New Opportunities: The Use of Nanotechnologies to Manipulate and Track Stem Cells

Cell Stem Cell

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 136-146

  Ferreira, Lino ^a,b   Karp, Jeffrey M ^c,e   Nobre, Luis ^a,b   Langer, Robert ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COIMBRA   (Portugal)

^b Biocant Biotechnology Innovation Center   (Portugal)

^c MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

^e HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON NANOTUBE; NANOPARTICLE; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE; PEPTIDE; PLASMID DNA; PROTEIN; RNA; VASCULOTROPIN;

CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL DIVISION; CELL LABELING; CELL MIGRATION; CELL RENEWAL; CYTOLOGY; CYTOTOXICITY; EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; ENDOCYTOSIS; FLUORESCENCE; GENE DELIVERY SYSTEM; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN VIVO STUDY; MESENCHYMAL STEM CELL; NANOTECHNOLOGY; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NONHUMAN; PHAGOCYTOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RNA INTERFERENCE; STEM CELL; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; STROKE;

ANIMALS; BIOMIMETICS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; EMBRYO RESEARCH; EMBRYONIC STEM CELLS; GENETIC VECTORS; HUMANS; METAL NANOPARTICLES; NANOMEDICINE; NANOTECHNOLOGY;

EID: 48349135069     PISSN: 19345909     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.stem.2008.07.020     Document Type: Review

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