This 'steemit post' is an excerpt from the Free Bullion Investment Guide's latest Gold Nanoparticle Cancer Research Report release.
Furthermore, the medical research articles and papers in this report have been summarized to make the subject matter a little more understandable.
Silver & Gold Nanoparticles are Combined to Fight Cancer
In this study, researchers from France, Canada, and Spain used gold nanoparticles with a silver core to attack and kill cancer cells.
Silver is known for having the highest electrical conductivity, thermal conductivity, and reflective properties of any other metal.
On the other hand, unlike silver or any other metal, gold does not tarnish and it does not degrade.
So, to get the best out of both of these metals in the fight against cancer, the researchers in this study produced hybrid nanoparticles made of a silver core that was surrounded by a shell of gold.
The study involved using Photothermal therapy (PTT), which refers to using infrared wavelengths directed at the nanoparticles to make them heat up, furthermore, the researchers used living specimens (in vivo) to conduct their studies.
But, before they tested the bi-metallic nanoparticles, the researchers wanted to find out how each of the precious metals interacted biochemically alone in their efforts to kill cancer cells.
In the study, they found that silver nanoparticles created the greatest heating efficiency, but they also succumbed to the harsh, highly acidic biological conditions inside the cancer cell, degrading their effectiveness.
Whereas even though the gold nanoparticles didn't heat up as much as the silver nanoparticles, they were not affected by the harsh conditions inside the cancer cell, and their integrity was not compromised.
Ultimately, the researchers found that by encompassing silver nanoparticles around a golden shell created the best cancer-fighting tactic for their study.
As a result, Photo-Thermal Therapy (PTT) was successful in harnessing the combined effects of the Ag/AuNPs (silver/gold nanoparticles) in a living mouse tumor model (in vivo).
The silver/gold nanoparticles showed that they provided the greatest results with the nanoparticle's golden shell shielding the silver core from the harsh biological environment and preserving its excellent heating properties that helped to alter and destroy the cancer cells.
Read the abstract from the research here: Intracellular Biodegradation of Ag Nanoparticles, Storage in Ferritin, and Protection by a Au Shell for Enhanced Photothermal Therapy - acsNANO
See the full blog post here >>> Gold Nanoparticle Cancer Research News #9 - for this and other reports on the latest gold nanoparticle cancer research.
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