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Maria Rocio Villegas1, Victoria Lopez1, Verónica Rodríguez-García2
1Dpto. Química en Ciencias Farmacéuticas, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria, Hospital 12 de Octubre i+12, Plaza Ramón y Cajal s/n. CIBER de Bioingeniería, Biomateriales y Nanomedicina, CIBER-BBN, Madrid, Spain.
Abstract:
The development of nanoparticles has provided a powerful weapon in the fight against cancer due to the discovery of their selective accumulation in tumoral tissues, known as enhanced permeation and retention (EPR) effect (Peer et al, Nat Nanotechnol 2:751-760, 2007). Tumoral tissues require afastformation of blood vessels to sustain this rapid growth.
