Journal
ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION
Volume 56, Issue 15, Pages 4165-4169Publisher
WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH
DOI: 10.1002/anie.201612020
Keywords
biosensors; fluorescent probes; hepatotoxicity; nanotechnology; paracetamol
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- A*STAR Joint Council Office [JCO/1231AFG028]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [NSFC/21622504]
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Drug toxicity is a long-standing concern of modern medicine. A typical anti-pain/fever drug paracetamol often causes hepatotoxicity due to peroxynitrite ONOO-. Conventional blood tests fail to offer real-time unambiguous visualization of such hepatotoxicity in vivo. Here we report a luminescent approach to evaluate acute hepatotoxicity in vivo by chromophore-conjugated upconversion nanoparticles. Upon injection, these nanoprobes mainly accumulate in the liver and the luminescence of nanoparticles remains suppressed owing to energy transfer to the chromophore. ONOO- can readily bleach the chromophore and thus recover the luminescence, the presence of ONOO- in the liver leads to fast restoring of the near-infrared emission. Taking advantages of the high tissue-penetration capability of near-infrared excitation/emission, these nanoprobes achieve real-time monitoring of hepatotoxicity in living animals, thereby providing a convenient screening strategy for assessing hepatotoxicity of synthetic drugs.
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