Cell-assembled nanoclusters of MSC-targeting Gd-DOTA-peptide as a T2 contrast agent for MRI cell tracking

Pengli Zhang1,2, Yanhui Zhang2, Binbin Li2

  • 1College of Sciences, Shanghai University, Shanghai, 200444, China.

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