Uptake of nanoparticles by cells: Do you know their number?

Nanomedicine

Volumn 6, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 1149-1151

  Mühlfeld, Christian ^b   Brandenberger, Christina ^a  

^a NewYork Presbyterian Hospital   (United States)

^b JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GOLD NANOPARTICLE; NANOPARTICLE; TITANIUM DIOXIDE;

CELL COUNT; CELL FRACTIONATION; CELL ORGANELLE; CELL SIZE; CELL STRUCTURE; CELL TRANSPORT; CELL VACUOLE; CELL VOLUME; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; DESIGN BASED STEREOLOGY; DRUG UPTAKE; ELECTRON TOMOGRAPHY; ENDOCYTOSIS; HUMAN; IMMUNOGOLD LABELING; LETTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROENTGEN SPECTROSCOPY; STEREOLOGY; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

ANIMALS; FIBROBLASTS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; NANOPARTICLES;

EID: 80053096649     PISSN: 17435889     EISSN: 17486963     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2217/nnm.11.118     Document Type: Letter

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