Review Article
Polysaccharide-Coated Magnetic Nanoparticles for Imaging and Gene Therapy
Table 2
Various strategies used for polysaccharide-coated MNPs that have been used for imaging.
| Polysaccharide | Modification | In vitro/in vivo | Reference |
| Alginate | Alginate-poly-L-lysine-alginate (APA) | C2C12 myoblast cell line implanted into the abdominal cavity of mice | [61] |
| Chitosan | Chlorotoxin (CTX), Polyethylene glycol (PEG) Near-IR fluorophore (NIRF), Cy.5.5 | Brain Autochthonous medulloblastomas in genetically engineered ND2: SmoA1 mice | [62] |
| Dextran | FITC-derivatized Tat peptide Chelator DTPA | Hematopoietic and neural progenitor cells | [63] |
| Hyaluronic acid | Dopamine | HCT116 NIH3T3 cells | [64] |
| Heparin | Gold-deposited Glycol chitosan Pluronic F-68 | Tumor-bearing mice, SCC-7 (squamous cell carcinoma) cells were induced in male C3H/HeN mice by subcutaneous injection | [65] |
| Mannan | Carboxylic | Subcutaneous injection in a rat model | [66] |
| Pullulan | ā | L929 cells KB cells with hyperthermic effect | [67] |
| Starch | Poly(ethylene glycol) (PEG) | Male Fisher 344 rats bearing 9L-glioma brain tumors | [68] |
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