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Keeping track

Nature Materials volume 12, pages 180–181 (2013)Cite this article

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Assessing when cell death occurs following in vivo transplantation of stem cells is challenging. Now, pH-sensitive hydrogel capsules containing arginine-based liposomes are shown to act as magnetic resonance imaging contrast agents, allowing cell death to be monitored within the capsules.

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Figure 1: A schematic of the structure of the LipoCEST microcapsules.
Figure 2: The CEST contrast mechanism.

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    Keren Ziv & Sanjiv S. Gambhir

  2. Department of Bioengineering, Materials Science and Engineering, Bio-X, Stanford University, Stanford, 94305, California, USA

    Sanjiv S. Gambhir

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