摘要:
A contrast agent for MRI imaging includes: (a) one cyclodextrin, whose truncated-cone-shaped structure defines a central axis, a first and a second openings along the axis, (b) one paramagnetic element, located on the cyclodextrin axis, outside the structure and proximate to the first opening, (c) one or several coordination ligand(s) of the paramagnetic element which coordinate(s) the paramagnetic element, (d) one arm covalently bound to the cyclodextrin, proximate to the second opening, which is able to form an inclusion complex with the cyclodextrin.
摘要:
A delivery vehicle is described that is capable of being specifically bound to and taken into targeted cells, delivering numerous physiological agents, particularly paramagnetic ions for magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of the cells. The delivery vehicle comprises a polymeric molecule having a net positive charge complexed with another polymeric molecule having a net negative charge. Cell targeting moieties and physiological agents, including contrast agents and therapeutic agents, are attached to one or both of the polymeric molecules. In one embodiment, the polymeric molecule having a net negative charge is a nucleic acid. Thus, the delivery vehicles can be used in clinical protocols in which nucleic acids for gene therapy and agents for MRI contrast are co-transported to specific cells allowing medical imaging monitoring of nucleic acid delivery.
摘要:
The present invention provides a 13C-labeled oligosaccharide or polysaccharide or a salt thereof excluding U-13C-maltose, 13C-starch, 1-13C-maltotetraose and 1-13C-amylose; a derivative of the 13C-labeled oligosaccharide or polysaccharide or salt thereof; a 13C-labeled inclusion complex or a salt thereof, which comprises a cyclodextrin or a modified derivative thereof as a host molecule; a 13C- or 14C-labeled fluorescein ester compound or a salt thereof; and a diagnostic agents for pancreatic exocrine function comprising these compounds 13C- or 14C-labeled.
摘要:
The invention relates to nanocrystalline magnetic particles consisting of gnetic iron oxide core of Fe.sub.3 O.sub.4, gamma-Fe.sub.2 O.sub.3 or mixtures thereof and an envelope chemisorbed to said core, the method for preparation of these particles as well as the use thereof in medical diagnostics and/or therapy. The magnetic particles, according to the invention, are characterized by composition of the coating material of natural or synthetic glycosaminoglycans and/or their derivatives with molecular weights of 500 Da to 250,000 Da, if necessary, covalently cross-linked with appropriate cross-linking agents and/or modified by specific additives.
摘要翻译:本发明涉及由Fe 3 O 4,γ-Fe 2 O 3或其混合物的磁性氧化铁核心组成的纳米晶体磁性颗粒,以及与所述核心化学吸附的包膜,这些颗粒的制备方法及其在医学诊断和/或治疗中的用途 。 根据本发明的磁性颗粒的特征在于天然或合成的糖胺聚糖和/或其衍生物的分子量为500Da至250,000Da的涂层材料的组成,如果需要,可与合适的交联剂共价交联 和/或由特定添加剂改性。
摘要:
A method for recovering an endohedral metallofullerene comprises a complexation step of adding a Lewis acid comprising titanium halide or tin halide to a reaction solution formed by dissolving crude fullerenes in a solvent, thereby forming a complex of the endohedral metallofullerene and the Lewis acid, a filtering step of filtering the reaction solution to separate the complex, and a washing step of removing the Lewis acid from the complex to obtain the endohedral metallofullerene. The obtained endohedral metallofullerene is soluble in a solvent. This method provides a high recovery yield of the endohedral metallofullerene.
摘要:
The invention relates to compositions comprising a gadolinium-based contrast agent and a derivatized cyclodextrin. Further provided are methods for reducing the toxicity associated with gadolinium-based contrast agents.
摘要:
A contrast agent characterized in that each of carbon nanohorns forming a carbon nanohorn aggregate has an opening at the side wall or tip, wherein a metal M (at least one metal selected from among paramagnetic metals, ferromagnetic metals, and superparamagnetic metals) or a compound of the metal M is incorporated in or dispersed on each of the carbon nanohorns. A contrast agent characterized in that it contains a Gd oxide. There is provided a contrast agent, which can be mass-produced easily, and satisfies the requirement of low toxicity and enables microscopic diagnoses when used for MRI. A contrast agent characterized in that is contains a carbon nanohorn aggregate.
摘要:
The present invention is directed to novel compositions and methods utilizing delivery agents comprising protein cages, medical imaging agents and therapeutic agents.
摘要:
Methods and compositions are disclosed for enhancing magnetic resonance imaging and spectroscopy which utilize derivatives of the even-numbered carbon clusters, known as "fullerenes." Perfluorinated carbon clusters of the formula C.sub.n F.sub.m, wherein n is in the range from 30-100 and m.ltoreq.n, may be used for fluorine-19 imaging. Incorporating paramagnetic metal species into the carbon cluster cage improves fluorine and proton imaging.
摘要:
Endohedral metallofullerene compounds, which in water has a relaxivity of about 30 mM−1 S−1 to about 300 mM−1 S−1 and forms a dispersion in water with entities having an average hydrodynamic radius of less than about 20 nm.