Photothermal Therapy for Cancer Treatment
A special issue of Bioengineering (ISSN 2306-5354). This special issue belongs to the section "Regenerative Engineering".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 March 2024) | Viewed by 6227
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Interests: biomaterials; 3D models of disease; tissue engineering; cancer; bone
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Dear Colleagues,
Among the novel treatments that nanomedicine can offer, photothermal therapy (PTT) is one of the most promising strategies for cancer treatment. PTT involves designing photoactivatable nanocarriers, which can absorb nontoxic near-infrared light to produce heat inside the target cells, inducing cell death.
This Special Issue of Bioengineering on “Photothermal Therapy for Cancer Treatment” aims to collate original research papers and reviews that aim to provide a further understanding of PTT in the context of cancer research. The topics of interest for this Special Issue include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Novel and advanced nanomaterials for PTT;
- Studies of nanocarriers to transform near-infrared light into heat;
- Strategies to improve cancer PTT;
- Advanced strategies for nanomaterial functionalization for PTT;
- Approaches for improving specific cancer cell targeting;
- The development of tumor engineered models to validate the effect of PTT;
- Advanced techniques to track nanoparticles for PTT in in vivo and in tissue-engineered models;
- Advanced techniques for evaluating the effect of PTT in cancer cells.
Dr. Aranzazu Villasante
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- photothermal therapy
- cancer
- nanomaterials
- metallic nanostructures
- functionalization of nanoparticles
- nanomedicine
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