Imaging gap junctions with silica-coated upconversion nanoparticles

Medical and Biological Engineering and Computing

Volumn 48, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 1033-1041

  Nagarajan, Sounderya ^a,b   Li, Zhengquan ^a   Marchi Artzner, Valerie ^b   Grasset, Fabien ^b   Zhang, Yong ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE RENNES 1   (France)

Author keywords

Fluorescence imaging; Gap junction; Nanoparticle; Upconversion

Indexed keywords

BEFORE AND AFTER; BONE MARROW; CARDIAC CELL; COCULTURE; CONTINUOUS WAVE; COVALENT COUPLINGS; FLUORESCENCE EMISSION SPECTRA; FLUORESCENCE IMAGING; GAP JUNCTION; GAP JUNCTIONS; IMAGING CELLS; NEAR INFRARED REGION; SILICA COATINGS; SILICA-COATED; SURFACE MODIFICATION; TEM; UP-CONVERSION;

ANTIBODIES; COATINGS; EMISSION SPECTROSCOPY; FLUORESCENCE; IMAGING SYSTEMS; INFRARED DEVICES; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; NANOPARTICLES; OLEIC ACID; SILICA;

CELL CULTURE;

NANOPARTICLE; SILICON DIOXIDE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CELL JUNCTION; CHEMISTRY; COCULTURE; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; METHODOLOGY; MYOBLAST; RAT; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ULTRASTRUCTURE; WISTAR RAT;

ANIMALS; COCULTURE TECHNIQUES; GAP JUNCTIONS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MYOBLASTS, CARDIAC; NANOPARTICLES; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SILICON DIOXIDE;

EID: 77957794350     PISSN: 01400118     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11517-010-0618-x     Document Type: Article

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