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Targeting carbon nanotubes based on IGF-1R for photothermal therapy of orthotopic pancreatic cancer guided by optical imaging
摘要： Pancreatic cancer is one of the most lethal malignancies worldwide. The existing therapeutic regimen in the clinic for advanced inoperable carcinomas are far from satisfactory, thus it is urgent to seek more effective anticancer strategies. In the pursuit of novel, more effective interventions, photothermal therapy (PTT) based on nanomaterials has attracted increased attention. Recent advances in related fields have catalyzed the generation of novel nanoprobes, such as organic dyes, metal nanoparticles. However, organic dyes are poorly stable and easy to quench while metal nanoparticles with potential metal toxicity are difficult to degrade, both of which have low light-to-heat conversion efficiency, broad spectrum of anti-tumor effects, and lack of tumor targeting specificity. Single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWNTs) can remedy the above inadequacies. Herein, we report our water-soluble, bio-stable and low-toxicity SWNTs with excellent photothermal conversion efficiency. Specific modifications can enable visualization of the aggregate characteristics of SWNTs at the macroscopic or microscopic level in tumors. The dye-conjugated SWNTs bound with targeting antibodies that can induce them specifically targeting to pancreatic tumors for purposes of performing dyes imaging-guided cytotoxic PTT. PTT using this method achieves precise and excellent curative effects with minimal adverse effects, thus providing a promising strategy for anticancer therapy.
关键词： Single-walled carbon nanotubes,Imaging,IGF-1R,Pancreatic cancer,Photothermal therapy
更新于2025-09-23 15:23:52
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Optische Koh?renztomografie
摘要： With telematics and technologies like “Digital Impression”, “CAD/CAM” or “3D-radiography” the digitalization has reached the dental practice by now. The desire for more efficient diagnostics is especially addressed by 3D-radiography. A noninvasive imaging technology with a considerable diagnostic potential is the optical coherence tomography. In this article, promising examples of OCT use in operative dentistry are presented that raise expectations of a wide range of applications of this innovative technology in dentistry.
关键词： restoration assessment,caries diagnosis,optical coherence tomography,restorative therapy with composite,monitoring,tomography
更新于2025-09-23 15:23:52
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Photodynamic therapy versus endoscopic submucosal dissection for management of patients with early esophageal neoplasia: a retrospective study
摘要： Background: Photodynamic therapy (PDT) and endoscopic submucosal dissection (ESD) have been proposed as a treatment for early esophageal neoplasia. The objective of this study is to compare between the clinical outcome after ESD and PDT to reach the best management for early esophageal neoplasia. Methods: All patients undergoing ESD or PDT for early esophageal neoplasia between 2014 and 2015 were eligible for the study. A retrospective analysis for comparison between the results of ESD and PDT was done. Results: 36 patients underwent ESD and Thirty PDT. No significant difference was found between the two groups regarding the demographic or pathologic data. Also, there was no significant difference regarding the length of hospital stay, presence of hydrothorax, fever, and pain. Operative time was significantly longer in ESD than in PDT (72 vs. 8 minutes, P<0.001). In addition, bleeding was significantly lower in ESD than PDT (12 vs. 2, P<0.05). There was a significant difference regarding stricture and cost which were less in ESD (6 vs. 15, P<0.05). However, perforation was much more in ESD (6 vs. 0, P<0.05). There was no significant difference between the two groups regarding the disease free survival (DFS), but it was observed that patients who underwent PDT had more favorable 2-year DFS rates than patients received ESD. Conclusions: The PDT may be comparable to the ESD. With the exception of esophageal stenosis, PDT could reduce many complications and have longer DFS in comparison with ESD. PDT is feasible for patients with early esophageal neoplasia confined to the mucosal layer without regional lymph nodal or distant metastasis.
关键词： Photodynamic therapy (PDT),early esophageal neoplasia,endoscopic submucosal dissection (ESD)
更新于2025-09-23 15:23:52
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Measurement of peripheral dose to pelvic region and associated risk for cancer development after breast intraoperative electron radiation therapy
摘要： This study aimed to measure received dose to the pelvic region of patients during breast intraoperative electron radiation therapy (IOERT). Furthermore, we compared the findings with those of external beam radiation therapy. Finally, secondary ovary and uterus cancer risks following breast IOERT were estimated. In the current study, the received dose to the pelvic surface of 18 female patients during breast IOERT boost were measured by thermoluminescent dosimeter (TLD-100) chips. All patients were treated with 12 Gy given in a single fraction. To estimate the dose to the ovary and uterus of the patients, conversion coefficients for depth from surface dose were obtained in a Rando phantom. Given the received dose to the pelvic region of the patients, secondary ovary and uterus cancer risks following breast IOERT were estimated. The received doses to ovary and uterus surface of the patients were 0.260±0.155 mGy to 31.460±6.020 mGy and 0.485±0.122 mGy to 22.387±15.476 mGy, respectively. Corresponding intra-pelvic (ovary and uterus) regional doses were 0.012±0.007 mGy to 1.479±0.283 mGy and 0.027±0.001 mGy to 1.164±0.805 mGy, respectively. Findings demonstrated that the ratio of the received dose by pelvic surface to regional dose during breast IOERT was much less than external beam energies were 135.722±117.331 × 10-6 and 69.958±28.072 × 10-6, and for uterus were 17.342±10.583 × 10-6 and 2.971±3.604 × 10-6, respectively. According to our finding, the use of breast IOERT in pregnant patients can be considered as a safe radiotherapeutic technique, because the received dose to the fetus was lower than 50 mGy. Furthermore, IOERT can efficiently reduce the unnecessary dose to the pelvis region and lowers the risk of a secondary ovary and uterus cancer following breast irradiation.
关键词： Breast cancer,peripheral dose,Radiation therapy,IOERT,Secondary cancer risk,pelvic region
更新于2025-09-23 15:23:52
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Rapid Multisite Remote Surface Dosimetry for Total Skin Electron Therapy: Scintillator Target Imaging
摘要： Verifying radiation-field uniformity in total skin electron therapy is important to ensuring adequate and effective treatment administration. This clinical study presents a novel, scintillation-based, optical-imaging technique for conducting surface dosimetry in patients undergoing total skin electron therapy. The system exceeded the ease of use of established dosimetry techniques at a similar level of accuracy.
关键词： total skin electron therapy,optical imaging,surface dosimetry,scintillator,remote dosimetry
更新于2025-09-23 15:23:52
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A self-illuminating nanoparticle for inflammation imaging and cancer therapy
摘要： Nanoparticles have been extensively used for inflammation imaging and photodynamic therapy of cancer. However, the major translational barriers to most nanoparticle-based imaging and therapy applications are the limited depth of tissue penetration, inevitable requirement of external irradiation, and poor biocompatibility of the nanoparticles. To overcome these critical limitations, we synthesized a sensitive, specific, biodegradable luminescent nanoparticle that is self-assembled from an amphiphilic polymeric conjugate with a luminescent donor (luminol) and a fluorescent acceptor [chlorin e6 (Ce6)] for in vivo luminescence imaging and photodynamic therapy in deep tissues. Mechanistically, reactive oxygen species (ROS) and myeloperoxidase generated in inflammatory sites or the tumor microenvironment trigger bioluminescence resonance energy transfer and the production of singlet oxygen (1O2) from the nanoparticle, enabling in vivo imaging and cancer therapy, respectively. This self-illuminating nanoparticle shows an excellent in vivo imaging capability with suitable tissue penetration and resolution in diverse animal models of inflammation. It is also proven to be a selective, potent, and safe antitumor nanomedicine that specifically kills cancer cells via in situ 1O2 produced in the tumor microenvironment, which contains a high level of ROS.
关键词： photodynamic therapy,cancer therapy,inflammation imaging,reactive oxygen species,myeloperoxidase,bioluminescence resonance energy transfer,nanoparticles
更新于2025-09-23 15:22:29
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Photothermal Ablation of Cancer Cells by Albumin-Modified Gold Nanorods and Activation of Dendritic Cells
摘要： Nanoparticle-mediated photothermal therapy has been widely studied for cancer treatment. It is important to disclose how photothermally ablated tumor cells trigger immune responses. In this study, bovine serum albumin (BSA)-coated gold nanorods (BSA-coated AuNRs) were prepared and used for photothermal ablation of breast tumor cells. The BSA-coated AuNRs showed high photothermal conversion efficiency and good photothermal ablation effect towards tumor cells. The ablated tumor cells were co-cultured with immature dendritic cells (DCs) through a direct cell contacting model and diffusion model to confirm the stimulatory effects of cell–cell interaction and soluble factors released from ablated tumor cells. The results indicated that photothermally ablated tumor cells induced immune-stimulatory responses of DCs through both cell–cell interaction and soluble factors. The results should be useful for synergistic photothermal-immunotherapy of primary and metastatic cancer.
关键词： gold nanorods,cellular uptake,photothermal ablation,cancer therapy,photothermal therapy,immune responses
更新于2025-09-23 15:22:29
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A molecular hybrid producing simultaneously singlet oxygen and nitric oxide by single photon excitation with green light
摘要： Combination of photosensitizers (PS) for photodynamic therapy with NO photodonors (NOPD) is opening intriguing horizons towards new and still underexplored multimodal anticancer and antibacterial treatments not based on “conventional” drugs and entirely controlled by light stimuli. In this contribution, we report an intriguing molecular hybrid based on a BODIPY light-harvesting antenna that acts simultaneously as PS and NOPD upon single photon excitation with the highly biocompatible green light. The presented hybrid offers a combination of superior advantages with respect to the other rare cases reported to date, meeting most of the key criteria for both PSs and NOPDs in the same molecular entity such as: (i) capability to generate 1O2 and NO with single photon excitation of biocompatible visible light, (ii) excellent 1O2 quantum yield and NO quantum efficiency, (iii) photogeneration of NO independent from the presence of oxygen, (iv) large light harvesting properties in the green region. Furthermore, this compound together with its stable photoproduct, is well tolerated by both normal and cancer cells in the dark and exhibits bimodal photomortality of cancer cells under green light excitation due to the combined action of the cytotoxic 1O2 and NO.
关键词： Green light,Nitric oxide,Multimodal therapy,Singlet oxygen,BODIPY,Photodynamic therapy
更新于2025-09-23 15:22:29
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Biodegradable Micelles for NIR/GSH-Triggered Chemophototherapy of Cancer
摘要： The chemotherapy of stimuli-responsive drug delivery systems (SDDSs) is a promising method to enhance cancer treatment effects. However, the low efficiency of chemotherapy drugs and poor degradation partly limit the application of SDDSs. Herein, we report doxorubicin (DOX)-loading mixed micelles for biotin-targeting drug delivery and enhanced photothermal/photodynamic therapy (PTT/PDT). Glutathione (GSH)-responsive mixed micelles were prepared by a dialysis method, proportionally mixing polycaprolactone-disulfide bond-biodegradable photoluminescent polymer (PCL-SS-BPLP) and biotin-polyethylene glycol-cypate (biotin-PEG-cypate). Chemically linking cypate into the mixed micelles greatly improved cypate solubility and PTT/PDT effect. The micelles also exhibited good monodispersity and stability in cell medium (~119.7 nm), low critical micelles concentration, good biodegradation, and photodecomposition. The high concentration of GSH in cancer cells and near-infrared light (NIR)-mediated cypate decomposition were able to achieve DOX centralized release. Meanwhile, the DOX-based chemotherapy combined with cypate-based NIR-triggered hyperthermia and reactive oxygen species could synergistically induce HepG2 cell death and apoptosis. The in vivo experiments confirmed that the micelles generated hyperthermia and achieved a desirable therapeutic effect. Therefore, the designed biodegradable micelles are promising safe nanovehicles for antitumor drug delivery and chemo/PTT/PDT combination therapy.
关键词： photothermal therapy,photodynamic therapy,biodegradable,stimuli-responsive drug delivery systems,cypate
更新于2025-09-23 15:22:29
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Carbon Nanomaterials for Bioimaging, Bioanalysis, and Therapy || Photoacoustic Imaging with Carbon Nanomaterials
摘要： Photoacoustic imaging is a novel, noninvasive biomedical imaging modality that has evolved considerably over the last few decades. As a label‐free imaging modality using both endogenous and exogenous contrast agent it has shown many advantages to safely and effectively differentiate diseased tissue from healthy tissues at a deeper depth. While endogenous light‐absorbing objects in living subjects such as hemoglobin, melanin, and glucose, have been useful in imaging, the use of exogenous contrast agents can improve the detection sensitivity and specific tissue‐targeting capabilities of photoacoustic imaging modality further. The carbon nanomaterial has been found to be one of the best contrast agents for photoacoustic imaging, which has strong absorption properties and great biocompatibility. This chapter covers the basic introduction of photoacoustic imaging and the application of carbon nanomaterials contrast agent such as imaging‐guided therapy and multimodal imaging in photoacoustic imaging.
关键词： photoacoustic imaging,contrast agents,photothermal therapy,photodynamic therapy,multimodal imaging,biomedical imaging,carbon nanomaterials
更新于2025-09-23 15:22:29