The design of small-molecule prodrugs and activatable phototherapeutics for cancer therapy

HH Han, HM Wang, P Jangili, M Li, L Wu… - Chemical Society …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Cancer remains as one of the most significant health problems, with approximately 19
million people diagnosed worldwide each year. Chemotherapy is a routinely used method to …

Activity-based NIR fluorescent probes based on the versatile hemicyanine scaffold: design strategy, biomedical applications, and outlook

H Li, H Kim, F Xu, J Han, Q Yao, J Wang, K Pu… - Chemical Society …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
The discovery of a near-infrared (NIR, 650–900 nm) fluorescent chromophore hemicyanine
dye with high structural tailorability is of great significance in the field of detection …

Near-infrared (NIR) fluorescence-emitting small organic molecules for cancer imaging and therapy

H Li, Y Kim, H Jung, JY Hyun, I Shin - Chemical Society Reviews, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Near-infrared (NIR) fluorophores have unique features that endow them with several
advantages over conventional shorter wavelength emitting dyes. As a result, they have been …

Design of superior phototheranostic agents guided by Jablonski diagrams

G Feng, GQ Zhang, D Ding - Chemical Society Reviews, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Phototheranostics represents a promising direction for modern precision medicine, which
has recently attracted great research interest from multidisciplinary research areas. Organic …

Molecular imaging and disease theranostics with renal-clearable optical agents

P Cheng, K Pu - Nature Reviews Materials, 2021 - nature.com
Optical imaging in disease diagnosis and treatment benefits from high spatiotemporal
resolution and the availability of numerous optical agents. However, many optical imaging …

Chemical design of activatable photoacoustic probes for precise biomedical applications

Y Liu, L Teng, B Yin, H Meng, X Yin, S Huan… - Chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Photoacoustic (PA) imaging technology, a three-dimensional hybrid imaging modality that
integrates the advantage of optical and acoustic imaging, has great application prospects in …

Hemicyanine‐based near‐infrared activatable probes for imaging and diagnosis of diseases

Z Zeng, SS Liew, X Wei, K Pu - Angewandte Chemie, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Molecular activatable probes with near‐infrared (NIR) fluorescence play a critical role in in
vivo imaging of biomarkers for drug screening and disease diagnosis. With structural …

Fluorescent probes for the detection of disease-associated biomarkers

WT Dou, HH Han, AC Sedgwick, GB Zhu, Y Zang… - Science Bulletin, 2022 - Elsevier
Fluorescent probes have emerged as indispensable chemical tools to the field of chemical
biology and medicine. The ability to detect intracellular species and monitor physiological …

Biomedical polymers: synthesis, properties, and applications

WH Chen, QW Chen, Q Chen, C Cui, S Duan… - Science China …, 2022 - Springer
Biomedical polymers have been extensively developed for promising applications in a lot of
biomedical fields, such as therapeutic medicine delivery, disease detection and diagnosis …

Activity‐based NIR enzyme fluorescent probes for the diagnosis of tumors and image‐guided surgery

H Li, D Kim, Q Yao, H Ge, J Chung, J Fan… - Angewandte …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Near‐infrared (NIR) activatable fluorescent probes have been considered to be the effective
edge tools for the investigation of cell biology and disease diagnosis because of their …