Fluorescent Microscopy Images (IMAGE)

Institute for Basic Science

Fluorescent Microscopy Images

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The chemotherapeutic drug Doxorubicin (Dox, in red) was entrapped in AO1CB[7] vesicles and delivered to cervical cancer cells (HeLa cells). The image compares the location of Dox in the absence A) and presence B) of infra-red two-photon laser irradiation. In B) the drug is visible inside the nucleus (stained in blue), meaning that the vesicles were disrupted and the drug was able to reach the nucleus, where it fights the cancerous tumor with increased efficiency.

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