Perspectives of Dendrimer-based Nanoparticles in Cancer Therapy

Abstract Currently, cancer is the second most common cause of death in the United States, exceeded only by heart disease. Chemotherapy traditionally suffers from a non-specific distribution, with only a small fraction of the drug reaching the tumor, in this sense, the use of dendrimers incorporating...

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Main Authors: RICARDO I. CASTRO, OSCAR FORERO-DORIA, LUIS GUZMÁN
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Academia Brasileira de Ciências 2018-07-01
Series:Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0001-37652018000502331&lng=en&tlng=en