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Nanosensors to Detect Protease Activity In Vivo for Noninvasive Diagnostics
Published on: July 16, 2018
Nanomaterials as in vivo sensors
Manswita Nag1, Anant Patel, N Madhusudhana Rao
1Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, (Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, India), Hyderabad 500007, India.
Journal of Biomedical Nanotechnology
|April 14, 2011
Abstract:
The methods of monitoring cellular processes are either snap-shots or based on in vitro measurements. Nanomaterials have specific advantages to be excellent probes to monitor in vivo processes. In this study we have demonstrated that attachment of neurotransmitter, serotonin to iron oxide nanoparticles brings about enhanced contrast in cells that express the receptor for serotonin specifically.

