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Kim J, Lee J, Choi S, Lee H, Yang J, Jeon H, Sung M, Kim WJ, Kim C. 3D Multiparametric Photoacoustic Computed Tomography of Primary and Metastatic Tumors in Living Mice. ACS NANO 2024; 18:18176-18190. [PMID: 38941553 PMCID: PMC11256897 DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.3c12551] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/12/2023] [Revised: 06/11/2024] [Accepted: 06/13/2024] [Indexed: 06/30/2024]
Abstract
Photoacoustic computed tomography (PACT), an emerging imaging modality in preclinical cancer research, can provide multiparametric 3D information about structures, physiological functions, and pharmacokinetics. Here, we demonstrate the use of high-definition 3D multiparametric PACT imaging of both primary and metastatic tumors in living mice to noninvasively monitor angiogenesis, carcinogenesis, hypoxia, and pharmacokinetics. The high-definition PACT system with a 1024-element hemispherical ultrasound transducer array provides an isotropic spatial resolution of 380 μm, an effective volumetric field-of-view of 12.8 mm × 12.8 mm × 12.8 mm without scanning, and an acquisition time of <30 s for a whole mouse body. Initially, we monitor the structural progression of the tumor microenvironment (e.g., angiogenesis and vessel tortuosity) after tumor cell inoculation. Then, we analyze the change in oxygen saturation of the tumor during carcinogenesis, verifying induced hypoxia in the tumor's core region. Finally, the whole-body pharmacokinetics are photoacoustically imaged after intravenous injection of micelle-loaded IR780 dye, and the in vivo PACT results are validated in vivo and ex vivo by fluorescence imaging. By employing the premium PACT system and applying multiparametric analyses to subcutaneous primary tumors and metastatic liver tumors, we demonstrate that this PACT system can provide multiparametric analyses for comprehensive cancer research.
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Affiliation(s)
- Jiwoong Kim
- Department
of Electrical Engineering, Convergence IT Engineering, Mechanical
Engineering, and Medical Science and Engineering, Medical Device Innovation
Center, Pohang University of Science and
Technology (POSTECH), 77 Cheongam-ro, Nam-gu, Pohang, Gyeongbuk 37673, Republic of Korea
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- Department
of Chemistry, Pohang University of Science
and Technology (POSTECH), 77 Cheongam-ro, Nam-gu, Pohang, Gyeongbuk 37673, Republic of Korea
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- Department
of Electrical Engineering, Convergence IT Engineering, Mechanical
Engineering, and Medical Science and Engineering, Medical Device Innovation
Center, Pohang University of Science and
Technology (POSTECH), 77 Cheongam-ro, Nam-gu, Pohang, Gyeongbuk 37673, Republic of Korea
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- Department
of Chemistry, Pohang University of Science
and Technology (POSTECH), 77 Cheongam-ro, Nam-gu, Pohang, Gyeongbuk 37673, Republic of Korea
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- Department
of Electrical Engineering, Convergence IT Engineering, Mechanical
Engineering, and Medical Science and Engineering, Medical Device Innovation
Center, Pohang University of Science and
Technology (POSTECH), 77 Cheongam-ro, Nam-gu, Pohang, Gyeongbuk 37673, Republic of Korea
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- Department
of Electrical Engineering, Convergence IT Engineering, Mechanical
Engineering, and Medical Science and Engineering, Medical Device Innovation
Center, Pohang University of Science and
Technology (POSTECH), 77 Cheongam-ro, Nam-gu, Pohang, Gyeongbuk 37673, Republic of Korea
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- Department
of Electrical Engineering, Convergence IT Engineering, Mechanical
Engineering, and Medical Science and Engineering, Medical Device Innovation
Center, Pohang University of Science and
Technology (POSTECH), 77 Cheongam-ro, Nam-gu, Pohang, Gyeongbuk 37673, Republic of Korea
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- Department
of Chemistry, Pohang University of Science
and Technology (POSTECH), 77 Cheongam-ro, Nam-gu, Pohang, Gyeongbuk 37673, Republic of Korea
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- Department
of Electrical Engineering, Convergence IT Engineering, Mechanical
Engineering, and Medical Science and Engineering, Medical Device Innovation
Center, Pohang University of Science and
Technology (POSTECH), 77 Cheongam-ro, Nam-gu, Pohang, Gyeongbuk 37673, Republic of Korea
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Wan Y, Chen W, Liu Y, Lee KW, Gao Y, Zhang D, Li Y, Huang Z, Luo J, Lee CS, Li S. Neutral Cyanine: Ultra-Stable NIR-II Merocyanines for Highly Efficient Bioimaging and Tumor-Targeted Phototheranostics. ADVANCED MATERIALS (DEERFIELD BEACH, FLA.) 2024:e2405966. [PMID: 38771978 DOI: 10.1002/adma.202405966] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/26/2024] [Revised: 05/16/2024] [Indexed: 05/23/2024]
Abstract
Fluorescence imaging (FLI)-guided phototheranostics using emission from the second near-infrared (NIR-II) window show significant potential for cancer diagnosis and treatment. Clinical imaging-used polymethine ionic indocyanine green (ICG) dye is widely adopted for NIR fluorescence imaging-guided photothermal therapy (PTT) research due to its exceptional photophysical properties. However, ICG has limitations such as poor photostability, low photothermal conversion efficiency (PCE), short-wavelength emission peak, and liver-targeting issues, which restrict its wider use. In this study, two ionic ICG derivatives are transformed into neutral merocyanines (mCy) to achieve much-enhanced performance for NIR-II cancer phototheranostics. Initial designs of two ionic dyes show similar drawbacks as ICG in terms of poor photostability and low photothermal performance. One of the modified neutral molecules, mCy890, shows significantly improved stability, an emission peak over 1000 nm, and a high photothermal PCE of 51%, all considerably outperform ICG. In vivo studies demonstrate that nanoparticles of the mCy890 can effectively accumulate at the tumor sites for cancer photothermal therapy guided by NIR-II fluorescence imaging. This research provides valuable insights into the development of neutral merocyanines for enhanced cancer phototheranostics.
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- Yingpeng Wan
- College of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Soochow University, Suzhou, 215123, P. R. China
- Center of Super-Diamond and Advanced Films (COSDAF), Department of Chemistry, City University of Hong Kong, 83 Tat Chee Avenue, Kowloon, Hong Kong SAR, 999077, P. R. China
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- Shenzhen Research Institute, City University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, 518057, P. R. China
- Department of Chemistry, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, 999077, P. R. China
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- College of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Soochow University, Suzhou, 215123, P. R. China
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- Center of Super-Diamond and Advanced Films (COSDAF), Department of Chemistry, City University of Hong Kong, 83 Tat Chee Avenue, Kowloon, Hong Kong SAR, 999077, P. R. China
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- College of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Soochow University, Suzhou, 215123, P. R. China
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- Shenzhen Research Institute, City University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, 518057, P. R. China
- Department of Chemistry, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, 999077, P. R. China
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- Center of Super-Diamond and Advanced Films (COSDAF), Department of Chemistry, City University of Hong Kong, 83 Tat Chee Avenue, Kowloon, Hong Kong SAR, 999077, P. R. China
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- College of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Soochow University, Suzhou, 215123, P. R. China
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- Shenzhen Research Institute, City University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, 518057, P. R. China
- Department of Chemistry, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, 999077, P. R. China
- Hong Kong Institute for Clean Energy (HKICE), City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, SAR, 999077, P. R. China
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- Center of Super-Diamond and Advanced Films (COSDAF), Department of Chemistry, City University of Hong Kong, 83 Tat Chee Avenue, Kowloon, Hong Kong SAR, 999077, P. R. China
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- College of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Soochow University, Suzhou, 215123, P. R. China
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Zheng J, Liu H, Chen SH, Huang B, Tang T, Huang P, Cui R. Biosynthesis of CuTe Nanorods with Large Molar Extinction Coefficients for NIR-II Photoacoustic Imaging. Anal Chem 2024; 96:5315-5322. [PMID: 38511619 DOI: 10.1021/acs.analchem.4c00325] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 03/22/2024]
Abstract
Photoacoustic imaging (PAI) in the second near-infrared region (NIR-II), due to deeper tissue penetration and a lower background interference, has attracted widespread concern. However, the development of NIR-II nanoprobes with a large molar extinction coefficient and a high photothermal conversion efficiency (PCE) for PAI and photothermal therapy (PTT) is still a big challenge. In this work, the NIR-II CuTe nanorods (NRs) with large molar extinction coefficients ((1.31 ± 0.01) × 108 cm-1·M-1 at 808 nm, (7.00 ± 0.38) × 107 cm-1·M-1 at 1064 nm) and high PCEs (70% at 808 nm, 48% at 1064 nm) were synthesized by living Staphylococcus aureus (S. aureus) cells as biosynthesis factories. Due to the strong light-absorbing and high photothermal conversion ability, the in vitro PA signals of CuTe NRs were about 6 times that of indocyanine green (ICG) in both NIR-I and NIR-II. In addition, CuTe NRs could effectively inhibit tumor growth through PTT. This work provides a new strategy for developing NIR-II probes with large molar extinction coefficients and high PCEs for NIR-II PAI and PTT.
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- Jie Zheng
- College of Chemistry and Molecular Sciences, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430072, People's Republic of China
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- 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, People's Republic of China
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- College of Chemistry and Molecular Sciences, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430072, People's Republic of China
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- College of Chemistry and Molecular Sciences, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430072, People's Republic of China
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- College of Chemistry and Molecular Sciences, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430072, People's Republic of China
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- 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, People's Republic of China
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- College of Chemistry and Molecular Sciences, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430072, People's Republic of China
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Shi Y, Gao Q, Liu Z, Shen G, Sun X, Di X. Identification of Immune and Hypoxia Risk Classifier to Estimate Immune Microenvironment and Prognosis in Cervical Cancer. JOURNAL OF ONCOLOGY 2022; 2022:6906380. [PMID: 36304989 PMCID: PMC9593224 DOI: 10.1155/2022/6906380] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/13/2022] [Revised: 09/04/2022] [Accepted: 10/01/2022] [Indexed: 11/07/2023]
Abstract
Purpose Cervical cancer (CC) is one of the most common gynecologic neoplasms. Hypoxia is an essential trigger for activating immunosuppressive activity and initiating malignant tumors. However, the determination of the role of immunity and hypoxia on the clinical outcome of CC patients remains unclear. Methods The CC independent cohort were collected from TCGA database. Consensus cluster analysis was employed to determine a molecular subtype based on immune and hypoxia gene sets. Cox relevant analyses were utilized to set up a risk classifier for prognosis assessment. The underlying pathways of classifier genes were detected by GSEA. Moreover, we conducted CIBERSORT algorithm to mirror the immune status of CC samples. Results We observed two cluster related to immune and hypoxia status and found the significant difference in outcome of patients between the two clusters. A total of 251 candidate genes were extracted from the two clusters and enrolled into Cox relevant analyses. Then, seven hub genes (CCL20, CXCL2, ITGA5, PLOD2, PTGS2, TGFBI, and VEGFA) were selected to create an immune and hypoxia-based risk classifier (IHBRC). The IHBRC can precisely distinguish patient risk and estimate clinical outcomes. In addition, IHBRC was closely bound up with tumor associated pathways such as hypoxia, P53 signaling and TGF β signaling. IHBRC was also tightly associated with numerous types of immunocytes. Conclusion This academic research revealed that IHBRC can be served as predictor for prognosis assessment and cancer treatment estimation in CC.
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- Yujing Shi
- Department of Oncology, Jurong People's Hospital, Huayang Town, Jurong City, China
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, Nanjing Jiangning Hospital and the Affiliated Jiangning Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China
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- Department of Oncology, Jurong People's Hospital, Huayang Town, Jurong City, China
- Department of Radiation Oncology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China
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