Synergistic Cancer Therapeutic Effects of Locally Delivered Drug and Heat Using Multifunctional Nanoparticles

Abstract

Doxorubicin-loaded PEG-PLGA-Au half-shell nanoparticles provide multifunctions, such as photothermal treatment, photothermally controlled drug delilvery, and in vivo optical imaging. In addition, the combined doxorubicin and photothermal treatments using these multifunctional nanoparticles show synergistic therapeutic effects. Detailed facts of importance to specialist readers are published as ”Supporting Information”. Such documents are peer-reviewed, but not copy-edited or typeset. They are made available as submitted by the authors. Please note: The publisher is not responsible for the content or functionality of any supporting information supplied by the authors. Any queries (other than missing content) should be directed to the corresponding author for the article.