Nature Communications (Jan 2020)

Blood-triggered generation of platinum nanoparticle functions as an anti-cancer agent

  • Xin Zeng,
  • Jie Sun,
  • Suping Li,
  • Jiyun Shi,
  • Han Gao,
  • Wei Sun Leong,
  • Yiqi Wu,
  • Minghui Li,
  • Chengxin Liu,
  • Ping Li,
  • Jing Kong,
  • Yi-Zhou Wu,
  • Guangjun Nie,
  • Yuming Fu,
  • Gen Zhang

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-14131-z
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 12

Abstract

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Platinum based drugs like cisplatin are common chemotherapy treatments for cancer. Here, the authors report on the in situ formation of platinum nanoparticles in patients and demonstrated how platinum nanoparticles can be synthesized using patients’ blood and provide effective drug delivery and cancer treatments.