TAT conjugated, FITC doped silica nanoparticles for bioimaging applications

Swadeshmukul Santra, Heesun Yang, Debamitra Dutta, Jessie T. Stanley, Paul H. Holloway, Weihong Tan, Brij M. Moudgil, Robert A. Mericle

Chemical Communications · 2004 · 256 citations · 20 references

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Abstract

Water-in-oil (w/o) microemulsion synthesis of 70 nm size monodisperse TAT (a cell penetrating peptide, CPP) conjugated, FITC (fluorescein isothiocyanate) doped silica nanoparticles (TAT-FSNPs) is reported; human lung adenocarcinoma (A549) cells (in vitro) and rat brain tissue (in vivo) were successfully labeled using TAT-FSNPs.

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