Review Article: Carbon Nanotubes Treats Cancer
Journal Title: Indo American Journal of Pharmaceutical Research - Year 2011, Vol 1, Issue 5
Abstract
This article examines an over view about Carbon nanotubes, their properties which are useful to treat cancer barriers for implementing targeted delivery of cancer treatment drugs by using carbon nanotubes (CNTs). It was established that this technology is highly viable as a means of treating cancer but its development was still immature. The group found a number of key areas that could potentially be explored further in research, but ultimately recommend the further exploration of issues surrounding toxicity of CNTs in medical applications. Carbon nanotubes can be used in various therapeutic applications like cancer therapy, intracellular targeting, prolonged systemic circulation, vaccine adjuvant, per oral absorption, ocular delivery, DNA delivery, oligonucleotide delivery applications. The main advantage of using CNTs as a drug carrier compared to free drug is the potential to target delivery for selective destruction of certain types of cells, reducing the toxicity to nontargeted cells. As the micro-environments of extra cellular tissues of tumors and intracellular lysosomes and endosomes are acidic, the situation will potentially facilitate the active drug release from SW-CNT delivery vehicles. Hence CNTs shows potential for selective and specific targeting of cells. Recently, there have been new studies on carbon nanotubes which have given cancer patients and their loved ones new hope to beat this terrible disease. This type of research could be the future of fighting cancer or other diseases and it is going to be up to chemical engineers and people in related fields to continue this research to better the world. For our paper we intend to elaborate on the discussion of this existing technology and to tell how it is being developed into a better cancer fighter.
Authors and Affiliations
A Arun kumar, Subal debnath, Arghya Acharjee, Saurav Nandi
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