Silica Nanoparticles as Promising Drug/Gene Delivery Carriers and Fluorescent Nano-Probes: Recent Advances

Current Cancer Drug Targets

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 156-163

  Liu, Y ^a,c   Lou, C ^a   Yang, H ^a   Shi, M ^a   Miyoshi, H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRONIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKUSHIMA   (Japan)

^c CHONGQING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Drug gene delivery; Nano probes; Nanoparticles; Silica; Targeting

Indexed keywords

2 DEVINYL 2 (1 HEXYLOXYETHYL)PYROPHEOPHORBIDE; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; DRUG CARRIER; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR ANTIBODY; FLUORESCENT DYE; FOLIC ACID; MESOPOROUS SILICA NANOPARTICLE; NANOCRYSTAL; NANOPARTICLE; ORGANOSILICON DERIVATIVE; PHEOPHORBIDE; PHOTOSENSITIZING AGENT; POLYMER; QUANTUM DOT; SILICA NANOPARTICLE; SILICON DIOXIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CHEMICAL MODIFICATION; COLLOID; DRUG DELIVERY SYSTEM; DRUG FORMULATION; DRUG TARGETING; GENE DELIVERY SYSTEM; GENE TARGETING; HUMAN; MOLECULAR IMAGING; NANOBIOTECHNOLOGY; NANOPROBE; NONHUMAN; NONVIRAL GENE DELIVERY SYSTEM; PARTICLE SIZE; SEMICONDUCTOR; SURFACE PROPERTY;

ANIMALS; DRUG DELIVERY SYSTEMS; FLUORESCENT DYES; GENE TRANSFER TECHNIQUES; HUMANS; NANOMEDICINE; NANOPARTICLES; NANOTECHNOLOGY; SILICON DIOXIDE; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

EID: 79551638056     PISSN: 15680096     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2174/156800911794328411     Document Type: Article

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