| Literature DB >> 15984854 |
Sabrina Laus1, Balaji Sitharaman, Eva Tóth, Robert D Bolskar, Lothar Helm, Subashini Asokan, Michael S Wong, Lon J Wilson, André E Merbach.
Abstract
A combined proton relaxivity and dynamic light scattering study has shown that aggregates formed in aqueous solution of water-soluble gadofullerenes can be disrupted by addition of salts. The salt content of fullerene-based materials will strongly influence properties related to aggregation phenomena, therefore, their behavior in biological or medical applications. In particular, the relaxivity of gadofullerenes decreases dramatically with phosphate addition. Moreover, real biological fluids present a rather high salt concentration which will have consequences on fullerene aggregation and influence fullerene-based drug delivery.Entities:
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Year: 2005 PMID: 15984854 PMCID: PMC2597542 DOI: 10.1021/ja052388+
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Am Chem Soc ISSN: 0002-7863 Impact factor: 15.419