有机荧光探针辅助的近红外荧光成像技术在宫颈癌中的应用

荧光成像已被广泛应用于生物医学和临床诊断领域.近红外(Near-infrared,NIR,700-1700 nm)荧光成像在NIR波段对生物组织显影,与可见光波段(400-760 nm)的传统荧光成像相比,更有助于提高成像的信噪比和灵敏度.高质量的荧光成像需要借助良好的荧光探针,纳米技术的快速发展使具备良好荧光特性的有...     

Near-infrared emissive polymer-coated IR-820 nanoparticles assisted photothermal therapy for cervical cancer cells

Photothermal therapy (PTT) has attracted wide attention due to its noninvasiveness and its thermal ablation ability. As photothermal agents are crucial factor in PTT, those with the characteristics of biocompatibility, non-toxicity and high photothermal stability have attracted great interest. In this work, new indocyanine green (IR-820) was utilized as a photothermal agent and near-infrared (NIR) fluorescence imaging nanoprobe. To improve the biocompatibility, poly(styrene-co-maleic anhydride) (PSMA) was utilized to encapsulate the IR-820 molecules to form novel IR-820@PSMA nanoparticles (NPs). Then, the optical and thermal properties of IR-820@PSMA NPs were studied in detail. The IR-820@PSMA NPs showed excellent photothermal stability and biocompatibility. The cellular uptaking ability of the IR-820@PSMA NPs was further confirmed in HeLa cells by the NIR fluorescent confocal microscopic imaging technique. The IR-820@PSMA NPs assisted PTT of living HeLa cells was conducted under 793 nm laser excitation, and a high PTT efficiency of 73.3% was obtained.