Tumor microvasculature targeting with dendrimer-entrapped gold nanoparticles.

Shukla, Rameshwer; Hill, Elliott; Shi, Xiangyang; Kim, Jinkoo; Muniz, Maria C; Sun, Kai; Baker, James R · Soft Matter · 2008

basic_science · Level V

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Abstract

Monodisperse dendrimer-entrapped gold nanoparticles (diameter = 3.0 nm) were prepared using G5 poly(amidoamine) (PAMAM) dendrimer functionalized with fluorescein isothiocyanate (FI) and Arg-Gly-Asp (RGD) peptide as template; in vitro targeting efficacy to integrin receptor expressing cells was confirmed by flow cytometry, confocal microscopy, and ICP-MS.