| Publications [#260952] of Ashutosh Chilkoti
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- Dreher, MR; Elas, M; Ichikawa, K; Barth, ED; Chilkoti, A; Rosen, GM; Halpern, HJ; Dewhirst, M, Nitroxide conjugate of a thermally responsive elastin-like polypeptide for noninvasive thermometry.,
Med Phys, vol. 31 no. 10
(October, 2004),
pp. 2755-2762, ISSN 0094-2405 [15543780], [doi]
(last updated on 2024/04/24)
Abstract: Hyperthermia, as an adjuvant with radiation and chemotherapy, has shown promise in the treatment of cancer. The relevant biological effects of a hyperthermia treatment are both time and temperature-dependent, creating a need for accurate thermometry. We present a novel noninvasive thermometry modality that combines a temperature responsive biopolymer, the elastin-like polypeptide (ELP), and nitroxide to produce an ELP-nitroxide conjugate. When examined with electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) spectroscopy, the ELP-nitroxide conjugate has temperature-dependent spectral line widths whose predictive accuracy is approximately 0.3 degrees C (80 microM). We believe that the temperature-dependent changes observed in the EPR spectrum are due to the combined effect of temperature, viscosity and effective radius on the rotational correlation time of the ELP-nitroxide conjugate.
Keywords: biochemistry;cancer;EPR line breadth;EPR spectroscopy;hyperthermia;proteins;tumours;
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