Unit-Emitting Carbon Dots for Cell Imaging and Lipid Droplet Quantification
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Materials and Methods
2.1. Reagents
2.2. Apparatus and Measurements
2.3. C-Dot Fabrication and Separation
2.4. Cell Culture
2.5. Cytotoxicity Assay
2.6. Subcellular Localization
2.7. Cell Stimulation
3. Results and Discussion
4. Conclusions
Supplementary Materials
Author Contributions
Funding
Informed Consent Statement
Data Availability Statement
Conflicts of Interest
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Xu, Y.; Xia, Y. Unit-Emitting Carbon Dots for Cell Imaging and Lipid Droplet Quantification. Targets 2024, 2, 126-136. https://doi.org/10.3390/targets2020008
Xu Y, Xia Y. Unit-Emitting Carbon Dots for Cell Imaging and Lipid Droplet Quantification. Targets. 2024; 2(2):126-136. https://doi.org/10.3390/targets2020008
Chicago/Turabian StyleXu, Yanli, and Yunsheng Xia. 2024. "Unit-Emitting Carbon Dots for Cell Imaging and Lipid Droplet Quantification" Targets 2, no. 2: 126-136. https://doi.org/10.3390/targets2020008
APA StyleXu, Y., & Xia, Y. (2024). Unit-Emitting Carbon Dots for Cell Imaging and Lipid Droplet Quantification. Targets, 2(2), 126-136. https://doi.org/10.3390/targets2020008