In vivo biodistribution and highly efficient tumour targeting of carbon nanotubes in mice

Nature Nanotechnology

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 47-52

  Liu, Zhuang ^a   Cai, Weibo ^b   He, Lina ^b   Nakayama, Nozomi ^a   Chen, Kai ^b   Sun, Xiaoming ^a   Chen, Xiaoyuan ^b   Dai, Hongjie ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACIDS; CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM; MAMMALS; NANOTUBES; PHOSPHOLIPIDS; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; TUMORS; YARN;

ARGININE-GLYCINE-ASPARTIC ACIDS; BIOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS; BLOOD CIRCULATION; MULTIVALENT EFFECT; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY (PET); RAMAN SIGNATURES; RETICULOENDOTHELIAL SYSTEMS; SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBE (SWNTS);

SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (SWCN);

MUS;

EID: 33846845060     PISSN: 17483387     EISSN: 17483395     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nnano.2006.170     Document Type: Article

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