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Preparation and Characterization of Individual and Multi-drug Loaded Physically Entrapped Polymeric Micelles
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Micelles based on gold-glycopolymer complexes as new chemotherapy drug delivery agents
Samuel Pearson1, Wei Scarano, Martina H Stenzel
1Centre for Advanced Macromolecular Design, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia.
Chemical Communications (Cambridge, England)
|April 5, 2012
Abstract:
Polymeric versions of deacetylated auranofin, a gold complex with a sugar ligand, were prepared by post-modifying RAFT glycopolymers. Micellisation of a block copolymer containing pendant Au(I) units produced nanoparticles with an increased anti-proliferative effect against OVCAR-3 human ovarian carcinoma cells.
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