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Carbon nanotubes: An effective platform for biomedical electronics. Biosens Bioelectron 2019; 150:111919. [PMID: 31787449 DOI: 10.1016/j.bios.2019.111919] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/24/2019] [Revised: 11/14/2019] [Accepted: 11/22/2019] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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Cylindrical fullerenes (or carbon nanotubes (CNTs)) have been extensively investigated as potential sensor platforms due to effective and practical manipulation of their physical and chemical properties by functionalization/doping with chemical groups suitable for novel nanocarrier systems. CNTs play a significant role in biomedical applications due to rapid development of synthetic methods, structural integration, surface area-controlled heteroatom doping, and electrical conductivity. This review article comprehensively summarized recent trends in biomedical science and technologies utilizing a promising nanomaterial of CNTs in disease diagnosis and therapeutics, based on their biocompatibility and significance in drug delivery, implants, and bio imaging. Biocompatibility of CNTs is essential for designing effective and practical electronic applications in the biomedical field particularly due to their growing potential in the delivery of anticancer agents. Furthermore, functionalized CNTs have been shown to exhibit advanced electrochemical properties, responsible for functioning of numerous oxidase and dehydrogenase based amperometric biosensors. Finally, faster signal transduction by CNTs allows charge transfer between underlying electrode and redox centres of biomolecules (enzymes).
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Al Faraj A. SWCNTs as novel theranostic nanocarriers for cancer diagnosis and therapy: towards safe translation to the clinics. Nanomedicine (Lond) 2016; 11:1431-45. [DOI: 10.2217/nnm-2016-0065] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/21/2022] Open
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With their unique physicochemical properties, single walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs) hold great promise for applications as drug delivery systems (DDS) for early and better diagnosis and therapy of cancer. While several in vitro and in vivo studies have validated their potential benefit, no SWCNT-based formulation has yet reached clinical trials. Towards prospective safe clinical applications, the main properties that were adopted to enhance the biocompatibility of SWCNTs were highlighted. Then, the recent progresses in the in vivo applications of SWCNTs as diagnostic nanoprobes using multimodality imaging techniques and as therapeutic nanocarriers delivering wide range of anticancer efficient drugs to tumors were reviewed. Finally, the efforts required for safe clinical applications of SWCNTs as DDS for cancer diagnosis and therapy were discussed.
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- Achraf Al Faraj
- Department of Radiological Sciences, College of Applied Medical Sciences, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
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Holt BD, Law JJ, Boyer PD, Wilson LJ, Dahl KN, Islam MF. Subcellular Partitioning and Analysis of Gd3+-Loaded Ultrashort Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes. ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES 2015; 7:14593-602. [PMID: 26098461 DOI: 10.1021/acsami.5b04851] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/07/2023]
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Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is of vast clinical utility, with tens of millions of scans performed annually. Chemical contrast agents (CAs) can greatly enhance the diagnostic potential of MRI, and ∼50% of MRI scans use CAs. However, CAs have significant limitations such as low contrast enhancement, lack of specificity, and potential toxicity. Recently developed, Gd3+-loaded ultrashort single-walled carbon nanotubes, also referred to as gadonanotubes or GNTs, exhibit ∼40 times the relaxivities of clinical CAs, representing a potential major advance in clinically relevant MRI CA materials. Although initial cytotoxicity and MRI studies have suggested great promise for GNTs, relatively little is known regarding their subcellular interactions, which are crucial for further, safe development of GNTs as CAs. In this work, we administered GNTs to a well-established human cell line (HeLa) and to murine macrophage-like cells (J774A.1). GNTs were not acutely cytotoxic and did not reduce proliferation, except for the highest exposure concentration of 27 μg/mL for J774A.1 macrophages, yet bulk uptake of GNTs occurred in minutes at picogram quantities, or millions of GNTs per cell. J774A.1 macrophages internalized substantially more GNTs than HeLa cells in a dose-dependent manner, and Raman imaging of the subcellular distribution of GNTs revealed perinuclear localization. Fluorescence intensity and lifetime imaging demonstrated that GNTs did not grossly alter subcellular compartments, including filamentous-actin structures. Together, these results provide subcellular evidence necessary to establish GNTs as a new MRI CA material.
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- ‡Department of Chemistry and Smalley Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology, Rice University, Houston, Texas 77251, United States
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- ‡Department of Chemistry and Smalley Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology, Rice University, Houston, Texas 77251, United States
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Jaruszewski KM, Curran GL, Swaminathan SK, Rosenberg JT, Grant SC, Ramakrishnan S, Lowe VJ, Poduslo JF, Kandimalla KK. Multimodal nanoprobes to target cerebrovascular amyloid in Alzheimer's disease brain. Biomaterials 2013; 35:1967-76. [PMID: 24331706 DOI: 10.1016/j.biomaterials.2013.10.075] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/06/2013] [Accepted: 10/27/2013] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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Cerebral amyloid angiopathy (CAA) results from the accumulation of Aβ proteins primarily within the media and adventitia of small arteries and capillaries of the cortex and leptomeninges. CAA affects a majority of Alzheimer's disease (AD) patients and is associated with a rapid decline in cognitive reserve. Unfortunately, there is no pre-mortem diagnosis available for CAA. Furthermore, treatment options are few and relatively ineffective. To combat this issue, we have designed nanovehicles (nanoparticles-IgG4.1) capable of targeting cerebrovascular amyloid (CVA) and serving as early diagnostic and therapeutic agents. These nanovehicles were loaded with Gadolinium (Gd) based (Magnevist(®)) magnetic resonance imaging contrast agents or single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) agents, such as (125)I. In addition, the nanovehicles carry either anti-inflammatory and anti-amyloidogenic agents such as curcumin or immunosuppressants such as dexamethasone, which were previously shown to reduce cerebrovascular inflammation. Owing to the anti-amyloid antibody (IgG4.1) grafted on the surface, the nanovehicles are capable of specifically targeting CVA deposits. The nanovehicles effectively marginate from the blood flow to the vascular wall as determined by using quartz crystal microbalance with dissipation monitoring (QCM-D) technology. They demonstrate excellent distribution to the brain vasculature and target CVA, thus providing MRI and SPECT contrast specific to the CVA in the brain. In addition, they also display the potential to carry therapeutic agents to reduce cerebrovascular inflammation associated with CAA, which is believed to trigger hemorrhage in CAA patients.
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- Kristen M Jaruszewski
- Department of Pharmaceutics and Brain Barriers Research Center, College of Pharmacy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA; Molecular Neurobiology Laboratory, Department of Neurology, Neuroscience and Biochemistry/Molecular Biology, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Rochester, MN 55905, USA; Department of Pharmaceutics, College of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Florida A&M University, Tallahassee, FL 32307, USA
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- Molecular Neurobiology Laboratory, Department of Neurology, Neuroscience and Biochemistry/Molecular Biology, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Rochester, MN 55905, USA
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- Department of Pharmaceutics and Brain Barriers Research Center, College of Pharmacy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA
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- The Florida State University and National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, Tallassee, FL 32310, USA
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- The Florida State University and National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, Tallassee, FL 32310, USA; Department of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering, College of Engineering, Florida A&M University-Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL 32310, USA
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- The Florida State University and National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, Tallassee, FL 32310, USA; Department of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering, College of Engineering, Florida A&M University-Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL 32310, USA
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- Nuclear Medicine, Department of Radiology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN 55905, USA
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- Molecular Neurobiology Laboratory, Department of Neurology, Neuroscience and Biochemistry/Molecular Biology, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Rochester, MN 55905, USA
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- Department of Pharmaceutics and Brain Barriers Research Center, College of Pharmacy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA; Molecular Neurobiology Laboratory, Department of Neurology, Neuroscience and Biochemistry/Molecular Biology, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Rochester, MN 55905, USA.
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