Imaging macrophages with nanoparticles

R Weissleder, M Nahrendorf, MJ Pittet - Nature materials, 2014 - nature.com
Nanomaterials have much to offer, not only in deciphering innate immune cell biology and
tracking cells, but also in advancing personalized clinical care by providing diagnostic and …

Towards clinically translatable in vivo nanodiagnostics

S Park, A Aalipour, O Vermesh, JH Yu… - Nature Reviews …, 2017 - nature.com
Nanodiagnostics as a field makes use of fundamental advances in nanobiotechnology to
diagnose, characterize and manage disease at the molecular scale. As these strategies …

Combinatorial hydrogel library enables identification of materials that mitigate the foreign body response in primates

AJ Vegas, O Veiseh, JC Doloff, M Ma, HH Tam… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
The foreign body response is an immune-mediated reaction that can lead to the failure of
implanted medical devices and discomfort for the recipient,,,,,. There is a critical need for …

Near-infrared fluorescence: application to in vivo molecular imaging

SA Hilderbrand, R Weissleder - Current opinion in chemical biology, 2010 - Elsevier
Molecular imaging often relies on the use of targeted and activatable reporters to quantitate
and visualize targets, biological processes, and cells in vivo. The use of optical probes with …

[HTML][HTML] Pre-clinical whole-body fluorescence imaging: Review of instruments, methods and applications

F Leblond, SC Davis, PA Valdés, BW Pogue - Journal of photochemistry …, 2010 - Elsevier
Fluorescence sampling of cellular function is widely used in all aspects of biology, allowing
the visualization of cellular and sub-cellular biological processes with spatial resolutions in …

Myeloid suppressor cells in cancer and autoimmunity

A Sica, M Massarotti - Journal of autoimmunity, 2017 - Elsevier
A bottleneck for immunotherapy of cancer is the immunosuppressive microenvironment in
which the tumor cells proliferate. Cancers harness the immune regulatory mechanism that …

Stem cell imaging: from bench to bedside

PK Nguyen, J Riegler, JC Wu - Cell stem cell, 2014 - cell.com
Although cellular therapies hold great promise for the treatment of human disease, results
from several initial clinical trials have not shown a level of efficacy required for their use as a …

Iron-based superparamagnetic nanoparticle contrast agents for MRI of infection and inflammation

A Neuwelt, N Sidhu, CAA Hu, G Mlady… - American Journal of …, 2015 - Am Roentgen Ray Soc
OBJECTIVE. In this article, we summarize the progress to date on the use of
superparamagnetic iron oxide nanoparticles (SPIONs) as contrast agents for MRI of …

Functional imaging of proteases: recent advances in the design and application of substrate-based and activity-based probes

LE Edgington, M Verdoes, M Bogyo - Current opinion in chemical biology, 2011 - Elsevier
Proteases are enzymes that cleave peptide bonds in protein substrates. This process can be
important for regulated turnover of a target protein but it can also produce protein fragments …

The perfect storm: HLA antibodies, complement, FcγRs, and endothelium in transplant rejection

KA Thomas, NM Valenzuela, EF Reed - Trends in molecular medicine, 2015 - cell.com
The pathophysiology of antibody-mediated rejection (AMR) in solid organ transplants is
multifaceted and predominantly caused by antibodies directed against polymorphic donor …