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SUBMITTER: Miller K
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5561905 | biostudies-other | 2016 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Miller Kayla K Dixit Suraj S Bredlau Amy-Lee AL Moore Alfred A McKinnon Emilie E Broome Ann-Marie AM
Nanomedicine (London, England) 20160322 6
<h4>Aim</h4>Glioblastoma multiforme is a devastating disease with no curative options due to the difficulty in achieving sufficient quantities of effective chemotherapies into the tumor past the blood-brain barrier. Micelles loaded with temozolomide (TMZ) were designed to increase the delivery of this drug into the brain.<h4>Materials & methods</h4>pH-responsive micelles composed of distearoyl phosphoethanolamine-PEG-2000-amine and N-palmitoyl homocysteine were surface-functionalized with PDGF p ...[more]