Conjugation of Amphotericin B to carbon nanotubes via amide-functionalization for drug delivery applications

Engineering Letters

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2009, Pages

  Vossoughi, Manouchehr ^a   Gojgini, Shiva ^a   Kazemi, A ^c   Alemzadeh, Iran ^a   Zeinali, Majid ^b  

^a SHARIF UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Amphotericin B; Carbon nanotubes; Conjugation; Drug delivery; Functionalisation

Indexed keywords

EID: 71649099971     PISSN: 1816093X     EISSN: 18160948     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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