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Gadolinium- and curcumin-loaded micelles based on α-fetoprotein functionalized amphiphilic block copolymers

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1 Laboratory of Radionuclide and Beam Technologies in Experimental Oncology,
N. N. Blokhin Russian Cancer Research Center, Moscow, Russia

2 Laboratory of Light Sensitization,
N. M. Emanuel Institute of Biochemical Physics, RAS, Moscow, Russia

Correspondence should be addressed: Natalia V. Pozdnyakova
Kashirskoe shosse, d. 24, Moscow, Russia, 115478; ur.liam@2002optan

About paper

Funding: the study was supported by the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation (Grant Agreement no.14.607.21.0133 dated October 27, 2015, Project ID RFMEFI60715X0133).

Received: 2016-06-23 Accepted: 2016-06-27 Published online: 2017-01-05
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This article describes a method of obtaining curcumin- and gadolinium-loaded micelles based on triblock amphiphilic polyethylene glycol and polypropylene glycol copolymers Pluronic F-127 and Pluronic P-123 (Sigma-Aldrich, USA) superficially functionalized with recombinant human -fetoprotein. The size of nanoparticles was measured using dynamic light scattering and amounted to an average of 50 to 100 nm. The micelles were stable: stored at +4 °С for 10 days, they exhibited no changes in their properties that would not fall within the standard error of measurement for the methods used for the analysis. Preliminary in vivo experiments conducted on mice showed no conspicuous toxicity of micelles with the maximum possible concentration of gadolinium, which enables their use in tumor tissue imaging in vivo.

Keywords: gadolinium, imaging, contrast agents, curcumin, micelles, Pluronic F-127, Pluronic P-123

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