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Development of Gold-Coated Magnetic Nanoparticles As a Potential Mri Contrast Agent Publisher



Montazerabadi AR1, 2 ; Oghabian MA1, 2 ; Irajirad R2 ; Muhammadnejad S2 ; Ahmadvand D3 ; Hamid Delavari H4 ; Mahdavi SR5
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Source: Nano Published:2015


Abstract

Gold-coated superparamagnetic iron oxide nanoparticles (SPIONs) coated with methyl-polyethylene glycol (mPEG) are synthesized and investigated as a magnetic resonance (MR) imaging contrast agent. The synthesized mPEG-core@shells are characterized by UV-visible spectroscopy, transmission electron microscopy (TEM), dynamic light scattering (DLS), vibrating sample magnetometry (VSM), zeta-potential analysis and X-ray diffraction (XRD). In addition, the transverse relaxivity of the mPEG-core@shells is measured using a 3 T MRI scanner. The cytotoxicity of the mPEG-core@shells is tested in the LNCaP cell line using an 3-(4,5-Dimethylthiazol-2-yl)-2,5-diphenyltetrazolium bromide (MTT) assay. The results show that the mPEG-core@shell particles are semispherical with hydrodynamic size of ∼65 nm and a transverse relaxivity of 162.3 mM-1 S-1. The mPEG-core@shell particles demonstrate good stability in biological media without any significant in vitro cytotoxicity under high cellular uptake conditions. Finally, in vivo imaging shows that mPEG-core@shells are a potential contrast agent for use in early-stage detection. © 2015 World Scientific Publishing Company.
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