A Drug-Ladened Microparticle (IMAGE)

Johns Hopkins Medicine

A Drug-Ladened Microparticle

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This is a diagram of a microparticle that slowly releases a drug for treating "wet" age-related macular degeneration. The drug (blue) is encapsulated in hundreds of nanoparticles (green), which are then encapsulated in a microparticle (brown).

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Jordan Green

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