rays to ions

Authors: Eugene Surdutovich and Andrey V Solov’yov

Effects and side effects of plasmonic photothermal therapy in brain tissue

Heat generated from plasmonic nanoparticles can be utilized in plasmonic photothermal therapy. A combination of near-infrared laser and plasmonic nanoparticles is compelling for the treatment of brain cancer, ...

Authors: Yue He, Kristoffer Laugesen, Dana Kamp, Salik A. Sultan, Lene B. Oddershede and Liselotte Jauffred

Comparison of the effect of rhodium citrate-associated iron oxide nanoparticles on metastatic and non-metastatic breast cancer cells

Nanocarriers have the potential to improve the therapeutic index of currently available drugs by increasing drug efficacy, lowering drug toxicity and achieving steady-state therapeutic levels of drugs over an ...

Authors: Natalia Lemos Chaves, Danilo Aquino Amorim, Cláudio Afonso Pinho Lopes, Irina Estrela-Lopis, Julia Böttner, Aparecido Ribeiro de Souza and Sônia Nair Báo

Multiscale modeling for cancer radiotherapies

Ion-beam cancer therapy, an alternative to a common radiation therapy with X-rays, has been used clinically around the world since 1990s; the number of proton therapy centers as well as facilities using heavie...

Authors: Eugene Surdutovich and Andrey V. Solov’yov

The role of shock waves on the biodamage induced by ion beam radiation

Energetic ions irradiate the human body in different situations such as exposure to galactic cosmic rays and ion beam cancer therapy. Ions propagating through dense medium deposit energy on the nanometre scale...

Authors: Pablo de Vera, Eugene Surdutovich and Andrey V. Solov’yov

Phenomenon-based evaluation of relative biological effectiveness of ion beams by means of the multiscale approach

Relative biological effectiveness (RBE) is a key quantity for the description of radiobiological effects induced by charged-particle irradiation in the context of ion-beam cancer therapy. Since RBE is a comple...

Authors: Alexey Verkhovtsev, Eugene Surdutovich and Andrey V. Solov’yov

Importance of radiolytic reactions during high-LET irradiation modalities: LET effect, role of O₂ and radiosensitization by nanoparticles

This article reviews radiation chemistry processes induced by high-linear energy transfer (LET) radiation. The first part gives a short historical introduction and defines the essential concepts of radiation c...

Authors: Gérard Baldacchino, Emilie Brun, Ibtihel Denden, Sarah Bouhadoun, Raphael Roux, Hicham Khodja and Cécile Sicard-Roselli

In vitro anticancer activity of folate-modified docetaxel-loaded PLGA nanoparticles against drug-sensitive and multidrug-resistant cancer cells

Poly(lactic-co-glycolic acid) (PLGA) is a biodegradable and biocompatible polymer which is widely used as a matrix to incorporate therapeutic agents. The anticancer activity of targeted folate-modified docetaxel-...

Authors: Yuri I. Poltavets, Alexander S. Zhirnik, Vasilisa V. Zavarzina, Yuliya P. Semochkina, Valentina G. Shuvatova, Anna A. Krasheninnikova, Sergey V. Aleshin, Danil O. Dronov, Eugeny A. Vorontsov, Vadim Yu. Balabanyan and Galina A. Posypanova

Use of a lipid nanoparticle system as a Trojan horse in delivery of gold nanoparticles to human breast cancer cells for improved outcomes in radiation therapy

Radiotherapy is commonly used for treating cancer. Novel sensitizers, such as gold nanoparticles (GNPs), are being used to enhance the local radiation dose. It is not known how the uptake and radiation dose en...

Authors: Kyle Bromma, Kristy Rieck, Jayesh Kulkarni, Connor O’Sullivan, Wonmo Sung, Pieter Cullis, Jan Schuemann and Devika B. Chithrani

Comb-like PEG-containing polymeric composition as low toxic drug nanocarrier

Development of biocompatible multifunctional polymeric drug carriers is crucial in modern pharmaceutics aimed to create “smart” drugs. The high potential of the PEGylated comb-like polymeric nanocarrier (PNC) ...

Authors: Lesya Kobylinska, Igor Patereha, Natalia Finiuk, Natalia Mitina, Anna Riabtseva, Igor Kotsyumbas, Rostyslav Stoika, Alexander Zaichenko and Sandor G. Vari

Enhanced nanoparticle delivery exploiting tumour-responsive formulations

Nanoparticles can be used as drug carriers, contrast agents and radiosensitisers for the treatment of cancer. Nanoparticles can either passively accumulate within tumour sites, or be conjugated with targeting...

Authors: Lindsey A. Bennie, Helen O. McCarthy and Jonathan A. Coulter

Towards photon radiotherapy treatment planning with high Z nanoparticle radiosensitisation agents: the Relative Biological Effective Dose (RBED) framework

A novel treatment planning framework, the Relative Biological Effective Dose (RBED), for high Z nanoparticle (NP)-enhanced photon radiotherapy is developed and tested in silico for the medical exemplar of neoa...

Authors: Jeremy M. C. Brown, Gerard G. Hanna, Nathanael Lampe, Balder Villagomez-Bernabe, James R. Nicol, Jonathan A. Coulter and Fred J. Currell

C₆₀ fullerene and its nanocomplexes with anticancer drugs modulate circulating phagocyte functions and dramatically increase ROS generation in transformed monocytes

C₆₀ fullerene-based nanoformulations are proposed to have a direct toxic effect on tumor cells. Previous investigations demonstrated that C₆₀ fullerene used alone or being conjugated with chemotherapeutic agents ...

Authors: Larysa M. Skivka, Svitlana V. Prylutska, Mariia P. Rudyk, Nataliia M. Khranovska, Ievgeniia V. Opeida, Vasyl V. Hurmach, Yuriy I. Prylutskyy, Leonid F. Sukhodub and Uwe Ritter

Magnetic hyperthermia of breast cancer cells and MRI relaxometry with dendrimer-coated iron-oxide nanoparticles

Recently, some studies have focused on dendrimer nanopolymers as a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) contrast agent or a vehicle for gene and drug delivery. Considering the suitable properties of these material...

Authors: Marzieh Salimi, Saeed Sarkar, Reza Saber, Hamid Delavari, Ali Mohammad Alizadeh and Hendrik Thijmen Mulder

Cisplatin-loaded hollow gold nanoparticles for laser-triggered release

Hollow gold nanoparticles (HGNPs) exposed to near-infrared (NIR) light yield photothermal effects that can trigger a variety of biological effects for potential biomedical applications. However, the mechanism ...

Authors: Chiyi Xiong, Wei Lu, Min Zhou, Xiaoxia Wen and Chun Li

Gene therapy with RALA/iNOS composite nanoparticles significantly enhances survival in a model of metastatic prostate cancer

Recent approvals of gene therapies by the FDA and the EMA for treatment of inherited disorders have further opened the door for assessment of nucleic acid pharmaceuticals for clinical usage. Arising from the p...

Authors: Cian M. McCrudden, John W. McBride, Joanne McCaffrey, Emma M. McErlean, Nicholas J. Dunne, Vicky L. Kett, Jonathan A. Coulter, Tracy Robson and Helen O. McCarthy

Gold nanoparticle mediated combined cancer therapy

The combined use of radiation therapy and chemotherapy is commonly being used in cancer treatment. The side effects of the treatment can be further minimized through targeted delivery of anticancer drugs and l...

Authors: Celina Yang, Kyle Bromma, Caterina Di Ciano-Oliveira, Gaetano Zafarana, Monique van Prooijen and Devika B. Chithrani

Antiangiogenic and antiapoptotic effects of green-synthesized zinc oxide nanoparticles using Sargassum muticum algae extraction

Algae are one of the natural materials used to green synthesis of nanoparticles. This method leads to minimize the toxicity of the chemical materials used to nanoparticle synthesis.

Authors: Zahra Sanaeimehr, Iraj Javadi and Farideh Namvar

Important parameters for optimized metal nanoparticles-aided electromagnetic field (EMF) effect on cancer

A number of experimental research findings for the metal nanoparticles (NPs)-mediated EMF photothermal therapy of cancer cells show an intriguing trend of the NPs’ size-dependent efficacy. This is a phenomenon...

Authors: Lawrence Ochoo, Charles Migwi and John Okumu

The study of toxicity and pathogenicity risk of Potato Virus X/Herceptin nanoparticles as agents for cancer therapy

Nowadays, viral nanoparticles (VNPs) have attracted a lot of attention, although some are concerned that VNPs may reflect on viral entry of virus into animal or plant cells. In the present study, it aimed to i...

Authors: Neda Esfandiari, Mohsen Karimi Arzanani and Mina Koohi-Habibi

Electrochemical and optical biosensors for early-stage cancer diagnosis by using graphene and graphene oxide

Conventional instruments for cancer diagnosis including magnetic resonance imaging, computed tomography scan, are expensive and require long-waiting time, whilst the outcomes have not approached to the success...

Authors: Aditya Balaji and Jin Zhang

Particle therapy and nanomedicine: state of art and research perspectives

Cancer radiation therapy with charged particle beams, called particle therapy, is a new therapeutic treatment presenting major advantages when compared to conventional radiotherapy. Because ions have specific ...

Authors: Sandrine Lacombe, Erika Porcel and Emanuele Scifoni

From basics to clinic: Cancer Nanotechnology

Authors: Fred Currell, Steven Curley, Željka Krpetić and Mark Bellringer

Cancer resistance to treatment and antiresistance tools offered by multimodal multifunctional nanoparticles

Chemotherapeutic agents have limited efficacy and resistance to them limits today and will limit tomorrow our capabilities of cure. Resistance to treatment with anticancer drugs results from a variety of facto...

Authors: Eudald Casals, Muriel F. Gusta, Macarena Cobaleda-Siles, Ana Garcia-Sanz and Victor F. Puntes