Calcium sulfide based nanoreservoirs elicit dual pyroptosis pathways for enhanced anti-tumor immunity

Q Yu, Q Li, L Tu, Y Zhou, H Zhu, Q Zhang, M Liu… - Chemical Engineering …, 2023 - Elsevier
The therapeutic efficacy of immunotherapy for most solid tumors is unsatisfactory due to the
“immune-cold” nature. As a form of lytic pro-inflammatory programmed cell death, pyroptosis …

Recent developments in carbon dots: a biomedical application perspective

L Tu, Q Li, S Qiu, M Li, J Shin, P Wu, N Singh… - Journal of Materials …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Recently, newly developed carbon-based nanomaterials known as carbon dots (CDs) have
generated significant interest in nanomedicine. However, current knowledge regarding CD …

Recent advances in luminescent metallacycles/metallacages for biomedical imaging and cancer therapy

Y Pang, C Li, H Deng, Y Sun - Dalton Transactions, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Small molecule metal-based drugs have shown great achievements in preclinical and
clinical applications. In particular, platinum based antitumor drugs are well established in …

A fluorogenic probe for SNAP-tag protein based on ESPT ratiometric signals

J Li, Q Qiao, Y Ruan, N Xu, W Zhou, G Zhang… - Chinese Chemical …, 2023 - Elsevier
Protein self-labeling tags achieve selective fusion and labeling of target proteins through
genetic coding technology, but require exogenous fluorescent probes with fluorogenicity for …

Near-infrared fluorescent Aza-BODIPY dyes: Rational structural design and biomedical imaging

B Zhao, L Liao, Y Zhu, Z Hu, F Wu - Journal of Luminescence, 2023 - Elsevier
Near-infrared dyes have attracted widespread attention due to their intense absorption and
emission in the near-infrared region. As an important class of heteroatom-containing …

Aggregation-enhanced photophysical performance of D-π-A structured hemicyanine for NIR-II fluorescent and photoacoustic imaging-guided photothermal therapy

B Li, E Pang, S Zhao, G Deng, S Wang… - … & Biomedical Imaging, 2023 - ACS Publications
Near-infrared (NIR)-II fluorescence and photoacoustic (PA) dual-model imaging-guided
photothermal therapy (PTT) can precisely diagnose and treat tumors and evaluate the …

Enzyme-Instructed Aggregation/Dispersion of Fluorophores for Near-Infrared Fluorescence Imaging In Vivo

Z Zhang, P Chen, Y Sun - Molecules, 2023 - mdpi.com
Near-infrared (NIR) fluorescence is a noninvasive, highly sensitive, and high-resolution
modality with great potential for in vivo imaging. Compared with “Always-On” probes …

Luminescent terpyridine-based metallo-supramolecular systems: from design to applications

C Guo, F Su, P Su, X Yu, X Li - Science China Chemistry, 2023 - Springer
Luminescent metallo-supramolecules have received tremendous attention in recent years
owing to their diverse yet well-defined structures, tunable luminescent properties, and broad …

Rationally designed Ru (ii) metallacycles with tunable imidazole ligands for synergistical chemo-phototherapy of cancer

L Tu, C Li, C Liu, S Bai, J Yang, X Zhang, L Xu… - Chemical …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Herein, we construct a series of Ru (II) metallacycles with multimodal chemo-
phototherapeutic properties, which exhibited much higher anticancer activity and better …

Dual colorimetric and near-infrared fluorescence probe for Hg2+ detection and cell imaging

SC Pei, CZ Li, XY Pei, WH Zeng, YY Zhang… - … Acta Part A: Molecular …, 2023 - Elsevier
Hg 2+ in the environment endangers human health, and a convenient monitoring method is
needed for the detection of Hg 2+. In this study, we constructed a dual colorimetric near …