Delayed parenchymal phase images of the liver more than 5 min after IV injection of
ultrasound contrast agents are thought to be related to the phagocytosis of contrast agent …

Aqueous droplets in oil that are coated with lipid monolayers and joined through interface
bilayers, are useful for biophysical measurements on membrane proteins,,,. Functional …

Kraft lignin (KL), the byproduct from the alkali pulping process in the paper industry, is an
abundant renewable resource. It was found that KL could be used to form nanocapsules via …

The mechanisms responsible for the clearance and recognition of intravenously injected
liposomes by phagocytic cells of the reticuloendothelial system are presently not well …

The interactions among serum components and cationic lipid–nucleic acid complexes are
central to the understanding of how serum inhibits cellular delivery of oligonucleotides in …

Background—Lipid microbubbles used for perfusion imaging with ultrasound are retained
within inflamed tissue because of complement-mediated attachment to leukocytes within …

The complement system, professional phagocytes and other cells such as Natural killer cells
and mast cells are among the important components of the innate arm of the immune …

Nanoparticle-based anticancer medications were first approved for cancer treatment almost
2 decades ago. Patients benefit from these approaches because of the targeted-drug …

One of the unmet challenges in nanotechnology is to understand and establish the
relationship between physicochemical properties of nanoparticles (NPs) and its biological …

The relationship between the time-dependent change in serum proteins adsorbed on
nanoparticles and their disposition to the liver was investigated by employing lecithin-coated …