Polymeric micelles for cancer therapy: 3 C's to enhance efficacy

Current Opinion in Solid State and Materials Science

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 302-309

  Talelli, Marina ^a,b   Rijcken, Cristianne J F ^a,c   Hennink, Wim E ^a   Lammers, Twan ^a,d,e  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIÓN PRÍNCIPE FELIPE   (Spain)

^c Cristal Delivery BV   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^e RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cancer; Combination therapy; Covalent drug entrapment; Crosslinking; Drug targeting; Nanomedicine; PEG; pHPMA; Polymeric micelles

Indexed keywords

CROSSLINKING; DISEASES; MEDICAL NANOTECHNOLOGY; MICELLES; ONCOLOGY; POLYETHYLENE GLYCOLS; POLYMERS;

CANCER; COMBINATION THERAPY; DRUG ENTRAPMENT; DRUG-TARGETING; PHPMA; POLYMERIC MICELLE;

TARGETED DRUG DELIVERY;

EID: 84875260268     PISSN: 13590286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cossms.2012.10.003     Document Type: Review

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