Azo-Based Iridium(III) Complexes as Multicolor Phosphorescent Probes to Detect Hypoxia in 3D Multicellular Tumor Spheroids

Scientific Reports

Volumn 5, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Sun, Lingli ^a   Li, Guanying ^a   Chen, Xiang ^a   Chen, Yu ^a   Jin, Chengzhi ^a   Ji, Liangnian ^a   Chao, Hui ^a  

^a SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLUORESCENT DYE; IRIDIUM;

ANIMAL; CELL SURVIVAL; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; HUMAN; HYPOXIA; METABOLISM; MICROSOME; MOLECULAR IMAGING; MULTICELLULAR SPHEROID; NEOPLASM; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; PROCEDURES; RAT; TUMOR CELL CULTURE;

ANIMALS; CELL SURVIVAL; FLUORESCENT DYES; HUMANS; HYPOXIA; IRIDIUM; MICROSOMES; MOLECULAR CONFORMATION; MOLECULAR IMAGING; NEOPLASMS; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; RATS; SPHEROIDS, CELLULAR; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED;

EID: 84943163546     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep14837     Document Type: Article

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