Strain Release in Organic Photonic Nanoparticles for Protease Sensing

Proteases are overexpressed in most cancers and proteolytic activity has been shown to be a viable marker for cancer imaging in vivo. Herein, we describe the synthesis of luminescence-quenched shell cross-linked nanoparticles as photonic nanoprobes for protease sensing. Protease sensing scheme is ba...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Cordovilla, Carlos, Swager, Timothy Manning
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Chemistry
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: American Chemical Society 2013
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/78310