Histone deacetylases (HDACs) have been found to be biomarkers of cancers and the corresponding inhibitors have attracted much attention these years. Herein we reported a near-infrared fluorescent HDAC inhibitor based on vorinostat (SAHA) and a NIR fluorophore. This newly designed inhibitor showed similar inhibitory activity to SAHA against three HDAC isoforms (HDAC1, 3, 6). The western blot assay showed significant difference in compared with the negative group. When used as probe for further kinematic imaging, Probe 1 showed enhanced retention in tumor cells and the potential of HDAC inhibitors in drug delivery was firstly brought out. The cytotoxicity assay showed Probe 1 had some anti-proliferation activities with corresponding IC values of 9.20 ± 0.96 μM on Hela cells and 5.91 ± 0.57 μM on MDA-MB-231 cells. These results indicated that Probe 1 could be used as a potential NIR fluorescent in the study of HDAC inhibitors and lead compound for the development of visible drugs.
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Chem Commun (Camb)
January 2025
Marshall Laboratory of Biomedical Engineering, International Cancer Center, Guangdong Key Laboratory for Biomedical Measurements and Ultrasound Imaging, Laboratory of Evolutionary Theranostics (LET), School of Biomedical Engineering, Shenzhen University Medical School, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen 518055, China.
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Department of Surgery, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA.
Background: Gastric cancer poses a major diagnostic and therapeutic challenge. Improved visualization of tumor margins and lymph node metastases with tumor-specific fluorescent markers could improve outcomes.
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J Med Chem
January 2025
Marshall Laboratory of Biomedical Engineering, International Cancer Center, Laboratory of Evolutionary Theranostics (LET), School of Biomedical Engineering, Shenzhen University Medical School, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen 518055, China.
Endowing cyanine dyes with hydrophilicity, long blood circulation, tumor targeting, and robust therapeutic efficacy in the second near-infrared (NIR-II) window is challenging for cancer treatment. Herein, we develop cancer cell membrane-coated albumin-NIR-II cyanine dye assemblies, denoted as LZ-1105@HAm, to optimize the photophysical properties of cyanine dyes in aqueous solution for NIR-II fluorescence (FL)/photoacoustic (PA)/photothermal (PT) multimodality imaging-guided tumor homologous targeting photothermal therapy. LZ-1105@HAm exhibits good hydrophilicity, extends the half-life of blood circulation from 0.
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March 2025
LIGHT Community, Physics Department, Imperial College London SW7 2AZ, UK.
We recently demonstrated polarisation differential phase contrast microscopy () as a robust, low-cost single-shot implementation of (semi)quantitative phase imaging based on differential phase microscopy. utilises a polarisation-sensitive camera to simultaneously acquire four obliquely transilluminated images from which phase images mapping spatial variation of optical path difference can be calculated. microscopy can be implemented on existing or bespoke microscopes and can utilise radiation at a wide range of visible to near infrared wavelengths and so is straightforward to integrate with fluorescence microscopy.
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University of Macau, Institute of Applied Physics and Materials Engineering, MACAO.
In recent years, carbon dots (CDs) with fluorescence imaging function have been widely used in biomedicine, electronic manufacturing and environmental monitoring. However, monochromatic fluorescence is often limited by the application environment and loses its effectiveness. Here, we carefully designed white fluorescent CDs (WF-CDs) by solvothermal method, which is used for fluorescence imaging applications under different environmental conditions.
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