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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Jan 1.
Published in final edited form as: Nanomedicine (Lond). 2014 Jan;9(1):121–134. doi: 10.2217/nnm.13.191

Figure 1. Schematic of biological processes which influence nanoparticle delivery.

Figure 1

A nanoparticle must be able to circulate, marginate, and bind to a vascular target or extravasate into the tumor interstitium before it can be internalized by a cancer cell.