Design of bio-mimetic particles with enhanced vascular interaction

Journal of Biomechanics

Volumn 42, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 1885-1890

  Lee, Sei Young ^a,b   Ferrari, Mauro ^a,c   Decuzzi, Paolo ^a,d,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

^b The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^d University of Texas School of Health Information Sciences at Houston   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY MAGNA GRAECIA OF CATANZARO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Creeping flow; Drug delivery; Nanoparticle; Shape; Transport

Indexed keywords

AQUEOUS SOLUTIONS; CREEPING FLOW; CREEPING FLOWS; DELIVERY SYSTEMS; ELLIPSOIDAL PARTICLES; EXTERNAL FORCE FIELD; EXTERNAL VOLUME; FLOW STREAMS; FLUID DENSITIES; IMAGING AGENT; INTERNATIONAL JOURNALS; LATERAL DRIFTS; LATERAL MOTION; NONSPHERICITY; NUMERICAL APPROACHES; PARTICLE INERTIA; RELATIVE DENSITY; SHAPE; SHAPED PARTICLES; SMALL SPHERES; SOLID WALL; SPHERICAL SHAPE; STOKES NUMBER; STREAM LINES; TRANSPORT; VESSEL WALLS; VOLUME FORCE;

ASPECT RATIO; DRUG DELIVERY; ENDOTHELIAL CELLS; FUNCTIONAL POLYMERS; MICROCIRCULATION; MULTIPHASE FLOW; NANOPARTICLES;

SPHERES;

NANOPARTICLE;

ARTICLE; BIOMIMETICS; CELL MOTILITY; CIRCULATION; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; FLOW KINETICS; GRAVITY; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; OSCILLATION; PARTICLE SIZE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

BIOMIMETIC MATERIALS; BLOOD PLATELETS; BLOOD VESSELS; DRUG DESIGN; ENDOTHELIAL CELLS; ENDOTHELIUM, VASCULAR; HUMANS; LEUKOCYTES; NANOPARTICLES;

EID: 68149162731     PISSN: 00219290     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jbiomech.2009.05.012     Document Type: Article

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