Obstacles to Brain Tumor Therapy: Key ABC Transporters
The delivery of cancer chemotherapy to treat brain tumors remains a challenge, in part, because of the inherent biological barrier, the blood–brain barrier. While its presence and role as a protector of the normal brain parenchyma has been acknowledged for decades, it is only recently that the impor...
Main Authors: | Juwina Wijaya, Yu Fukuda, John D. Schuetz |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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MDPI AG
2017-11-01
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Series: | International Journal of Molecular Sciences |
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Online Access: | https://www.mdpi.com/1422-0067/18/12/2544 |
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