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SUBMITTER: Kim T
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3048840 | biostudies-other | 2011 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Kim Taeho T Momin Eric E Choi Jonghoon J Yuan Kristy K Zaidi Hasan H Kim Jaeyun J Park Mihyun M Lee Nohyun N McMahon Michael T MT Quinones-Hinojosa Alfredo A Bulte Jeff W M JW Hyeon Taeghwan T Gilad Assaf A AA
Journal of the American Chemical Society 20110211 9
Mesoporous silica-coated hollow manganese oxide (HMnO@mSiO(2)) nanoparticles were developed as a novel T(1) magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) contrast agent. We hypothesized that the mesoporous structure of the nanoparticle shell enables optimal access of water molecules to the magnetic core, and consequently, an effective longitudinal (R(1)) relaxation enhancement of water protons, which value was measured to be 0.99 (mM(-1)s(-1)) at 11.7 T. Adipose-derived mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) were eff ...[more]