Gold nanorods enhance different immune cells and allow for efficient targeting of CD4+ Foxp3+ Tregulatory cells

• Ingrid Safina,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Center for Integrative Nanotechnology Sciences, University of Arkansas at Little Rock, Little Rock, AR, United States of America

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• Zeid A. Nima Al Sudani,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Center for Integrative Nanotechnology Sciences, University of Arkansas at Little Rock, Little Rock, AR, United States of America

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• Ahmed Hashoosh,

  Roles Data curation

  Affiliation Center for Integrative Nanotechnology Sciences, University of Arkansas at Little Rock, Little Rock, AR, United States of America

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• Emilie Darrigues,

  Roles Data curation

  Affiliation Center for Integrative Nanotechnology Sciences, University of Arkansas at Little Rock, Little Rock, AR, United States of America

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• Fumiya Watanabe,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Center for Integrative Nanotechnology Sciences, University of Arkansas at Little Rock, Little Rock, AR, United States of America

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• Alexandru S. Biris,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Center for Integrative Nanotechnology Sciences, University of Arkansas at Little Rock, Little Rock, AR, United States of America

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• Ruud P. M. Dings,

  Roles Investigation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Radiation Oncology, Phillips Classic Laser and Nanomedicine Laboratories, Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, AR, United States of America

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• Kieng Bao Vang

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: kbvangdings@ualr.edu

  Affiliation Center for Integrative Nanotechnology Sciences, University of Arkansas at Little Rock, Little Rock, AR, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2892-1114

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