Fig. 4From: Photo-thermal effect enhances the efficiency of radiotherapy using Arg-Gly-Asp peptides-conjugated gold nanorods that target αvβ3 in melanoma cancer cellsRadiosensitizing effect by RGD-GNRs and/or NIR. A375 cells were exposed with DMEM (control group), NIR, RGD-GNRs (50 μg/ml) or RGD-GNRs + NIR for 1 h, then irradiated at 0–8 Gy with 6MV-X ray. Cells were trypsinized, counted, and seeded at different dilutions. Colonies of 0.50 cells were counted approximately 2 weeks after treatment.Back to article page