Amine-modified single-walled carbon nanotubes protect neurons from injury in a rat stroke model

Nature Nanotechnology

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 121-125

  Lee, Hyun Jung ^a   Park, Jiae ^a   Yoon, Ok Ja ^b   Kim, Hyun Woo ^b   Lee, Do Yeon ^a   Kim, Do Hee ^a   Lee, Won Bok ^a   Lee, Nae Eung ^b   Bonventre, Joseph V ^c   Kim, Sung Su ^a  

^a Chung Ang University   (South Korea)

^b Sungkyunkwan University   (South Korea)

^c HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NANOTUBES; RATS; SCAFFOLDS (BIOLOGY); STEM CELLS; TISSUE; YARN;

APOPTOTIC; BRAIN TISSUE; MOTOR FUNCTION; NEURAL CELLS; ROTATING RODS; TISSUE ARCHITECTURE; TISSUE DAMAGE;

SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (SWCN);

AMINE; CARBON NANOTUBE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BRAIN INJURY; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CHEMICAL MODIFICATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVALESCENCE; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NEUROPROTECTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; STROKE;

EID: 79751535242     PISSN: 17483387     EISSN: 17483395     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nnano.2010.281     Document Type: Article

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