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SUBMITTER: Nguyen MM
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4699559 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Nguyen Mary M MM Carlini Andrea S AS Chien Miao-Ping MP Sonnenberg Sonya S Luo Colin C Braden Rebecca L RL Osborn Kent G KG Li Yiwen Y Gianneschi Nathan C NC Christman Karen L KL
Advanced materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.) 20150825 37
A method for targeting to and retaining intravenously injected nanoparticles at the site of acute myocardial infarction in a rat model is described. Enzyme-responsive peptide-polymer amphiphiles are assembled as spherical micellar nanoparticles, and undergo a morphological transition from spherical-shaped, discrete materials to network-like assemblies when acted upon by matrix metalloproteinases (MMP-2 and MMP-9), which are up-regulated in heart tissue post-myocardial infarction. ...[more]