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Volume 2012 (2012), Article ID 407429, 9 pages
doi:10.5402/2012/407429
Review Article

Chemotherapy of Prostate Cancer by Targeted Nanoparticles Trackable by Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Mohamed O. Abdalla,1 Timothy Turner,2 and Clayton Yates2

1Department of Chemistry, Tuskegee University, Tuskegee, AL 36088, USA
2Department of Biology and Center for Cancer Research, Tuskegee University, Tuskegee, AL 36088, USA

Received 28 March 2012; Accepted 28 May 2012

Academic Editors: R. B. Azevedo, M. Fernández-García, and K. H. Park

Copyright © 2012 Mohamed O. Abdalla et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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