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. 2017 Jul 1;5(3):38. doi: 10.3390/biomedicines5030038

Figure 1.

Figure 1

Depicting the cytotoxic impact of gold nanoparticles on tumor cells. This picture represents three of the major mechanism of cytotoxicity conferred by gold nanoparticles-photothermal damage, mechanical damage and drug delivery. Gold nanoparticles (GNPs) are referred as AuNPs here.