Improved cellular specificity of plasmonic nanobubbles versus nanoparticles in heterogeneous cell systems.

The limited specificity of nanoparticle (NP) uptake by target cells associated with a disease is one of the principal challenges of nanomedicine. Using the threshold mechanism of plasmonic nanobubble (PNB) generation and enhanced accumulation and clustering of gold nanoparticles in target cells, we...

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Main Authors: Ekaterina Y Lukianova-Hleb, Xiaoyang Ren, Pamela E Constantinou, Brian P Danysh, Derek L Shenefelt, Daniel D Carson, Mary C Farach-Carson, Vladimir A Kulchitsky, Xiangwei Wu, Daniel S Wagner, Dmitri O Lapotko
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3317980?pdf=render