Bioconjugated pluronic triblock-copolymer micelle-encapsulated quantum dots for targeted imaging of cancer: In vitro and in vivo studies

Theranostics

Volumn 2, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 705-713

  Liu, Liwei ^a,b   Yong, Ken Tye ^c   Roy, Indrajit ^d   Law, Wing Cheung ^b   Ye, Ling ^e   Liu, Jianwei ^e   Liu, Jing ^e   Kumar, Rajiv ^b   Zhang, Xihe ^a   Prasad, Paras N ^a,b  

^a CHANGCHUN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^c NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^d UNIVERSITY OF DELHI   (India)

^e CHINESE PLA GENERAL HOSPITAL   (China)

Author keywords

Bioconjugation; Bioimaging; Pluronics and Nanotoxicity; Quantum dots; Targeted delivery

Indexed keywords

FOLATE RECEPTOR; FOLIC ACID; PLURONIC F127 TRIBLOCK COPOLYMER MICELLE QUANTUM DOT; POLOXAMER; QUANTUM DOT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOTOXICITY; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; MOUSE; NEOPLASM; NONHUMAN; TUMOR LOCALIZATION;

EID: 84864406605     PISSN: None     EISSN: 18387640     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7150/thno.3456     Document Type: Article

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