Nanoparticles for multi-modality cancer diagnosis: Simple protocol for self-assembly of gold nanoclusters mediated by gadolinium ions

Biomaterials

Volumn 120, Issue , 2017, Pages 103-114

  Hou, Wenxiu ^a   Xia, Fangfang ^a   Alfranca, Gabriel ^a,c   Yan, Hao ^a   Zhi, Xiao ^a   Liu, Yanlei ^a   Peng, Chen ^b   Zhang, Chunlei ^a   de la Fuente, Jesus Martinez ^a,c   Cui, Daxiang ^a  

^a SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b TONGJI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ZARAGOZA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Assembly; Diagnosis; Gd3+ ions; Gold nanoclusters (GNCs); Multi modality imaging

Indexed keywords

ASSEMBLY; BIOCOMPATIBILITY; CHELATION; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSIS; DISEASES; GADOLINIUM; GOLD; INFRARED DEVICES; IONS; LUMINESCENCE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE; NANOPARTICLES; SELF ASSEMBLY; SOLUTIONS; TUMORS;

GADOLINIUM CHELATES; GOLD NANOCLUSTER; LUMINESCENCE INTENSITY; MULTI-MODALITY IMAGING; NEAR-INFRARED FLUORESCENCE; NEGATIVELY CHARGED; SPHERICAL NANOPARTICLES; SYNTHETIC STRATEGIES;

NANOCLUSTERS;

CARBOXYLIC ACID; CONTRAST MEDIUM; GADOLINIUM; GADOLINIUM CHELATE; GOLD NANOCLUSTERS INTO MONODISPERSE SPHERICAL NANOPARTICLE; NANOPARTICLE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; COLLOIDAL GOLD; GOLD; ION; METAL NANOPARTICLE; NANOCOMPOSITE;

A549 CELL LINE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; AQUEOUS SOLUTION; ARTICLE; BIOCOMPATIBILITY; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; COLLOID; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG USE; FEMALE; FLUORESCENCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; LUMINESCENCE; MALE; MOUSE; MULTIMODAL IMAGING; NEAR INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION ATTENUATION; STATIC ELECTRICITY; A-549 CELL LINE; ANIMAL; BAGG ALBINO MOUSE; CHEMISTRY; CRYSTALLIZATION; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; EXPERIMENTAL NEOPLASM; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INFRARED RADIATION; NUDE MOUSE; PATHOLOGY; PROCEDURES; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SYNTHESIS; ULTRASTRUCTURE; X-RAY COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY;

A549 CELLS; ANIMALS; CONTRAST MEDIA; CRYSTALLIZATION; FEMALE; GADOLINIUM; GOLD; GOLD COLLOID; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INFRARED RAYS; IONS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; METAL NANOPARTICLES; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICE, NUDE; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MULTIMODAL IMAGING; NANOCOMPOSITES; NEOPLASMS, EXPERIMENTAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 85007478624     PISSN: 01429612     EISSN: 18785905     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biomaterials.2016.12.027     Document Type: Article

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