Cancer theranostics with gold nanoshells

Nanomedicine

Volumn 9, Issue 13, 2014, Pages 2041-2057

  Zhao, Jun ^a   Wallace, Michael ^a   Melancon, Marites P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

Author keywords

cancer imaging; drug delivery; gold nanoshells; hyperthermia; photoacoustic; siRNA; surface plasmon resonance; thermal ablation; tumor penetration; tumor targeting

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; DOXORUBICIN; GOLD NANOPARTICLE; GOLD NANOSHELL; NANOBUBBLE; NANOSHELL; POLYMER; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; GOLD;

CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER THERANOSTICS; CANCER THERAPY; DRUG DELIVERY SYSTEM; HUMAN; HYPERTHERMIC THERAPY; LASER; LOW LEVEL LASER THERAPY; MECHANICAL STRESS; MICELLE; NANOMEDICINE; NANOTECHNOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY; REVIEW; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; TUMOR CELL; LIGHT; NEOPLASMS; THERMOTHERAPY;

GOLD; HUMANS; HYPERTHERMIA, INDUCED; LASERS; LIGHT; NANOSHELLS; NEOPLASMS; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

EID: 84908291326     PISSN: 17435889     EISSN: 17486963     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2217/nnm.14.136     Document Type: Review

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