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Evolution of the nanoparticle corona

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Understanding how complement proteins bind to nanoparticles and participate in their surface 'corona' can provide further insight into the relevance of the protein corona concept in medicine.

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Figure 1: The evolution of the nanoparticle corona concept.
Figure 2: The ex vivo and in vivo NP corona.
Figure 3: The in vivo NP biomolecule corona and its potential applications in biomedicine.

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  1. Marilena Hadjidemetriou and Kostas Kostarelos are at the Nanomedicine Lab, Faculty of Biology, Medicine & Health and the National Graphene Institute, AV Hill Building, The University of Manchester, Manchester M13 9PT, UK,

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Hadjidemetriou, M., Kostarelos, K. Evolution of the nanoparticle corona. Nature Nanotech 12, 288–290 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1038/nnano.2017.61

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