An Injectable Self-Assembling Collagen-Gold Hybrid Hydrogel for Combinatorial Antitumor Photothermal/Photodynamic Therapy.

Xing, Ruirui; Liu, Kai; Jiao, Tifeng; Zhang, Ning; Ma, Kai; Zhang, Ruiyun; Zou, Qianli; Ma, Guanghui et al. · Adv Mater · 2016

basic_science · Level V

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Abstract

An injectable and self-healing collagen-gold hybrid hydrogel is spontaneously formed by electrostatic self-assembly and subsequent biomineralization. It is demonstrated that such collagen-based hydrogels may be used as an injectable material for local delivery of therapeutic agents, showing enhanced antitumor efficacy.

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