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SUBMITTER: Kang H
PROVIDER: S-EPMC8881361 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Kang Homan H Shamim Md M Yin Xiaoran X Adluru Eeswar E Fukuda Takeshi T Yokomizo Shinya S Chang Hyejin H Park Seung Hun SH Cui Yanan Y Moy Austin J AJ Kashiwagi Satoshi S Henary Maged M Choi Hak Soo HS
Advanced materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.) 20220118 8
The strategy of structure-inherent tumor targeting (SITT) with cyanine-based fluorophores is receiving more attention because no chemical conjugation of targeting moieties is required. However, the targeting mechanism behind SITT has not yet been well explained. Here, it is demonstrated that heptamethine-cyanine-based fluorophores possess not only targetability of tumor microenvironments without the need for additional targeting ligands but also second near-infrared spectral window (NIR-II) imag ...[more]