PEGylated graphene oxide for tumor-targeted delivery of paclitaxel

Nanomedicine

Volumn 10, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 1247-1262

  Xu, Hongyang ^a   Fan, Minmin ^a   Elhissi, Abdelbary M A ^b   Zhang, Zhirong ^a   Wan, Ka Wai ^c   Ahmed, Waqar ^c   Phoenix, David A ^d   Sun, Xun ^a  

^a SICHUAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Qatar University ^*  (Qatar)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL LANCASHIRE   (United Kingdom)

^d LONDON SOUTH BANK UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

cancer therapy; drug delivery; graphene oxide; paclitaxel

Indexed keywords

GRAPHENE OXIDE; MACROGOL; NANOCARRIER; PACLITAXEL; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; DRUG CARRIER; GRAPHITE; MACROGOL DERIVATIVE; OXIDE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTINEOPLASTIC ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; BIOCOMPATIBILITY; COMPLEX FORMATION; COVALENT BOND; DRUG CONJUGATION; DRUG DELIVERY SYSTEM; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG FORMULATION; DRUG SOLUBILITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MELANOMA; MELANOMA B16; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; ANIMAL; C57BL MOUSE; CHEMISTRY; PATHOLOGY; TUMOR CELL LINE; WISTAR RAT;

ANIMALS; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS, PHYTOGENIC; CELL LINE, TUMOR; DRUG CARRIERS; DRUG DELIVERY SYSTEMS; FEMALE; GRAPHITE; MELANOMA; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; OXIDES; PACLITAXEL; POLYETHYLENE GLYCOLS; RATS, WISTAR;

EID: 84929069376     PISSN: 17435889     EISSN: 17486963     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2217/nnm.14.233     Document Type: Article

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