Skip to main content

Liposomal Chemotherapy

  • Living reference work entry
  • First Online:
Encyclopedia of Cancer
  • 33 Accesses

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this chapter

Institutional subscriptions

References

  • Allen TM (2002) Ligand-targeted therapeutics in anticancer therapy. Nat Rev Cancer 2(10):750–763

    Article  CAS  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Allen TM, Cullis PR (2004) Drug delivery systems: entering the mainstream. Science 303:1818–1822

    Article  CAS  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Corti A, Pastorino F, Curnis F, Arap W, Pasqualini R, Ponzoni M (2012). Targeted drug delivery and penetration into solid tumors. Med Res Rev 32(5):1078–91

    Article  CAS  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Pastorino F, Brignole C, Marimpietri D et al (2003) Doxorubicin-loaded Fab’ fragments of anti-disialoganglioside immunoliposomes selectively inhibit the growth and dissemination of human neuroblastoma in nude mice. Cancer Res 63(1):86–92

    CAS  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Pastorino F, Brignole C, Di Paolo D et al (2006) Targeting liposomal chemotherapy via both tumour cell-specific and tumour vasculature-specific ligands potentiates therapeutic efficacy. Cancer Res 66(20):10073–10082

    Article  CAS  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Pastorino F, Brignole C, Loi M, Di Paolo D, Di Fiore A, Perri P, Pagnan G, Ponzoni M (2013). Nanocarrier-mediated targeting of tumor and tumor vascular cells improves uptake and penetration of drugs into neuroblastoma. Front Oncol 3:190

    Article  PubMed  PubMed Central  Google Scholar 

  • Yezhelyev MV, Gao X, Xing Y et al (2006) Emerging use of nanoparticles in diagnosis and treatment of breast cancer. Lancet Oncol 7:657–667

    Article  CAS  PubMed  Google Scholar 

Download references

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

Authors

Corresponding author

Correspondence to Mirco Ponzoni .

Editor information

Editors and Affiliations

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

Copyright information

© 2015 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg

About this entry

Cite this entry

Ponzoni, M. (2015). Liposomal Chemotherapy. In: Schwab, M. (eds) Encyclopedia of Cancer. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-27841-9_3387-2

Download citation

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-27841-9_3387-2

  • Received:

  • Accepted:

  • Published:

  • Publisher Name: Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

  • Online ISBN: 978-3-642-27841-9

  • eBook Packages: Springer Reference Biomedicine and Life SciencesReference Module Biomedical and Life Sciences

Publish with us

Policies and ethics