Fig. 10From: Evaluating the antimicrobial, apoptotic, and cancer cell gene delivery properties of protein-capped gold nanoparticles synthesized from the edible mycorrhizal fungus Tricholoma crassumGene delivery using AuNPs into Sarcoma 180 cancer cells and hemolysis assay with human erythrocytes; fluorescence microscopic image of a cancer cells expressing green fluorescence protein after uptake of DNA-AuNP complex and b control cells treated with free plasmid DNA (bars = 20 μm). c Percentage hemolysis with different dilutions of AuNPs. Data represents means ± SE of three replicates. Different letters indicate statistically significant differences among the samples (P < 0.05, Tukey’s HSD test)Back to article page