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BIOPHYSICAL JOURNAL
卷 97, 期 9, 页码 2640-2647出版社
CELL PRESS
DOI: 10.1016/j.bpj.2009.08.013
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- National Institutes of Health [R01CA119408, R01CA134213, R01EB006043, T32GM065098]
Iron oxide superparamagnetic nanoparticles (SPIONs) have drawn significant attention because of their potential impact on medical diagnosis and therapy. However, the difficulty of achieving reliable and standardized quantification of these nanoparticles has limited the uniform study of nanoparticle systems. Current measurement techniques have limited sensitivity, and are sophisticated and subject to individual instrumental settings. Here, a characterization method using proton nuclear magnetic resonance (H-1-NMR) spectroscopy is presented that can quantify SPIONs regardless of surface modification. In addition to routine quantification of SPIONs during nanoparticle development, the method can also be used with in vitro nanoparticle assays and potentially with tissue samples for biodistribution studies. Specifically, measurement of water relaxivity shifts (R-1 or R-2) of dissolved SPION samples is correlated with nanoparticle concentration. Unmodified and clextran- and poly(ethylene glycol)-coated SPIONs gave linear correlations between SPION concentration and R-1 and R-2 relaxivities over five orders of magnitude, to below 10 ppb iron. Quantification of SPION concentration was also demonstrated in the presence of RAW 264.7 macrophage cells. A linear correlation between the SPION concentration and relaxivities was observed to < 10 ng Fe/mL. This method is a rapid and inexpensive approach for quantitation of SPIONs and exhibits a number of advantages over many of the current methods for quantitative SPION analysis.
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