Special Issue "Nanoparticle-Mediated Drug Delivery, Imaging, and Control of Cellular Functions"
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Registered Bioimaging of Nanomaterials for Diagnostic and Therapeutic Monitoring
Published on: December 9, 2010
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Okhil K Nag1, James B Delehanty1
1Center for Bio/Molecular Science and Engineering, Naval Research Laboratory (NRL), Code 6900, 4555 Overlook Ave. SW, Washington, DC 20375, USA.
Pharmaceuticals (Basel, Switzerland)
|October 28, 2023
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Over the past several decades, nanoparticles (NPs) have shown promising capabilities in the field of medicine for their applications as vehicles for targeted drug delivery [...].
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