Nanocrystal targeting in vivo

By M. Akerman, W. Chan, P. Laakkonen, Sangeeta N. Bhatia, Erkki Ruoslahti. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2002

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Subfields: Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials, Materials Chemistry, Molecular Biology

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Small-scale systems for in vivo drug delivery (2003, positive): “as well as the use of PEG in competition with binding groups to reduce nonspecific attachment or uptak”
Role of nanotechnology in targeted drug delivery and imaging: a concise review. (2005, background): “Akerman et al [202] modified ZnS-capped CdSe QD to render them water soluble and coated them with targeting peptide sequences (GFE, F3, and LyP-1).”
Nanomedicine: current status and future prospects (2005, background): “These same signatures have now been exploited to direct therapeutic and diagnostic entities to selected pathological vessels, particularly those of cancer (19, 60, 61).”
Quantum Dots and Their Multimodal Applications: A Review (2010, background): “CdSe/ZnS Tumor vasculature and lung endothelium imaging In vitro and in vivo fluorescence <10 nm [350]”
Molecular imaging in living subjects: seeing fundamental biological processes in a new light. (2003, background): “Nanoparticles are among the most promising emerging fluorescent labels for cellular imaging in vivo (Mitchell 2001; Akerman et al. 2002; Chan et al. 2002).”
Superparamagnetic iron oxide nanoparticles (SPIONs): development, surface modification and applications in chemotherapy. (2011, background): “The isoelectric point of SPIONs is around pH 7 [218,219], which is same as that for biological fluids; hence, the colloidal stability of SPIONs in such surrounding environments is recognized as a major shortcoming [220,221].”
Surface modification, functionalization and bioconjugation of colloidal inorganic nanoparticles (2010, background): “Quantum dots in aqueous solution stabilized with MAA have been modified by co-adsorption of thiol-containing PEG and short peptides (Akerman et al. 2002).”
Inorganic nanoparticles as carriers for efficient cellular delivery (2006, background): “Akerman et al. (2002) investigated the feasibility of in vivo targeting by using semiconductor ZnS-capped CdSe quantum dots.”
Nanocarriers for drug delivery applications (2018, background): “For example, quantum dot—peptide conjugate is employed for in vivo tumor vasculature targeting in mice (Mkerman et al. 2002).”