Browsing by Subject "Nanotoxicology"

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    • Capping gold nanoparticles with modified chitosan polymers for biomedical applications 
      Mena, Juan F.; Neira Carrillo, Andrónico; Yazdani-Pedram Zobeiri, Mehrdad; Kogan Bocian, Marcelo (American Scientific Publishers, 2013)
      With the purpose of obtaining stable and non-toxic nanocomposites with potential biomedical applications we coated gold nanoparticles (AuNP) with chitosan (CHI) and CHI grafted with poly(Nisopropilacrylamide) (PNIPAAm) and ...
    • Gold nanoparticle-membrane interactions: Implications in biomedicine 
      Riveros, Ana; Dadlani, Komal; Salas, Edison; Caballero, Leonardo; Melo, Francisco; Kogan Bocian, Marcelo (American Scientific Publishers, 2013)
      There has been an increase in the research towards the use of nanoparticles as a promising tool for nanomedicine, from imagenology, drug and gene delivery, to phototherapy. Little is known regarding the interaction between ...
    • Molecular insights to alkaline based bio-fabrication of silver nanoparticles for inverse cytotoxicity and ... 
      Verma, Suresh K.; Jha, Ealisha; Panda, Pritam Kumar; Thirumurugan, Arun; Patro, Shubhransu; Parashar, S. K.S.; Suar, Mrutyunjay (Elsevier Ltd, 2018)
      © 2018 Elsevier B.V. High demand for silver nanoparticles due to their extensive applications in different field has raised need of eco-friendly green synthesis with determined biomedical effects. This study proposes a ...
    • Nanomedicine and nanotoxicology: the pros and cons for neurodegeneration and brain cancer 
      Catalán Figueroa, Johanna; Palma Florez, Sujey; Alvarez, Gonzalo; Fritz, Hans F.; ara, Miguel O.; Morales, Javier O. (Future Medicine Ltd., 2016)
      Current strategies for brain diseases are mostly symptomatic and noncurative. Nanotechnology has the potential to facilitate the transport of drugs across the blood-brain barrier and to enhance their pharmacokinetic ...