Yijen Lin Wu1,
Li Liu1, Qing Ye1, Brent D. Barbe1, T. Kevin
Hitchens1, Chien Ho1, 2
1Pittsburgh
NMR Center for Biomedical Research, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh,
PA, United States; 2Department of Biological Sciences, Carnegie
Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, United States
Cellular MRI with iron-oxide based contrast agents offers the potential to track many cell types in vivo at high resolution. The newly modified ITRI-IOPC-NH2 particles with increased positive charge and terminal amino groups can label T-lymphocytes by simple co-incubation without eternal aids. Our results show that T-lymphocytes and macrophages exhibit different temporal appearance behavior in the rejecting cardiac allograft, indicating that they may play different roles in rejection.