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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Jul 20.
Published in final edited form as: ACS Nano. 2017 Mar 27;11(4):3716–3726. doi: 10.1021/acsnano.6b08345

Figure 3.

Figure 3

Effect of AuNPs (2.5 nM AuNRs@NLS and 0.1 nM AuNSs@NLS if not mentioned) on motility and invasion of HEY A8 cells. Cell migration study was performed to determine the effects of both AuNRs@NLS and AuNSs@NLS (a), and AuNRs@BSA (5 nM) and AuNSs@ BSA (0.1 nM) (b) on the HEY A8 cells motility (error bar ± SEM, n = 2). (c) Scratch assay of cells incubated with AuNRs@NLS and AuNSs@ NLS displayed arrested healing/closing of the scratch (representative pictures from 3 repeated experiments). (d) Invasion assay of cells without AuNPs or with AuNRs@NLS and AuNSs@NLS treatment (error bar ± SD, n = 3). *P < 0.05, **P < 0.01, ***P < 0.001.