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ArticleJournal of drug delivery2012

Utilisation of nanoparticle technology in cancer chemoresistance.

Duncan Ayers, Alessandro Nasti

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Article in Journal of drug delivery, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 16 papers.

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16 citing papers in PubMed.

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  5. Non-coding RNAs underlying chemoresistance in gastric cancer.Cellular oncology (Dordrecht, Netherlands) · 2020
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  11. Identification of miRNAs contributing to neuroblastoma chemoresistance.Computational and structural biotechnology journal · 2015
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Duncan AyersDepartment of Pathology, Faculty of Medicine & Surgery, University of Malta, Msida MSD 2060, Malta.
Alessandro Nasti

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The implementation of cytotoxic chemotherapeutic drugs in the fight against cancer has played an invariably essential role for minimizing the extent of tumour progression and/or metastases in the patient and thus allowing for longer event free survival periods following chemotherapy. However, such therapeutics are nonspecific and bring with them dose-dependent cumulative adverse effects which can severely exacerbate patient suffering. In addition, the emergence of innate and/or acquired chemoresistance to the exposed cytotoxic agents undoubtedly serves to thwart effective clinical efficacy of chemotherapy in the cancer patient. The advent of nanotechnology has led to the development of a myriad of nanoparticle-based strategies with the specific goal to overcome such therapeutic hurdles in multiple cancer conditions. This paper aims to provide a brief overview and recollection of all the latest advances in the last few years concerning the application of nanoparticle technology to enhance the safe and effective delivery of chemotherapeutic agents to the tumour site, together with providing possible solutions to circumvent cancer chemoresistance in the clinical setting.

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PMID23213536
PMCPMC3505656

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