To get round this, Wilhelm Roell at the University of Bonn in Germany and his colleagues loaded muscle stem cells
with iron oxide nanoparticles to make them magnetic.
Gao and Koo reached out to Cormode, who had experience working
with iron oxide nanoparticles in a radiological imaging context, to help them synthesize, characterize and test the effectiveness of the nanoparticles, several forms of which are already FDA - approved for imaging in humans.
Not exact matches
They have a gate
with a lock made from
iron oxide nanoparticles that can be opened when heated
with electromagnetic energy.
An
iron oxide nanoparticle applied to teeth prior to treatment
with hydrogen peroxide effectively reduced the onset and severity of cavities (indicated
with red arrows) in rats.
HST researchers have experimented
with polymer - coated
iron oxide nanoparticles held together by DNA tethers to help them create a visual image of a tumor through magnetic resonance imaging.
Yet, to be effective, the size of the
iron oxide nanoparticles had to be just right — and had to be maintained in a strong matrix that was both flexible and resilient to deal
with large volume changes while optimally conducting electricity.
The researchers were able to rapidly generate uniform heat throughout frozen tissues by mixing tiny silica - coated
iron oxide nanoparticles, each one
with a diameter 150 times smaller than a red blood cell, into the cryopreservation solution used for vitrification.
Previous cancer studies had shown that by injecting tumors
with magnetic
nanoparticles made of
iron oxide — «essentially rust,
with well - tuned magnetic properties,» Anikeeva says — then exposing them to rapidly alternating magnetic fields, excited
nanoparticles can be used to heat and destroy cancer tumors while leaving surrounding, healthy tissue intact.
An endowed professor of pediatric cardiology at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia in Pennsylvania, Levy had been working
with his team on biodegradable polymer
nanoparticles infused
with iron oxide.
Researchers at Umeå University, together
with researchers at Uppsala University and Stockholm University, show in a new study how nitrogen doped graphene can be rolled into perfect Archimedean nano scrolls by adhering magnetic
iron oxide nanoparticles on the surface of the graphene sheets.
HYEON Taeghwan, director of the Center for
Nanoparticle Research explains: «Let's take the example of a MRI analysis of a brain
with Alzheimer's:
iron oxide in the blood vessels would appear as black and the amyloid plaques as gray.
In place of gadolinium - based contrast agents, the researchers have found that they can produce similar MRI contrast
with tiny
nanoparticles of
iron oxide that have been treated
with a zwitterion coating.
The NTU scientists create micro-sized gas bubbles coated
with cancer drug particles and
iron oxide nanoparticles, and then use magnets to direct these bubbles to gather around a specific tumour.
Nickels M, Xie JP, Cobb J, Gore JC and Pham W. Functionalization of
Iron Oxide Nanoparticles With a Versatile Epoxy Amine Linker.
I've been experimenting
with T10 dextran coated
iron oxide nanoparticles, obviously not the same as fullerenes, but still a very interesting tool, I've been testing if the coating is giving the particle antioxidant abilities because of it's the (basically) indigestable sugar chains (glucose) creating a high surface area which are largely made from hydroxyl groups, I hypothesised this act's as a «sink» for reactive oxygen species converting them to water.
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with the pharmacological stressor yohimbine» A. Gozzi, S: Lepore, E: Merlo Pich, and A. Bifone Neuropsychopharmacology 38 (11): 2120 - 2130 (2013) «Water dispersal and functionalization of hydrophobic
iron oxide nanoparticles with lipid - modified poly (amidoamine) dendrimers» A. Boni, L. Albertazzi, C. Innocenti, M. Gemmi, and A. Bifone.
Napier's presentation, titled «Superparamagnetic
Iron Oxide Nanoparticles for Delivery of DNA - based Contraceptive Vaccines for Feral Cats,» dealt
with a portion of Napier's research in developing and delivering contraceptives to feral cats.