AUTHOR=Carregal Romero Susana , Montenegro Martos Jose MarĂ­a , Parak Wolfgang , Rivera_Gil Pilar TITLE=Subcellular Carrier-Based Optical Ion-Selective Nanosensors JOURNAL=Frontiers in Pharmacology VOLUME=Volume 3 - 2012 YEAR=2012 URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/pharmacology/articles/10.3389/fphar.2012.00070 DOI=10.3389/fphar.2012.00070 ISSN=1663-9812 ABSTRACT=In this review we discuss two systems based on nanotechnology for real-time sensing of biologically relevant analytes (ions or other biological molecules) inside cells in a non-invasive way.