Biobehavior in Normal and Tumor-Bearing Mice of Tobacco Mosaic Virus

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• 作者：Man Wu ; Jiyun Shi ; Di Fan ; Quan Zhou ; Fan Wang ; Zhongwei Niu ; Yong Huang
• 刊名：Biomacromolecules
• 出版年：2013
• 出版时间：November 11, 2013
• 年：2013
• 卷：14
• 期：11
• 页码：4032-4037
• 全文大小：411K
• 年卷期：v.14,no.11(November 11, 2013)
• ISSN：1526-4602

文摘

Viral nanoparticles (VNPs) have shown great potential as platforms for biomedical applications. Before using VNPs for further biomedical applications, it is important to clarify their biological behavior in vivo, which is rare for rod-like VNPs. In this paper, a study of tobacco mosaic virus (TMV), a typical rod-like VNP, is performed on blood clearance kinetics, biodistributions in both normal and tumor-bearing mice, histopathology and cytotoxicity. TMV was radiolabeled with ¹²⁵I using Iodogen method for in vivo quantitative analysis and imaging purpose. In the normal mice, the accumulation of TMV in the immune system led to a rapid blood clearance. The uptake of TMVs in the liver was less than that in the spleen, which is opposite to the results observed in the case of spherical VNPs. No signs of overt toxicity were observed in examined tissues according to the results of histological analysis. In addition, similar biodistribution patterns were observed in U87MG tumor-bearing mice.