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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Sep 6.
Published in final edited form as: ACS Biomater Sci Eng. 2018 Nov 5;4(12):4255–4265. doi: 10.1021/acsbiomaterials.8b01062

Table 1.

Materials Used

NP/MP type sizes description
gold 5, 10, 20 nm Nanocs (New York, NY) fluorescently labeled gold NPs fluorophore (ex/em): Alexa Fluor 488 (491/515 nm)
polystyrene 20, 50, 100, 200 nm Phosphorex (Hopkinton, MA) fluorescent poly(styrene) NPs size: 20 (–COOH modified), 50, 100, 200 nm
stabilized with Tween-20
fluorophore (ex/em): proprietary (460/500 nm); spectrum available via www.degradex.com
liposomes 100, 200 nm unilamellar liposomes synthesized from egg L-α-lysophosphatidyl-choline (Egg PC), egg sphingomyelin (Egg SM) and ovine wool cholesterol (Chol) (all from Avanti Polar Lipids [Alabaster, AL]) using a previously established protocol51
fluorophore (ex/em): TOPFLUOR BODIPY-conjugated cholesterol (495/507 nm) at 2.5% by mass
PLGA 1–3 μm PLGA particles were synthesized using a single-emulsion evaporation technique according to a previously published protocol52
PLGA-HSA 1–3 μm stabilized with poly(vinyl alcohol)
HSA was passively adsorbed onto PLGA-HSA MPs fluorophore (ex/em): FITC (491/515 nm)