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ArticleNanomaterials (Basel, Switzerland)2016

Fabricating Water Dispersible Superparamagnetic Iron Oxide Nanoparticles for Biomedical Applications through Ligand Exchange and Direct Conjugation.

Tina Lam, Pramod K Avti, Philippe Pouliot, Foued Maafi, Jean-Claude Tardif, Éric Rhéaume, Frédéric Lesage, Ashok Kakkar

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Article in Nanomaterials (Basel, Switzerland), 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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5 · Who and what money

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8 authors.

Tina LamDepartment of Chemistry, McGill University, 801 Sherbrooke Street West, Montreal, QC H3A 0B8, Canada. tina.lam@mail.mcgill.ca.
Pramod K AvtiDepartment of Chemistry, McGill University, 801 Sherbrooke Street West, Montreal, QC H3A 0B8, Canada. pramod.avti@gmail.com.
Philippe PouliotDepartment of Electrical Engineering, École Polytechnique de Montréal, C.P. 6079 succ. Centre-ville, Montreal, QC H3C 3A7, Canada. ph.pouliot@gmail.com.
Foued MaafiResearch Center, Montreal Heart Institute, 5000 Bélanger Street, Montreal, QC H1T 1C8, Canada. maafi.foued@gmail.com.
Jean-Claude TardifResearch Center, Montreal Heart Institute, 5000 Bélanger Street, Montreal, QC H1T 1C8, Canada. jean-claude.tardif@icm-mhi.org.
Éric RhéaumeResearch Center, Montreal Heart Institute, 5000 Bélanger Street, Montreal, QC H1T 1C8, Canada. eric.rheaume@icm-mhi.org.
Frédéric LesageDepartment of Electrical Engineering, École Polytechnique de Montréal, C.P. 6079 succ. Centre-ville, Montreal, QC H3C 3A7, Canada. frederic.lesage@polymtl.ca.
Ashok KakkarDepartment of Chemistry, McGill University, 801 Sherbrooke Street West, Montreal, QC H3A 0B8, Canada. ashok.kakkar@mcgill.ca.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Stable superparamagnetic iron oxide nanoparticles (SPIONs), which can be easily dispersed in an aqueous medium and exhibit high magnetic relaxivities, are ideal candidates for biomedical applications including contrast agents for magnetic resonance imaging. We describe a versatile methodology to render water dispersibility to SPIONs using tetraethylene glycol (TEG)-based phosphonate ligands, which are easily introduced onto SPIONs by either a ligand exchange process of surface-anchored oleic-acid (OA) molecules or via direct conjugation. Both protocols confer good colloidal stability to SPIONs at different NaCl concentrations. A detailed characterization of functionalized SPIONs suggests that the ligand exchange method leads to nanoparticles with better magnetic properties but higher toxicity and cell death, than the direct conjugation methodology.

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cell internalizationcontrast agentsmagnetic resonance imagingnanoparticle ligand functionalizationsuperparamagnetic iron oxide nanoparticles

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PMID28335228
PMCPMC5302624

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