Magnetic nanoparticles for local drug delivery using magnetic implants

Methods Mol Biol. 2009:544:559-69. doi: 10.1007/978-1-59745-483-4_35.

Abstract

This chapter is a brief description of the state of the art of the field of targeted drug delivery using magnetic implants. It describes the advantages and drawbacks of the use of internal magnets to concentrate magnetic nanoparticles near tumor locations, and the different approaches to this task performed in vitro and in vivo reviewed in literature are presented.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Animals
  • Drug Delivery Systems*
  • Drug Implants
  • Humans
  • Kidney / anatomy & histology
  • Kidney / metabolism
  • Magnetics
  • Metal Nanoparticles*
  • Nanotechnology
  • Neoplasms / drug therapy
  • Rabbits

Substances

  • Drug Implants