Targeting the prostate for destruction through a vascular address.
- Resource Type
- Article
- Authors
- Arap, Wadih; Haedicke, Wolfgang; Bernasconi, Michele; Kain, Renate; Rajotte, Daniel; Krajewski, Stanislaw; Ellerby, H. Michael; Bredesen, Dale E.; Pasqualini, Renata; Ruoslahti, Erkki
- Source
- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 2/5/2002, Vol. 99 Issue 3, p1527. 5p. 16 Color Photographs, 2 Black and White Photographs, 3 Graphs.
- Subject
- *PROSTATE diseases
*PEPTIDES
*THERAPEUTICS
- Language
- ISSN
- 0027-8424
Presents a method for treating prostate diseases. Identification of peptides that home to specific sites in the vasculature of the prostate glands; Use of the homing peptides to deliver a proapoptotic peptide to the prostate.