ISRN Nanotechnology
Volume 2013 (2013), Article ID 629510, 5 pages
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/629510
Review Article
Targeted, Monitored, and Controlled Chemotherapy: A Multimodal Nanotechnology-Based Approach against Cancer
1Department of Medical Physics, Faculty of Medicine, Tehran University of Medical Sciences (TUMS), Tehran 14155-5983, Iran
2School of Chemistry, University College of Science, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran
3Razi Drug Research Center and Department of Pharmacology, School of Medicine, Tehran University of Medical Sciences (TUMS), Tehran, Iran
Received 10 May 2013; Accepted 19 July 2013
Academic Editors: A. Hu and A. Taubert
Copyright © 2013 Ali Shakeri-Zadeh 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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