title: Advances in targeting strategies for nanoparticles in cancer imaging and therapy.
abstract: In the last decade, nanoparticles have offered great advances in diagnostic imaging and targeted drug delivery. In particular, nanoparticles have provided remarkable progress in cancer imaging and therapy based on materials science and biochemical engineering technology. Researchers constantly attempted to develop the nanoparticles which can deliver drugs more specifically to cancer cells, and these efforts brought the advances in the targeting strategy of nanoparticles. This minireview will discuss the progress in targeting strategies for nanoparticles focused on the recent innovative work for nanomedicine.
authors.affiliation: Center for Theragnosis, Biomedical Research Institute, Korea Institute of Science and Technology, 39-1 Hawolgok-dong, Seongbuk-gu, Seoul 136-791, South Korea. kim@kist.re.kr.
authors.forename: Ji Young
authors.initials: JY
authors.lastname: Yhee
authors.forename: Sangmin
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Lee
authors.forename: Kwangmeyung
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Kim
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D057930:Click Chemistry; D003952:Diagnostic Imaging / Q000379:methods / Q000639:trends; D004337:Drug Carriers / Q000737:chemistry; D016503:Drug Delivery Systems / Q000379:methods / Q000639:trends*; D006801:Humans; D053758:Nanoparticles / Q000737:chemistry / Q000627:therapeutic use; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000628:therapy*; D059016:Tumor Microenvironment
chemical_list: D004337:Drug Carriers