Sizing and Phenotyping of Cellular Vesicles Using Nanoparticle Tracking Analysis

Overview

Journal Nanomedicine

Publisher Elsevier

Specialties Biomedical Engineering
Biotechnology

Date 2011 May 24

PMID 21601655

Citations 562

Authors

Rebecca A Dragovic

Christopher Gardiner

Alexandra S Brooks

Dionne S Tannetta

David J P Ferguson

Patrick Hole

Bob Carr

Christopher W G Redman

Adrian L Harris

Peter J Dobson

Paul Harrison

Ian L Sargent

Affiliations

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Abstract

From The Clinical Editor: The authors of this study utilized fluorescence nanoparticle tracking analysis (NTA) to rapidly size and phenotype cellular vesicles, demonstrating that NTA is far more sensitive than conventional flow cytometry.

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