TY - JOUR
T1 - The Advances of Carbon Nanotubes in Cancer Diagnostics and Therapeutics
AU - Chen, Zhou
AU - Zhang, Aili
AU - Wang, Xiaobing
AU - Zhu, Jing
AU - Fan, Yamin
AU - Yu, Hongmei
AU - Yang, Zhaogang
N1 - Funding Information:
T his work is supported by the Priority Academic Program Development of Jiangsu Higher Education Institutions.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2017 Zhou Chen et al.
PY - 2017
Y1 - 2017
N2 - Carbon nanotubes (CNTs), one of the unique one-dimensional nanomaterials, have gained great attention because of their specific characters, versatile functionalization chemistry, and biological compatibility in the past few decades. CNTs can be functionalized via different methods to perform their specific functions. CNTs have been used in various areas of biomedicine as nanocarriers, including cancer diagnosis and therapy. Different molecules such as peptide, antigen, and nucleic acid can be delivered to cancer cells by CNTs with high efficiency. In this review, we summarized the properties of CNTs and the method of CNTs functionalization and illustrated their application in cancer diagnosis and therapy.
AB - Carbon nanotubes (CNTs), one of the unique one-dimensional nanomaterials, have gained great attention because of their specific characters, versatile functionalization chemistry, and biological compatibility in the past few decades. CNTs can be functionalized via different methods to perform their specific functions. CNTs have been used in various areas of biomedicine as nanocarriers, including cancer diagnosis and therapy. Different molecules such as peptide, antigen, and nucleic acid can be delivered to cancer cells by CNTs with high efficiency. In this review, we summarized the properties of CNTs and the method of CNTs functionalization and illustrated their application in cancer diagnosis and therapy.
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U2 - 10.1155/2017/3418932
DO - 10.1155/2017/3418932
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85028415523
SN - 1687-4110
VL - 2017
JO - Journal of Nanomaterials
JF - Journal of Nanomaterials
M1 - 3418932
ER -