Skip to main content
. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Apr 5.
Published in final edited form as: Biomaterials. 2012 Jun 9;33(26):6186–6193. doi: 10.1016/j.biomaterials.2012.05.029

Figure 5. Therapeutic monitoring of orthotopic colon tumors.

Figure 5

(a) Diagram of the general procedure (b) Representative colon images of AOM/DSS-induced orthotopic colon cancer models that were pre-treated or treated with saline, IRT or IRT-P-HA-NPs. Images acquired at 6 h after intravenous injection of Cy5.5-P-HA-NPs. White and red arrows indicate adenomas and adenocarcinomas, respectively. Quantitative results of (c) histological polyp examination and (d) tumor weight. Asterisk symbols (*) denote the statistically significant differences (*: p<0.05) calculated using the one-way ANOVA test. Error bars in a and b represent the standard deviations (n=6).

HHS Vulnerability Disclosure