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Preparation and Photoacoustic Analysis of Cellular Vehicles Containing Gold Nanorods
Published on: May 2, 2016
Preparation of primary amine-modified gold nanoparticles and their transfection ability into cultivated cells
Takuro Niidome1, Kanako Nakashima, Hironobu Takahashi
1Department of Materials Science, Graduate School of Science and Technology, Nagasaki University, Nagasaki, 852-8521, Japan. niidome-tcm@mbox.nc.kyushu-u.ac.jp
Abstract:
Cationic gold nanoparticles, prepared by reducing HAuCl(4) with NaBH(4) in the presence of 2-aminoethanethiol, formed a complex with plasmid DNA, and could be transfected into cultivated cells.

