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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Dec 1.
Published in final edited form as: Curr Pharm Des. 2011 Dec;17(38):4362–4371. doi: 10.2174/138161211798999375

Table 1.

Chlorotoxin-based imaging probes.

Probe Platform Imaging Modality Tumor Types Tested References
Ctx:Cy5.5 Direct conjugate Optical Medulloblastoma
Prostate Cancer
Intestinal Cancer
Glioma
Rhabdomyosarcoma		 [3]
NPCP-Cy5.5-Ctx Iron oxide PEGylated- Chitosan copolymer MRI Optical Medulloblastoma [62, 63]
NP-PEG- Ctx and NP-PEG- Cy5.5-Ctx Iron Oxide PEG coated MRI Optical Glioma [64, 65]
PAMAM-PEG-Ctx Polyamidoamine dendrimer PEG coated DNA delivery Glioma [66]
Pdot:Ctx Polymer-Blend nanoparticle (PFBT/PF-DBT5) Optical Medulloblastoma [67]
Ctx:UCNP Rare earth upconversion nanoparticles (NaYf4:Yb,Er/Ce) Optical Glioma [68]