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Delivering Chemotherapy to the Brain Using Ion Pumps – Technology Networks
The majority of patients experience a recurrence of malignant brain tumors despite surgery and subsequent treatment with chemotherapy and radiation. Researchers…
Despite surgery and subsequent treatment with chemotherapy and radiation, the majority of patients experience recurrence of malignant brain tumours. Researchers at Linköping University, Sweden, and the Medical University of Graz, Austria, have shown in cells in culture that an ion pump can deliver drugs more accurately, which gives less severe adverse effects in chemotherapy. The results have been published in Advanced Materials Technologies.
“This is the first time an ion pump has been tested as…
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