Multifunctional plasmonic gold nanostars for cancer diagnostic and therapeutic applications

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wrenit Gem Pearl ◽  
Elena V. Perevedentseva ◽  
Artashes V. Karmenyan ◽  
Vitaly A. Khanadeev ◽  
Sheng‐Yun Wu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Therapeutic Applications ◽  
Cancer Diagnostic ◽  
Gold Nanostars

scholarly journals Semiconductor Quantum Dots Surface Modification for Potential Cancer Diagnostic and Therapeutic Applications

2012 ◽  
Vol 2012 ◽  
pp. 1-8 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jidong Wang ◽  
Shumin Han ◽  
Dandan Ke ◽  
Ruibing Wang
Keyword(s):  
Quantum Dots ◽  
Surface Modification ◽  
Photophysical Properties ◽  
Aqueous Media ◽  
Simultaneous Detection ◽  
Emission Spectra ◽  
Semiconductor Quantum Dots ◽  
Therapeutic Applications ◽  
Cancer Diagnostic ◽  
Potential Cancer

Semiconductor Quantum dots (QDs) have generated extensive interest for biological and clinical applications. These applications arise from their unique properties, such as high brightness, long-term stability, simultaneous detection of multiple signals, tunable emission spectra. However, high-quality QDs, whether single or core-shell QDs, are most commonly synthesized in organic solution and surface-stabilized with hydrophobic organic ligands and thus lack intrinsic aqueous solubility. For biological applications, very often it is necessary to make the QDs dispersible in water and therefore to modify the QD surfaces with various bifunctional surface ligands or caps to promote solubility in aqueous media. Well-defined methods have been developed for QD surface modification to impart biocompatibility to these systems. In this review, we summarize the recent progress and strategies of QDs surface modification for potential cancer diagnostic and therapeutic applications. In addition, the question that arose from QD surface modification, such as impact of size increase of QD bioconjugates after surface-functionalization or surface modification on photophysical properties of QDs, are also discussed.

Heparin and proteoglycans as anti-inflammatory drugs

1996 ◽  
Vol 16 (01) ◽  
pp. 56-59
Author(s):  
D. J. Tyrrell ◽  
C. P. Page
Keyword(s):  
Inflammatory Diseases ◽  
Therapeutic Applications ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Inflammatory Drugs ◽  
Anti Inflammatory

SummaryEvidence continues to accumulate that the pleiotropic nature of heparin (beyond its anticoagulant potency) includes anti-inflammatory activities at a number of levels. It is clear that drugs exploiting these anti-inflammatory activities of heparin may offer exciting new therapeutic applications to the treatment of a wide range of inflammatory diseases.

Colloidal Plasmonic Nanostar Antennas with Wide Range Resonance Tunability

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Theodoros Tsoulos ◽  
Supriya Atta ◽  
Maureen Lagos ◽  
Michael Beetz ◽  
Philip Batson ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Single Particle ◽  
Structural Complexity ◽  
Field Enhancement ◽  
Hot Electron ◽  
Structure Property ◽  
Plasmon Band ◽  
Gold Nanostars ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Particle Level ◽  
Spectrally Resolved

<div>Gold nanostars display exceptional field enhancement properties and tunable resonant modes that can be leveraged to create effective imaging tags or phototherapeutic agents, or to design novel hot-electron based photocatalysts. From a fundamental standpoint, they represent important tunable platforms to study the dependence of hot carrier energy and dynamics on plasmon band intensity and position. Toward the realization of these platforms, holistic approaches taking into account both theory and experiments to study the fundamental behavior of these</div><div>particles are needed. Arguably, the intrinsic difficulties underlying this goal stem from the inability to rationally design and effectively synthesize nanoparticles that are sufficiently monodispersed to be employed for corroborations of the theoretical results without the need of single particle experiments. Herein, we report on our concerted computational and experimental effort to design, synthesize, and explain the origin and morphology-dependence of the plasmon modes of a novel gold nanostar system, with an approach that builds upon the well-known plasmon hybridization model. We have synthesized monodispersed samples of gold nanostars with finely tunable morphology employing seed-mediated colloidal protocols, and experimentally observed narrow and spectrally resolved harmonics of the primary surface plasmon resonance mode both at the single particle level (via electron energy loss spectroscopy) and in ensemble (by UV-Vis and ATR-FTIR spectroscopies). Computational results on complex anisotropic gold nanostructures are validated experimentally on samples prepared colloidally, underscoring their importance as ideal testbeds for the study of structure-property relationships in colloidal nanostructures of high structural complexity.</div>

Pharmacology and Therapeutic Applications of A1 Adenosine Receptor Ligands

2003 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 369-385 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arvinder Dhalla ◽  
John Shryock ◽  
Revati Shreeniwas ◽  
Luiz Belardinelli
Keyword(s):  
Adenosine Receptor ◽  
Receptor Ligands ◽  
A1 Adenosine Receptor ◽  
Therapeutic Applications ◽  
Adenosine Receptor Ligands

Recent Advances in Therapeutic Applications of Bisbenzimidazoles

2020 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. 454-486 ◽  
Author(s):  
Smita Verma ◽  
Vishnuvardh Ravichandiran ◽  
Nihar Ranjan ◽  
Swaran J.S. Flora
Keyword(s):  
Heterocyclic Compounds ◽  
Wide Spectrum ◽  
Dna Recognition ◽  
Present Review ◽  
Pharmacological Activities ◽  
Structural Motifs ◽  
Therapeutic Applications ◽  
The Past ◽  
Recent Advances

Nitrogen-containing heterocycles are one of the most common structural motifs in approximately 80% of the marketed drugs. Of these, benzimidazoles analogues are known to elicit a wide spectrum of pharmaceutical activities such as anticancer, antibacterial, antiparasitic, antiviral, antifungal as well as chemosensor effect. Based on the benzimidazole core fused heterocyclic compounds, crescent-shaped bisbenzimidazoles were developed which provided an early breakthrough in the sequence-specific DNA recognition. Over the years, a number of functional variations in the bisbenzimidazole core have led to the emergence of their unique properties and established them as versatile ligands against several classes of pathogens. The present review provides an overview of diverse pharmacological activities of the bisbenzimidazole analogues in the past decade with a brief account of its development through the years.

Quinone-Based Drugs: An Important Class of Molecules in Medicinal Chemistry

2020 ◽  
Vol 16 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vitor F. Ferreira ◽  
Alcione S. de Carvalho ◽  
Patricia G. Ferreira ◽  
Carolina G. S. Lima ◽  
Fernando de C. da Silva
Keyword(s):  
Drug Combination ◽  
Medicinal Chemistry ◽  
Pharmaceutical Market ◽  
Important Class ◽  
Therapeutic Applications ◽  
New Applications ◽  
Pharmaceutical Uses

Background: Several quinones are on the pharmaceutical market as drugs for the treatment of several diseases. Objective: The aim of this review was to provide an overview on the quinones that have become drugs for several therapeutic applications. Method: We have comprehensively and critically discussed all the information available in the literature about quinonebased drugs. Results: In this review, the various aspects of the chemistry and biochemistry of these drugs are highlighted, including their repositioning, drug combination and their new uses. Conclusion: The number of studies related to quinone drugs for different pharmaceutical uses shows that the interest in new applications still increasing in recent years.

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