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RGD-based strategies for selective delivery of therapeutics and imaging agents to the tumour vasculature.
Drug resistance updates : reviews and commentaries in antimicrobial and anticancer chemotherapy - 1 Dec 2005
Temming Kai, Schiffelers Raymond M, Molema Grietje, Kok Robbert J
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During the past decade, RGD-peptides have become a popular tool for the targeting of drugs and imaging agents to alphavbeta3-integrin expressing tumour vasculature. RGD-peptides have been introduced by recombinant means into therapeutic proteins and viruses. Chemical means have been applied to couple RGD-peptides and RGD-mimetics to liposomes, polymers, peptides, small molecule drugs and radiotracers. Some of...
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