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Radiolabeled Angiogenesis-Targeting Croconaine Nanoparticles for Trimodality Imaging Guided Photothermal Therapy of Glioma

Year: 2018

Type: article

Abstract: To meet the criteria of effective theranostics, biocompatible nanomedicine endowing intrinsic therapeutic and imaging properties have gained extraordinary momentum. In this study, an ultrastable near-infrared (NIR) dye croconaine (CR780) was engineered with arginine-glycine-aspartic acid (RGD) peptide and polyethylene glycol (PEG), which was then self-assembled into uniform nanoparticles (NPs). These RGD-CR780-PEG5K assemblies were radiolabeled with 125I through a facile standard Iodo-Gen method. The resulting [125I]RGD-CR780-PEG5K NPs showed effective accumulation in αvβ3 integrin expressing glioblastoma, as evidenced by single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT)/CT and NIR fluorescence imaging. More importantly, high-resolution photoacoustic imaging revealed that these NPs selectively targeted angiogenic tumor vessels. With the favorable tumor selective accumulation and high photothermal conversion efficiency, the [125I]RGD-CR780-PEG5K NPs allowed thorough tumor ablation and inhibition of tumor relapse at a relatively low laser energy (0.5 W/cm2). Overall, this work offers a proper methodology to fabricate tumor-targeted multimodal nanotheranostic agents, providing great opportunity for precision imaging and cancer therapy.

Source: ACS Applied Nano Materials

DOI: 10.1021/acsanm.8b00195