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Biomedical Applications of Advanced Multifunctional Magnetic Nanoparticles

Journal

JOURNAL OF NANOSCIENCE AND NANOTECHNOLOGY
Volume 15, Issue 12, Pages 10091-10107

Publisher

AMER SCIENTIFIC PUBLISHERS
DOI: 10.1166/jnn.2015.11691

Keywords

Fe Nanoparticles; Fe Oxide Nanoparticles; Au Nanoparticles; Ag Nanoparticles; Pt Nanoparticles; Drug Delivery; Hyperthermia; Magnetic Resonance Imaging; Drug; Cancers; Tumors; Cancer Therapy

Funding

  1. Chinese Academy of Sciences (Visiting Fellowship for Researchers from Developing Countries) [2013FFGB0007]
  2. China Postdoctoral Science Foundation from Shanghai Institute of Ceramics, Chinese Academy of Sciences [2014M551462]
  3. National Natural Science Foundation of China [51471182]

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In this review, we have presented the latest results and highlights on biomedical applications of a class of noble metal nanoparticles, such as gold, silver and platinum, and a class of magnetic nanoparticles, such as cobalt, nickel and iron. Their most important related compounds are also discussed for biomedical applications for treating various diseases, typically as cancers. At present, both physical and chemical methods have been proved very successful to synthesize, shape, control, and produce metal- and oxide-based homogeneous particle systems, e.g., nanoparticles and microparticles. Therefore, we have mainly focused on functional magnetic nanoparticles for nanomedicine because of their high bioadaptability to the organs inside human body. Here, bio-conjugation techniques are very crucial to link nanoparticles with conventional drugs, nanodrugs, biomolecules or polymers for biomedical applications. Biofunctionalization of engineered nanoparticles for biomedicine is shown respective to in vitro and in vivo analysis protocols that typically include drug delivery, hyperthermia therapy, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), and recent outstanding progress in sweep imaging technique with Fourier transformation (SWIFT) MRI. The latter can be especially applied using magnetic nanoparticles, such as Co-, Fe-, Ni-based nanoparticles, alpha-Fe2O3, and Fe3O4 oxide nanoparticles for analysis and treatment of malignancies. Therefore, this review focuses on recent results of scientists, and related research on diagnosis and treatment methods of common and dangerous diseases by biomedical engineered nanoparticles. Importantly, nanosysems (nanoparticles) or microsystems (microparticles) or hybrid micronano systems are shortly introduced into nanomedicine. Here, Fe oxide nanoparticles ultimately enable potential and applicable technologies for tumor-targeted imaging and therapy. Finally, we have shown the latest aspects of the most important Fe-based particle systems, such as Fe, alpha-Fe2O3, Fe3O4, Fe-FexOy oxide core-shell nanoparticles, and CoFe2O4-MnFe2O4 core-shell nanoparticles for nanomedicine in the efficient treatment of large tumors at low cost in near future.

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