Magnetic nanoparticles deliver chemotherapy to difficult-to-reach spinal tumors
Date | 30th, Jul 2018 |
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Source | Phys.org - Scientific News Websites |
DESCRIPTION
Researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago have demonstrated that magnetic nanoparticles can be used to ferry chemotherapy drugs into the spinal cord to treat hard-to-reach spinal tumors in an animal model. The unique delivery system represents a novel way to target chemotherapy drugs to spinal cancer cells, which are hard to reach because the drugs must cross the blood-brain barrier.