Magnetic nanoparticles as potential candidates for biomedical and biological applications

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Figure 1. Concept of magnetic drug targeting (Akbarzadeh et al. 2012, Faraji et al. 2010).

Figure 2. In magnetic force-based tissue engineering, magnetic nanoparticles are introduced into mammalian cells and their spatial position is controlled by a magnet. The shape of the magnet (planar or cylindrical), defines the layered or tubular morphology of the resulting tissue (Corchero et al. 2010).

Figure 3. Schematic representation of the magnetically-assisted separation of substances. In this particular case, a magnetic nanosphere to which an antibody has been anchored is dispersed in a liquid medium containing the antigen (substance to analyze) (Tartaj et al. 2003).

Figure 4. Schematic representation of a bioseparation process using MNPs as adsorbent (Santana 2011).

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