Magnetic Nanoparticles Conjugated with Peptides Derived from Monocyte Chemoattractant Protein-1 as a Tool for Targeting Atherosclerosis

• Main Authors: Chung-Wei Kao (Author), Po-Ting Wu (Author), Mei-Yi Liao (Author), I-Ju Chung (Author), Kai-Chien Yang (Author), Wen-Yih Isaac Tseng (Author), Jiashing Yu (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: MDPI AG, 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Atherosclerosis is a multifactorial inflammatory disease that may progress silently for long period, and it is also widely accepted as the main cause of cardiovascular diseases. To prevent atherosclerotic plaques from generating, imaging early molecular markers and quantifying the extent of disease...