Beilstein J. Nanotechnol.2018,9, 2947–2952, doi:10.3762/bjnano.9.273
, with an IC50 value of 100 µM. Under NIR irradiation a temperature increase was observed leading to a reduction of the IC50 value to 1 µM, with total tumor cell death at 100 µM.
Keywords: alendronate; bisphosphonate; cancer treatment; gold nanoparticles; photothermia; Findings
Bisphosphonates (BPs
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Au@alendronate NPs characterization: (a) transmission electron microscopy (TEM) image (left) and si...