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Published on: March 12, 2015
Dendrimer-folate-copper conjugates as bioprobes for synchrotron X-ray fluorescence imaging
Yuanqing Zhang1, Xiaoping Xu, Lu Wang
1Division of Physical Biology, Bioimaging Center, Shanghai Synchrotron Radiation Facility, Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 201800, China. huangqing@sinap.ac.cn sunyanhong@sinap.ac.cn.
Abstract:
We present a bioprobe for synchrotron X-ray fluorescence imaging based on dendrimer-folate-copper conjugates. The metal nanoclusters within a dendrimer exhibit excellent FR-targeting properties in KB cells. It could be used as a new multifunction bioprobe for synchrotron X-ray fluorescence mapping.
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