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C60-Fullerenes: detection of intracellular photoluminescence and lack of cytotoxic effects

Nicole Levi1,2 email, Roy R Hantgan3 email, Mark O Lively3 email, David L Carroll1 email and Gaddamanugu L Prasad4 email

Center for Nanotechnology and Molecular Materials and Department of Physics, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC 27105, USA

Virginia Tech and Wake Forest University School of Biomedical Engineering and Sciences, Winston-Salem, NC 27105, USA

Department of Biochemistry, Wake Forest University Health Sciences, Winston-Salem, NC 27157, USA

Department of General Surgery, Wake Forest University Health Sciences, Winston-Salem, NC 27157, USA

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Journal of Nanobiotechnology 2006, 4:14doi:10.1186/1477-3155-4-14

Published: 14 December 2006

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Effect of methanol C60 on the proliferation of cultured cells. MDA MB 435 breast carcinoma (A) and HepG2 liver carcinoma (B) cells were cultured under control or in the presence of methanol C60 (0.2 mg/ml) and cell proliferation was measured as described in the legend for Figure 4A and 4B.

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