Comet assay assessment of oleic acid-coated magnetite nanoparticles on human SHSY5Y neuronal cells

Superparamagnetic iron oxide nanoparticles (ION) have a wide range of potential applications. Among them, the most important uses in biology and medicine are as contrast agents in magnetic resonance imaging, as carriers for drug delivery or transfection and as therapeutic agents in cancer therapy by...

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Main Authors: Joao Paulo Teixeira, Blanca Laffon
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2015-05-01
Series:Frontiers in Genetics
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/conf.fgene.2015.01.00026/full