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SUBMITTER: Wu X
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5494541 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Wu Xuanjun X Yu Mingzhu M Lin Bijuan B Xing Hongjie H Han Jiahuai J Han Shoufa S
Chemical science 20140925 1
Agents enabling tumor staging are valuable for cancer surgery. Herein, a targetable sialic acid-armed near-infrared profluorophore (SA-pNIR) is reported for fluorescence guided tumor detection. SA-pNIR consists of a sialic acid entity effective for <i>in vivo</i> tumor targeting and a profluorophore which undergoes lysosomal acidity-triggered fluorogenic isomerization. SA-pNIR displays a number of advantageous biomedical properties in mice, <i>e.g.</i> high tumor-to-normal tissue signal contrast ...[more]