Controlled Aggregation of Ferritin to Modulate MRI Relaxivity
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Controlled aggregation of ferritin to modulate MRI relaxivity.
Ferritin is an iron storage protein expressed in varying concentrations in mammalian cells. The deposition of ferric iron in the core of ferritin makes it a magnetic resonance imaging contrast agent, and ferritin has recently been proposed as a gene expression reporter protein for magnetic resonance imaging. To date, ferritin has been overexpressed in vivo and has been coexpressed with transfer...
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عنوان ژورنال: Biophysical Journal
سال: 2008
ISSN: 0006-3495
DOI: 10.1529/biophysj.107.116145