Inner ear barriers to nanomedicine-augmented drug delivery and imaging

• 作 者: Jing Zou Ilmari Pyykk€o Jari H
• 机 构: Departmentof0tolaryngologyeHeadandNeckSurgery,HearingandBalanceResearchUnit,DepartmentofElectronicsa
• 出 处: 中华耳科学杂志：英文版
• 发表日期: 2016年4期
• 基金项目: We thank Dr. Hao Feng for preparing the samples for OPT imaging, Dr. Edite Figueiras for performing OPT imaging, and Prof. Jean-Paul (Moshe) Lellouche and Dr. Stella Ostrovsky for preparing the BDNF-m

There are several challenges to inner ear drug delivery and imaging due to the existence of tight biological barriers to the target structure and the dense bone surrounding it. Advances in imaging and nanomedicine may provide knowledge for overcoming the