Royal Society of Chemistry, Chemical Communications, 34(50), p. 4504, 2014
DOI: 10.1039/c4cc00144c
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Here we evaluated a series of Si-derivatized rhodamine (SiR) dyes for their ability to visualize a model drug in live cells. We show that a charge neutral SiR derivative (but not others) can indeed be used to follow the intracellular location of the model therapeutic drug in GFP cells