Publications
Surface plasmon resonance scattering and absorption of anti-EGFR antibody conjugated gold nanoparticles in cancer diagnostics: Applications in oral cancer. Nano Letters. 2005 ;5:829-834.
. Selective laser photo-thermal therapy of epithelial carcinoma using anti-EGFR antibody conjugated gold nanoparticles. Cancer Letters. 2006 ;239:129-135.
. Review of some interesting surface plasmon resonance-enhanced properties of noble metal nanoparticles and their applications to biosystems. Plasmonics [Internet]. 2007 ;2(3):107-118. Available from: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11468-007-9031-1
. The potential use of the enhanced nonlinear properties of gold nanospheres in photothermal cancer therapy. Lasers in Surgery and Medicine. 2007 ;39:747-753.
. Plasmonic photothermal therapy (PPTT) using gold nanoparticles. Lasers in Medical Science. 2008 ;23:217-228.
. Peptide-conjugated gold nanorods for nuclear targeting. Bioconjugate Chemistry. 2007 ;18:1490-1497.
. Noble Metals on the Nanoscale: Optical and Photothermal Properties and Some Applications in Imaging, Sensing, Biology, and Medicine. Accounts of Chemical Research. 2008 ;41:1578-1586.
. Multicolorimetric plasmonic gold nanoparticles for 8 optical detection of oral squamous carcinoma. Oral Oncology. 2007 ;43(5):121-121.
. Model system for growing and quantifying Streptococcus pneumoniae biofilms in situ and in real time. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 2004 ;70:4980-4988.
. Gold nanorod assisted near-infrared plasmonic photothermal therapy (PPTT) of squamous cell carcinoma in mice. Cancer Letters. 2008 ;269:57-66.
. Gold nanoparticles: interesting optical properties and recent applications in cancer diagnostic and therapy. Nanomedicine. 2007 ;2:681-693.
. Gold nanoparticles: Catalyst for the oxidation of NADH to NAD(+). Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology B-Biology. 2005 ;81:76-83.
. A Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopic comparison of cultured human fibroblast and fibrosarcoma cells: a new method for detection of malignancies. Journal of clinical laser medicine & surgery. 1995 ;13(2):55-59.
. Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopic comparison of cultured human fibroblast and fibrosarcoma cells . Proceedings of SPIE [Internet]. 1995 ;2389(1):543. Available from: http://dx.doi.org/10.1117/12.210030
. Effect of plasmonic gold nanoparticles on benign and malignant cellular autofluorescence: A novel probe for fluorescence based detection of cancer. Technology in Cancer Research & Treatment. 2007 ;6:403-412.
. Determination of the minimum temperature required for selective photothermal destruction of cancer cells with the use of immunotargeted gold nanoparticles. Photochemistry and Photobiology. 2006 ;82:412-417.
. Comparative study of photothermolysis of cancer cells with nuclear-targeted or cytoplasm-targeted gold nanospheres: continuous wave or pulsed lasers. Journal of Biomedical Optics. 2010 ;15.
. Cancer cells assemble and align gold nanorods conjugated to antibodies to produce highly enhanced, sharp, and polarized surface Raman spectra: A potential cancer diagnostic marker. Nano Letters. 2007 ;7:1591-1597.
. Cancer cell imaging and photothermal therapy in the near-infrared region by using gold nanorods. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 2006 ;128:2115-2120.
. Calculated absorption and scattering properties of gold nanoparticles of different size, shape, and composition: Applications in biological imaging and biomedicine. Journal of Physical Chemistry B. 2006 ;110:7238-7248.
. Au nanoparticles target cancer. Nano Today. 2007 ;2:18-29.
. Fluorescent Quenching Gold Nanoparticles: Potential Biomedical Applications. In: Metal Enhanced Fluorescence. Metal Enhanced Fluorescence. Wiley Online Library; 2010. pp. 573-599. Available from: http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9780470642795.ch20
. Applications of gold nanorods for cancer imaging and photothermal therapy. In: Methods in Molecular Biology. Vol. 624. Methods in Molecular Biology. Springer; 2010. pp. 343-357. Available from: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-60761-609-2_23
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