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Multifunctional nanoparticles for prostate cancer therapy

Carolina Salvador-Morales Laboratory of Nanomedicine and Biomaterials, Department of Anaesthesia, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, 75 Francis Street, Boston, MA 02115, USA and Harvard-MIT Center of Cancer Nanotechnology Excellence, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
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Weiwei Gao Laboratory of Nanomedicine and Biomaterials, Department of Anaesthesia, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, 75 Francis Street, Boston, MA 02115, USA and Harvard-MIT Center of Cancer Nanotechnology Excellence, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
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Pooja Ghatalia Laboratory of Nanomedicine and Biomaterials, Department of Anesthesia Brigham and Women’s Hospital-Harvard Medical School, 75 Francis Street, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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Farhan Murshed Laboratory of Nanomedicine and Biomaterials, Department of Anaesthesia, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, 75 Francis Street, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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Wataru Aizu Laboratory of Nanomedicine and Biomaterials, Department of Anaesthesia, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, 75 Francis Street, Boston, MA 02115, USA and Harvard-MIT Center of Cancer Nanotechnology Excellence, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
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Robert Langer Institute Professor, Harvard-MIT Center of Cancer Nanotechnology Excellence, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA and Department of Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
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Omid C Farokhzad Harvard-MIT Center of Cancer Nanotechnology Excellence, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA and Laboratory of Nanomedicine and Biomaterials, Department of Anaesthesia, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, 75 Francis Street, Boston, MA 02115, USA. [email protected]
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Pages 211-221 | Published online: 10 Jan 2014

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