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AIE-active two-photon fluorescent nanoprobe with NIR-II light excitability for highly efficient deep brain vasculature imaging
Center for Biomedical Photonics & Key Laboratory of Optoelectronic Devices and Systems of Guangdong Province and Ministry of Education, College of Physics and Optoelectronic Engineering, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen 518060, China.
#These authors contributed equally to this work.
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Samanta S, Huang M, Li S, Yang Z, He Y, Gu Z, Zhang J, Zhang D, Liu L, Qu J. AIE-active two-photon fluorescent nanoprobe with NIR-II light excitability for highly efficient deep brain vasculature imaging. Theranostics 2021; 11(5):2137-2148. doi:10.7150/thno.53780. https://www.thno.org/v11p2137.htm
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Aggregation induced emission (AIE)-active bright two-photon fluorescent probes with second near-infrared (NIR-II) light excitability can be used for efficient brain bioimaging studies, wherein the fabrication of water-dispersible nanoparticles by encapsulating the hydrophobic probes with amphiphilic polymer holds the key to ensuring biocompatibility and in vivo adaptability. However, barely any study has evaluated the structural requirements that can substantially affect the water-dispersible nanoparticle formation ability of an organic AIE-active dye with amphiphilic polymers. The present study systematically assessed the structural dependency of a well-known acrylonitrile based AIE system/fluorogenic core upon the formation of water-dispersible nanoparticles and elucidated how the structural modifications can impact the in vivo two-photon imaging.
Methods: A total of four acrylonitrile-based aggregation induced emission (AIE)-active two-photon (TP) fluorescent probes (AIETP, AIETP C1, AIETP C2 and AIETP C3) have been judiciously designed and synthesized with structural variations to realize how the structural alterations could substantially influence the water-dispersible nanoparticle formation ability (with amphiphilic polymers) and photo-stability to impact the in vivo imaging.
Results: It has been found that the incorporation of the phenyl-thiazole unit in AIETP, AIETP C2 and AIETP C3 facilitated the formation of water-dispersible nanoparticles (NPs) with amphiphilic polymers (Pluronic F127) whereas the presence of only phenyl moiety instead in AIETP C1 could not meet the suitable condition to form the NPs with good aqueous dispersibility. Rationally designed AIETP NPs that exhibited higher brightness, improved photostability and good two-photon absorption cross section was successfully employed for in vivo brain vasculature imaging.
Conclusions: Robust noninvasive 2D and 3D two-photon (NIR-II light, 1040 nm) brain vasculature imaging with beneficial attributes such as outstanding penetration depth (800 µm) and exceptional spatial resolution (1.92 µm), were achieved by utilizing AIETP NPs in this study.
Keywords: aggregation-induced emission (AIE), two-photon imaging, second near-infrared (NIR-II) excitation, brain Imaging, AIE nanoparticle
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Samanta, S., Huang, M., Li, S., Yang, Z., He, Y., Gu, Z., Zhang, J., Zhang, D., Liu, L., Qu, J. (2021). AIE-active two-photon fluorescent nanoprobe with NIR-II light excitability for highly efficient deep brain vasculature imaging. Theranostics, 11(5), 2137-2148. https://doi.org/10.7150/thno.53780.
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Samanta, S.; Huang, M.; Li, S.; Yang, Z.; He, Y.; Gu, Z.; Zhang, J.; Zhang, D.; Liu, L.; Qu, J. AIE-active two-photon fluorescent nanoprobe with NIR-II light excitability for highly efficient deep brain vasculature imaging. Theranostics 2021, 11 (5), 2137-2148. DOI: 10.7150/thno.53780.
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Samanta S, Huang M, Li S, Yang Z, He Y, Gu Z, Zhang J, Zhang D, Liu L, Qu J. AIE-active two-photon fluorescent nanoprobe with NIR-II light excitability for highly efficient deep brain vasculature imaging. Theranostics 2021; 11(5):2137-2148. doi:10.7150/thno.53780. https://www.thno.org/v11p2137.htm
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Samanta S, Huang M, Li S, Yang Z, He Y, Gu Z, Zhang J, Zhang D, Liu L, Qu J. 2021. AIE-active two-photon fluorescent nanoprobe with NIR-II light excitability for highly efficient deep brain vasculature imaging. Theranostics. 11(5):2137-2148.
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