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. 2012 Summer;1(3):133–144.

Fig 1.

Fig 1

Nanoparticles can enter a cell either by simply crossing the plasma membrane, by endocytosis (A), receptor mediated endocytosis (B) or through absorptive pinocytosis mechanism (C), where a specific ligands are attached to nanoparticles enabling them to target cells with a specific receptor