A simple but efficient tumor-targeted nanoparticle delivery system constructed by oleic acid

• Main Authors: Jingxin Fu (Author), Yian Wang (Author), Haowen Li (Author), Likang Lu (Author), Meihua Han (Author), Yifei Guo (Author), Xiangtao Wang (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Taylor & Francis Group, 2022-12-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Oleic acid (OA) is a kind of monounsaturated omega-3 fatty acid that abounds in plants and animals which can induce apoptosis and has broad-spectrum inhibitory activity against a variety of tumor cell lines. However, OA is quite insoluble and thus inconvenient to be efficiently delivered in vivo. In...