Gold nanoparticles as photothermal agents
Cantharidin-encapsulated thermal-sensitive liposomes coated with gold nanoparticles for enhanced photothermal therapy on A431 cells
... of gold nanostruc- ture-mediated PTT remains hampered by a few ...the gold nanostructures in the body and their potential in vivo ...most gold nanostructures are ...of photothermal ...
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Antibody-conjugated gold-gold sulfide nanoparticles as multifunctional agents for imaging and therapy of breast cancer
... of gold-based nanoparticle regimens for cancer ...studied gold-based nanotherapeutics, which should correlate with improved stability and enhanced tumor delivery in ...the gold surface available for ...
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Self-Assembly of Semiconducting-Plasmonic Gold Nanoparticles with Enhanced Optical Property for Photoacoustic Imaging and Photothermal Therapy
... (PA) agents, the use of semiconducting polymer-metal nanoparticle hybrid materials to enhance PA signal has not been ...tethered gold nanoparticles ...adjacent gold nanoparticles in the ...
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Photothermal effects of laser-activated surface plasmonic gold nanoparticles on the apoptosis and osteogenesis of osteoblast-like cells
... of gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) can induce photon–electron and electron–electron interac- tions and then generate ...photosensitive agents for hyperthermia therapy, 5–7 triggers for thermally induced ...
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Towards real-time detection of tumor margins using photothermal imaging of immune-targeted gold nanoparticles
... Gold nanorods have gained much attention as a diagnostic tool due to their biocompatibility, their relatively easy fabri- cation and bioconjugation with biomolecules for targeting, their unique optical properties, ...
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Multibranched Gold Nanoparticles with Intrinsic LAT-1 Targeting Capabilities for Selective Photothermal Therapy of Breast Cancer
... a secondary form of targeting to overcome unwanted side effects frequently observed with traditional chemotherapy and hyperthermia therapy. As a proof-of-concept for the use of L- dopa functionalized AuNU-mediated PTT ...
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Fractionated photothermal antitumor therapy with multidye nanoparticles
... Introduction Photothermal ablation is an exciting noninvasive cancer paradigm, 1–5 which is just beginning to enter the clinical arena for human cancer ...5 gold speckled silica nanoparticles (NPs), ...
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Theranostic Self-Assembly Structure of Gold Nanoparticles for NIR Photothermal Therapy and X-Ray Computed Tomography Imaging
... good photothermal effect, it was chosen for further ...the photothermal con- version efficiency of the GA7 according to Nie’s work [25], the photothermal conversion of GA7 was about to be 23% which ...
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Investigation of antimicrobial activity of photothermal therapeutic gold/copper sulfide core/shell nanoparticles to bacterial spores and cells
... Bacillus anthracis is a gram positive, rod shaped, non- motile and spore forming bacterium. It causes anthrax - a life-threatening disease primarily found in herbivores, but it also affects other mammals, including ...
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Gold nanorods/mesoporous silica-based nanocomposite as theranostic agents for targeting near-infrared imaging and photothermal therapy induced with laser
... Abstract: Photothermal therapy (PTT) is widely regarded as a promising technology for cancer ...treatment. Gold nanorods (GNRs), as excellent PTT agent candidates, have shown high- performance ...
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Platinum–gold nanoraspberries as effective photosensitizer in anticancer photothermal therapy
... of nanoparticles when compared with bulk materials ...Moreover, nanoparticles, having sizes similar to biomolecules, can pass through the cell lipid bilayer, offering the opportu- nity to use NPs in ...
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Laser Pulse Duration Optimization for Photothermal Therapy with Gold Nanostars
... uses photothermal agents, which are usually nanoparticles that absorb strongly in the near-infrared optical window where minimal tissue absorption ...occurs. Photothermal agents are ...
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Synthesis and characterization of gold nanorods and their application for photothermal cell damage
... nanorods, gold, micellar system, photothermolysis Introduction Thermal therapeutics have several advantages over conventional techniques, being minimally invasive and relatively simple to perform, and having the ...
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Photodynamic and photothermal human cancer cell killing using gold nanoparticles
... solid gold, albeit present for only a few nanoseconds, might be sufficient to cause temporary melting of the nanoparticle, 40 although the pulse intensities used here are still below the reported threshold for ...
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Photothermal raster image correlation spectroscopy of gold nanoparticles in solution and on live cells
... new photothermal imaging technique for probing the diffusion dynamics of gold nanoparticles, PhRICS, is ...single gold nanoparticles at short pixel dwell times (60 µs) with an SNR of 10 ...
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Gold nanoparticles as multimodality imaging agents for brain gliomas
... We did not find any major limitations in the use of our approach, in particular in the multiple advantages of inoculating AuNPs-loaded cancer cells. This raises the question of the potential applications of this approach ...
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Plasmonic Gold Nanoparticles: Combining Photoacoustic Imaging and Photothermal Therapy for New Cancer Treatments
... ultrasound. Gold nanoparticles can be used to enhance the photoacoustic effect and provide important additional information that further extends the potential ...damage. Gold nanoparticles, ...
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Photothermal killing of <em>Staphylococcus aureus</em> using antibody-targeted gold nanoparticles
... of nanoparticles is incompletely understood at present, 26 this therapy is most suited for treatment of cutaneous infections, in which the subsequent removal of the particles following the treatment is not a ...
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Phytogenic silver, gold, and bimetallic nanoparticles as novel antitubercular agents
... Conclusion This is the first study to report the antitubercular activity of phytogenic AuNPs, AgNPs, and Au–AgNPs. Au–AgNPs exhibited profound efficiency to inhibit mycobacteria in dor- mant and active stage. Among ...
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Plasmonic Gold Nanoparticles for Combined Photoacoustic Imaging and Plasmonic Photothermal Therapy Using a Pulsed Laser
... —Plasmonic gold nanoparticles show potential for use in a range of cancer diagnostics and therapeutics, such as photoacoustic imaging (PAI) and plasmonic photothermal therapy ...for gold ...
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