Controlled intracellular self-assembly of gadolinium nanoparticles as smart molecular MR contrast agents

Scientific Reports

Volumn 3, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Cao, Chun Yan ^a   Shen, Ying Ying ^b   Wang, Jian Dong ^c   Li, Li ^b   Liang, Gao Lin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^b SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY CANCER CENTER   (China)

^c MEDICAL SCHOOL OF NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTRAST MEDIUM; DIAGNOSTIC AGENT; EUROPIUM; FURIN; GADOLINIUM; METAL NANOPARTICLE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; DIMERIZATION; HUMAN; METABOLISM; MOUSE; NEOPLASM; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUDE MOUSE; RADIOGRAPHY; SYNTHESIS; TUMOR CELL LINE; ULTRASTRUCTURE; XENOGRAFT;

ANIMALS; CELL LINE, TUMOR; CONTRAST MEDIA; DIMERIZATION; EUROPIUM; FURIN; GADOLINIUM; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; METAL NANOPARTICLES; MICE; MICE, NUDE; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; NEOPLASMS; TRANSPLANTATION, HETEROLOGOUS;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84872719911     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep01024     Document Type: Article

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