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SUBMITTER: Goswami LN
PROVIDER: S-EPMC8793076 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Goswami Lalit N LN Chakravarty Shatadru S Cai Quan-Yu QY Shapiro Erik M EM Hawthorne M Frederick MF Ma Lixin L
ACS applied bio materials 20210825 9
A multimeric MRI blood pool contrast agent based on the <i>closo</i>-borane motif is reported. Twelve copies of an amphiphilic DTPA chelate with amine end groups are appended on carbonate-functionalized <i>closo</i>-borane motif using carbamate linkages. The presence of peripheral phenyl groups on the modified DTPA chelates results in high human serum albumin binding, high relaxivity, and excellent contrast enhancement <i>in vitro</i> and <i>in vivo</i>. ...[more]