A UCP1 Near-Infrared Reporter System for Monitoring Adipose “Browning” In Vivo Using Photoacoustic Imaging

Diabetes ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 67 (Supplement 1) ◽  
pp. 280-OR
Author(s):  
DERRYN XIN HUI CHAN ◽  
SHIGEKI SUGII ◽  
WEIPING HAN
Author(s):  
Chuangjia Huang ◽  
Xiaoling Guan ◽  
Hui Lin ◽  
Lu Liang ◽  
Yingling Miao ◽  
...  

Indocyanine green (ICG), a near-infrared (NIR) fluorescent dye approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), has been extensively used as a photoacoustic (PA) probe for PA imaging. However, its practical application is limited by poor photostability in water, rapid body clearance, and non-specificity. Herein, we fabricated a novel biomimetic nanoprobe by coating ICG-loaded mesoporous silica nanoparticles with the cancer cell membrane (namely, CMI) for PA imaging. This probe exhibited good dispersion, large loading efficiency, good biocompatibility, and homologous targeting ability to Hela cells in vitro. Furthermore, the in vivo and ex vivo PA imaging on Hela tumor-bearing nude mice demonstrated that CMI could accumulate in tumor tissue and display a superior PA imaging efficacy compared with free ICG. All these results demonstrated that CMI might be a promising contrast agent for PA imaging of cervical carcinoma.


2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (03) ◽  
pp. 1941004
Author(s):  
Dan Wu ◽  
Xinxin Zhang ◽  
Jian Rong ◽  
Huabei Jiang

In this study, we developed a novel photoacoustic imaging technique based on poly (ethyleneglycol)-coated (PEGylated) gold nanorods (PEG-GNRs) (as the contrast agent) combined with traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) acupuncture (as the auxiliary method) for quantitatively monitoring contrast enhancement in the vasculature of a mouse brain in vivo. This study takes advantage of the strong near-infrared absorption (peak at [Formula: see text][Formula: see text]nm) of GNRs and the ability to adjust the hemodynamics of acupuncture. Experimental results show that photoacoustic tomography (PAT) successfully reveals the optical absorption variation of the vasculature of the mouse brain in response to intravenous administration of GNRs and acupuncture at the Zusanli acupoint (ST36) both individually and combined. The quantitative measurement of contrast enhancement indicates that the composite contrast agents (integration of acupuncture and GNRs) would greatly enhance the photoacoustic imaging contrast. The quantitative results also have the potential to estimate the local concentration of GNRs and even the real-time effects of acupuncture.


2020 ◽  
Vol 35 (1) ◽  
pp. 28-38
Author(s):  
Jieying Liao ◽  
Huicong Zhang ◽  
Xuandong Wang

Multifunctional nanocarriers have been widely accepted and utilized for biomedical applications, because of their structural regularity, convenient post-modification and controllable structure and morphology. Herein, we reported polydopamine-doped virus-like mesoporous silica coated reduced graphene oxide nanosheets (rGO@PVMSNs) nanocomposites by a facile oil–water biphase stratification method. The synthesized rGO@PVMSNs nanocomposites performed excellent biocompatibility and photothermal performance. They could be employed as photoacoustic imaging contrast in vivo. Furthermore, the rGO@PVMSNs nanocarriers were used for loading the antitumor drug doxorubicin (DOX), the rGO@PVMSNs@DOX nanocomposites were also demonstrated to be with high inhibition of HepG2 cancer cells, especially with the help of near-infrared irradiation, which were more efficient than single chemotherapy or photothermal therapy. The rGO@PVMSNs@DOX nanocomposites of this work could be used as photoacoustic imaging and chemo-photothermal synergetic therapy agents, which show a new perspective for clinical tumor diagnosis and therapy.


2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (17) ◽  
pp. 15417-15425 ◽  
Author(s):  
Qi Yang ◽  
Hongyu Jin ◽  
Yucong Gao ◽  
Jiaomin Lin ◽  
Hong Yang ◽  
...  

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yang Yang ◽  
Jinshu Huang ◽  
Wei Wei ◽  
Qin Zeng ◽  
Xipeng Li ◽  
...  

Abstract Upconversion nanoparticles (UCNPs) based phototheranostics offer significant expectations for the personalized cancer medicine via integrating both modalities of imaging diagnostics and phototherapeutics. However, programmably controlling the photoactivation of imaging and therapy towards the accurate diagnosis with minimum side effects for on-demand therapy has remained challenging due to the lack of ideal switchable UCNPs agents. Herein, we demonstrate a facile strategy to simply switch the near infrared emission at 800 nm from rationally designed UCNPs by modulating the irradiation laser into pulse output. Through synthesis of the theranostic UCNPs-DI agent combining with a photosensitizer and a photoabsorbing agent assembled on the UCNPs, the orthogonal activation of in vivo photoacoustic imaging and photodynamic therapy was further achieved by simply altering the excitation modes from pulse to continuous-wave output upon a single 980-nm laser. Importantly, no obvious harmful effects during photoexcitation caused by reactive oxygen species (ROS) photooxidation and photohyperthermia were generated under imaging modality, which facilitates the long-term and real-time imaging-guidance for the subsequent phototherapy. This work provides a new facile approach for the orthogonal activation of imaging diagnostics and photodynamic therapeutics towards the target cancers.


Author(s):  
Yaxi Li ◽  
Hongli Zhou ◽  
Renzhe Bi ◽  
Xiuting Li ◽  
Menglei Zha ◽  
...  

Fluorescence imaging in the second near-infrared window (NIR-II) has been an emerging technique in diverse in vivo applications with high sensitivity/resolution and deep tissue penetration. To date, the designing principle...


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