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Biotin‐Conjugated Poly(Acrylic Acid)‐Grafted Ultrasmall Gadolinium Oxide Nanoparticles for Enhanced Tumor Imaging
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Design and structure of biotin (Bio)-conjugated polyacrylic acid (PAA)-grafted ultrasmall Gd2O3 nanoparticles (Bio-PAA-Gd2O3 NPs) as a high-performance tumor-targeting T1 magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) contrast agent.
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Herein, biotin (Bio)-conjugated poly(acrylic acid) (PAA)-grafted ultrasmall gadolinium oxide nanoparticles (Bio-PAA-Gd2O3 NPs) were synthesized for enhanced tumor imaging using Bio as a tumor-targeting ligand. The average particle diameter of Gd2O3 NPs was 2.1 nm. The Bio-PAA-Gd2O3 NPs exhibited excellent colloidal stability (i. e., no precipitation) and a high longitudinal water proton spin relaxivity (r1) of 23.8 s−1 mM−1 (r2/r1=1.6 and r2=transverse water proton spin relaxivity), which was ∼6 times higher than those of commercial Gd-chelated magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) contrast agents. Cytotoxicity tests using two cell lines showed that the Bio-PAA-Gd2O3 NPs were almost non-toxic up to the measured concentration of 500 μM Gd. The enhanced tumor imaging of the Bio-PAA-Gd2O3 NPs was demonstrated through their higher positive contrasts and longer contrast retention at the tumor after intravenous injection in T1 MR images, compared with those of the control PAA-Gd2O3 NPs.
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