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Design and development of polymeric micelles with cleavable links for intracellular drug delivery

Hua Wei, +2 more
- 01 Mar 2013 - 
- Vol. 38, Iss: 38, pp 503-535
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This review highlights the recent advance in this field and focuses on two types of polymeric micelles that can respond to the physiological signals, i.e., intracellular pH- and reduction-sensitive micells.
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This article is published in Progress in Polymer Science.The article was published on 2013-03-01. It has received 437 citations till now.

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Nanotechnology for Multimodal Synergistic Cancer Therapy

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