Aptamer-gated nanoparticles for smart drug delivery

Pharmaceuticals

Volumn 4, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 1137-1157

  Ozalp, Veli Cengiz ^a,b   Eyidogan, Fusun ^c   Oktem, Huseyin Avni ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE BASQUE COUNTRY UPV EHU   (Spain)

^b MIDDLE EAST TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^c BASKENT UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Aptamers; Drug delivery; Molecular gating; Nanoparticles; Nanovalves

Indexed keywords

APTAMER; CISPLATIN; DOXORUBICIN; GOLD NANOPARTICLE; NANOPARTICLE; NUCLEOLIN; SILICON DIOXIDE;

CHANNEL GATING; COMBINATORIAL CHEMISTRY; CONTROLLED DRUG RELEASE; CYTOTOXICITY; DRUG DELIVERY SYSTEM; DRUG FORMULATION; DRUG TARGETING; ELECTROCHEMICAL ANALYSIS; HUMAN; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; NANOENCAPSULATION; NONHUMAN; PH; POROSITY; PROSTATE CANCER; REVIEW; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 80052241182     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14248247     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/ph4081137     Document Type: Review

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