Medicine on a small scale. How molecular can benefit from self-assembled and nanostructured materials

EMBO Reports

Volumn 4, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 1008-1012

  Kralj, Marijeta ^a   Pavelic, Kresimir ^a  

^a RUDER BO KOVI INSTITUTE   (Croatia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; CLINOPTILOLITE; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; COPOLYMER; CYANOCOBALAMIN; CYTOCHROME P450; DENDRIMER; DEOXYRIBONUCLEASE; DOXORUBICIN; DRUG CARRIER; ERYTHROPOIETIN; FULLERENE DERIVATIVE; GRANULOCYTE COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR; HYDROXIDE; INTEGRIN RECEPTOR; INTERFERON; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE; MESSENGER RNA; METHOTREXATE; NANOPARTICLE; RAF PROTEIN; SIALIC ACID; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ZEOLITE; ZEOMIC;

ANTIMICROBIAL ACTIVITY; CELL LINEAGE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED RELEASE FORMULATION; DNA SEQUENCE; DRUG COATING; DRUG DELIVERY SYSTEM; DRUG RESEARCH; DRUG TARGETING; DRUG UPTAKE; ENCAPSULATION; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; GENE THERAPY; HUMAN; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MOLECULAR PROBE; NANOTECHNOLOGY; NONHUMAN; NONVIRAL GENE DELIVERY SYSTEM; NOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

BIOCOMPATIBLE MATERIALS; DRUG DELIVERY SYSTEMS; FORECASTING; GENE THERAPY; NANOTECHNOLOGY; POLYMERS;

EID: 0348133544     PISSN: 1469221X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.embor.7400017     Document Type: Note

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