In vitro cancer cell imaging and therapy using transferrin-conjugated gold nanoparticles

Cancer Letters

Volumn 274, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 319-326

  Li, Jing Liang ^a   Wang, Lei ^a,b   Liu, Xiang Yang ^a   Zhang, Zhi Ping ^a   Guo, Hong Chen ^a   Liu, Wei Min ^a   Tang, Sing Hai ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b SHANDONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Cell; Gold nanoparticle; Imaging and therapy; In vitro; Transferrin

Indexed keywords

GOLD NANOPARTICLE; TRANSFERRIN;

ARTICLE; CANCER CELL; CONFOCAL LASER MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOTOXICITY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LIGHT SCATTERING; PHOTOTHERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN INTERACTION;

3T3 CELLS; ANIMALS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CELL LINE, TUMOR; GOLD; HUMANS; METAL NANOPARTICLES; MICE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; SPECTROMETRY, FLUORESCENCE; TRANSFERRIN;

EID: 58149314198     PISSN: 03043835     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.canlet.2008.09.024     Document Type: Article

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