VEGFR targeting leads to significantly enhanced tumor uptake of nanographene oxide invivo

Biomaterials

Volumn 39, Issue , 2015, Pages 39-46

  Shi, Sixiang ^a   Yang, Kai ^b   Hong, Hao ^c   Chen, Feng ^c   Valdovinos, Hector F ^d   Goel, Shreya ^a   Barnhart, Todd E ^d   Liu, Zhuang ^b   Cai, Weibo ^a,c,d,e  

^a Wisconsin Electric Machines and Power Electronics Consortium   (United States)

^b SOOCHOW UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Graphene oxide (GO); Positron emission tomography (PET); Vasculature targeting; VEGF

Indexed keywords

ENDOTHELIAL CELLS; GRAPHENE; MEDICAL IMAGING; NANOCONJUGATES; TUMORS;

GRAPHENE OXIDES; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY (PET); TUMOR ACCUMULATION; TUMOR VASCULATURE TARGETING; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR; VASCULATURE; VEGF;

POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

GRAPHENE OXIDE; NANOCONJUGATE; NANOMATERIAL; VASCULOTROPIN 121; VASCULOTROPIN RECEPTOR; GRAPHITE; OXIDE;

ARTICLE; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; ONCOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; PHARMACOLOGY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; TUMOR ACCUMULATION; TUMOR UPTAKE; TUMOR VASCULARIZATION; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; DRUG STABILITY; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HUMAN; METABOLISM; MOUSE; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; THEORETICAL MODEL; TUMOR CELL LINE; UMBILICAL VEIN ENDOTHELIAL CELL;

ANIMALS; CELL LINE, TUMOR; DRUG STABILITY; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GRAPHITE; HUMAN UMBILICAL VEIN ENDOTHELIAL CELLS; HUMANS; MICE; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NANOCONJUGATES; OXIDES; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RECEPTORS, VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR;

EID: 84919468821     PISSN: 01429612     EISSN: 18785905     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biomaterials.2014.10.061     Document Type: Article

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