Chapter title |
Semiconductor fluorescent quantum dots: efficient biolabels in cancer diagnostics.
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Chapter number | 27 |
Book title |
Micro and Nano Technologies in Bioanalysis
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Published in |
Methods in molecular biology, June 2009
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DOI | 10.1007/978-1-59745-483-4_27 |
Pubmed ID | |
Book ISBNs |
978-1-934115-40-4, 978-1-59745-483-4
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Authors |
Farias PM, Santos BS, Fontes A, Patricia M. A. Farias, Beate S. Santos, Adriana Fontes |
Abstract |
We present and discuss results and features related to the synthesis of water-soluble semiconductor quantum dots and their application as fluorescent biomarkers in cancer diagnostics. We have prepared and applied different core-shell quantum dots, such as cadmium telluride-cadmium sulfide, CdTe-CdS, and cadmium sulfide-cadmium hydroxide, CdS/Cd(OH)(2), in living healthy and neoplastic cells and tissues samples. The CdS/Cd(OH)(2) quantum dots presented the best results, maintaining high levels of luminescence as well as high photostability in cells and tissues. Labeled tissues and cells were analyzed by their resulting fluorescence, via conventional fluorescence microscopy or via laser scanning confocal microscopy. The procedure presented in this work was shown to be efficient as a potential tool for fast and precise cancer diagnostics. |
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