Carbon Nanotubes: a viable drug delivery platform for the treatment of cancer
ABSTRACT: The development of new drug delivery platforms and specific vectorization processes for the treatment of diseases like cancer has become vitally important for the pharmaceutical industry. One of these new platforms are functionalized carbon nanotubes (f-CNTs), which are characterized by th...
- Autores:
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Pinillos Madrid, Juan Fernando
Gallardo Cabrera, Cecilia
- Tipo de recurso:
- Article of investigation
- Fecha de publicación:
- 2015
- Institución:
- Universidad de Antioquia
- Repositorio:
- Repositorio UdeA
- Idioma:
- eng
- OAI Identifier:
- oai:bibliotecadigital.udea.edu.co:10495/35894
- Acceso en línea:
- https://hdl.handle.net/10495/35894
- Palabra clave:
- Nanotecnología
Nanotechnology
Nanotubos de Carbono
Nanotubes, Carbon
Sistemas de Liberación de Medicamentos
Drug Delivery Systems
Neoplasias
Neoplasms
Tratamiento Farmacológico
Drug Therapy
- Rights
- openAccess
- License
- https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
| Summary: | ABSTRACT: The development of new drug delivery platforms and specific vectorization processes for the treatment of diseases like cancer has become vitally important for the pharmaceutical industry. One of these new platforms are functionalized carbon nanotubes (f-CNTs), which are characterized by their high aspect ratio, high loading capacity, rich surface chemistry with functional groupsfor binding drugs and molecules. It has been demonstrated that functionalization processes of CNTs generate a marked decrease in toxicity, which makes them ideal candidates for clinical studies for their use as drug vectors. |
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