Intracellular imaging of nanoparticles: Is it an elemental mistake to believe what you see?

Particle and Fibre Toxicology

Volumn 7, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Brandenberger, Christina ^a   Clift, Martin J D ^a,b   Vanhecke, Dimitri ^a,c   Mühlfeld, Christian ^a,d   Stone, Vicki ^b   Gehr, Peter ^a   Rothen Rutishauser, Barbara ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b EDINBURGH NAPIER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF BIOCHEMISTRY   (Germany)

^d JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NANOPARTICLE; QUANTUM DOT; CADMIUM; MACROGOL DERIVATIVE; SULFUR;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BIOMEDICINE; CELL STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; LASER MICROSCOPY; MACROPHAGE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PARTICLE SIZE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECTROSCOPY; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; CELL LINE; CHEMISTRY; DRUG EFFECT; ENERGY FILTERED TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

MURINAE;

CADMIUM; CELL LINE; MACROPHAGES; MICROSCOPY, ENERGY-FILTERING TRANSMISSION ELECTRON; POLYETHYLENE GLYCOLS; QUANTUM DOTS; SULFUR;

EID: 77952965944     PISSN: 17438977     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1743-8977-7-15     Document Type: Article

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