Near-infrared-actuated devices for remotely controlled drug delivery

A reservoir that could be remotely triggered to release a drug would enable the patient or physician to achieve on-demand, reproducible, repeated, and tunable dosing. Such a device would allow precise adjustment of dosage to desired effect, with a consequent minimization of toxicity, and could obvia...

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Main Authors: Timko, Brian P. (Contributor), Arruebo, Manuel (Author), Shankarappa, Sahadev A. (Author), McAlvin, J. Brian (Author), Okonkwo, Obiajulu Stephanie (Contributor), Mizrahi, Boaz (Contributor), Stefanescu, Cristina F. (Author), Gomez, Leyre (Author), Zhu, Jia (Contributor), Santamaria, Jesus (Author), Zhu, Angela W. (Author), Langer, Robert S (Author), Kohane, Daniel S (Author)
Other Authors: Harvard University- (Contributor), Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Chemical Engineering (Contributor), Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Chemistry (Contributor), Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research at MIT (Contributor), Zhu, Angela (Contributor), Langer, Robert (Contributor), Kohane, Daniel S. (Contributor)
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Language:English
Published: National Academy of Sciences (U.S.), 2014-09-02T13:57:05Z.
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