Drugs and drug delivery systems targeting amyloid-β in Alzheimer's disease

Morgan Robinson, Brenda Yasie Lee, Zoya Leonenko

1 Department of Biology, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada;
2 Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada;
3 Waterloo Institute for Nanotechnology, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

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Special Issues: Molecular Mechanisms of Neurodegenerative Diseases

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