MIT's new nanoparticle carries three cancer - fighting drug molecules — doxorubicin is red, the small green particles are camptothecin, and the larger green core
contains cisplatin (Image: Jeremiah Johnson)
Not exact matches
The research involved engineering nanostructures
containing both gold and
cisplatin, a conventional chemotherapy drug.
In early studies on rabbits, the anticancer drug
cisplatin, a simple but highly toxic chemical
containing platinum, was added to Intradose CDDP.
The team has tested its triple threat nanoparticles,
containing drugs typically used to treat ovarian cancer (such as doxorubicin,
cisplatin and camptothecin), against lab - grown ovarian cancer cells.