FIGURE 3.
In vitro cellular uptake and drug detention studies in a co-cultured system. (A) Cell uptake model of BEL-7402 and LX-2 cells. (B) Drug retention assay model. CLSM images of BEL-7402 cells (C) and LX-2 cells (D) treated with C6/Lip, C6/GA-Lip, and C6/GA-HA-Lip at 2 h, where the nuclei were labeled with DAPI (blue) and Lip were labeled with C6 (green); scale bars represent 50 μm. (E) Confocal microscopy and (F) quantitative analysis of drug retention were used to detect drug retention at 4, 12, and 24 h; scale bar represents 50 µm.