Recent Advances in the Development of Noble Metal NPs for Cancer Therapy

Table 1

Clinical application of gold nanoparticles as drug carriers.

Types of drug loading	Medicines vocabularies	Structural formula/molecular formula	Application/effect	References
Antitumor drugs	Oxaliplatin		Loading drugs to improve water solubility	[35]
	Cisplatin compounds		Establishment of drug delivery system with high efficiency and low toxicity	[38]
	Oxaliplatin		Establishment of drug delivery system with delayed control and targeting	[39]
	Chloroquine		Establishment of stimuli-responsive drug release system to enhance the anticancer activity of drugs	[40]
Targeting ligand	Transferrin (TRF)	C75H121N23O28S	Overcoming traditional drug toxicity, immunogenicity, and poor integration	[41]
	Folic acid		Enhancement of folate receptor expression level	[42]
Other substances	Protoporphyrin		Photosensitizer for photodynamic therapy	[43]
	Tiopronin		Significant repair of acute liver injury	[44]