Engineered Multifunctional Nanomedicine for Simultaneous Stereotactic Chemotherapy and Inhibited Osteolysis in an Orthotopic Model of Bone Metastasis.

Li, Chunyan; Zhang, Yejun; Chen, Guangcun; Hu, Feng; Zhao, Kui; Wang, Qiangbin · Adv Mater · 2017

basic_science · Level V

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Abstract

A novel multifunctional Ag<sub>2</sub> S quantum dot (QD)-based nanomedicine of alendronate (Ald)/doxorubicin (DOX)@Ag<sub>2</sub> S is developed for highly effective bone tumor therapy in an orthotopic model. The bone-targeting and osteolysis inhibition of Ald and the chemotherapeutic effect of DOX on the bone tumor are in situ visualized by Ag<sub>2</sub> S QDs with emission in the second near-infrared window.

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