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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 26, 2009
Filed:
Aug. 29, 2005
Sumio Iijima, Aichi, JP;
Masako Yudasaka, Ibaraki, JP;
Kumiko Ajima, Ibaraki, JP;
Tatsuya Murakami, Aichi, JP;
Kiyotaka Shiba, Tokyo, JP;
Sumio Iijima, Aichi, JP;
Masako Yudasaka, Ibaraki, JP;
Kumiko Ajima, Ibaraki, JP;
Tatsuya Murakami, Aichi, JP;
Kiyotaka Shiba, Tokyo, JP;
NEC Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
The present invention provides a carbon nanohorn complex that is excellent in characteristics of adsorption or inclusion of drugs and release, in particular, a sustained release of drugs as a novel drug carrier in drug delivery systems, as well as a process for producing the complex. The complex of drug and carbon nanohorns comprises a steroidal or metal-containing drug being adsorbed onto the oxidized carbon nanohorns, or included in pores opened thereof.