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Clinical applications of current photodynamic therapy (PDT) photosensitizers (PSs) are often limited by their absorption in the UV-vis range that possesses limited tissue penetration ability, leading to ineffective therapeutic response for deep-seated tumors. Alternatively, two-photon excited PS (TPE-PS) using NIR light triggered is one the most promising candidates for PDT improvement. Herein, multimodal polymer nanoparticles (PNPs) from polythiophene derivative as two-photon fluorescence imaging as well as two-photon-excited PDT agent are developed. The prepared PNPs exhibit excellent water dispersibility, high photostability and pH stability, strong fluorescence brightness, and low dark toxicity. More importantly, the PNPs also possess other outstanding features including: (1) the high 1 O2 quantum yield; (2) the strong two-photon-induced fluorescence and efficient 1 O2 generation; (3) the specific accumulation in lysosomes of HeLa cells; and (4) the imaging detection depth up to 2100 µm in the mock tissue under two-photon. The multifunctional PNPs are promising candidates as TPE-PDT agent for simultaneous cellular, deep-tissue imaging, and highly efficient in vivo PDT of cancer.
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Imagenología Tridimensional , Nanopartículas/química , Fotoquimioterapia/métodos , Fotones , Fármacos Fotosensibilizantes/farmacología , Polímeros/química , Animales , Femenino , Células HeLa , Humanos , Ratones Endogámicos BALB C , Ratones Desnudos , Microscopía Fluorescente , Nanopartículas/ultraestructuraRESUMEN
This communication provides a facile method for distributing and dispersing molecules within a molecular template. Using the self-assembled template of oligo(phenylene-ethynylene) (OPE), organic molecules such as coronene (COR) and biomolecules such as tripeptide are controllably distributed and dispersed within this molecular template on highly oriented pyrolytic graphite (HOPG) surfaces. COR molecules were controllably distributed into various regular arrays by simply adjusting the molecular molar ratio, while tripeptide molecules were uniformly positioned at the vacancies of the OPE template.