Painting blood vessels and atherosclerotic plaques with an adhesive drug depot

The treatment of diseased vasculature remains challenging, in part because of the difficulty in implanting drug-eluting devices without subjecting vessels to damaging mechanical forces. Implanting materials using adhesive forces could overcome this challenge, but materials have previously not been s...

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Main Authors: Kastrup, Christian (Contributor), Nahrendorf, Matthias (Author), Figueiredo, Jose Luiz (Author), Lee, Haeshin (Author), Kambhampati, Swetha (Contributor), Lee, Timothy (Contributor), Cho, Seung Woo (Author), Gorbatov, Rostic (Author), Iwamoto, Yoshiko (Author), Dang, Tram T. (Contributor), Dutta, Partha (Author), Yeon, Ju Hun (Author), Cheng, Hao (Contributor), Vegas, Arturo (Contributor), Siegel, Cory D. (Author), MacDougall, Samantha (Contributor), Okonkwo, Michael E. (Contributor), Thai, Anh (Contributor), Stone, James R. (Author), Coury, Arthur J. (Author), Weissleder, Ralph (Author), Langer, Robert (Contributor), Anderson, Daniel Griffith (Contributor), Pritchard, Christopher D., (Christopher David) (Author)
Other Authors: Harvard University- (Contributor), Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Chemical Engineering (Contributor), Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research at MIT (Contributor), Pritchard, Christopher D. (Contributor)
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Language:English
Published: National Academy of Sciences (U.S.), 2013-08-01T18:31:38Z.
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