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NATURE NANOTECHNOLOGY
卷 2, 期 8, 页码 495-499出版社
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/nnano.2007.217
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The inhalation of medical aerosols is widely used for the treatment of lung disorders such as asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease(1), cystic fibrosis(2), respiratory infection(3) and, more recently, lung cancer(4). Targeted aerosol delivery to the affected lung tissue may improve therapeutic efficiency and minimize unwanted side effects. Despite enormous progress in optimizing aerosol delivery to the lung, targeted aerosol delivery to specific lung regions other than the airways or the lung periphery has not been adequately achieved to date(5,6). Here, we show theoretically by computer-aided simulation, and for the first time experimentally in mice, that targeted aerosol delivery to the lung can be achieved with aerosol droplets comprising superparamagnetic iron oxide nanoparticles-so-called nanomagnetosols-in combination with a target-directed magnetic gradient field. We suggest that nanomagnetosols may be useful for treating localized lung disease, by targeting foci of bacterial infection or tumour nodules.
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