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<font color = red>ONE PARAGRAPH and at least TWO REFERENCES</font color><br> | <font color = red>ONE PARAGRAPH and at least TWO REFERENCES</font color><br> | ||
− | The field of magnetic hyperthermia has attracted a lot of attention in the past thirty years. It is an alternative cancer therapy method that proposes placing magnetic nanoparticles (MNP) in tumor cells under an environment of an alternating magnetic field. As the direction of the magnetic field alternates, MNPs undergo magnetic hysteresis losses, where these loses are dissipated to the surroundings as thermal energy. One of the biggest challenges to this field is the localization of MNPs in targeted tumor cells. Historically, scientists have had | + | The field of magnetic hyperthermia has attracted a lot of attention in the past thirty years. It is an alternative cancer therapy method that proposes placing magnetic nanoparticles (MNP) in tumor cells under an environment of an alternating magnetic field. As the direction of the magnetic field alternates, MNPs undergo magnetic hysteresis losses, where these loses are dissipated to the surroundings as thermal energy. One of the biggest challenges to this field is the localization of MNPs in targeted tumor cells. Historically, scientists have had issues concentrating MNPs within tumor cells to produce sufficient heat for complete apoptosis. This inevitably leads to higher dosage of MNPs in this form of treatment. Our approach aims to tackle this problem by introducing viral MNPs into magnetic hyperthermia. Viral MNPs have been worked on for quite some time, but their functions are mostly limited to ''in vivo'' MRI imaging and targeted gene delivery. |
==Your idea== | ==Your idea== |
Revision as of 08:38, 29 November 2012
Investigators
- Coyin Oh
- Joanna Yeh
- T/R
- Green
Title of Proposed Project
20.109(F12) Pre-Proposal: Engineering viral magnetic nanoparticles for magnetic hyperthermic cancer therapy
Project Summary
THREE SENTENCES ONLY.
The robot is summarising the project. Key words: magnetic nanoparticles, virus, hyperthermia.
Introduction
ONE PARAGRAPH and at least TWO REFERENCES
The field of magnetic hyperthermia has attracted a lot of attention in the past thirty years. It is an alternative cancer therapy method that proposes placing magnetic nanoparticles (MNP) in tumor cells under an environment of an alternating magnetic field. As the direction of the magnetic field alternates, MNPs undergo magnetic hysteresis losses, where these loses are dissipated to the surroundings as thermal energy. One of the biggest challenges to this field is the localization of MNPs in targeted tumor cells. Historically, scientists have had issues concentrating MNPs within tumor cells to produce sufficient heat for complete apoptosis. This inevitably leads to higher dosage of MNPs in this form of treatment. Our approach aims to tackle this problem by introducing viral MNPs into magnetic hyperthermia. Viral MNPs have been worked on for quite some time, but their functions are mostly limited to in vivo MRI imaging and targeted gene delivery.
Your idea
TWO PARAGRAPHS
My idea is to eat dinner!