Cooperative, nanoparticle-enabled thermal therapy of breast cancer.

Shen, Haifa; You, Jian; Zhang, Guodong; Ziemys, Arturas; Li, Qingpo; Bai, Litao; Deng, Xiaoyong; Erm, Donald R et al. · Adv Healthc Mater · 2012

basic_science · Level V

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Abstract

Hollow gold nanoshells are more efficient in heat generation triggered by near infrared laser when they are loaded into porous silicon particles, which results in effective cancer-cell killing in vitro and in vivo. Collective electromagnetic coupling of nanoconfined hollow gold nanoshells leads to dramatic enhancement of thermal ablation.

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