Photocatalysis-mediated drug-free sustainable cancer therapy using nanocatalyst.

ABSTRACT: Drug therapy unavoidably brings toxic side effects and drug content-limited therapeutic efficacy although many nanocarriers have been developed to improve them to a certain extent. In this work, a concept of drug-free therapeutics is proposed and defined as a therapeutic methodology without the use of traditional toxic drugs, without the consumption of therapeutic agents during treatment but with the inexhaustible therapeutic capability to maximize the benefit of treatment, and a Z-scheme SnS_1.68-WO_2.41 nanocatalyst is developed to achieve near infrared (NIR)-photocatalytic generation of oxidative holes and hydrogen molecules for realizing combined hole/hydrogen therapy by the drug-free therapeutic strategy. Without the need of any drug and other therapeutic agent ass

SUBMITTER: Zhao B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7921091 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature