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ReviewAdvanced pharmaceutical bulletin2021

Main Approaches to Enhance Radiosensitization in Cancer Cells by Nanoparticles: A Systematic Review.

Behnaz Babaye Abdollahi, Reza Malekzadeh, Fatemeh Pournaghi Azar, Fatemeh Salehnia, Ali Reza Naseri, Marjan Ghorbani, Hamed Hamishehkar, Ali Reza Farajollahi

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Review in Advanced pharmaceutical bulletin, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 17 papers.

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17citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

17 citing papers in PubMed.

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  4. Lanthanide Nanotheranostics in Radiotherapy.International journal of molecular sciences · 2025
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  9. Nanotheranostics: A Cutting-edge Technology for Cancer Management.Current pharmaceutical biotechnology · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors.

Behnaz Babaye AbdollahiDrug Applied Research Center, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3400-7051
Reza MalekzadehDepartment of Medical Physics, School of Medicine, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran.
Fatemeh Pournaghi AzarDepartment of Operative Density, Dental and Periodontal Research Center, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3492-8053
Fatemeh SalehniaResearch Center for Evidence Based Medicine, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran.
Ali Reza NaseriImam Reza Educational Hospital, Radiotherapy Department, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran.
Marjan GhorbaniStem Cell Research Center, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2500-6930
Hamed HamishehkarDrug Applied Research Center, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9905-0662
Ali Reza FarajollahiDrug Applied Research Center, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5549-9847

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In recent years, high atomic number nanoparticles (NPs) have emerged as promising radio-enhancer agents for cancer radiation therapy due to their unique properties. Multi-disciplinary studies have demonstrated the potential of NPs-based radio-sensitizers to improve cancer therapy and tumor control at cellular and molecular levels. However, studies have shown that the dose enhancement effect of the NPs depends on the beam energy, NPs type, NPs size, NPs concentration, cell lines, and NPs delivery system. It has been believed that radiation dose enhancement of NPs is due to the three main mechanisms, but the results of some simulation studies failed to comply well with the experimental findings. Thus, this study aimed to quantitatively evaluate the physical, chemical, and biological factors of the NPs. An organized search of PubMed/Medline, Embase, ProQuest, Scopus, Cochrane and Google Scholar was performed. In total, 77 articles were thoroughly reviewed and analyzed. The studies investigated 44 different cell lines through 70

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CancerNanoparticleRadiation therapyRadio-sensitization

Identifiers

PMID33880343
PMCPMC8046397

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