Engineering of lipid-coated PLGA nanoparticles with a tunable payload of diagnostically active nanocrystals for medical imaging
Chemical Communications2012Vol. 48(47), pp. 5835–5835
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Aneta J. Mieszawska, Anita Gianella, David P. Cormode, Yiming Zhao, Andries Meijerink, Robert Langer, Omid C. Farokhzad, Zahi A. Fayad, Willem J. M. Mulder
Abstract
Polylactic-co-glycolic acid (PLGA) based nanoparticles are biocompatible and biodegradable and therefore have been extensively investigated as therapeutic carriers. Here, we engineered diagnostically active PLGA nanoparticles that incorporate high payloads of nanocrystals into their core for tunable bioimaging features. We accomplished this through esterification reactions of PLGA to generate polymers modified with nanocrystals. The PLGA nanoparticles formed from modified PLGA polymers that were functionalized with either gold nanocrystals or quantum dots exhibited favorable features for computed tomography and optical imaging, respectively.
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