Effective cellular internalization of silica-coated CdSe quantum dots for high contrast cancer imaging and labelling applications

Cancer Nanotechnology

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 1-12

  Vibin, Muthunayagam ^a   Vinayakan, Ramachandran ^b   John, Annie ^c   Fernandez, Francis Boniface ^c   Abraham, Annie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KERALA   (India)

^b REGIONAL RESEARCH LABORATORY CSIR   (India)

^c SREE CHITRA TIRUNAL INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

Cellular imaging; Fluorescence; Internalization; Quantum dots; Stem cells; Ultrathin

Indexed keywords

CADMIUM SELENIDE; FLUORESCENT DYE; QUANTUM DOT; SILICA COATED CADMIUM SELENIDE QUANTUM DOT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ATOMIC EMISSION SPECTROMETRY; CELL TRACKING; CONFOCAL LASER MICROSCOPY; FLUORESCENCE IMAGING; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; HELA CELL LINE; HIGH CONTRAST CANCER IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMAGING; INTERNALIZATION; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT; SOLID TUMOR; STEM CELL; TUMOR VOLUME;

EID: 84931467745     PISSN: 18686958     EISSN: 18686966     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12645-014-0001-y     Document Type: Article

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