The in vitro and in vivo toxicity of graphene quantum dots

Biomaterials

Volumn 35, Issue 19, 2014, Pages 5041-5048

  Chong, Yu ^a,b   Ma, Yufei ^a   Shen, He ^a   Tu, Xiaolong ^a   Zhou, Xuan ^a   Xu, Jiaying ^b   Dai, Jianwu ^a   Fan, Saijun ^b,c   Zhang, Zhijun ^a  

^a SUZHOU INSTITUTE OF NANO TECH AND NANO BIONICS   (China)

^b MEDICAL COLLEGE OF SOOCHOW UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c INSTITUTE OF RADIATION MEDICINE   (China)

Author keywords

Biocompatibility; Cytotoxicity; Graphene quantum dots; In vitro test; In vivo test

Indexed keywords

BIOCOMPATIBILITY; CHEMICAL STABILITY; CYTOTOXICITY; GRAPHENE; MAMMALS; MEDICAL APPLICATIONS; NANOCRYSTALS; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS; TOXICITY;

AQUEOUS STABILITY; BIOMEDICAL APPLICATIONS; DRUG ADMINISTRATION; HIGH ADSORPTION CAPACITY; IN-VITRO TESTS; IN-VIVO TESTS; INTRINSIC FLUORESCENCE; LOW CYTOTOXICITIES;

GRAPHENE QUANTUM DOTS;

GRAPHENE; HEMOGLOBIN; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE; QUANTUM DOT; GRAPHITE; MACROGOL DERIVATIVE;

ADSORPTION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; BIOCOMPATIBILITY; BIOSAFETY; BODY WEIGHT; CELL VIABILITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOTOXICITY; ERYTHROCYTE; HELA CELL; HEMATOCRIT; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; KIDNEY CLEARANCE; MEAN CORPUSCULAR HEMOGLOBIN; MEAN CORPUSCULAR VOLUME; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; TOXICITY TESTING; ANIMAL; BAGG ALBINO MOUSE; CELL SURVIVAL; CHEMISTRY; DRUG EFFECTS; FEMALE; HELA CELL LINE; METABOLISM; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; OXIDATIVE STRESS; TUMOR CELL LINE;

MUS;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; CELL LINE, TUMOR; CELL SURVIVAL; FEMALE; GRAPHITE; HELA CELLS; HUMANS; L-LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; OXIDATIVE STRESS; POLYETHYLENE GLYCOLS; QUANTUM DOTS;

EID: 84898449626     PISSN: 01429612     EISSN: 18785905     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biomaterials.2014.03.021     Document Type: Article

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