Polymeric Nanofibers in Regenerative Medicine

Mishra, Narayan Chandra; Majumder, Sharmistha Mitra

doi:10.1002/9781118636299.ch8

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“…Nanomaterials possess advantageous chemical and physical properties that significantly differ from their bulk counterparts. Due to their remarkable optical, electrical, chemical, and mechanical properties nanomaterials are being used increasingly in biomedical applications including drug delivery, biological imaging and therapeutic purposes [1][2][3][4]. One of the important tasks of modern nanotechnology is the development of new nanomaterials and systems, which would significantly enhance the effects of organic drug molecules traditionally applied in biomedicine.…”

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Chlorin e6–ZnSe/ZnS quantum dots based system as reagent for photodynamic therapy

et al. 2015

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Stable water-soluble complexes of Cd-free ZnSe/ZnS quantum dots (QDs) and chlorin e6 complexes have been prepared. These complexes have shown approximately 50% intracomplex fluorescence resonance energy transfer from QDs to chlorin e6. The photodynamic therapy (PDT) test of the complexes against the Erlich acsite carcinoma cell culture demonstrated a two-fold enhancement of the cancer cell photodynamic destruction as compared to that of free chlorin e6 molecules. It was shown that the PDT effect was significantly increased due to two factors: the efficient QD-chlorin e6 photoexcitation energy transfer and the improvement of cellular uptake of the photosensitizer in the presence of ZnSe/ZnS QDs.

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confidence: 99%