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Bioimpacts. 2016;6(3): 135-147. doi: 10.15171/bi.2016.20
PMID: 27853677        PMCID: PMC5108986

Original Research

Reduced graphene oxide decorated with gold nanoparticle as signal amplification element on ultra-sensitive electrochemiluminescence determination of caspase-3 activity and apoptosis using peptide based biosensor

Balal Khalilzadeh 1, Nasrin Shadjou 2, Hadi Afsharan 1, Morteza Eskandani 1, Hojjatollah Nozad Charoudeh 3,4, Mohammad-Reza Rashidi 1,5 *

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