Fabrication of injectable hydrogels from an anticancer peptide for local therapeutic delivery and synergistic photothermal–chemotherapy
Na Liu, Shunjie Wu, Xin Tian, Xinming Li
Abstract
combinational photothermal-chemotherapy. Therefore, this work provides a promising attempt to develop a therapeutic hydrogel from an anticancer peptide, which could work as a localized drug delivery platform for synergistic photothermal-chemotherapy.
Topics & Concepts
Photothermal therapySelf-healing hydrogelsChemotherapyPeptideMaterials sciencePhotothermal effectNanotechnologyDrug deliveryDelivery systemFabricationAnticancer drugBiomedical engineeringPharmacologyMedicineChemistryDrugInternal medicinePolymer chemistryBiochemistryPathologyAlternative medicineNanoplatforms for cancer theranosticsNanoparticle-Based Drug DeliverySupramolecular Self-Assembly in Materials