Nanomedicine: Nanotechnology, Biology and Medicine
Volume 5, Issue 1 , Pages 21-29 , March 2009

Anti-glycation activity of gold nanoparticles

  • Santiswarup Singha, MSc

      Affiliations

    • Department of Biochemistry, Calcutta University, Kolkata, India
    • ,
  • Jaydeep Bhattacharya, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Biochemistry, Calcutta University, Kolkata, India
    • ,
  • Himadri Datta, MS, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Regional Institute of Ophthalmology, Calcutta Medical College, Kolkata, India
    • ,
  • Anjan Kumar Dasgupta, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Biochemistry, Calcutta University, Kolkata, India
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Calcutta University, Kolkata, WB 700019, India.

Received 11 March 2008 ,Accepted 7 June 2008.

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 Sources of support include Grant No. BT/PR9953/MNT/28/73/2007, Department of Biotechnology (DBT), Government of India.

PII: S1549-9634(08)00090-7

doi: 10.1016/j.nano.2008.06.005

Nanomedicine: Nanotechnology, Biology and Medicine
Volume 5, Issue 1 , Pages 21-29 , March 2009

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