Vol 2, No 4 (August 26, 2013): Translational Cancer Research (Nanotechnology in Radiation Research)

Preface

Preface
Rao V. L. Papineni, Pataje G. Prasanna, Mansoor M. Ahmed

Original Articles

Third generation gold nanoplatform optimized for radiation therapy
Rajiv Kumar, Houari Korideck, Wilfred Ngwa, Ross I. Berbeco, G. Mike Makrigiorgos, Srinivas Sridhar
Nanoformulation enhances anti-angiogenic efficacy of tunicamycin
Aditi Banerjee, Karen T. Johnson, Ipsita A. Banerjee, Dipak K. Banerjee

Review Articles

Convergence of nanotechnology with radiation therapy—insights and implications for clinical translation
Dev Kumar Chatterjee, Tatiana Wolfe, Jihyoun Lee, Aaron P Brown, Pankaj Kumar Singh, Shanta Raj Bhattarai, Parmeswaran Diagaradjane, Sunil Krishnan
Radiosensitization by gold nanoparticles: effective at megavoltage energies and potential role of oxidative stress
Karl T. Butterworth, Stephen J. McMahon, Laura E. Taggart, Kevin M. Prise
Gold nanoparticles in radiation research: potential applications for imaging and radiosensitization
Jay F. Dorsey, Lova Sun, Daniel Y. Joh, Alon Witztum, Ajlan Al Zaki, Gary D. Kao, Michelle Alonso-Basanta, Stephen Avery, Andrew Tsourkas, Stephen M. Hahn
Externally modulated theranostic nanoparticles
Cordula Urban, Alexander S. Urban, Heather Charron, Amit Joshi
Tumor microenvironment and nanotherapeutics
Meenakshi Upreti, Amar Jyoti, Pallavi Sethi
Improving chemoradiotherapy with nanoparticle therapeutics
Michael Joseph Eblan, Andrew Zhuang Wang
Nanoparticles in radiation therapy: a summary of various approaches to enhance radiosensitization in cancer
Deep Kwatra, Anand Venugopal, Shrikant Anant
Harnessing cerium oxide nanoparticles to protect normal tissue from radiation damage
Cheryl H. Baker
Spot light on intestinal microbiota
Rao V. L. Papineni, Shahid Umar

Disclosure:

The focused issue “Nanotechnology in Radiation Research” was commissioned by the editorial office, Translational Cancer Research without any sponsorship or funding. Rao Papineni and Pataje G.S. Prasanna served as the unpaid Guest Editors for the focused issue.