Latest developments in molecular tracers for fluorescence image-guided cancer surgery

S Hernot, L van Manen, P Debie, JSD Mieog… - The lancet …, 2019 - thelancet.com
Real-time intraoperative guidance is essential during oncological surgery for complete and
safe tumour resection. Fluorescence imaging in the near-infrared spectrum has shown …

Nanobodies and nanobody-based human heavy chain antibodies as antitumor therapeutics

P Bannas, J Hambach, F Koch-Nolte - Frontiers in immunology, 2017 - frontiersin.org
Monoclonal antibodies have revolutionized cancer therapy. However, delivery to tumor cells
in vivo is hampered by the large size (150 kDa) of conventional antibodies. The minimal …

Method to diversify cyanine chromophore functionality enables improved biomolecule tracking and intracellular imaging

SM Usama, SC Marker, DH Li… - Journal of the …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Heptamethine indocyanines are invaluable probes for near-infrared (NIR) imaging. Despite
broad use, there are only a few synthetic methods to assemble these molecules, and each …

Amyloid-β and tau complexity—towards improved biomarkers and targeted therapies

JC Polanco, C Li, LG Bodea… - Nature Reviews …, 2018 - nature.com
Most neurodegenerative diseases are proteinopathies, which are characterized by the
aggregation of misfolded proteins. Although many proteins have an intrinsic propensity to …

Doubly Strapped Zwitterionic NIR‐I and NIR‐II Heptamethine Cyanine Dyes for Bioconjugation and Fluorescence Imaging

DH Li, RS Gamage, AG Oliver, NL Patel… - Angewandte …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Heptamethine cyanine dyes enable deep tissue fluorescence imaging in the near infrared
(NIR) window. Small molecule conjugates of the benchmark dye ZW800‐1 have been tested …

Nanobody: outstanding features for diagnostic and therapeutic applications

JP Salvador, L Vilaplana, MP Marco - Analytical and bioanalytical …, 2019 - Springer
Nanobodies (Nbs) have arisen as an alternative to conventional antibodies (Abs) and show
great potential when used as tools in different biotechnology fields such as diagnostics and …

[HTML][HTML] Size and affinity kinetics of nanobodies influence targeting and penetration of solid tumours

P Debie, C Lafont, M Defrise, I Hansen… - Journal of Controlled …, 2020 - Elsevier
A compound's intratumoural distribution is an important determinant for the effectiveness of
molecular therapy or imaging. Antibodies (Abs), though often used in the design of targeted …

[PDF][PDF] Nanobody—A versatile tool for cancer diagnosis and therapeutics

M Liu, L Li, D Jin, Y Liu - Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews …, 2021 - researchgate.net
In spite of the successful use of monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) in clinic for tumor treatment,
their applications are still hampered in therapeutic development due to limitations, such as …

Nanobodies: robust miniprotein binders in biomedicine

JYJ Kim, Z Sang, Y Xiang, Z Shen, Y Shi - Advanced Drug Delivery …, 2023 - Elsevier
Variable domains of heavy chain-only antibodies (VHH), also known as nanobodies (Nbs),
are monomeric antigen-binding domains derived from the camelid heavy chain-only …

Sterically shielded heptamethine cyanine dyes for bioconjugation and high performance near‐infrared fluorescence imaging

DH Li, CL Schreiber, BD Smith - Angewandte Chemie, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The near‐infrared window of fluorescent heptamethine cyanine dyes greatly facilitates
biological imaging because there is deep penetration of the light and negligible background …