Carbon nanotube-mediated wireless cell permeabilization: Drug and gene uptake

Nanomedicine

Volumn 6, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 1709-1718

  Raffa, Vittoria ^a   Gherardini, Lisa ^b   Vittorio, Orazio ^a   Bardi, Giuseppe ^c   Ziaei, Afshin ^d   Pizzorusso, Tommaso ^b   Riggio, Cristina ^a   Nitodas, Stephanos ^e   Karachalios, Theodoros ^e   Al Jamal, Khuloud T ^f   Kostarelos, Kostas ^f   Costa, Mario ^b,g   Cuschieri, Alfred ^a  

^a SCUOLA SUPERIORE SANT ANNA   (Italy)

^b CNR   (Italy)

^c CENTER FOR NANOTECHNOLOGY INNOVATION NEST   (Italy)

^d THALES RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY   (France)

^e Nanothinx SA Rio Patras   (Greece)

^f UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^g SCUOLA NORMALE SUPERIORE   (Italy)

Author keywords

brain transfection; carbon nanotubes; cell permeabilization n electromagnetic field

Indexed keywords

DOXORUBICIN; MULTI WALLED NANOTUBE; PROTEIN BCL 2;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTENNA; ARTICLE; CELL NUCLEUS; CELL PERMEABILIZATION; CELL STRAIN 3T3; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG DISTRIBUTION; DRUG UPTAKE; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; FIBROBLAST; MOTOR CORTEX; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOFREQUENCY RADIATION;

ANIMALS; CELL MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; CELL SURVIVAL; CELLS, CULTURED; DOXORUBICIN; DRUG DELIVERY SYSTEMS; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; GENES, BCL-2; HUMANS; MICE; MICROWAVES; NANOTECHNOLOGY; NANOTUBES, CARBON; NIH 3T3 CELLS; PLASMIDS; TIME-LAPSE IMAGING; TRANSFECTION;

EID: 82455195084     PISSN: 17435889     EISSN: 17486963     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2217/nnm.11.62     Document Type: Article

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