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Sputtering of electrospun polymer-based nanofibers for biomedical applications: A perspective
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MDPI AG
, 2019 , Article Review)
Electrospinning has gained wide attention recently in biomedical applications. Electrospun biocompatible scaffolds are well-known for biomedical applications such as drug delivery, wound dressing, and tissue engineering ...
Nanoparticle-mediated targeted drug delivery for breast cancer treatment
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Elsevier B.V.
, 2019 , Article Review)
Breast cancer (BC) is the most common malignancy in women worldwide, and one of the deadliest after lung cancer. Currently, standard methods for cancer therapy including BC are surgery followed by chemotherapy or radiotherapy. ...
Plasmonic gold nanoparticles: Optical manipulation, imaging, drug delivery and therapy
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Elsevier B.V.
, 2019 , Article Review)
Over the past two decades, the development of plasmonic nanoparticle (NPs), especially gold (Au) NPs, is being pursued more seriously in the medical fields such as imaging, drug delivery, and theranostic systems. However, ...
In vitro models and systems for evaluating the dynamics of drug delivery to the healthy and diseased brain
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Elsevier B.V.
, 2018 , Article Review)
The blood-brain barrier (BBB) plays a crucial role in maintaining brain homeostasis and transport of drugs to the brain. The conventional animal and Transwell BBB models along with emerging microfluidic-based BBB-on-chip ...
Recent advances in stimuli-responsive drug release and targeting concepts using mesoporous silica nanoparticles
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Springer
, 2020 , Article Review)
Being a developed and promising approach, nanotechnology has attracted a lot of attention in biomedical and pharmaceutical therapy applications. Among nanostructured materials, mesoporous silica nanoparticles (MSNs) are ...
Nanoparticle-based materials in anticancer drug delivery: Current and future prospects
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Elsevier
, 2023 , Article Review)
The past decade has witnessed a breakthrough in novel strategies to treat cancer. One of the most common cancer treatment modalities is chemotherapy which involves administering anti-cancer drugs to the body. However, these ...