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Facile synthesis of highly uniform selenium nanoparticles using glucose as the reductant and surface decorator to induce cancer cell apoptosis

2016; Royal Society of Chemistry; Volume: 4; Issue: 13 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1039/c5tb02710a

2050-7518

Tianqi Nie, Hualian Wu, Ka‐Hing Wong, Tianfeng Chen,

Carbon and Quantum Dots Applications

Herein, we demonstrated a new and facial synthesis of highly uniformed SeNPs using glucose as the reductant and surface decorator. Glu–SeNPs induced cancer cell apoptosis via induction of apoptosis by triggering intracellular ROS overproduction and mitochondrial dysfunction.