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- Title
Designing Gold Nanoparticles for Precise Glioma Treatment: Challenges and Alternatives.
- Authors
Lansangan, Cedric; Khoobchandani, Menka; Jain, Ruchit; Rudensky, Serge; Perry, Christopher C.; Patil, Rameshwar
- Abstract
Glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) is a glioma and the most aggressive type of brain tumor with a dismal average survival time, despite the standard of care. One promising alternative therapy is boron neutron capture therapy (BNCT), which is a noninvasive therapy for treating locally invasive malignant tumors, such as glioma. BNCT involves boron-10 isotope capturing neutrons to form boron-11, which then releases radiation directly into tumor cells with minimal damage to healthy tissues. This therapy lacks clinically approved targeted blood–brain-barrier-permeating delivery vehicles for the central nervous system (CNS) entry of therapeutic boron-10. Gold nanoparticles (GNPs) are selective and effective drug-delivery vehicles because of their desirable properties, facile synthesis, and biocompatibility. This review discusses biomedical/therapeutic applications of GNPs as a drug delivery vehicle, with an emphasis on their potential for carrying therapeutic drugs, imaging agents, and GBM-targeting antibodies/peptides for treating glioma. The constraints of GNP therapeutic efficacy and biosafety are discussed.
- Subjects
BORON-neutron capture therapy; GOLD nanoparticles; GLIOMAS; GLIOBLASTOMA multiforme; BRAIN tumors; IMMUNOGLOBULINS
- Publication
Materials (1996-1944), 2024, Vol 17, Issue 5, p1153
- ISSN
1996-1944
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/ma17051153