IIT Hyderabad team uses plant extract, heat to kill cancer cells

Rengan, Aravind Kumar and Pemmaraju, Deepak Bharadwaj and Appidi, Tejaswini (2019) IIT Hyderabad team uses plant extract, heat to kill cancer cells. The Hindu, Hyderabad.

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Abstract

IIT Hyderabad used chlorophyll-rich extract of a medicinal plant encapsulated in nanoparticles along with a dye to kill cancer cells when exposed to near-infrared light. The cancer cells were killed through reactive oxygen species-mediated autophagy. The extract was selective in killing only cancer cells.

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IITH Creators:	IITH Creators ORCiD Rengan, Aravind Kumar UNSPECIFIED
Item Type:	Other
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Plant extract, Heat, Cancer cells, IITH
Subjects:	Biomedical Engineering
Divisions:	Department of Biomedical Engineering
Depositing User:	Team Library
Date Deposited:	24 Dec 2019 04:12
Last Modified:	24 Dec 2019 04:12
URI:	http://raiithold.iith.ac.in/id/eprint/7232
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