Charge-Convertible Carbon Dots for Imaging-Guided Drug Delivery with Enhanced in Vivo Cancer Therapeutic Efficiency

ACS Nano

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 4410-4420

  Feng, Tao ^a   Ai, Xiangzhao ^a   An, Guanghui ^b,c   Yang, Piaoping ^c   Zhao, Yanli ^a,d  

^a Nanyang Technological University   (Singapore)

^b HEILONGJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c HARBIN ENGINEERING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

cancer therapy; carbon dots; charge convertibility; imaging guiding; in vivo studies

Indexed keywords

BIOCOMPATIBILITY; CYTOLOGY; DISEASES; EFFICIENCY; ENZYME INHIBITION; PLATINUM; PLATINUM COMPOUNDS; TUMORS;

CANCER THERAPY; CARBON DOTS; CHARGE CONVERTIBILITY; IMAGING GUIDING; IN-VIVO;

ENZYME ACTIVITY;

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; CARBON; CISPLATIN; DRUG CARRIER; MACROGOL DERIVATIVE; NANOPARTICLE; POLYALLYLAMINE; POLYAMINE;

ANIMAL; CANCER TRANSPLANTATION; CELL SURVIVAL; CHEMISTRY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DRUG RELEASE; DRUG STABILITY; EXPERIMENTAL NEOPLASM; FEMALE; FLUORESCENCE IMAGING; HUMAN; MOUSE; PARTICLE SIZE; PH; SURFACE PROPERTY; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; TUMOR CELL LINE;

ANIMALS; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; CARBON; CELL LINE, TUMOR; CELL SURVIVAL; CISPLATIN; DRUG CARRIERS; DRUG LIBERATION; DRUG STABILITY; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; MICE; NANOPARTICLES; NEOPLASM TRANSPLANTATION; NEOPLASMS, EXPERIMENTAL; OPTICAL IMAGING; PARTICLE SIZE; POLYAMINES; POLYETHYLENE GLYCOLS; SURFACE PROPERTIES; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 84968792200     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.6b00043     Document Type: Article

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