Faculty of Chemistry, Northeast Normal University, Changchun, 130024, P.R. China.
School of Chemistry and Environmental Engineering, Changchun University of Science and Technology, Changchun, 130022, P.R. China.
Small. 2015 Jul;11(26):3162-73. doi: 10.1002/smll.201403517. Epub 2015 Mar 5.
Engineering novel theranostic agents with both imaging and therapeutic functions have profound impact on molecular diagnostics, imaging, and therapeutics. In this paper, we develop for the first time a simple, scalable, and reproducible route to synthesize novel multifunctional spherical Au nanoclusters assemblies encapsulated by a polyacylic acid (PAA)/calcium phosphate (CaP) shell with aggregation enhanced fluorescence property (designated as AuNCs-A@PAA/CaP). Furthermore, the resulting AuNCs-A@PAA/CaP nanoparticles (NPs) possess a high payload of doxorubicin as synergetic pH-sensitive drug delivery vehicles to employ for dual-modal computed tomography (CT) and fluorescence imaging-guided liver cancer chemotherapy in vivo. The results reveal that AuNCs-A@PAA/CaP NPs not only provide excellent bimodal CT and fluorescence contrast imaging but also present efficient tumor ablation under the guidance of CT and fluorescence imaging, to achieve excellent chemotherapeutic efficacy to the hepatocarcinoma cell line (H-22) bearing mice through intravenous injection. Comprehensive blood tests and careful histological examinations reveal no apparent toxicity of AuNCs-A@PAA/CaP NPs. Our work highlights the great promise of AuNCs-A@PAA/CaP NPs for guiding and monitoring the chemotherapeutic process using simultaneous dual-modality CT and fluorescence imaging through a single theranostic agent.
工程具有成像和治疗功能的新型治疗诊断试剂对分子诊断、成像和治疗有深远的影响。在本文中,我们首次开发了一种简单、可扩展且可重复的方法来合成新型多功能球形 Au 纳米团簇组装体,其被聚(丙烯酸)(PAA)/磷酸钙(CaP)壳包裹,具有聚集增强荧光特性(命名为 AuNCs-A@PAA/CaP)。此外,所得到的 AuNCs-A@PAA/CaP 纳米颗粒(NPs)具有高载药量的阿霉素作为协同 pH 敏感药物递送载体,用于在体内进行双模式计算机断层扫描(CT)和荧光成像引导的肝癌化疗。结果表明,AuNCs-A@PAA/CaP NPs 不仅提供了出色的双模式 CT 和荧光对比成像,而且在 CT 和荧光成像的指导下还能实现有效的肿瘤消融,通过静脉注射实现对荷肝癌细胞系(H-22)小鼠的优异化疗效果。全面的血液测试和仔细的组织学检查表明,AuNCs-A@PAA/CaP NPs 没有明显的毒性。我们的工作突出了 AuNCs-A@PAA/CaP NPs 的巨大应用潜力,通过单一治疗诊断试剂,利用同时的双模式 CT 和荧光成像来指导和监测化疗过程。
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