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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Jul 14.
Published in final edited form as: Nano Lett. 2010 Jul 14;10(7):2543–2548. doi: 10.1021/nl101140t

Figure 4.

Figure 4

Effect of AuNPs on cellular proliferation vs. apoptosis. (A) Even brief (30 min) exposure of cells to +AuNPs substantially blunted the proliferation of human BECs, but did not affect the proliferation of ovarian cancer CP70 or A2780 cells. (B). Apoptosis of BEC by +AuNPs was concentration-dependent, and substantial. In contrast, some degree of apoptosis (< 10 %) of CP70 cells occurred only at a higher +AuNP concentration. (C) The viability of both BECs and ASM cells was substantially reduced by +AuNPs, with a concentration-dependence for ASM. * indicates significant effect (p<0.001)