Polyethylene glycol-modified dendrimer-entrapped gold nanoparticles enhance CT imaging of blood pool in atherosclerotic mice

Nanoscale Research Letters

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Ye, Kaichuang ^a   Qin, Jinbao ^a   Peng, Zhiyou ^a   Yang, Xinrui ^a   Huang, Lijia ^a   Yuan, Fukang ^a   Peng, Chen ^b   Jiang, Mier ^a,c   Lu, Xinwu ^a,c  

^a SHANGHAI SECOND MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b TENTH PEOPLE S HOSPITAL OF TONGJI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Atherosclerosis; Computed tomography imaging; Dendrimers; Gold nanoparticles; Macrophages

Indexed keywords

BIOCOMPATIBILITY; DENDRIMERS; DISEASES; FIBER OPTIC SENSORS; GOLD NANOPARTICLES; HIGH RESOLUTION TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; MACROPHAGES; MAMMALS; METAL NANOPARTICLES; POLYETHYLENE GLYCOLS; POLYETHYLENES;

APOLIPOPROTEIN E; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CONTRAST AGENT; FLOW CYTOMETRY ASSAYS; MURINE MACROPHAGES; PEG MONOMETHYL ETHER; POLYAMIDOAMINE DENDRIMERS; SILVER STAINING;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

MURINAE; MUS;

EID: 84919884607     PISSN: 19317573     EISSN: 1556276X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1556-276X-9-529     Document Type: Article

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