Quantification of nanoparticle uptake by cells using an unbiased sampling method and electron microscopy

Nanomedicine

Volumn 6, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 1189-1198

  Elsaesser, Andreas ^a   Barnes, Clifford A ^a   McKerr, George ^a   Salvati, Anna ^b   Lynch, Iseult ^b   Dawson, Kenneth A ^b   Howard, C Vyvyan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULSTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

3T3; cellular uptake; fractionator; gold nanoparticle; mouse fibroblast; nanoparticle; nanoparticle pathways; quantification; stereology; TEM

Indexed keywords

GOLD NANOPARTICLE;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL COUNT; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; FIBROBLAST CULTURE; FRACTIONATOR SAMPLING; IN VITRO STUDY; INTRACELLULAR SPACE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SAMPLING; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

3T3 CELLS; ANIMALS; CELL MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FIBROBLASTS; MICE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; NANOPARTICLES;

EID: 80053104814     PISSN: 17435889     EISSN: 17486963     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2217/nnm.11.70     Document Type: Article

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