Journal
NANOSCALE
Volume 4, Issue 7, Pages 2352-2361Publisher
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/c2nr11554a
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- The Danish Council for Strategic Research/Programme Commission on Nanoscience, Biotechnology
- IT (NABIIT)
- Danish National Research Council
- Carlsberg Foundation, LUNA
- Lundbeck Foundation center for Nanomedicine
- CIRRO
- Lundbeck Foundation Center for Interventional Research in Radiation Oncology
- Danish Cancer Society
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Iron oxide nanoparticles have found widespread applications in different areas including cell separation, drug delivery and as contrast agents. Due to water insolubility and stability issues, nanoparticles utilized for biological applications require coatings such as the commonly employed polyethylene glycol (PEG). Despite its frequent use, the influence of PEG coatings on the physicochemical and biological properties of iron nanoparticles has hitherto not been studied in detail. To address this, we studied the effect of 333-20 000 Da PEG coatings that resulted in larger hydrodynamic size, lower surface charge, longer circulation half-life, and lower uptake in macrophage cells when the particles were coated with high molecular weight (M-w) PEG molecules. By use of magnetic resonance imaging, we show coating-dependent in vivo uptake in murine tumors with an optimal coating M-w of 10 000 Da.
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