Self-Targeting Fluorescent Carbon Dots for Diagnosis of Brain Cancer Cells

ACS Nano

Volumn 9, Issue 11, 2015, Pages 11455-11461

  Zheng, Min ^a,b,c   Ruan, Shaobo ^d   Liu, Shi ^c   Sun, Tingting ^c,e   Qu, Dan ^b,e   Zhao, Haifeng ^b   Xie, Zhigang ^c   Gao, Huile ^d   Jing, Xiabin ^c   Sun, Zaicheng ^b,f  

^a CHANGCHUN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b CHANGCHUN INSTITUTE OF OPTICS   (China)

^c CHANGCHUN INSTITUTE OF APPLIED CHEMISTRY   (China)

^d SICHUAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^f BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

brain cancer glioma; carbon dots; diagnosis; full color emission; targeted imaging

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACIDS; BIOCOMPATIBILITY; DIAGNOSIS; DISEASES; FLUORESCENCE; GLUCOSE; MEDICAL NANOTECHNOLOGY;

BRAIN CANCER; CARBON DOTS; FLUORESCENCE IMAGING; FULL COLOR; TAIL VEIN INJECTIONS; TARGETED IMAGING; TARGETING MOLECULES; THERAPEUTIC FUNCTIONS;

TUMORS;

CARBON; QUANTUM DOT;

ANIMAL; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CHEMISTRY; FLUORESCENCE; GLIOMA; HIPPOCAMPUS; MOUSE; PATHOLOGY; TUMOR CELL LINE; X RAY PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY;

ANIMALS; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CARBON; CELL LINE, TUMOR; FLUORESCENCE; GLIOMA; HIPPOCAMPUS; MICE; PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY; QUANTUM DOTS;

EID: 84948403611     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.5b05575     Document Type: Article

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