Abstract
Near-infrared (NIR)-to-visible upconversion nanomaterials (UCNPs) used as biomedical nanoprobes have considerable advantages over the traditional used “downconversion” fluorescent dyes. Functionalized upconversion nanoparticles (UCNPs) represent high sensitivity and great biocompatibility. Cells labeled with these UCNPs can be tracked for long term in vivo. Here we describe UCNP-PEG-ARG for highly sensitive in vivo cell tracking.
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This work is supported by grants from the Program for Jiangsu Specially-Appointed Professors to C. W. This work is partly supported by Collaborative Innovation Center of Suzhou Nano Science and Technology, the Priority Academic Program Development of Jiangsu Higher Education Institutions (PAPD), the 111 Project.
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Shen, S., Wang, C. (2020). Upconversion Fluorescent Nanoprobe for Highly Sensitive In Vivo Cell Tracking. In: Basel, M., Bossmann, S. (eds) Cell Tracking. Methods in Molecular Biology, vol 2126. Humana, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-0716-0364-2_8
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