Carbon Nanotubes Attenuate Cancer and Improve Healing
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- abstract
- Breast cancer is the most common cancer in American women and the second largest cause of their cancer mortality. Resection of the primary tumor can greatly improve the prognosis, but if any of the cancerous cells remain, the patient is still at risk. This work investigates the ability of high aspect ratio nanoparticles to both heal injured tissue and attenuate cancer cells' aggression.
- subject
- Breast Cancer
- Collagen Gel
- Fibrosis
- Mechanobiology
- MWNT
- PEDOT
- contributor
- Levi-Polyachenko, Nicole H (committee chair)
- Rajagopalan, Padma (committee member)
- Guthold, Martin (committee member)
- Molnar, Joseph A (committee member)
- Morykwas, Michael J (committee member)
- Tallant, Elisabeth A (committee member)
- date
- 2015-06-23T08:35:35Z (accessioned)
- 2015-06-23T08:35:35Z (available)
- 2015 (issued)
- degree
- Biomedical Engineering (discipline)
- identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10339/57102 (uri)
- language
- en (iso)
- publisher
- Wake Forest University
- title
- Carbon Nanotubes Attenuate Cancer and Improve Healing
- type
- Dissertation