{"id":4226,"date":"2015-07-27T12:59:38","date_gmt":"2015-07-27T17:59:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=4226"},"modified":"2015-07-27T18:36:30","modified_gmt":"2015-07-27T23:36:30","slug":"a-new-chemo-delivery-system-minimizes-impact-on-healthy-cells","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/a-new-chemo-delivery-system-minimizes-impact-on-healthy-cells\/","title":{"rendered":"A new chemo delivery system minimizes impact on healthy cells<img src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/canada_flag_icon_small.gif\">"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/SMCC-english2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-110\" src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/SMCC-english2.jpg\" alt=\"SMCC-english2\" width=\"255\" height=\"126\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A research team developed a nanoparticle that releases chemotherapeutics inside tumor cells only, sparing healthy tissues.\u00a0This nanoparticle, called ZnO-nanocarrier, activates when surrounded by high acidity \u2013 a pathological feature of tumor cells.<\/p>\n<p>The particle releases its chemotherapeutic load within six hours in acidic pH. During this process, the tumor cell undergoes a color change which enables doctors to see how much of the medicine has been released, and to identify the presence of tumors.<\/p>\n<p>The research was based on human breast cancer cells, but the researchers believe it could be applied to any type of tumor.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/press.nature.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/files\/2015\/07\/NG.3360.pdf\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Original research paper<\/span><\/a>\u00a0published in\u00a0<em>Scientific Reports\u00a0<\/em>on\u00a0<strong>July 6<\/strong><span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_453723367\"><span class=\"aQJ\"><strong>, 2015<\/strong>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em><strong>Names and affiliations of selected\u00a0authors<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<h4>Keith Brunt, Dalhousie Medicine, Dalhousie University, St John, New Brunswick<\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A research team developed a nanoparticle that releases chemotherapeutics inside tumor cells only, sparing healthy tissues.\u00a0This nanoparticle, called ZnO-nanocarrier, activates when surrounded by high acidity \u2013 a pathological feature of tumor cells. The particle releases its chemotherapeutic load within six hours in acidic pH. During this process, the tumor cell undergoes a color change which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[869,51,53,2259],"class_list":["post-4226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-paper-of-interest","tag-canada-en","tag-health","tag-medicine","tag-new-brunswick"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-16a","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4226"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4226\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4227,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4226\/revisions\/4227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}