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Fibrillar pharmacology

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The mechanisms by which chemically functionalized carbon nanotubes flow in blood and are excreted through the kidneys illustrate the unconventional behaviour of these fibrillar nanostructures, and the opportunities they offer as components for the design of advanced delivery vehicles.

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Figure 1: A schematic of the glomerular filtration system (a multicompartmental structure).

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  1. Kostas Kostarelos is at the Nanomedicine Lab, Centre for Drug Delivery Research, The School of Pharmacy, University of London, 29-39 Brunswick Square, London WC1N 1AX, United Kingdom. kostas.kostarelos@pharmacy.ac.uk,

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Kostarelos, K. Fibrillar pharmacology. Nature Mater 9, 793–795 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1038/nmat2871

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