Polymer-coated echogenic lipid nanoparticles with dual release triggers

Biomacromolecules

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 841-853

  Nahire, Rahul ^a   Haldar, Manas K ^a   Paul, Shirshendu ^c   Mergoum, Anaas ^a   Ambre, Avinash H ^b   Katti, Kalpana S ^b   Gange, Kara N ^a   Srivastava, D K ^a   Sarkar, Kausik ^c,d   Mallik, Sanku ^a  

^a NORTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b North Dakota State University   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^d George Washington University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTENTS RELEASE; DRUG DELIVERY VEHICLES; FOLATE RECEPTOR; FURTHER DEVELOPMENT; LIPID NANOPARTICLES; PLASMA CONCENTRATION; TARGETED DRUG DELIVERY; ULTRASOUND IMAGING;

CELLS; CYTOLOGY; DRUG DELIVERY; ORGANIC ACIDS; PEPTIDES; POLYMERS; ULTRASONIC IMAGING; ULTRASONICS;

NANOPARTICLES;

DISULFIDE; DOXORUBICIN; ECHOGENIC LIPID NANOPARTICLE; FOLIC ACID; GLUTATHIONE; NANOCARRIER; NANOPARTICLE; POLYMER; REDUCING AGENT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BLOOD LEVEL; CANCER CELL; COATED PARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOTOXICITY; DRUG RELEASE; DRUG UPTAKE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMAGING; NANOENCAPSULATION; POLYMERIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; ULTRASOUND;

CELL SURVIVAL; COATED MATERIALS, BIOCOMPATIBLE; DOXORUBICIN; DRUG CARRIERS; DRUG DELIVERY SYSTEMS; FOLIC ACID; HELA CELLS; HUMANS; LIPIDS; MCF-7 CELLS; MICROSCOPY, ATOMIC FORCE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; NANOPARTICLES; PARTICLE SIZE; POLYMERS;

EID: 84874880260     PISSN: 15257797     EISSN: 15264602     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/bm301894z     Document Type: Article

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