. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Aug 22.

Published in final edited form as: J Med Chem. 2013 Aug 9;56(16):10.1021/jm4005576. doi: 10.1021/jm4005576

Table 1.

Summary of the physical properties of Gd-Tx micelles.

Sample #	Stability^*	Targeting^**	% Gd-Tx Encap. (calculated)	% Gd-Tx Encap. (actual)	Charge (mV)	DLS Size (nm)
1	UXL	UT	0.54	0.51	−17.70	88.90
2	UXL	T	0.53	0.50	−17.74	88.80
3	XL	UT	0.52	0.52	−10.73	87.50
4	XL	T	0.51	0.51	−9.49	82.50

Micelles are stabilized with Fe(III) crosslinking (XL) reaction. UXL denotes uncrosslinked micelles.

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Micelles are targeted (T) with an MC1R-specific ligand. UT denotes untargeted micelles.