title: Metal based frameworks for drug delivery systems.
abstract: The attention for gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) has recently grown, especially regarding its applications in biomedicine, like cancer treatment and immunization by nano-vaccines. The interest for this type of nanoparticles is given by their ability to penetrate blood vessels and tissue barriers and to be targeted to a specific cell by means of specifically functionalized molecules. Moreover, AuNPs posses special properties which make them useful in concomitant diagnostic by medical imaging and tumor ablation by means of photothermal activation.
authors: Roxana Cristina
authors: RC
authors: Popescu
authors: Department of Science and Engineering of Oxide Materials and Nanomaterials, Faculty of Applied Chemistry and Materials Science, University Politehnica of Bucharest, 1-7 Polizu Street, 011061 Bucharest, Romania. grumezescu@yahoo.com.
authors: Alexandru Mihai
authors: AM
authors: Grumezescu
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D016503:Drug Delivery Systems; D006046:Gold / Q000737:chemistry*; D006801:Humans; D053768:Metal Nanoparticles / Q000737:chemistry*; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000188:drug therapy*; D013696:Temperature
chemical_list: D006046:Gold