Immunofluorescent labeling of cancer marker Her2 and other cellular targets with semiconductor quantum dots

Nature Biotechnology

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 41-46

  Wu, Xingyong ^a   Liu, Hongjian ^a   Liu, Jianquan ^a   Haley, Kari N ^a   Treadway, Joseph A ^a   Larson, J Peter ^a   Ge, Nianfeng ^b   Peale, Frank ^b   Bruchez, Marcel P ^a  

^a INVITROGEN CORPORATION   (United States)

^b GENENTECH INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIGENS; MOLECULES; TUMORS;

NANOPARTICLES;

SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS;

ACTIN; AVIDIN; CELL NUCLEUS ANTIGEN; DYE; HOE 33342; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; NANOPARTICLE; ORGANIC COMPOUND; STREPTAVIDIN; TUMOR MARKER;

ANIMAL CELL; ANTIGEN DETECTION; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER CELL; CELL LINE; CONJUGATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPLASM; FIBROBLAST; FLAME PHOTOMETRY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMAGING; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; LABELING INDEX; MICROTUBULE; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR SIZE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; ONCOGENE NEU; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMICONDUCTOR; STAINING; TARGET CELL;

3T3 CELLS; ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, NEOPLASM; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CRYSTALLIZATION; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; FIBROBLASTS; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; FLUORESCENT DYES; HUMANS; MICE; MICROCHEMISTRY; MICROSPHERES; NANOTECHNOLOGY; RECEPTOR, ERBB-2; SEMICONDUCTORS; SPECTROMETRY, FLUORESCENCE; STAINING AND LABELING; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0037225979     PISSN: 10870156     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nbt764     Document Type: Article

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