Self-Therapeutic Nanomaterials: Applications in Biology and Medicine.

ABSTRACT: Over past decades, nanotechnology has contributed to the biomedical field in areas including detection, diagnosis, and drug delivery via opto-electronic properties or enhancement of biological effects. Though generally considered inert delivery vehicles, a plethora of past and present evidence demonstrates that nanomaterials also exude unique intrinsic biological activity based on composition, shape, and surface functionalization. These intrinsic biological activities, termed self-therapeutic properties, take several forms, including mediation of cell-cell interactions, modulation of interactions between biomolecules, catalytic amplification of biochemical reactions, and alteration of biological signal transduction events. Moreover, study of biomolecule-nanomaterial interactions off

SUBMITTER: Seaberg J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10022599 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jan-Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature