Enhancing the Toxicity of Cancer Chemotherapeutics with Gold Nanorod Hyperthermia

Abstract

The heat produced by optically excited gold nanorods is used to augment the chemotherapeutic agent cisplatin in killing tumor cells. This combined therapy kills 78% more cells than cisplatin alone, suggesting a synergistic interaction between these treatments. Detailed facts of importance to specialist readers are published as ”Supporting Information”. Such documents are peer-reviewed, but not copy-edited or typeset. They are made available as submitted by the authors. Please note: The publisher is not responsible for the content or functionality of any supporting information supplied by the authors. Any queries (other than missing content) should be directed to the corresponding author for the article.