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Paramagnetic Gd-based gold glyconanoparticles as probes for MRI: tuning relaxivities with sugars
Marco Marradi1, David Alcántara, Jesús Martínez de la Fuente
1Laboratory of GlycoNanotechnology, CIC biomaGUNE/CIBER-BBN and IIQ-CSIC, Parque Tecnológico de San Sebastián, San Sebastián, Spain.
Abstract:
Combining sugar conjugates and DO3A-Gd complexes, paramagnetic gold glyconanoparticles (GNPs) with different relaxivity values were obtained and tested in vivo as MRI probes.

