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Nanoparticle systems as tools to improve drug delivery and therapeutic efficacy

Deepa Mishra1, Justin R Hubenak, Anshu B Mathur

  • 1Department of Plastic Surgery, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, 1515 Holcombe Blvd, Unit 602, Houston, Texas, 77030.

Journal of Biomedical Materials Research. Part A
|July 24, 2013
PubMed

Keywords:
drug deliverynanoparticlespharmacokineticstargetingtherapeutic efficacy

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