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Growing gold nanostructures for shape-selective cellular uptake.

Sulalit Bandyopadhyay1, Birgitte H McDonagh2, Gurvinder Singh3

  • 1Ugelstad Laboratory, Department of Chemical Engineering, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), N-7491, Trondheim, Norway. sulalit.bandyopadhyay@ntnu.no.

Nanoscale Research Letters
|August 30, 2018
PubMed
Summary

Gold nanostructures (NSs) interact differently with cancer cells. Researchers found that the shape of gold nanostructures, particularly the novel nanomakura, significantly influences their cellular uptake mechanisms in glioblastoma cells.

Keywords:
CytotoxicityDrug deliveryEndocytosisGlioblastoma-astrocytomaLSPRNanomedicineTEM

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