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SUBMITTER: Liu T
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6632075 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Liu Tong T Romanova Svetlana S Wang Shuo S Hyun Megan A MA Zhang Chi C Cohen Samuel M SM Singh Rakesh K RK Bronich Tatiana K TK
Molecular pharmaceutics 20190614 7
Although the prognosis of patients with breast cancer continues to improve, breast cancer metastasis to bones remains high in incidence and challenging to manage. Here, we report the development of bone-homing alendronate (ALN)-anchored biodegradable polymeric micelles for the targeted treatment of metastatic cancer to bone. These micelles exhibited bone protective capacity including the recruitment, differentiation, and resorption activity of the osteoclasts. Encapsulation of docetaxel (DTX), t ...[more]