A novel strategy to achieve effective drug delivery: exploit cells as carrier combined with nanoparticles

• Main Authors: Liang Pang (Author), Chun Zhang (Author), Jing Qin (Author), Limei Han (Author), Ruixiang Li (Author), Chao Hong (Author), Huining He (Author), Jianxin Wang (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Taylor & Francis Group, 2017-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Cell-mediated drug delivery systems employ specific cells as drug vehicles to deliver drugs to targeted sites. Therapeutics or imaging agents are loaded into these cells and then released in diseased sites. These specific cells mainly include red blood cells, leukocytes, stem cells and so on. The ce...