Recent advances in near-infrared II fluorophores for multifunctional biomedical imaging

F Ding, Y Zhan, X Lu, Y Sun - Chemical science, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
In recent years, owing to unsatisfactory clinical imaging clarity and depths in the living body
for early diagnosis and prognosis, novel imaging modalities with high bioimaging …

Organic small molecule-based photothermal agents for cancer therapy: Design strategies from single-molecule optimization to synergistic enhancement

Z Ding, Y Gu, C Zheng, Y Gu, J Yang, D Li, Y Xu… - Coordination Chemistry …, 2022 - Elsevier
Organic photothermal agents have received increasing attention in the past few decades
due to their excellent biocompatibility and flexible chemical modification and …

Donor engineering for NIR-II molecular fluorophores with enhanced fluorescent performance

Q Yang, Z Hu, S Zhu, R Ma, H Ma, Z Ma… - Journal of the …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Organic fluorophores have been widely used for biological imaging in the visible and the
first near-infrared windows. However, their application in the second near-infrared window …

Small-molecule fluorescent probes and their design

Y Fu, NS Finney - RSC advances, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
Small-molecule fluorescent probes have become powerful tools for using light to advance
the study of cell biology, discover new drugs, detect environmental contaminants, and further …

A practical guide for the use of indocyanine green and methylene blue in fluorescence‐guided abdominal surgery

L van Manen, HJM Handgraaf, M Diana… - Journal of surgical …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Near‐infrared (NIR) fluorescence imaging is gaining clinical acceptance over the last years
and has been used for detection of lymph nodes, several tumor types, vital structures and …

Mitochondria-targetable small molecule fluorescent probes for the detection of cancer-associated biomarkers: A review

X Yu, Y Huang, Y Tao, L Fan, Y Zhang - Analytica Chimica Acta, 2024 - Elsevier
Cancer represents a global threat to human health, and effective strategies for improved
cancer early diagnosis and treatment are urgently needed. The detection of tumor …

Engineered extracellular vesicles as intelligent nanosystems for next-generation nanomedicine

Z Fan, C Jiang, Y Wang, K Wang, J Marsh… - Nanoscale …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Extracellular vesicles (EVs), as natural carriers of bioactive cargo, have a unique
micro/nanostructure, bioactive composition, and characteristic morphology, as well as …

Functionalized acrylonitriles with aggregation-induced emission: structure tuning by simple reaction-condition variation, efficient red emission, and two-photon …

G Niu, X Zheng, Z Zhao, H Zhang, J Wang… - Journal of the …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Acrylonitriles with aggregation-induced emission (AIE) characteristics have been found to
show promising applications in two-photon biomedical imaging. Generally, elaborate …

Fluorescent benzothiadiazole derivatives as fluorescence imaging dyes: a decade of new generation probes

BAD Neto, JR Correa, J Spencer - Chemistry–A European …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The current review describes advances in the use of fluorescent 2, 1, 3‐benzothiadiazole
(BTD) derivatives after nearly one decade since the first description of bioimaging …

Specific two-photon imaging of live cellular and deep-tissue lipid droplets by lipophilic AIEgens at ultralow concentration

G Niu, R Zhang, JPC Kwong, JWY Lam… - Chemistry of …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Lipid droplets are highly associated with obesity, diabetes, inflammatory disorders, and
cancer. A reliable two-photon dye for specific lipid droplets imaging in live cells and live …