Progress in the past five years of small organic molecule dyes for tumor microenvironment imaging

S Li, F Huo, C Yin - Chemical Communications, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
The tumor microenvironment (TME) is the survival environment for tumor cell proliferation
and metastasis in deep tissues. Prognostic factors, such as growth, invasion and metastasis …

Image-guided surgery: are we getting the most out of small-molecule prostate-specific-membrane-antigen-targeted tracers?

AW Hensbergen, DM van Willigen… - Bioconjugate …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Expressed on virtually all prostate cancers and their metastases, the transmembrane protein
prostate-specific membrane antigen (PSMA) provides a valuable target for the imaging of …

Development of [68Ga]Ga/[177Lu]Lu-DOTA-NI-FAPI-04 Containing a Nitroimidazole Moiety as New FAPI Radiotracers with Improved Tumor Uptake and Retention

Y Luo, W Jin, J Zang, G Wang, L Zhu… - Journal of Medicinal …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Fibroblast activation protein (FAP), which is overexpressed in cancer-associated fibroblasts
(CAFs), represents a promising target for cancer diagnosis and therapy. Hypoxia is a …

Visualizing tumors in real time: a highly sensitive PSMA probe for NIR-II imaging and intraoperative tumor resection

L Zhang, X Shi, Y Li, X Duan, Z Zhang… - Journal of Medicinal …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Owing to the complex anatomical structure, precise resection of a tumor while maintaining
adjacent tissue is a challenge in radical prostatectomy for prostate cancer (PCa). Optical …

A cell-impermeable luminogenic probe for near-infrared imaging of prostate-specific membrane antigen in prostate cancer microenvironments

X Yang, SC Nao, C Lin, L Kong, J Wang, CN Ko… - European Journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
Prostate-specific membrane antigen (PSMA) imaging probes are a promising tool for the
diagnosis and image-guided surgery of prostate cancer (PCa). However, PSMA-specific …

Ultra-sensitive responsive near-infrared fluorescent nitroreductase probe with strong specificity for imaging tumor and detecting the invasiveness of tumor cells

Y Chen, X Zhang, X Lu, H Wu, D Zhang, B Zhu… - … Acta Part A: Molecular …, 2022 - Elsevier
Hypoxia plays an important role in cancer progression, which is a characteristic feature of
the tumor micro-environment and reflects the invasiveness of tumor cells. Nitroreductase …

Affinity probes based on small-molecule inhibitors for tumor imaging

X Yi, Z Wang, X Hu, A Yu - Frontiers in Oncology, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Methods for molecular imaging of target areas, including optical imaging, radionuclide
imaging, magnetic resonance imaging and other imaging technologies, are helpful for the …

[HTML][HTML] Enhanced optical imaging and fluorescent labeling for visualizing drug molecules within living organisms

T Sun, H Zhao, L Hu, X Shao, Z Lu, Y Wang… - … Pharmaceutica Sinica B, 2024 - Elsevier
The visualization of drugs in living systems has become key techniques in modern
therapeutics. Recent advancements in optical imaging technologies and molecular design …

A novel water-soluble NIR-II cyanine dye for fast targeted through-skull fluorescence imaging of orthotopic glioma

Q Wei, H Jia, H Zhao, W Tang, X Duan - Chemical Communications, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
A novel NIR-II cyanine dye denoted as Sulfo-1100 was designed and synthesized to realize
high-fidelity in vivo imaging of orthotopic glioma. The dye in FBS (10%) and PBS showed …

Novel multifunctional 18F-labelled PET tracer with prostate-specific membrane antigen-targeting and hypoxia-sensitive moieties

YD Kwon, JY Lee, MT La, SJ Lee, SH Lee… - European Journal of …, 2020 - Elsevier
Prostate cancer is one of the most frequently found cancers in men worldwide. Prostate-
specific membrane antigen (PSMA) is typically highly expressed in prostate cancer, and the …