Theranostic gold-magnetite hybrid nanoparticles for MRI-guided radiosensitization

Nanotechnology
D ManiglioC Migliaresi

Abstract

The main limitation of drug-enhanced radiotherapy concerns the difficulty to evaluate the effectiveness of cancer targeting after drug administration hindering the standardization of therapies based on current radiosensitizing compounds. The challenge regards the development of systems able to combine imaging and radiotherapy enhancement in order to perform highly reliable cancer theragnosis. For these reasons, gold-magnetite hybrid nanoparticles (H-NPs) are proposed as innovative theranostic nanotools for imaging-guided radiosensitization in cancer treatment. In this work we propose a novel method for the synthesis of hydrophilic and superparamagnetic Tween20-stabilized gold-magnetite H-NPs. Morphology and chemical composition of nanoparticles were assessed by transmission electron microscopy, x-ray diffraction analysis and ion-coupled plasma optical emission spectroscopy. Colloidal stability and magnetic properties of nanoparticles were determined by dynamic light scattering and magnetometry. The potentialities of H-NPs for magnetic resonance imaging were studied using a human 4T-MRI scanner. Nanoparticles were proven to induce concentration-dependent contrast enhancement in T2*-weighted MR-images. The cytotoxicity, the cellu...Continue Reading

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