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. 2018 Jul 9;9:745. doi: 10.3389/fphar.2018.00745

FIGURE 2.

FIGURE 2

Multiwalled carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs) ablate tumors. Tumor-bearing mice were injected intratumorally with 50 μL of treatment solution containing 100, 50, or 10 μg of MWCNTs (Burke et al., 2009). Tweety-four hours after the injection, they were irradiated with a 1,064-nm NIR laser for 30 s (3 W/cm2; spot size, 5 mm). In the presence of the laser, MWCNTs increased intratumoral temperatures to a level sufficient to induce tumor ablation, resulting the long-term survival in tumor-bearing mice.