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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Jul 1.
Published in final edited form as: Expert Opin Drug Deliv. 2016 Oct 11;14(7):865–877. doi: 10.1080/17425247.2017.1243527

Figure 1.

Figure 1

Biological barriers in drug delivery. The protein corona (1), the mononuclear phagocyte system (MPS) (2), fluid dynamics (3), the endothelial surface of blood vessels (4), the extracellular matrix (5), the cellular membrane (6), lysosomal degradation (7), and efflux pumps (8).