title: Synthesis, characterization, and relaxivity of two linear Gd(DTPA)-polymer conjugates.
abstract: Two linear polyamide conjugates of Gd(DTPA)2- were synthesized and characterized by high-resolution nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy and size exclusion chromatography (SEC). DTPA was copolymerized with two different diamines, 1,6-hexanediamine and trans-1,4-cyclohexanediamine, yielding the polymers DTPA-HMD and DTPA-CHD, with low polydispersity. Their molecular flexibility in solution was studied using 13C spin-lattice relaxation time measurements, indicating that the cyclohexanediamine linking moiety of the DTPA-HMD polymer is more rigid than that of DTPA-CHD. The influence of the flexibility of the linking functionalities on the relaxivity of the Gd3+-DTPA-polymer conjugates was studied by water nuclear magnetic relaxation dispersion (NMRD). The relaxivity of the Gd(DTPA-CHD) polymer was only slightly higher than that of the Gd(DTPA-HMD) polymer, and only two times higher than the usual values for small Gd-DTPA-like chelates. The low relaxivities obtained for both polymers, much lower than expected from the polymer apparent molecular weights, result from their substantial residual flexibility, and also from a too long, nonoptimal, value of the inner-sphere water exchange rate. These polymeric compounds are also cleared very quickly from the blood of rats, indicating that they are of limited value as blood pool contrast agents for MRA.
authors: Departamento de Bioquímica, Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Universidade de Coimbra, Apartado 3126, 3001-301 Coimbra, Portugal.
authors: M G
authors: MG
authors: Duarte
authors: M H
authors: MH
authors: Gil
authors: J A
authors: JA
authors: Peters
authors: J M
authors: JM
authors: Colet
authors: L V
authors: LV
authors: Elst
authors: R N
authors: RN
authors: Muller
authors: C F
authors: CF
authors: Geraldes
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002845:Chromatography; D019786:Gadolinium DTPA / Q000737:chemistry*; D009682:Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy; D015394:Molecular Structure; D004369:Pentetic Acid / Q000031:analogs & derivatives / Q000138:chemical synthesis* / Q000737:chemistry*; D011108:Polymers / Q000138:chemical synthesis* / Q000737:chemistry*; D051381:Rats; D017208:Rats, Wistar
chemical_list: C432247:DTPA-CHD; C432246:DTPA-HMD; D011108:Polymers; D004369:Pentetic Acid; D019786:Gadolinium DTPA