Preparation and Characterization of Irinotecan Loaded Cross-Linked Bovine Serum Albumin Beads for Liver Cancer Chemoembolization Therapy

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Morphologies and size distributions of BSA beads and irinotecan loaded BSA beads. (a) Water-swelled cross-linked BSA beads with magnification of 200x under bright field optical microscope; (b) the same beads as (a) under dark field fluorescence microscope; (c) SEM images of dried cross-linked BSA beads with magnification of 500x; (d) surface morphology image of dried cross-linked BSA beads with magnification of 10000x under SEM; (e) surface morphology image of irinotecan loaded dried BSA beads with magnification of 10000x under SEM; and (f) size distribution of dried BSA beads and swelled BSA beads.

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