Targeting and imaging cancer cells by Folate-decorated, quantum dots (QDs)- loaded nanoparticles of biodegradable polymers

Biomaterials

Volumn 30, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1176-1183

  Pan, Jie ^a   Feng, Si Shen ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Cancer diagnosis; Cancer nanotechnology; Confocal laser scanning microscopy; Molecular imaging; Nanomedicine; Vitamin E TPGS

Indexed keywords

BIODEGRADABLE POLYMERS; CELL CULTURE; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; COPOLYMERIZATION; LASER APPLICATIONS; LASERS; MEDICAL NANOTECHNOLOGY; NANOPARTICLES; NANOTECHNOLOGY; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; POLYMERS; QUANTUM ELECTRONICS; SCANNING;

CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER NANOTECHNOLOGY; CONFOCAL LASER SCANNING MICROSCOPY; MOLECULAR IMAGING; NANOMEDICINE; VITAMIN E TPGS;

SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS;

FOLATE RECEPTOR; FOLIC ACID; NANOPARTICLE; QUANTUM DOT; TOCOFERSOLAN;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER CELL; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOTOXICITY; FIBROBLAST; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IN VITRO STUDY; LASER MICROSCOPY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; BIOCOMPATIBLE MATERIALS; CELL DEATH; CELL LINE, TUMOR; CELL SURVIVAL; FOLIC ACID; HUMANS; MICE; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; NANOPARTICLES; NEOPLASMS; NIH 3T3 CELLS; PARTICLE SIZE; POLYETHYLENE GLYCOLS; QUANTUM DOTS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; STATIC ELECTRICITY; SUCCINATES; SURFACE PROPERTIES; VITAMIN E;

EID: 57849090020     PISSN: 01429612     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biomaterials.2008.10.039     Document Type: Article

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