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Methoxyl poly (ethylene glycol) (mPEG-OH) was successfully grafted onto branched polyethyleneimine (hy-PEI) to yield a water soluble graft copolymer mPEG-g-PEI. This copolymer may package super-paramagnetic iron oxide (SPIO) by ligand exchange. The SPIO weight percentage in the polymer coated nanoparticles was determined to be 55%, the size and zeta potential of nanoparticles was 50 nm and 12 mV respectively. Antibody fixation onto the complex (mPEI-g-PEG-SPIO) surface layer was achieved by activated single chain monoclonal antibody against prostate stem cell antigen (PSCA). Our study showed that the single chain antibody functionalized nanoprobe (scAbPSCA-PEI-g-PEG-SPIO) with a small size can specifically enter the prostate cancer cells, decreasing MRI T2-weighted signal intensity of prostate cancer cells to 44.76%. Our results revealed that the potential of this magnetic nanoparticulate system promised as a novel MRI nanoprobe for early diagnosis of prostate cancer (PCa).
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Zhou, J., Huang, L., Wang, W. et al. Prostate cancer targeted MRI nanoprobe based on superparamagnetic iron oxide and copolymer of poly(ethylene glycol) and polyethyleneimin. Chin. Sci. Bull. 54, 3137–3146 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11434-009-0256-6
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