In vitro and In vivo photothermal cancer therapeutic effects of gold nanorods modified with mushroom β-glucan

• Main Authors: Li, Xiaojie, Zhou, Jiajing, Dong, Xiaonan, Cheng, Wai-Yin, Duan, Hongwei, Cheung, Peter C. K.
• Other Authors: School of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2020
• Subjects: Engineering::Chemical engineering; Gold Nanorods; Mushroom β-glucan
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/142600
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

The photothermal cancer therapeutic effect of the AuNR-Glu nanohybrids produced by coating native gold nanorods (AuNRs) with a natural mushroom biopolymer from the Pleurotus tuber-regium sclerotia (Glu) were studied in the second near-infrared window (NIR-II). The AuNR-Glu exhibited low cytotoxicity...