Advancing musculoskeletal research with nanoscience

Nature Reviews Rheumatology

Volumn 9, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 614-623

  Brown, Cameron P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ACTIN; AGGRECAN; AMINO ACID; ANTIBODY; BIOMATERIAL; COLLAGEN; DISEASE MODIFYING ANTIRHEUMATIC DRUG; DNA; DRUG CARRIER; ENDOTHELIAL LEUKOCYTE ADHESION MOLECULE 1; FLUORESCENT DYE; FUMAGILLIN; GADOLINIUM; GOLD NANOPARTICLE; HERMES ANTIGEN; HYALURONIC ACID; MACROGOL; METHOTREXATE; NANOFIBER; NANOMATERIAL; NANOPARTICLE; NANOROD; OSTEOCALCIN; OSTEOPONTIN; PRODRUG; QUANTUM DOT; SILVER NANOPARTICLE; SUPERPARAMAGNETIC IRON OXIDE NANOPARTICLE; UNINDEXED DRUG; VITRONECTIN RECEPTOR;

ACIDOSIS; ANTIANGIOGENIC ACTIVITY; ARTICULAR CARTILAGE; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; BLEACHING; BLOOD VESSEL PERMEABILITY; BONE PROSTHESIS; CELL ADHESION; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL FUNCTION; CELL INTERACTION; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED DRUG RELEASE; COVALENT BOND; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DRUG BINDING; DRUG DEGRADATION; DRUG DELIVERY SYSTEM; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; ENCAPSULATION; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; FIBROBLAST; FLUORESCENCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HYPOXIA; IMMUNOGENICITY; LIGHT ABSORPTION; LIGHT SCATTERING; LIPID BILAYER; LIPID VESICLE; MACROPHAGE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MESENCHYMAL STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; MUSCULOSKELETAL SYSTEM; NANOIMAGING; NANOROBOT; NANOTECHNOLOGY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ORTHOPEDIC IMPLANT; OSTEOARTHRITIS; OSTEOBLAST; OSTEOPROGENITOR CELL; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PARTICLE SIZE; PHAGOCYTOSIS; PHOTON; POROSITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN TARGETING; RAMAN SPECTROMETRY; REVIEW; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; RHEUMATOLOGY; ROBOTICS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; SURFACE PROPERTY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

BIOCOMPATIBLE MATERIALS; BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; HUMANS; MUSCULOSKELETAL DISEASES; MUSCULOSKELETAL SYSTEM; NANOSTRUCTURES; NANOTECHNOLOGY; REGENERATION;

EID: 84885306985     PISSN: 17594790     EISSN: 17594804     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrrheum.2013.112     Document Type: Review

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