The delivery of angiogenic factors to the heart by microsphere therapy

Nature Biotechnology

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 158-162

  Arras, Margarete ^a   Mollnau, Hanke ^a   Strasser, Rudolf ^a   Wenz, Robert ^b   Ito, Wulf D ^a   Schaper, Jutta ^a   Schaper, Wolfgang ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HEART AND LUNG RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b MERCK KGAA   (Germany)

Author keywords

Drug delivery; Heart disease; Targeting

Indexed keywords

EID: 0348202522     PISSN: 10870156     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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