Dual-Responsive Carbon Dots for Tumor Extracellular Microenvironment Triggered Targeting and Enhanced Anticancer Drug Delivery

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 8, Issue 29, 2016, Pages 18732-18740

  Feng, Tao ^a   Ai, Xiangzhao ^a   Ong, Huimin ^a   Zhao, Yanli ^a  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

carbon dots; dual responsiveness; enhanced cancer therapy; imaging guided delivery; tumor targeting

Indexed keywords

CELLS; CYTOLOGY; DISEASES; FLUORESCENCE; LIGANDS; MOTION PICTURE EXPERTS GROUP STANDARDS; NITROGEN COMPOUNDS; ONCOLOGY; PEPTIDES; PLATINUM; PLATINUM COMPOUNDS; TUMORS;

ANTI-CANCER DRUG DELIVERY; CANCER THERAPY; CARBON DOTS; DUAL RESPONSIVENESS; EXTRACELLULAR MICROENVIRONMENT; MONOMETHOXYPOLYETHYLENE GLYCOL; PHYSIOLOGICAL CONDITION; TUMOR TARGETING;

ENZYME ACTIVITY;

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; CARBON; CISPLATIN; VITRONECTIN RECEPTOR;

CHEMISTRY; DRUG DELIVERY SYSTEM; HUMAN; TUMOR CELL LINE; TUMOR MICROENVIRONMENT;

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; CARBON; CELL LINE, TUMOR; CISPLATIN; DRUG DELIVERY SYSTEMS; HUMANS; INTEGRIN ALPHAVBETA3; TUMOR MICROENVIRONMENT;

EID: 84979777166     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acsami.6b06695     Document Type: Article

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