Nature Communications (Nov 2019)

Extravascular gelation shrinkage-derived internal stress enables tumor starvation therapy with suppressed metastasis and recurrence

  • Kun Zhang,
  • Yan Fang,
  • Yaping He,
  • Haohao Yin,
  • Xin Guan,
  • Yinying Pu,
  • Bangguo Zhou,
  • Wenwen Yue,
  • Weiwei Ren,
  • Dou Du,
  • Hongyan Li,
  • Chang Liu,
  • Liping Sun,
  • Yu Chen,
  • Huixiong Xu

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-13115-3
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 17

Abstract

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The efficacy of tumour starvation therapy is limited by lack of persistent tumour suppression, tumour metastasis and recurrence. Here, the authors report biocompatible gold nanorods and thermal-sensitive hydrogel to promote narrowing of blood vessels and show this to reduce tumour growth and metastasis.