Tracking Nanoparticles in Three-Dimensional Tissue-Engineered Models Using Confocal Laser Scanning Microscopy

Methods in Molecular Biology

Volumn 695, Issue , 2011, Pages 41-51

  Hearnden, Vanessa ^a   MacNeil, Sheila ^a   Battaglia, Giuseppe ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Auto fluorescence; Co localisation; Confocal laser scanning microscopy; Diffusion; Nanoparticles; Polymersomes; Three dimensional tissue engineered epithelial models

Indexed keywords

FLUORESCENT DYE; NANOPARTICLE; POLYMER; RHODAMINE; TISSUE SCAFFOLD;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; DIFFUSION; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; SPECTROFLUOROMETRY; STAINING; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TISSUE ENGINEERING;

ANIMALS; DIFFUSION; FLUORESCENT DYES; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NANOPARTICLES; POLYMERS; RHODAMINES; SPECTROMETRY, FLUORESCENCE; STAINING AND LABELING; TISSUE ENGINEERING; TISSUE SCAFFOLDS;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 79952198416     PISSN: 10643745     EISSN: 19406029     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-60761-984-0_3     Document Type: Chapter

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