Functionalized multiwalled carbon nanotubes as ultrasound contrast agents

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 109, Issue 41, 2012, Pages 16612-16617

  Delogu, Lucia Gemma ^a   Vidili, Gianpaolo ^a   Venturelli, Enrica ^b   Ménard Moyon, Cécilia ^b   Zoroddu, Maria Antonietta ^a   Pilo, Giovannantonio ^c   Nicolussi, Paola ^c   Ligios, Ciriaco ^c   Bedognetti, Davide ^d,e   Sgarrella, Francesco ^a   Manetti, Roberto ^a   Bianco, Alberto ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SASSARI   (Italy)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c ISTITUTO ZOOPROFILATTICO SPERIMENTALE DELLA SARDEGNA   (Italy)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Biocompatibility; Echography; Nanobiotechnology; Nanomaterials; Nanomedicine

Indexed keywords

ECHO CONTRAST MEDIUM; GRAPHENE OXIDE; MULTI WALLED NANOTUBE; SINGLE WALLED NANOTUBE; SONOVUE; SULFUR HEXAFLUORIDE;

ABDOMEN; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BLADDER; BLOOD CELL COUNT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DRUG ELIMINATION; DRUG URINE LEVEL; ECHOGRAPHY; EX VIVO STUDY; FEMALE; HEART; HISTOLOGY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; LIVER; NONHUMAN; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; SWINE; ULTRASOUND;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, CD; ANTIGENS, CD3; ANTIGENS, CD79; ANTIGENS, DIFFERENTIATION, MYELOMONOCYTIC; CONTRAST MEDIA; FEMALE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; KIDNEY; LIVER; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; NANOTECHNOLOGY; NANOTUBES, CARBON; RECEPTORS, CELL SURFACE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SULFUR HEXAFLUORIDE; SUS SCROFA; ULTRASONOGRAPHY; URINARY BLADDER;

EID: 84867363425     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1208312109     Document Type: Article

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