Creating self-illuminating quantum dot conjugates

Nature Protocols

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 1160-1164

  So, Min Kyung ^a   Loening, Andreas M ^a,b   Gambhir, Sanjiv S ^a,b   Rao, Jianghong ^a,b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COELENTERAZINE; IMIDAZOLE DERIVATIVE; PYRAZINE DERIVATIVE; QUANTUM DOT; RENILLA LUCIFERIN 2 MONOOXYGENASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; ENERGY TRANSFER; LUMINESCENCE; METHODOLOGY; NANOTECHNOLOGY;

ENERGY TRANSFER; IMIDAZOLES; LUCIFERASES, RENILLA; LUMINESCENCE; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PYRAZINES; QUANTUM DOTS;

EID: 34250172827     PISSN: 17542189     EISSN: 17502799     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nprot.2006.162     Document Type: Article

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