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Multifunctional nanomaterials for advanced molecular imaging and cancer therapy
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Multifunctional nanomaterials for advanced molecular imaging and cancer therapy
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Subramaniam
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Prasad
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1984-
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Prasad Subramaniam
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Lee
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Eric
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Eric Garfunkel
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Warmuth
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Ralf Warmuth
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Suh
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Nanjoo
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Nanjoo Suh
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Rutgers University
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Graduate School - New Brunswick
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theses
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2014
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2014-01
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Nanotechnology offers tremendous potential for use in biomedical applications, including cancer and stem cell imaging, disease diagnosis and drug delivery. The development of nanosystems has aided in understanding the molecular mechanisms of many diseases and permitted the controlled nanoscale manipulation of biological phenomena. In recent years, many studies have focused on the use of several kinds of nanomaterials for cancer and stem cell imaging and also for the delivery of anticancer therapeutics to tumor cells. However, the proper diagnosis and treatment of aggressive tumors such as brain and breast cancer requires highly sensitive diagnostic agents, in addition to the ability to deliver multiple therapeutics using a single platform to the target cells. Addressing these challenges, novel multifunctional nanomaterial-based platforms that incorporate multiple therapeutic and diagnostic agents, with superior molecular imaging and targeting capabilities, has been presented in this work. The initial part of this work presents the development of novel nanomaterials with superior optical properties for efficiently delivering soluble cues such as small interfering RNA (siRNA) into brain cancer cells with minimal toxicity. Specifically, this section details the development of non-toxic quantums dots for the imaging and delivery of siRNA into brain cancer and mesenchymal stem cells, with the hope of using these quantum dots as multiplexed imaging and delivery vehicles. The use of these quantum dots could overcome the toxicity issues associated with the use of conventional quantum dots, enabled the imaging of brain cancer and stem cells with high efficiency and allowed for the delivery of siRNA to knockdown the target oncogene in brain cancer cells. The latter part of this thesis details the development of nanomaterial-based drug delivery platforms for the codelivery of multiple anticancer drugs to brain tumor cells. In particular, this part of the thesis focuses on the synthesis and use of a biodegradable dendritic polypeptide-based nanocarrier for the delivery of multiple anticancer drugs and siRNA to brain tumor cells. The co-delivery of important anticancer agents using a single platform was shown to increase the efficacy of the drugs manyfold, ensuring the cancer cell-specific delivery and minimizing dose limiting toxicities of the individual drugs. This would be of immense importance when used in vivo.
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Chemistry and Chemical Biology
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xv, 138 p. : ill.
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Ph.D.
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Includes bibliographical references
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by Prasad Subramaniam
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Nanostructured materials
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Nanomedicine
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Biomedical materials--Research
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Small interfering RNA
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Cancer--Genetic aspects
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Cancer--Treatment
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Graduate School - New Brunswick Electronic Theses and Dissertations
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doi:10.7282/T3765CFM
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ETD doctoral
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Subramaniam
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Prasad
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2014-01-05 18:48:23
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Prasad Subramaniam
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I hereby grant to the Rutgers University Libraries and to my school the non-exclusive right to archive, reproduce and distribute my thesis or dissertation, in whole or in part, and/or my abstract, in whole or in part, in and from an electronic format, subject to the release date subsequently stipulated in this submittal form and approved by my school. I represent and stipulate that the thesis or dissertation and its abstract are my original work, that they do not infringe or violate any rights of others, and that I make these grants as the sole owner of the rights to my thesis or dissertation and its abstract. I represent that I have obtained written permissions, when necessary, from the owner(s) of each third party copyrighted matter to be included in my thesis or dissertation and will supply copies of such upon request by my school. I acknowledge that RU ETD and my school will not distribute my thesis or dissertation or its abstract if, in their reasonable judgment, they believe all such rights have not been secured. I acknowledge that I retain ownership rights to the copyright of my work. I also retain the right to use all or part of this thesis or dissertation in future works, such as articles or books.
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