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Endong Zhang1, Philana Phan1, Hanan Ahmed Algarni1

  • 1Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, College of Pharmacy, University of Illinois Chicago, Chicago, IL, 60612, USA.

Pharmaceutical Research
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PubMed

Keywords:
Drug deliveryExtracellular vesicleNanoparticleRBC hitchhikingRed blood cell

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