Repeatable and adjustable on-demand sciatic nerve block with phototriggerable liposomes

Pain management would be greatly enhanced by a formulation that would provide local anesthesia at the time desired by patients and with the desired intensity and duration. To this end, we have developed near-infrared (NIR) light-triggered liposomes to provide on-demand adjustable local anesthesia. T...

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Main Authors: Shankarappa, Sahadev A. (Author), Rwei, Alina Y (Contributor), Lee, Jung-Jae (Contributor), Zhan, Changyou (Contributor), Liu, Qian (Contributor), Ok, Meryem T. (Contributor), Langer, Robert S (Contributor), Kohane, Daniel S (Contributor)
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Biological Engineering (Contributor), Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Chemical Engineering (Contributor), Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Materials Science and Engineering (Contributor), Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research at MIT (Contributor)
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Language:English
Published: National Academy of Sciences (U.S.), 2017-07-07T13:25:36Z.
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