Nature Communications (Oct 2018)

Harnessing copper-palladium alloy tetrapod nanoparticle-induced pro-survival autophagy for optimized photothermal therapy of drug-resistant cancer

  • Yunjiao Zhang,
  • Rui Sha,
  • Lan Zhang,
  • Wenbin Zhang,
  • Peipei Jin,
  • Weiguo Xu,
  • Jianxun Ding,
  • Jun Lin,
  • Jing Qian,
  • Guangyu Yao,
  • Rui Zhang,
  • Fanchen Luo,
  • Jie Zeng,
  • Jie Cao,
  • Long-ping Wen

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-06529-y
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 13

Abstract

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“Conventional chemotherapy-photothermal therapy combination has limited efficacy in drug resistant cancers. Here they develop Copper-palladium tetrapod nanoparticles to overcome these challenges and show them to work in synergy with autophagy inhibitors to treat drug resistant cancers”