Nanoparticles in the Brain
| Title: | Nanoparticles in the Brain |
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| Description: |
Treating cancer in the brain is particularly difficult because most drug molecules are not small enough to penetrate the blood-brain barrier. Researchers wonder whether nanoparticles can serve as a drug-delivery mechanism. This image shows nanoparticles (red) being taken up in the brain of a live rat model with glioblastoma (in green). Nuclear DNA is in blue; tumor-associated macrophages in white. This image was originally submitted as part of the 2016 NCI Cancer Close Up project and selected for exhibit. |
| Topics/Categories: | Cancer Types -- Brain Cancer |
| Type: | Color, Photo (JPEG format) |
| Source: | National Cancer Institute \ Yale Cancer Center |
| Creator: | Eric Hoyeon Song, Alice Gaudin, W. Mark Saltzman |
| Date Created: | 2015 |
| Date Added: | April 11, 2016 |
| Reuse Restrictions: | None - This image is in the public domain and can be freely reused. Please credit the source and, where possible, the creator listed above. |