Novel Nanoparticles for Photothermal and Photodynamic Therapy
A special issue of Pharmaceutics (ISSN 1999-4923). This special issue belongs to the section "Nanomedicine and Nanotechnology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (1 December 2022) | Viewed by 3405
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Interests: drug delivery systems; lipid-based systems; liposomes; pharmacokinetic studies; biodistribution studies; murine tumor models; cancer; inflammation; melanoma; colon cancer; pancreatic cancer; preclinical studies
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Interests: development of new drug delivery systems; therapeutic polymers for drug delivery; methods of micro- and nanoencapsulation of drugs
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Photothermal therapy has emerged as a highly promising strategy for the treatment of superficial and localized tumors. It is a minimally invasive technique that takes advantage of the increased sensitivity of cancer cells to heat, relying on the induction of thermal ablation of tumor cells through irradiation with light beams. In addition, it is also considered safe, enabling a faster recovery of the patient compared with other existing therapeutic approaches.
An overview of several nanoparticles for photothermal and photodynamic therapy will be herein presented, with a focus on different methods of preparation and in vitro and in vivo studies, including clinical studies using this nanotechnological approach for cancer management.
Dr. Maria Manuela Gaspar
Dr. Catarina Pinto Reis
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- photosensitizing agents
- photoimmunotherapy
- lipid-based systems
- gold nanoparticles
- polymeric nanoparticles
- photothermal therapy
- cancer
- in vitro and in vivo studies
- efficacy and safety assessment
