Multifunctional nanoparticle composites: progress in the use of soft and hard nanoparticles for drug delivery and imaging

作者：Sangtani Ajmeeta; Nag Okhil K; Field Lauren D; Breger Joyce C; Delehanty James B

来源：Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Nanomedicine and Nanobiotechnology , 2017, 9(6): e1466.

DOI：10.1002/wnan.1466

With continued advancements in nanoparticle (NP) synthesis and in the interfacing of NPs with biological systems has come the exponential growth in the use of NPs for therapeutic drug delivery and imaging applications. In recent years, the advent of NPmultifunctionalitythe ability to perform multiple, disparate functions on a single NP platformhas garnered much excitement for the potential realization of highly functional NP-mediated drug delivery for use in the clinical setting. This Overview will survey the current state of the art (reports published within the last 5 years) of multifunctional NPs for therapeutic drug delivery, imaging or a combination thereof. We provide extensive examples of both soft (micelles, liposomes, polymeric NPs) and hard (noble metals, quantum dots, metal oxides) NP formulations that have been used for multimodal drug delivery and imaging. The criteria for inclusion, herein, is that there must be at least two therapeutic drug cargos or imaging agents or a combination of the two. We next offer an assessment of the cytotoxicity of therapeutic NP constructs in biological systems. We then conclude with a forward-looking perspective on how we expect this field to develop in the coming years. Published 2017. This article is a U.S. Government work and is in the public domain in the USA.

• 出版日期2017-12