Recent progress in NIR-II fluorescence imaging-guided drug delivery for cancer theranostics

S Roy, N Bag, S Bardhan, I Hasan, B Guo - Advanced drug delivery reviews, 2023 - Elsevier
Fluorescence imaging in the second near-infrared window (NIR-II) has become a prevalent
choice owing to its appealing advantages like deep penetration depth, low …

Design of NIR-II high performance organic small molecule fluorescent probes and summary of their biomedical applications

X Liu, B Yu, Y Shen, H Cong - Coordination Chemistry Reviews, 2022 - Elsevier
Near-infrared fluorescence imaging has gained a lot of attention in biomedicine by virtue of
its high sensitivity, high specificity, and many other advantages. Moreover, near-infrared II …

Recent advances in near‐infrared‐II fluorescence imaging for deep‐tissue molecular analysis and cancer diagnosis

X Meng, X Pang, K Zhang, C Gong, J Yang, H Dong… - Small, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Fluorescence imaging with high sensitivity and minimal invasiveness has received
tremendous attention, which can accomplish visualized monitoring and evaluation of cancer …

Design strategies and applications of cyanine dyes in phototherapy

J Yuan, H Yang, W Huang, S Liu, H Zhang… - Chemical Society …, 2025 - pubs.rsc.org
Cyanine dyes have been widely used in phototherapy in recent years due to their excellent
optical properties and diverse modifiable structures. This review provides detailed …

Recent advances in fluorescence imaging-guided photothermal therapy and photodynamic therapy for cancer: From near-infrared-I to near-infrared-II

H Luo, S Gao - Journal of Controlled Release, 2023 - Elsevier
Phototherapy (including photothermal therapy, PTT; and photodynamic therapy, PDT) has
been widely used for cancer treatment, but conventional PTT/PDT show limited therapeutic …

[HTML][HTML] Nanoparticles-based phototherapy systems for cancer treatment: Current status and clinical potential

J Li, S Wang, F Fontana, C Tapeinos, MA Shahbazi… - Bioactive Materials, 2023 - Elsevier
Remarkable progress in phototherapy has been made in recent decades, due to its non-
invasiveness and instant therapeutic efficacy. In addition, with the rapid development of …

Synergistic chemotherapy and phototherapy based on red blood cell biomimetic nanomaterials

D Meng, S Yang, Y Yang, L Zhang, L Cui - Journal of Controlled Release, 2022 - Elsevier
Novel drug delivery systems (DDSs) have become the mainstay of research in targeted
cancer therapy. By combining different therapeutic strategies, potential DDSs and …

Tumor-microenvironment-responsive poly-prodrug encapsulated semiconducting polymer nanosystem for phototherapy-boosted chemotherapy

J Zhu, Y Zhang, Z Li, X Bao, Y Zhou, B Ma, Y Xie… - Materials …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Phototherapy-induced hypoxia in the tumor microenvironment (TME) is responsible for
diminished therapeutic efficacy. Designing an intelligent nanosystem capable of responding …

Near-infrared boron–dipyrrin (BODIPY) nanomaterials: Molecular design and anti-tumor therapeutics

Y Li, M Jiang, M Yan, J Ye, Y Li, W Dehaen… - Coordination Chemistry …, 2024 - Elsevier
New integrated cancer therapy and diagnosis strategies, such as fluorescence imaging,
photodynamic therapy, and photothermal therapy, have become a major research topic …

Small-molecule photoacoustic imaging probe with aggregation-enhanced amplitude for real-time visualization of acute kidney injury

W Zhang, F Cai, H Xu, Y Wu, X Yu, L Sun… - Analytical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Acute kidney injury (AKI) has become a growing issue for patients with the extensive use of
all kinds of drugs in clinic. Photoacoustic (PA) imaging provides a noninvasive and real-time …