The next generation of drug-delivery microdevices

Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics

Volumn 85, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 544-547

  Elman, N M ^a   Patta, Y ^a   Scott, A W ^a   Masi, B ^a   Ho Duc, H L ^a   Cima, M J ^a  

^a Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

6 O BENZYLGUANINE; ATROPINE; CARMUSTINE; GOLD; POLYGLACTIN; POLYLACTIC ACID; POLYMER; SILICON NITRIDE; TEMOZOLOMIDE; VASOPRESSIN;

BIOMEDICAL MICROELECTROMECHANICAL SYSTEM; BIOTECHNOLOGY; BRAIN TUMOR; CANCER THERAPY; DRUG DELIVERY SYSTEM; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; GLIOBLASTOMA; HEMORRHAGIC SHOCK; HUMAN; MEDICAL INSTRUMENTATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; TRAUMATOLOGY;

DRUG DELIVERY SYSTEMS; DRUG IMPLANTS; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMANS; MICROTECHNOLOGY; NANOTECHNOLOGY; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, MINIMALLY INVASIVE;

EID: 67349140642     PISSN: 00099236     EISSN: 15326535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/clpt.2009.4     Document Type: Review

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