Nanodrug-Enhanced Radiofrequency Tumor Ablation: Effect of Micellar or Liposomal Carrier on Drug Delivery and Treatment Efficacy

Marwan Moussa; S. Nahum Goldberg; Gaurav Kumar; Rupa R. Sawant; Tatyana Levchenko; Vladimir P. Torchilin; Muneeb Ahmed

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0102727

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Nanodrug-Enhanced Radiofrequency Tumor Ablation: Effect of Micellar or Liposomal Carrier on Drug Delivery and Treatment Efficacy

Marwan Moussa,

Affiliation Laboratory for Minimally Invasive Tumor Therapies, Department of Radiology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center/Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States of America
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S. Nahum Goldberg,

Affiliations Laboratory for Minimally Invasive Tumor Therapies, Department of Radiology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center/Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States of America, Division of Image-guided Therapy and Interventional Oncology, Department of Radiology, Hadassah Hebrew University Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel
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Gaurav Kumar,

Affiliation Laboratory for Minimally Invasive Tumor Therapies, Department of Radiology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center/Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States of America
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Rupa R. Sawant,

Affiliation Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences and Center for Pharmaceutical Biotechnology and Nanomedicine, Northeastern University, Boston, MA, United States of America
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Tatyana Levchenko,

Affiliation Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences and Center for Pharmaceutical Biotechnology and Nanomedicine, Northeastern University, Boston, MA, United States of America
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Vladimir P. Torchilin,

Affiliation Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences and Center for Pharmaceutical Biotechnology and Nanomedicine, Northeastern University, Boston, MA, United States of America
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Muneeb Ahmed

* E-mail: mahmed@bidmc.harvard.edu

Affiliation Laboratory for Minimally Invasive Tumor Therapies, Department of Radiology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center/Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States of America
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Nanodrug-Enhanced Radiofrequency Tumor Ablation: Effect of Micellar or Liposomal Carrier on Drug Delivery and Treatment Efficacy

Marwan Moussa,
S. Nahum Goldberg,
Gaurav Kumar,
Rupa R. Sawant,
Tatyana Levchenko,
Vladimir P. Torchilin,
Muneeb Ahmed

Published: August 18, 2014
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0102727

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