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SUBMITTER: Wong KH
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7463484 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Wong Ka Hong KH Lu Aiping A Chen Xiaoyu X Yang Zhijun Z
Molecules (Basel, Switzerland) 20200809 16
Cancer is a global health challenge. There are drawbacks to conventional chemotherapy such as poor bioavailability, development of drug resistance and severe side effects. Novel drug delivery system may be an alternative to optimize therapeutic effects. When such systems consist of natural materials, they offer important advantages: they are usually highly biocompatible, biodegradable, nontoxic and nonimmunogenic. Furthermore, natural materials can be easily modified for conjugation with a wide ...[more]