Quantum dots as cellular probes

Annual Review of Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 7, Issue , 2005, Pages 55-76

  Alivisatos, A Paul ^a,b   Gu, Weiwei ^b,c   Larabell, Carolyn ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Biological application; Fluorescent probing; Imaging; Nanoparticles; Semiconductor nanocrystals

Indexed keywords

BIOCOMPATIBILITY; CELL CULTURE; FLUORESCENCE; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; MEDICAL APPLICATIONS; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; PROBES; SURFACE CHEMISTRY;

BIOLOGICAL APPLICATION; FLUORESCENT PROBING; NANOPARTICLES; SEMICONDUCTOR NANOCRYSTALS;

SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS;

NANOPARTICLE; QUANTUM DOT;

ANTIBODY LABELING; BIOCOMPATIBILITY; CRYSTAL; FLUORESCENCE; FLUORESCENCE RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER; HUMAN; IMAGING; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; LIGHT; MOLECULAR PROBE; NONHUMAN; REVIEW; SEMICONDUCTOR;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGY; CHEMISTRY, PHYSICAL; FLUORESCENCE RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER; FLUORESCENT DYES; HUMANS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; LIGHT; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; QUANTUM DOTS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 23844558083     PISSN: 15239829     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.bioeng.7.060804.100432     Document Type: Review

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