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ArticleCancer biology & medicine2012

Quantum dots for cancer research: current status, remaining issues, and future perspectives.

Min Fang, Chun-Wei Peng, Dai-Wen Pang, Yan Li

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Article in Cancer biology & medicine, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 59 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

59 citing papers in PubMed.

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  19. Quantum dots against SARS-CoV-2: diagnostic and therapeutic potentials.Journal of chemical technology and biotechnology (Oxford, Oxfordshire : 1986) · 2022
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Min FangDepartment of Oncology, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, Hubei Key Laboratory of Tumor Biological Behaviors & Hubei Cancer Clinical Study Center, Wuhan 430071, China.
Chun-Wei Peng
Dai-Wen Pang
Yan Li

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Cancer is a major threat to public health in the 21st century because it is one of the leading causes of death worldwide. The mechanisms of carcinogenesis, cancer invasion, and metastasis remain unclear. Thus, the development of a novel approach for cancer detection is urgent, and real-time monitoring is crucial in revealing its underlying biological mechanisms. With the optical and chemical advantages of quantum dots (QDs), QD-based nanotechnology is helpful in constructing a biomedical imaging platform for cancer behavior study. This review mainly focuses on the application of QD-based nanotechnology in cancer cell imaging and tumor microenvironment studies both in vivo and in vitro, as well as the remaining issues and future perspectives.

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molecular imagingmultimodality probesquantum dots

Identifiers

PMID23691472
PMCPMC3643664

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