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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Jan 21.
Published in final edited form as: Phys Med Biol. 2015 Jan 5;60(2):769–784. doi: 10.1088/0031-9155/60/2/769

Table 3.

Zeta potential and cellular uptake of 10 nm and 40 nm SPIONs before and after coating with poly(acrylic acid).

10 nm 40 nm
SPION-
COOH
SPION-
COOH-PAH
SPION-
COOH
SPION-
COOH-PAH
zeta potential (mV) −42 ± 3.1 54 ± 1.8 −27.2 ± 1.5 38 ± 2.9
mass of Fe taken up by 3 × 106 FOCUS cells (µg) 2.0 ± 0.06 34.4 ± 3.97 8.4 ± 0.19 38.2 ± 1.47