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US 9,173,919 B2Granted
Collagen-targeted nanoparticles
AssigneePurdue Research Foundation
InventorsJohn E. Paderi, Alyssa Panitch
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Abstract
This invention relates to compositions comprising collagen binding peptides coupled to nanoparticles. The invention also relates to a method of imaging a collagenous matrix using a composition comprising collagen binding peptides coupled to nanoparticles.
Claims18
A composition comprising at least one collagen binding polypeptide covalently bound to a polymeric nanoparticle, wherein the polypeptide contains from 7 amino acids to 40 amino acids and wherein the polypeptide does not form a triple helix.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.