ArticleJournal of immunological sciences2018
Shining Gold Nanostars: From Cancer Diagnostics to Photothermal Treatment and Immunotherapy.
Article in Journal of immunological sciences, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 15 papers.
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- Nanomaterials targeting cancer stem cells to overcome drug resistance and tumor recurrence.Frontiers in oncology · 2025Review
- Visible Pulsed Laser-Assisted Selective Killing of Cancer Cells with PVP-Capped Plasmonic Gold Nanostars.Micromachines · 2023Article
- Exploring the Bottom-Up Growth of Anisotropic Gold Nanoparticles from Substrate-Bound Seeds in Microfluidic Reactors.ACS applied nano materials · 2023Article
- Cancer Treatment Using Different Shapes of Gold-Based Nanomaterials in Combination with Conventional Physical Techniques.Pharmaceutics · 2023Review
- Remotely controlled near-infrared-triggered photothermal treatment of brain tumours in freely behaving mice using gold nanostars.Nature nanotechnology · 2022Article
- Intravital optical imaging for immune cell tracking after photoimmunotherapy with plasmonic gold nanostars.Nanotechnology · 2022Article
- Photothermal and Photodynamic Therapy of Tumors with Plasmonic Nanoparticles: Challenges and Prospects.Materials (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Review
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- Surface-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy for Cancer Immunotherapy Applications: Opportunities, Challenges, and Current Progress in Nanomaterial Strategies.Nanomaterials (Basel, Switzerland) · 2020Review
- Present and Future of Surface-Enhanced Raman Scattering.ACS nano · 2020Article
- Control of Arms of Au Stars Size and its Dependent Cytotoxicity and Photosensitizer Effects in Photothermal Anticancer Therapy.International journal of molecular sciences · 2019Article
- Optical Diagnostic Based on Functionalized Gold Nanoparticles.International journal of molecular sciences · 2019Review
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Abstract
Cancer has been a significant threat to human health with more than eight million deaths each year in the world. There is an urgent need to develop novel methods to improve cancer management. Biocompatible gold nanostars (GNS) with tip-enhanced electromagnetic and optical properties have been developed and applied for multifunctional cancer diagnostics and therapy (theranostics). The GNS platform can be used for multiple sensing, imaging and treatment modalities, such as surface-enhanced Raman scattering, two-photon photoluminescence, magnetic resonance imaging and computed tomography as well as photothermal therapy and immunotherapy. GNS-mediated photothermal therapy combined with checkpoint immunotherapy has been found to reverse tumor-mediated immunosuppression, leading to the treatment of not only primary tumors but also cancer metastasis as well as inducing effective long-lasting immunity, i.e. an anticancer 'vaccine' effect.
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