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Tomography is published by MDPI from Volume 7 Issue 1 (2021). Previous articles were published by another publisher in Open Access under a CC-BY (or CC-BY-NC-ND) licence, and they are hosted by MDPI on mdpi.com as a courtesy and upon agreement with Grapho, LLC.
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Enhancement of Radiotherapy with Human Mesenchymal Stem Cells Containing Gold Nanoparticles

by 1, 1, 1, 1, 2, 2 and
Martin G. Pomper
1,*
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The Russell H. Morgan Department of Radiology and Radiological Science, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
2
Osiris Therapeutics, Columbia, MD, USA
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Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Tomography 2020, 6(4), 373-378; https://doi.org/10.18383/j.tom.2020.00026
Received: 10 September 2020 / Revised: 7 October 2020 / Accepted: 5 November 2020 / Published: 1 December 2020
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Abstract

Radiotherapy is a common approach for the treatment of a wide variety of cancer types. Available data indicate that nanoparticles can enhance the effect of radiotherapy. We report the use of human mesenchymal stem cells to selectively deliver gold nanoparticles (GNPs) to MDA-MB-231 breast tumor xenografts in mice for the purpose of enhancing the effect of radiation therapy. Targeted delivery of GNPs to the tumor site, followed by irradiation of the tumor, enabled control of tumor growth. The results indicate that tumor-selective GNP delivery by human mesenchymal stem cells may represent a viable way to enhance the effectiveness of radiotherapy.
Keywords: MSCs; nanomedicine; targeted delivery; breast cancer; tumor microenvironment; molecular imaging MSCs; nanomedicine; targeted delivery; breast cancer; tumor microenvironment; molecular imaging
This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited
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Pullambhatla, M.; Rowe, S.P.; Lisok, A.; Wang, Y.; Todd, G.P.; Danilkovitch, A.; Pomper, M.G. Enhancement of Radiotherapy with Human Mesenchymal Stem Cells Containing Gold Nanoparticles. Tomography 2020, 6, 373-378. https://doi.org/10.18383/j.tom.2020.00026

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Pullambhatla M, Rowe SP, Lisok A, Wang Y, Todd GP, Danilkovitch A, Pomper MG. Enhancement of Radiotherapy with Human Mesenchymal Stem Cells Containing Gold Nanoparticles. Tomography. 2020; 6(4):373-378. https://doi.org/10.18383/j.tom.2020.00026

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Pullambhatla, Mrudula; Rowe, Steven P.; Lisok, Ala; Wang, Yuchuan; Todd, Gabriele Putz; Danilkovitch, Alla; Pomper, Martin G. 2020. "Enhancement of Radiotherapy with Human Mesenchymal Stem Cells Containing Gold Nanoparticles" Tomography 6, no. 4: 373-378. https://doi.org/10.18383/j.tom.2020.00026

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