Self-Assembled Aptamer-Grafted Hyperbranched Polymer Nanocarrier for Targeted and Photoresponsive Drug Delivery.

@article{Yang2018SelfAssembledAH,
  title={Self-Assembled Aptamer-Grafted Hyperbranched Polymer Nanocarrier for Targeted and Photoresponsive Drug Delivery.},
  author={Lu Yang and Hao Sun and Yuan Liu and Weijia Hou and Yu Yang and Ren Cai and Cheng Cui and Penghui Zhang and Xiaoshu Pan and Xiaowei Li and Long Li and Brent S. Sumerlin and Weihong Tan},
  journal={Angewandte Chemie},
  year={2018},
  volume={57 52},
  pages={
          17048-17052
        },
  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:53785765}
}
  • Lu YangHao Sun W. Tan
  • Published in Angewandte Chemie 26 November 2018
  • Medicine, Materials Science
  • Angewandte Chemie
A new DNA aptamer-grafted photoresponsive hyperbranched polymer is constructed, which can self-assemble into nanoparticles, thereby achieving biocompatibility and target specificity, as well as light-controllable release behavior.
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