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Wolfgang Eck1, Anthony I Nicholson, Hanswalter Zentgraf, Wolfhard Semmler, Sönke Bartling.
Abstract
Antibody-conjugated gold nanoparticles have been applied as a biologically targeted contrast agent in live mice for one of the most widely used medical imaging methods, X-ray computed tomography. Such nanoprobes directed toward the CD4 receptor lead to distinctly enhanced X-ray contrast of peripheral lymph nodes. This study demonstrates the general feasibility of biologically specific X-ray imaging in living animals and discusses basic requirements for the use of nanoparticles as a targeted X-ray contrast agent.Entities:
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Year: 2010 PMID: 20496900 DOI: 10.1021/nl101019s
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Nano Lett ISSN: 1530-6984 Impact factor: 11.189