RSC Publishing


Publishing

 

Cover image for Chemical Communications, select for current issue

Chemical Communications

Urgent high quality communications from across the chemical sciences.




Communication

Chem. Commun., 2010, 46, 433 - 435, DOI: 10.1039/b917195a


Human serum albumin coated iron oxide nanoparticles for efficient cell labeling

Jin Xie, Jinhua Wang, Gang Niu, Jing Huang, Kai Chen, Xingguo Li and Xiaoyuan Chen


A novel dopamine-plus-HSA (human serum albumin) approach was developed to functionalize iron oxide nanoparticles (IONPs), yielding nanoconjugates that are highly efficient in labeling various types of cell lines, which was demonstrated by in vivo MR imaging on xenograft and focal cerebral ischemia models.

Graphical abstract image for this article  (ID: b917195a)