Calcium phosphate nanocomposite particles: A safer and more effective alternative to conventional chemotherapy?

Future Oncology

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 279-281

  Altinoǧlu, Erhan I ^a   Adair, James H ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY; BIOCERAMICS; CALCIUM PHOSPHATE; CERAMIDE; MACROGOL; NANOCOMPOSITE; NANOPARTICLE; PEPTIDE;

APOPTOSIS; BIOACCUMULATION; CANCER CELL; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; DEGRADATION; DISSOLUTION; DRUG ACTIVITY; DRUG DELIVERY SYSTEM; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG RETENTION; DRUG SAFETY; DRUG TARGETING; EDITORIAL; ENCAPSULATION; ENDOSOME; HUMAN; INTERNALIZATION; LIVER CLEARANCE; LYSOSOME; MOLECULAR STABILITY; NONHUMAN; PH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYSTEMIC CIRCULATION; TARGET CELL; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; TUMOR SPHEROID;

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; CALCIUM PHOSPHATES; DRUG CARRIERS; DRUG DELIVERY SYSTEMS; HUMANS; NANOCOMPOSITES;

EID: 66949119275     PISSN: 14796694     EISSN: 17448301     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2217/fon.09.4     Document Type: Editorial

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