INTRODUCTION Guided treatments with nanoparticles and cold atmospheric plasma are a new approach in cancer therapy. Plasma is an ionized gas that has reactive and energetic particles and can be produced in the laboratory by different methods. MATERIAL AND METHODS Plasma jet therapy was employed to irradiate HCT-116 cells (human colorectal cancer cells) which were cultured in the presence of g...

The patient, a 44-year-old bus conductor, developed seropositive rheumatoid arthritis in the summer of 1966. The first metatarsophalangeal joints were affected initially, and over the next five months the arthritis became generalized. Treatment with indomethacin gave little relief and a course of weekly injections of sodium aurothiomalate was started on 15 December 1966. The dose was gradually ...

IT is unfortunate that, in spite of the enormous amount of work that has been done in recent years on chronic arthritis, there is but little agreement as to what constitutes Rheumatoid Arthritis. Lawford Knaggs, in a report on the Strangeways Collection of rheumatoid joints in the museum of the Roval College of Surgeons, states that he was unprepared for the frequency witlh wihichi some of the ...

desire for further knowledge on the subject. The actual date of its first application might be traced centuries back. Hopes and disappointments have come in their way, but the world-wide search for a cure for tuberculosis has gone on through the centuries. Gold salts came into use many centuries before Christ, for in ancient Hindu medicine the preparation ' Makaradhwaja ' was supposed to be a s...

With the use of gold nanostructures, photothermal therapy (PTT) of cancer has great advantages compared to conventional methods, such as noninvasive targeted destruction and easily operation. Generally speaking, respective diagnosis and therapy of tumor require at least two instruments, leading to incongruence of tumor borders between diagnosis and therapy. To tackle this problem, tunable SERS-...

Objective(s): The current systematic study has reviewed the therapeutic potential of gold nanoparticles as nano radiosensitizers for cancer radiation therapy. Materials and Methods: This study was done to review nano radiosensitizers. PubMed, Ovid Medline, Science Direct, SCOPUS, ISI web of knowledge, Springer databases were searched from 2000 to September 2013 to identify appropriate studies. ...

It is the intention to focus anew in this paper the attention of physicians, and particularly phthisiologists, upon a type of therapy which, at present, does not play the role in the treatment of tuberculosis which it deserves. Chemotherapy of tuberculosis has been in eclipse for reasons which are understandable, but do not suffice to justify refusal of its possible benefits to a patient afflic...

A core–shell heterostructure consisting of plasmonic gold nanorods and porphyrinic metal–organic frameworks is synthesized as a promising platform to combine photodynamic therapy photothermal for enhanced tumor treatment.