Imaging breast cancer using a dual-ligand nanochain particle.

Nanoparticles often only exploit the upregulation of a receptor on cancer cells to enhance intratumoral deposition of therapeutic and imaging agents. However, a single targeting moiety assumes that a tumor is homogenous and static. Tumoral microenvironments are both heterogenous and dynamic, often d...

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Main Authors: Gil Covarrubias, Anthony Cha, Abdelrahman Rahmy, Morgan Lorkowski, Vindya Perera, Bernadette O Erokwu, Chris Flask, Pubudu M Peiris, William P Schiemann, Efstathios Karathanasis
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2018-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC6193613?pdf=render

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