Morphological study of acoustic liposomes using transmission electron microscopy

Journal of Electron Microscopy

Volumn 59, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 187-196

  Kodama, Tetsuya ^a   Tomita, Noriko ^a   Horie, Sachiko ^a   Sax, Nicolas ^a   Iwasaki, Hiroko ^a   Suzuki, Ryo ^b   Maruyama, Kazuo ^b   Mori, Shiro ^c   Manabu, Fukumoto ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b TEIKYO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c TOHOKU UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cavitation; Drug delivery system; Nanobubbles; Sonoporation; Ultrasound contrast agent

Indexed keywords

ALBUMINOID; CONTRAST MEDIUM; LIPID; LIPOSOME;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; DRUG DELIVERY SYSTEM; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; METHODOLOGY; MICROBUBBLE; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ULTRASOUND; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ALBUMINS; CONTRAST MEDIA; DRUG DELIVERY SYSTEMS; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; LIPIDS; LIPOSOMES; MICROBUBBLES; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; ULTRASONICS;

BUBBLES (IN FLUIDS); DRUG DELIVERY; GASES; HIGH RESOLUTION TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; LIGHT SCATTERING; PARTICLE SIZE; ULTRASONICS; ZETA POTENTIAL;

DRUG CARRIER; DRUG-DELIVERY SYSTEMS; ECHOGENICITY; MICROBUBBLES; MORPHOLOGICAL STUDY; NANOBUBBLES; PHOSPHATE BUFFER SOLUTIONS; SONOPORATION; TISSUE SPECIFICS; ULTRASOUND CONTRAST AGENT;

LIPOSOMES;

EID: 77953237650     PISSN: 00220744     EISSN: 14779986     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jmicro/dfp056     Document Type: Article

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