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Transcellular transfer of nanomedicine

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Fig. 1: Transcytosis of nanomedicine across cellular barrier.

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Jang, H.L., Sengupta, S. Transcellular transfer of nanomedicine. Nat. Nanotechnol. 14, 731–732 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41565-019-0494-y

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