Abstract
The study reports an advance in designing copper-based redox sensing MRI contrast agents. Although the data demonstrate that copper(II) complexes are not able to compete with lanthanoids species in terms of contrast, the redox-dependent switch between diamagnetic copper(I) and paramagnetic copper(II) yields a novel redox-sensitive contrast moiety with potential for reversibility.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 903-912 |
Number of pages | 10 |
Journal | BioMetals |
Volume | 28 |
Issue number | 5 |
Early online date | 9 Aug 2015 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2015 |
Bibliographical note
The final publication is available at Springer via http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10534-015-9875-3Funding: BBSRC (BBS/B/01553).
Electronic supplementary material (doi: 10.1007/s10534-015-9875-3).
Keywords
- copper macrocycles
- oxidation–reduction
- Redox sensitive contrast agent
- imaging
- inflammation