Autometallographic tracing of quantum dots.
A short clarifying view of how semiconductor quantum dots (QDs) can be made visible in tissue sections by autometallographic (AMG) silver enhancement and how the introduction of AMG enhanceable gold nanoparticles into isolated cells can be used to follow the fate of these marked cells in organisms and cell cultures. As the AMG approach for visualizing quantum dots is extremely sensitive, QDs less than one nanometer can be made visible at both LM and EM levels.
Stoltenberg
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Department of Neurobiology, Institute of Anatomy, University of Aarhus, Aarhus C, Denmark. ms@neuro.au.dk
Larsen
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A
Doering
P
P
Sadauskas
E
E
Locht
L J
LJ
Danscher
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G
D000818:Animals; D001345:Autoradiography / Q000379:methods*; D002478:Cells, Cultured; D005260:Female; D006046:Gold; D008264:Macrophages / Q000648:ultrastructure; D051379:Mice; D008807:Mice, Inbred BALB C; D008856:Microscopy, Fluorescence; D053758:Nanoparticles; D045663:Quantum Dots
D006046:Gold