PEGylation as a strategy for improving nanoparticle-based drug and gene delivery

Advanced Drug Delivery Reviews - Tập 99 - Trang 28-51 - 2016
Jung Soo Suk1,2, Qingguo Xu1,2, Nam‐Ho Kim3,2, Justin Hanes3,1,4,2, Laura M. Ensign3,1,2
1Department of Ophthalmology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21231, United States
2The Center for Nanomedicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21231, United States
3Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21218, United States
4Departments of Biomedical Engineering, Environmental and Health Sciences, Oncology, Neurosurgery, and Pharmacology and Molecular Sciences, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21205 United States

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