Carbon nanotube-enhanced thermal destruction of cancer cells in a noninvasive radiofrequency field

Cancer

Volumn 110, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 2654-2665

  Gannon, Christopher J ^a   Cherukuri, Paul ^a   Yakobson, Boris I ^b   Cognet, Laurent ^b,c   Kanzius, John S ^d   Kittrell, Carter ^b   Weisman, R Bruce ^b   Pasquali, Matteo ^b,e   Schmidt, Howard K ^b   Smalley, Richard E ^b   Curley, Steven A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^b RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE BORDEAUX   (France)

^d ThermMed LLC   (United States)

^e Rice University   (United States)

Author keywords

Cancer cells; Carbon nanotubes; Radiofrequency; Thermal cytotoxicity

Indexed keywords

SINGLE WALLED NANOTUBE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CANCER CELL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOTOXICITY; FLUORESCENCE ACTIVATED CELL SORTING; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HYPERTHERMIC THERAPY; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; INFRARED PHOTOGRAPHY; INFRARED RADIATION; LIVER TUMOR; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT; RADIOFREQUENCY;

ANIMALS; CELL SURVIVAL; HUMANS; INCINERATION; LIVER NEOPLASMS; NANOTUBES, CARBON; RABBITS; RADIO WAVES; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED;

EID: 37049031524     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: 10970142     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cncr.23155     Document Type: Article

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