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Selective killing of cancer cells by nanoparticle-assisted ultrasound

BACKGROUND: Intense ultrasound, such as that used for tumor ablation, does not differentiate between cancerous and normal cells. A method combining ultrasound and biocompatible gold or magnetic nanoparticles (NPs) was developed under in vitro conditions using human breast and lung epithelial cells,...

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Autores principales: Kosheleva, Olga K., Lai, Tsung-Ching, Chen, Nelson G., Hsiao, Michael, Chen, Chung-Hsuan
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4906686/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27301243
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12951-016-0194-9