CdSe/CdS semiconductor quantum rods as robust fluorescent probes for paraffin-embedded tissue imaging

IEEE Transactions on Nanobioscience

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 209-215

  Zacheo, Antonella ^a   Quarta, Alessandra ^a   Mangoni, Antonella ^b   Pompa, Pier Paolo ^c   Mastria, Rosanna ^a   Capogrossi, Maurizio C ^b   Rinaldi, Ross ^a   Pellegrino, Teresa ^a,c  

^a NATIONAL NANOTECHNOLOGY LABORATORY   (Italy)

^b LABORATORIO DI PATOLOGIA VASCOLARE   (Italy)

^c ISTITUTO ITALIANO DI TECNOLOGIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Biomedical optical imaging; nanobioscience; nanocrystals; semiconductor nanostructures

Indexed keywords

BACKGROUND SIGNALS; BIOMEDICAL OPTICAL IMAGING; CDSE/CDS; CDSE/ZNS QUANTUM DOTS; FLUORESCENCE SIGNALS; FLUORESCENT PROBES; FUNCTIONALIZED; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE TECHNIQUES; IN-VIVO; LABELED CELLS; NANOBIOSCIENCES; SEMICONDUCTOR NANOCRYSTALS; SEMICONDUCTOR NANOSTRUCTURES; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM RODS; TISSUE IMAGING; TISSUE SECTIONS; TISSUE SPECIMENS;

CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; FLUORESCENCE; FORMALDEHYDE; MAMMALS; NANOCRYSTALS; PARAFFIN WAXES; PARAFFINS; TISSUE;

SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS;

MUS;

CADMIUM DERIVATIVE; CADMIUM SELENIDE; CADMIUM SULFIDE; FLUORESCENT DYE; MACROGOL DERIVATIVE; NANOPARTICLE; PARAFFIN; SELENIUM DERIVATIVE; SULFIDE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; C57BL MOUSE; CHEMISTRY; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; INTRAMUSCULAR DRUG ADMINISTRATION; LUMINESCENCE; MALE; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; MOUSE; SEMICONDUCTOR; SKELETAL MUSCLE; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; CADMIUM COMPOUNDS; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FLUORESCENT DYES; INJECTIONS, INTRAMUSCULAR; LUMINESCENCE; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; NANOPARTICLES; PARAFFIN EMBEDDING; POLYETHYLENE GLYCOLS; SELENIUM COMPOUNDS; SEMICONDUCTORS; SULFIDES;

EID: 80054957573     PISSN: 15361241     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNB.2011.2166404     Document Type: Article

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