Identification of Thioaptamer Ligand against E-Selectin: Potential Application for Inflamed Vasculature Targeting

• Aman P. Mann ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Aman P. Mann, Anoma Somasunderam

  Affiliation Department of Nanomedicine and Biomedical Engineering, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, Texas, United States of America

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• Anoma Somasunderam ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Aman P. Mann, Anoma Somasunderam

  Affiliation Department of Nanomedicine and Biomedical Engineering, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, Texas, United States of America

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• René Nieves-Alicea,

  Affiliation Department of Nanomedicine and Biomedical Engineering, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, Texas, United States of America

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• Xin Li,

  Affiliation Institute of Molecular Medicine, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, Texas, United States of America

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• Austin Hu,

  Affiliation Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Texas Austin, Austin, Texas, United States of America

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• Anil K. Sood,

  Affiliations Department of Gynecologic Oncology, University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America, Department of Cancer Biology, University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

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• Mauro Ferrari,

  Affiliations Department of Nanomedicine and Biomedical Engineering, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, Texas, United States of America, Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Texas Austin, Austin, Texas, United States of America, Department of Experimental Therapeutics, University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America, Department of Bioengineering, Rice University, Houston, Texas, United States of America

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• David G. Gorenstein,

  Affiliation Institute of Molecular Medicine, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, Texas, United States of America

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• Takemi Tanaka

  * E-mail: Takemi.Tanaka@jefferson.edu

  Affiliations Department of Nanomedicine and Biomedical Engineering, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, Texas, United States of America, Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Texas Austin, Austin, Texas, United States of America, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

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