Gold Nanoparticles: Construction for Drug Delivery and Application in Cancer Immunotherapy.

Huang, Huiqun; Liu, Ronghui; Yang, Jie; Dai, Jing; Fan, Shuhao; Pi, Jiang; Wei, Yubo; Guo, Xinrong

Cancer immunotherapy is an innovative treatment strategy to enhance the ability of the immune system to recognize and eliminate cancer cells. However, dose limitations, low response rates, and adverse immune events pose significant challenges. To address these limitations, gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) have been explored as immunotherapeutic drug carriers owing to their stability, surface versatility, and excellent optical properties. This review provides an overview of the advanced synthesis routes for AuNPs and their utilization as drug carriers to improve precision therapies. The review also emphasises various aspects of AuNP-based immunotherapy, including drug loading, targeting strategies, and drug release mechanisms. The application of AuNPs combined with cancer immunotherapy and their therapeutic efficacy are briefly discussed. Overall, we aimed to provide a recent understanding of the advances, challenges, and prospects of AuNPs for anticancer applications.

DRUG carriers; DRUG utilization; IMMUNOTHERAPY; TREATMENT effectiveness; IMMUNE system; GOLD nanoparticles; NANOCARRIERS

Pharmaceutics, 2023, Vol 15, Issue 7, p1868

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Academic Journal

10.3390/pharmaceutics15071868