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Single-walled carbon nanohorns-based smart nanotheranostic: From phototherapy to enzyme-activated fluorescence imaging-guided photodynamic therapy
- Source :
- Journal of Colloid and Interface Science. 628:273-286
- Publication Year :
- 2022
- Publisher :
- Elsevier BV, 2022.
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Abstract
- Phototheranostics, a local non-invasive approach that integrates light-based diagnostics and therapeutics, enables precise treatment using nanotheranostic agents with minimal damage to normal tissues. However, ensuring high-efficiency ablation of cancer cells using phototheranostics for one time irradiation is highly challenging. Herein, we designed and synthesized a single-walled carbon nanohorns-based nanotheranostic agent, HA-IR808-SWNHs, by loading IR808, a photosensitizer, conjugated hyaluronic acid (HA) with an amide bond on the surface of single-walled carbon nanohorns (SWNHs) through noncovalent π-π interaction by the sonication method. The HA in HA-IR808-SWNHs improves the water dispersibility of SWNHs and endows SWNHs with targeting capabilities. Importantly, overexpressed endogenous hyaluronidase in cancer cells actively disassembles HA-IR808-SWNHs, forming small HA-IR808 fragments. The fragments exhibit a strong fluorescence signal and can be used to guide programmed photodynamic therapy for sequentially eliminating the residual living cancer cells. The current study confirms that HA-IR808-SWNHs is an endogenous enzyme-responsive nanotheranostic agent that can be employed to precisely track and ablate residual cancer cells in a spatiotemporal manner. The results strengthen the understanding of SWNH functionalization and expand its potential biomedical application, especially in cancer theranostics.
Details
- ISSN :
- 00219797
- Volume :
- 628
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Journal of Colloid and Interface Science
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....e862d40c00f013b37d28b9d1fe5e43ab