Review Article
Phytochemicals and Biogenic Metallic Nanoparticles as Anticancer Agents
Table 3
Metallic nanoparticles at different sizes and shapes with anticancer activity.
| Nanoparticles | Size (nm) | Shape | Cell line | Reference |
| Gold | 2–16 | Round | MCF-7 breast cancer cells | [82] | Chitosan | 65 | Round | MGC803 human gastric carcinoma cells | [83] | Gold | 50 | Rod | HeLa cells | [84] | Fe3O4 | ~5 | Sphere | U-251 glioma cells | [85] | Fe3O4 | ~5 | Sphere | T47D breast cancer cells | [85] | Folate-decorated quantum dots (QDs): loaded nanoparticles | 280–300 | Sphere | MCF-7 breast cancer cells and NIH-3T3 cells | [86] | Phosphatidylcholine-modified gold nanorods | 65 | Rod | HeLa cells | [87] | Highly water-dispersible and targeted CdS QDs | 10–30 | Sphere | CBRH7919 liver cancer cells | [88] | Solid lipid | 145 | Sphere | MCF-7 and MDAMB231 cells | [89] | Silver | 16–20 | Sphere | MCF-7 cells | [90] |
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