在体内,衰老成像纳米探针针对相关的活性氧物种
Seung Koo Lee1, Myung Shin Han1, Ching-Hsuan Tung1
1Molecular Imaging Innovations Institute, Department of Radiology, Weill Cornell Medicine, 413 East 69th Street, Box 290, New York, NY 10021, USA. sel2013@med.cornell.edu.
Nanoscale
|December 22, 2023
概括
研究人员开发了一种新的近红外纳米探针D3,用于实时成像细胞衰老. 这种探测器专门检测瘤中与衰老相关的活性氧物种 (ROS),为衰老和癌症研究提供了一种新工具.
科学领域:
- 生物医学工程 生物医学工程
- 分子成像学分子成像学
- 细胞生物学 细胞生物学
背景情况:
- 细胞衰老是一种不可逆转的细胞循环停止状态,与衰老和癌症有关.
- 反应性氧物种 (ROS) 在诱导和维持衰老中发挥着关键作用.
- 目前在体内检测衰老的方法有限.
研究的目的:
- 设计和验证一种新的近红外化纳米探针 (D3),用于实时对细胞衰老进行成像.
- 调查D3对与衰老相关的ROS的特异性.
- 评估D3在体内成像衰老瘤的实用性.
主要方法:
- 设计和合成D3纳米探测器,近红外化探测器被高ROS水平激活.
- 在ROS.通过D3的激活机制的体外验证.
- 系统注射D3到老化瘤携带的小鼠中,用于体内成像.
- 在衰老与非衰老瘤中光信号的量化.
主要成果:
- D3纳米探针仅在存在高度升高的ROS水平时才会呈现光,这是衰老细胞的特征.
- D3在全身注射后,在衰老的瘤中特别积累.
- 衰老瘤中的光信号强度是不衰老瘤的3倍.
- 由于ROS水平较低,非衰老细胞在光学上保持沉默.
结论:
- D3纳米探针代表了一种新而强大的工具,用于对生物体细胞衰老的非侵入性实时成像和评估.
- 这项技术具有很大的潜力,可以通过精确识别衰老细胞和瘤来推动衰老和癌症的研究.
- D3的独特激活机制为开发向分子成像剂提供了新的策略.
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