Could gold nanoprobes be an important tool in cancer diagnostics?

Expert Review of Molecular Diagnostics

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 541-543

  Baptista, Pedro Viana ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDADE NOVA DE LISBOA   (Portugal)

Author keywords

cancer; gold nanoparticles; gold nanoprobes; nanodiagnostics; nanotechnology

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; GOLD NANOPARTICLE; GOLD NANOPROBE; PROSTATE SPECIFIC ANTIGEN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER STAGING; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; EX VIVO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; NANODEVICE; NANOPROBE; NANOTECHNOLOGY; REVIEW; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; TUMOR CELL; TUMOR LOCALIZATION;

EARLY DETECTION OF CANCER; GOLD; HUMANS; METAL NANOPARTICLES; NANOTECHNOLOGY; NEOPLASMS;

EID: 84864580626     PISSN: 14737159     EISSN: 17448352     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1586/erm.12.50     Document Type: Review

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