Micellar Structures as Drug Delivery Systems

Drug Delivery in Oncology: From Basic Research to Cancer Therapy

Volumn 2, Issue , 2011, Pages 1051-1069

  Nishiyama, Nobuhiro ^b   Cabral, Horacio ^a   Kataoka, Kazunori ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Drug targeting; Nucleic acids delivery; Polymeric micelle; Polymersome; Theranostic nanodevice

Indexed keywords

EID: 84887158854     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9783527634057.ch32     Document Type: Chapter

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