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ArticleScientific reports2019

Hydrophilic Quantum Dots Functionalized with Gd(III)-DO3A Monoamide Chelates as Bright and Effective T

Maria I A Pereira, Goreti Pereira, Camila A P Monteiro, Carlos F G C Geraldes, Paulo E Cabral Filho, Carlos L Cesar, André A de Thomaz, Beate S Santos, Giovannia A L Pereira, Adriana Fontes

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Article in Scientific reports, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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3 citing papers in PubMed.

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  3. Quantum Dots and GdTopics in current chemistry (Cham) · 2021
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

10 authors.

Maria I A PereiraDepartamento de Biofísica e Radiobiologia, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Recife, PE, Brazil.
Goreti PereiraDepartamento de Química Fundamental, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Recife, PE, Brazil.
Camila A P MonteiroDepartamento de Biofísica e Radiobiologia, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Recife, PE, Brazil.
Carlos F G C GeraldesDepartamento de Ciências da Vida, Faculdade de Ciência e Tecnologia, Universidade de Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal.
Paulo E Cabral FilhoDepartamento de Biofísica e Radiobiologia, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Recife, PE, Brazil.ORCID 0000-0002-1628-7769
Carlos L CesarDepartamento de Física, Universidade Federal do Ceará, Fortaleza, CE, Brazil.
André A de ThomazDepartamento de Eletrônica Quântica, Instituto de Física Gleb Wataghin, Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Campinas, SP, Brazil.ORCID 0000-0002-8318-4428
Beate S SantosDepartamento de Ciências Farmacêuticas, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Recife, PE, Brazil.
Giovannia A L PereiraDepartamento de Química Fundamental, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Recife, PE, Brazil. giovannia_pereira@yahoo.com.
Adriana FontesDepartamento de Biofísica e Radiobiologia, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Recife, PE, Brazil. adriana.fontes.biofisica@gmail.com.

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No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is a powerful non-invasive diagnostic tool that enables distinguishing healthy from pathological tissues, with high anatomical detail. Nevertheless, MRI is quite limited in the investigation of molecular/cellular biochemical events, which can be reached by fluorescence-based techniques. Thus, we developed bimodal nanosystems consisting in hydrophilic quantum dots (QDs) directly conjugated to Gd(III)-DO3A monoamide chelates, a Gd(III)-DOTA derivative, allowing for the combination of the advantages of both MRI and fluorescence-based tools. These nanoparticulate systems can also improve MRI contrast, by increasing the local concentration of paramagnetic chelates. Transmetallation assays, optical characterization, and relaxometric analyses, showed that the developed bimodal nanoprobes have great chemical stability, bright fluorescence, and high relaxivities. Moreover, fluorescence correlation spectroscopy (FCS) analysis allowed us to distinguish nanosystems containing different amounts of chelates/QD. Also, inductively coupled plasma optical emission spectrometry (ICP - OES) indicated a conjugation yield higher than 75%. Our nanosystems showed effective longitudinal relaxivities per QD and per paramagnetic ion, at least 5 times [per Gd(III)] and 100 times (per QD) higher than the r

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PMCPMC6382838

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