| Literature DB >> 22941789 |
Matthew A Nakatsuka1, Robert F Mattrey, Sadik C Esener, Jennifer N Cha, Andrew P Goodwin.
Abstract
Thrombosis, or malignant blood clotting, is associated with numerous cardiovascular diseases and cancers. A microbubble contrast agent is presented that produces ultrasound harmonic signal only when exposed to elevated thrombin levels. Initially silent microbubbles are activated in the presence of both thrombin-spiked and freshly clotting blood in three minutes with detection limits of 20 nM thrombin and 2 aM microbubbles.Entities:
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Year: 2012 PMID: 22941789 PMCID: PMC3626403 DOI: 10.1002/adma.201201484
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Adv Mater ISSN: 0935-9648 Impact factor: 30.849