Melanin-based nanomaterials: The promising nanoplatforms for cancer diagnosis and therapy.
Nanomedicine
; 28: 102211, 2020 08.
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ABSTRACT
Melanin-based nanoplatforms are biocompatible nanomaterials with a variety of unique physicochemical properties such as strong photothermal conversion ability, excellent drug binding capacity, strong metal chelation capacity, high chemical reactivity and versatile adhesion ability. These innate talents not only make melanin-based nanoplatforms be an inborn theranostic nanoagent for photoacoustic imaging-guided photothermal therapy of cancers, but also enable them to be conveniently transferred into cancer-targeting drug delivery systems and multimodality imaging nanoprobes. Due to the intriguing properties, melanin-based nanoplatforms have attracted much attention in investigations of cancer diagnosis and therapy. This review provides an overview of recent research advances in applications of melanin-based nanoplatforms in the fields of cancer diagnosis and therapy including cancer photothermal therapy, anticancer drug delivery, cancer-specific multimodal imaging and theranostics, etc. The remaining challenges and prospects of melanin-based nanoplatforms in biomedical applications are discussed at the end of this review.
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Assunto principal:
Nanoestruturas
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Melaninas
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Neoplasias
Tipo de estudo:
Diagnostic_studies
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Animals
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Humans
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En
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Nanomedicine
Assunto da revista:
BIOTECNOLOGIA
Ano de publicação:
2020
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Article