Magnetic force microscopy: Quantitative issues in biomaterials

BioMatter

Volumn 4, Issue 6, 2014, Pages

  Passeri, Daniele ^a   Dong, Chunhua ^a   Reggente, Melania ^a   Angeloni, Livia ^a,b   Barteri, Mario ^a   Scaramuzzo, Francesca A ^a   de Angelis, Francesca ^a,c   Marinelli, Fiorenzo ^d   Antonelli, Flavia ^a   Rinaldi, Federica ^a   Marianecci, Carlotta ^a   Carafa, Maria ^a   Sorbo, Angela ^e   Sordi, Daniela ^f   Arends, Isabel W C E ^f   Rossi, Marco ^a  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

^c ISTITUTO ITALIANO DI TECNOLOGIA   (Italy)

^d CNR   (Italy)

^e ISTITUTO SUPERIORE DI SANITÀ   (Italy)

^f DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Cell labelling; Drug delivery; Ferritin; Folic acid receptor; Leukemia cell; Magnetic force microscopy; Magnetic nanoparticle; Magnetoferritin; Niosome; Vesicle

Indexed keywords

APOFERRITIN; BIOMATERIAL; FERRITIN; FOLATE RECEPTOR; FOLIC ACID; MAGNETIC NANOPARTICLE; MAGNETOFERRITIN; NANOCARRIER; NIOSOME; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; CELL LABELING; CELL MEMBRANE; CELL TRANSPORT; COMPUTER MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DRUG DELIVERY SYSTEM; IN VITRO STUDY; LEUKEMIA CELL; MAGNETIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; NONHUMAN; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS;

EID: 85058968607     PISSN: 21592527     EISSN: 21592535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4161/biom.29507     Document Type: Article

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