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ReviewNanomaterials (Basel, Switzerland)2023

Recent Breakthroughs in Using Quantum Dots for Cancer Imaging and Drug Delivery Purposes.

Aisha Hamidu, William G Pitt, Ghaleb A Husseini

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Review in Nanomaterials (Basel, Switzerland), 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 31 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

31 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Aisha HamiduBiomedical Engineering Program, College of Engineering, American University of Sharjah, Sharjah P.O. Box 26666, United Arab Emirates.ORCID 0000-0002-2023-9479
William G PittDepartment of Chemical Engineering, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT 84602, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-6043-3452
Ghaleb A HusseiniMaterials Science and Engineering Program, College of Arts and Sciences, American University of Sharjah, Sharjah P.O. Box 26666, United Arab Emirates.ORCID 0000-0002-7244-3105

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Cancer is one of the leading causes of death worldwide. Because each person's cancer may be unique, diagnosing and treating cancer is challenging. Advances in nanomedicine have made it possible to detect tumors and quickly investigate tumor cells at a cellular level in contrast to prior diagnostic techniques. Quantum dots (QDs) are functional nanoparticles reported to be useful for diagnosis. QDs are semiconducting tiny nanocrystals, 2-10 nm in diameter, with exceptional and useful optoelectronic properties that can be tailored to sensitively report on their environment. This review highlights these exceptional semiconducting QDs and their properties and synthesis methods when used in cancer diagnostics. The conjugation of reporting or binding molecules to the QD surface is discussed. This review summarizes the most recent advances in using QDs for in vitro imaging, in vivo imaging, and targeted drug delivery platforms in cancer applications.

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drug deliveryfunctionalizationin vitro imagingin vivo imagingquantum dots

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PMID37764594
PMCPMC10535728

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