Spontaneous confocal Raman microscopy-a tool to study the uptake of nanoparticles and carbon nanotubes into cells

Nanoscale Research Letters

Volumn 6, Issue , 2011, Pages 1-4

  Romero, Gabriela ^a   Rojas, Elena ^a   Estrela Lopis, Irina ^b   Donath, Edwin ^b   Moya, Sergio Enrique ^a  

^a CIC BIOMAGUNE   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELLULAR ENVIRONMENT; CONFOCAL RAMAN; CONFOCAL RAMAN MICROSCOPY; HEPATOCARCINOMA; HEPG2 CELLS; LABEL-FREE TECHNIQUES; LIPID BODIES; NANOMATERIAL; POLY-LACTIDE-CO-GLYCOLIDE; RAMAN BANDS; SIMULTANEOUS GENERATION;

CARBON NANOTUBES; CYTOLOGY; NANOPARTICLES; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; NUCLEIC ACIDS; RAMAN SCATTERING;

CELLS;

EID: 84856039641     PISSN: 19317573     EISSN: 1556276X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1556-276X-6-429     Document Type: Article

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