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ArticleMagnetic resonance in medicine2010

Novel membrane-permeable contrast agent for brain tumor detection by MRI.

Mohanraja Kumar, Zdravka Medarova, Pamela Pantazopoulos, Guangping Dai, Anna Moore

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Article in Magnetic resonance in medicine, 2010. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers.

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13citing papers in PubMed
3.0field-weighted citation impact, top 10% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

13 citing papers in PubMed, 35 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Mohanraja Kumar *Athinoula A. Martines Center for Biomedical Imaging, Department of Radiology, Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School, Charlestown, MA 02129, USA.
Zdravka Medarova *Athinoula A. Martines Center for Biomedical Imaging, Department of Radiology, Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School, Charlestown, MA 02129, USA.
Pamela PantazopoulosAthinoula A. Martines Center for Biomedical Imaging, Department of Radiology, Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School, Charlestown, MA 02129, USA.
Guangping DaiAthinoula A. Martines Center for Biomedical Imaging, Department of Radiology, Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School, Charlestown, MA 02129, USA.
Anna MooreAthinoula A. Martines Center for Biomedical Imaging, Department of Radiology, Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School, Charlestown, MA 02129, USA.
Harvard University · USMassachusetts General Hospital · USAthinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging · US

Funding

Target-Specific Imaging and Delivery of siRNA to TumorsR00CA129070 · NCI · MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL · PI MEDAROVA, ZDRAVKA O · 2009 to 2011
$739k
Target-Specific Imaging and Delivery of siRNA to TumorsK99CA129070 · NCI · MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL · PI MEDAROVA, ZDRAVKA O · 2007 to 2008
$283k
NCI NIH HHS K99 CA129070NCI NIH HHS K99/R00 CA129070NCI NIH HHS R00 CA129070
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

One of the key challenges hindering the clinical intervention against brain cancer is defined by the inability to detect brain tumors at an early enough stage to permit effective therapy. Furthermore, the rapid growth and severe lethality of this form of cancer predicate the vital importance of monitoring the development of the pathology and its outcome after therapeutic intervention. With this in mind, we designed a novel membrane-permeant contrast agent, MN-MPAP-Cy5.5, which consists of a superparamagnetic iron oxide core, for MRI conjugated to myristoylated polyarginine peptides, as a membrane translocation module and labeled with the near-infrared dye Cy5.5 for correlative microscopy. This probe showed a remarkable uptake by U-87 human glioma cells in vitro and localized and delineated stereotactically injected tumor in vivo by MRI. Our findings suggest that the agent mediates its effects by translocation of the magnetic nanoparticles label across the leaky tumor vasculature, followed by enhanced accumulation in tumor cells. The noninvasive detection of brain tumors when they are still small represents a formidable challenge from an imaging standpoint. Our study describes an improved strategy to detect brain lesions by utilizing a contrast agent with membrane translocation properties.

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Ferric CompoundsAnimalsBrain NeoplasmsCell Line, TumorContrast MediaGliomaHumansImage EnhancementInjections, IntralesionalMiceReproducibility of ResultsSensitivity and SpecificityContrast MediaFerric Compoundsferric oxide

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PMID20146231
PMCPMC3819103
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