Diffusion of nanoparticles into the capsule and cortex of a crystalline lens

Nanotechnology

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2008, Pages

  Schachar, Ronald A ^a,c   Chen, Wei ^a   Woo, Boon K ^a   Pierscionek, Barbara K ^b   Zhang, Xing ^a   Ma, Lun ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT ARLINGTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ULSTER   (United Kingdom)

^c NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; DIFFUSION; FLUORESCENCE; SEMICONDUCTING CADMIUM TELLURIDE;

CRYSTALLINE LENS; FLUORESCENT NANOPARTICLES; INTRACELLULAR STRUCTURE;

NANOPARTICLES;

CADMIUM; NANOPARTICLE; TELLURIUM;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFUSION; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPE; HUMAN; LENS; LENS CAPSULE; NANOTECHNOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PARTICLE SIZE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD;

EID: 36849052292     PISSN: 09574484     EISSN: 13616528     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0957-4484/19/02/025102     Document Type: Article

References (22)

1. Livingston P M, Guest C S, Stanislavsky Y, Lee S, Bayley S, Walker C, McKean C and Taylor H R 1994 A population-based estimate of cataract prevalence: the Melbourne Visual Impairment Project experience Dev. Ophthalmol. 26 1
2. Leske M C, Connell A M, Wu S Y, Hyman L and Schachat A 1997 Prevalence of lens opacities in the Barbados eye study Arch. Ophthalmol. 115 105
3. Mitchell P, Cumming R, Attebo K and Panchapakesan J 1997 Prevalence of cataract in Australia: the Blue Mountains eye study Ophthalmology 104 581
4. Seah S K L, Wong T Y, Foster P J, Ng T P and Johnson G J 2002 Prevalence of lens opacity in Chinese residents of Singapore: the tanjong pagar survey Ophthalmology 109 2058
5. Tan A G, Wang J J, Rochtchina E and Mitchell P 2006 Comparison of age-specific cataract prevalence in two population-based surveys 6 years apart BMC Ophthalmol. 6 17
6. Miller D, Zuckerman J L and Reynolds G O 1973 Holographic filter to negate effect of cataract Arch. Ophthalmol. 90 323
7. Miller D and Benedek G 1973 Intraocular Light Scattering: Theory and Clinical Application ed C C Thomas (Illinois: Springfield)
8. Schachar R A and Solin S A 1975 The microscopic protein structure of the lens with a theory for cataract formation as determined by Raman spectroscopy of intact bovine lenses Invest Ophthalmol. 14 380
9. Frost N A, Sparrow J M and Moore L 2002 Associations of human crystalline lens retrodots and waterclefts with visual impairment: an observational study Invest. Ophthalmol. Vis. Sci. 43 2105
10. Babizhayev M A, Deyev A, Yermakova V N, Brikman I V and Bours J 2004 Lipid peroxidation and cataracts: N-acetylcarnosine as a therapeutic tool to manage age-related cataracts in human and in canine eyes Drugs R. D. 5 125
11. Clark J I, Osgood T B and Trask S J 1987 Inhibition of phase separation by reagents that prevent x-irradiation cataract in vivo Exp. Eye Res. 45 961
12. Hell S W 2007 Far-field optical nanoscopy Science 316 1153
13. Chen W, Joly A G and Morgan N Y 2006 Optical physics and applications of luminescent nanoparticles Handbook of Semiconductor Nanostructures and Devices vol 2 ed A A Balandin and K L Wang (Los Angeles, CA: American Scientific Publishers) pp 295-334
14. Almeida A J and Souto E 2007 Solid lipid nanoparticles as a drug delivery system for peptides and proteins Adv. Drug Deliv. Rev. 59 478
15. Huo Q 2007 A perspective on bioconjugated nanoparticles and quantum dots Colloids Surf. B-Biointerfaces 59 1
16. Wong H L, Bendayan R, Rauth A M, Li Y and Wu X Y 2007 Chemotherapy with anticancer drugs encapsulated in solid lipid nanoparticles Adv. Drug Deliv. Rev. 59 491
17. Xu P, Kirk E A V, Zhan Y, Murdoch W J, Radosz M and Shen Y 2007 Targeted charge-reversal nanoparticles for nuclear drug delivery Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. Engl. 46 4999
18. Chen W, Grouquist D and Roark J 2002 Voltage tunable electroluminescence of CdTe nanoparticle light-emitting diodes J. Nanosci. Nanotechnol. 2 47
19. Joly A G, Chen W, McCready D E, Malm J O and Bovin J O 2005 Upconversion luminescence of CdTe nanoparticles Phys. Rev. B 71 165304
20. Wang S, Mamedova N, Kotov N A, Chen W and Studer J 2002 Antigen/antibody immunocomplex from CdTe nanoparticle bioconjugates Nano Lett. 2 817
21. Li X R, Liu X L, Chang J and Liu X Y 2006 Experimental study on 5-fluourouracil-loaded immunonanoparticles targeting to lens epithelial cells Zhonghua Yan Ke Za Zhi (Chin. J. Ophthalmol.) 42 526
22. Lee C J, Vroom J A, Fishman H A and Bent S F 2006 Determination of human lens capsule permeability and its feasibility as a replacement for Bruch's membrane Biomaterials 27 1670