Anchors away – for MRI contrast agents
Italian scientists label cells with a contrast agent and track via MRI, which shows long retention times due to partial internalisation
12-Feb-2009 -
Silvio Amie and his colleagues from the University of Turin and the University of Eastern Piedmont, in Italy, have anchored a gadolinium (Gd)-based contrast agent on cell surfaces via disulfide bridges.
Several kinds of cells show high levels of free exofacial protein thiol (EPT) groups on the ...
cell therapies
cellular imaging
contrast agents
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