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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Oct 21.
Published in final edited form as: J Nanosci Nanotechnol. 2009 Aug;9(8):4996–5007. doi: 10.1166/jnn.2009.gr02

Figure 13.

Figure 13

Concept of differential adsorption for NP (corona formation) stating that physicochemical properties of NPs and the milieu at the portal-of-entry alter NP surface properties and determine their fate with respect to translocation to secondary organs and cell entry. (Modified from Müller and Heinemann, 1989 as referenced in Müller and Keck, 2004).