A new concept for macromolecular therapeutics in cancer chemotherapy: mechanism of tumoritropic accumulation of proteins and the antitumor agent smancs.

Yasuhiro Matsumura(The Rogosin Institute), Hiroshi Maeda(Kumamoto University)

PubMed

December 1, 1986

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