Nanoparticle delivery of natural products in the prevention and treatment of cancers: Current status and future prospects

Cancers

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 4024-4045

  Bharali, Dhruba J ^a   Siddiqui, Imtiaz A ^b   Adhami, Vaqar M ^b   Chamcheu, Jean Christopher ^b   Aldahmash, Abdullah M ^c,d   Mukhtar, Hasan ^b   Mousa, Shaker A ^a,c  

^a ALBANY COLLEGE OF PHARMACY AND HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^c KING SAUD UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

^d ODENSE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Camptothecin; Cancer; Chemoprevention; Curcumin; Epigallocatechin 3 gallate; Nanoparticles; Natural product; Resveratrol; Taxol

Indexed keywords

7 ETHYL 10 HYDROXYCAMPTOTHECIN; APREPITANT; ASPARAGINASE MACROGOL; CAMPTOTHECIN; CURCUMIN; DAUNORUBICIN; DOXORUBICIN; EPIGALLOCATECHIN GALLATE; GRAPE SEED EXTRACT; IRINOTECAN; NANOCAPSULE; NATURAL PRODUCT; PACLITAXEL; RESVERATROL; RUBITECAN; TOPOTECAN; TRANSFERRIN; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR RELATED APOPTOSIS INDUCING LIGAND; ULTRASMALL SUPERPARAMAGNETIC IRON OXIDE;

ANTINEOPLASTIC ACTIVITY; BRAIN TUMOR; BREAST CANCER; BREAST TUMOR; CANCER INHIBITION; CANCER PREVENTION; CELL VIABILITY; COLON ADENOCARCINOMA; COLON CANCER; COLORECTAL CANCER; COLORECTAL CARCINOMA; DOSAGE SCHEDULE COMPARISON; DRUG CYTOTOXICITY; DRUG DEGRADATION; DRUG DELIVERY SYSTEM; DRUG DOSAGE FORM COMPARISON; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG FORMULATION; DRUG HALF LIFE; DRUG MECHANISM; DRUG POTENCY; DRUG RELEASE; DRUG SOLUBILITY; DRUG STABILITY; FIBROSARCOMA; HUMAN; KAPOSI SARCOMA; LEUKEMIA; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LUNG CANCER; LUNG TUMOR; METASTASIS; MYELODYSPLASTIC SYNDROME; MYELOMA; NANOENCAPSULATION; NANOTECHNOLOGY; NAUSEA; NEUROBLASTOMA; NONHUMAN; OVARY CANCER; OVARY TUMOR; PANCREAS CANCER; PARTICLE SIZE; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PROSTATE ADENOCARCINOMA; PROSTATE CANCER; PSORIASIS; REVIEW; SARCOMA; SINGLE DRUG DOSE; SKIN CANCER; STOMACH CANCER; VOMITING;

EID: 84055193222     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20726694     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/cancers3044024     Document Type: Review

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