Nanomedicine: Nanotechnology, Biology and Medicine
Volume 3, Issue 4 , Pages 266-272 , December 2007

Rhodamine B isothiocyanate doped silica-coated fluorescent nanoparticles (RBITC-DSFNPs)–based bioprobes conjugated to Annexin V for apoptosis detection and imaging

Received 19 April 2007 ,Accepted 27 August 2007.

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 No conflict of interest was reported by the authors of this article.

 This work was partially supported by the National Key Basic Research Program (2002CB513100-10), Key Project Foundation of China Education Ministry (107084), Key Project of International Technologies Collaboration Program of China (2003DF000039), Program for New Century Excellent Talents in University (NCET-06-0697), National Science Foundation of P.R.China (90606003, 20405005) and Outstanding Youth Foundation of Hunan Province (06JJ10004).

PII: S1549-9634(07)00121-9

doi: 10.1016/j.nano.2007.08.004

Nanomedicine: Nanotechnology, Biology and Medicine
Volume 3, Issue 4 , Pages 266-272 , December 2007