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SUBMITTER: Perche F
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3606784 | biostudies-other | 2013
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Perche Federico F Torchilin Vladimir P VP
Journal of drug delivery 20130307
Liposomes are delivery systems that have been used to formulate a vast variety of therapeutic and imaging agents for the past several decades. They have significant advantages over their free forms in terms of pharmacokinetics, sensitivity for cancer diagnosis and therapeutic efficacy. The multifactorial nature of cancer and the complex physiology of the tumor microenvironment require the development of multifunctional nanocarriers. Multifunctional liposomal nanocarriers should combine long bloo ...[more]