Nature Communications (Aug 2017)

Plasmonic silver nanoshells for drug and metabolite detection

  • Lin Huang,
  • Jingjing Wan,
  • Xiang Wei,
  • Yu Liu,
  • Jingyi Huang,
  • Xuming Sun,
  • Ru Zhang,
  • Deepanjali D. Gurav,
  • Vadanasundari Vedarethinam,
  • Yan Li,
  • Ruoping Chen,
  • Kun Qian

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-00220-4
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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Preparation of samples for diagnosis can affect the detection of biomarkers and metabolites. Here, the authors use a silver nanoparticle plasmonics approach for the detection of biomarkers in patients as well as investigate the distribution of drugs in serum and cerebral spinal fluid.