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Bioimaging Tools Based on Polyelectrolyte Microcapsules Encoded with Fluorescent Semiconductor Nanoparticles: Design and Characterization of the Fluorescent Properties
Fluorescent imaging is a widely used technique for detecting and monitoring the distribution, interaction, and transformation processes at molecular, cellular, and tissue level in modern diagnostic and other biomedical applications. Unique photophysical properties of fluorescent semiconductor nanocr...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6338610/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30659369 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s11671-019-2859-4 |
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author | Nifontova, Galina Efimov, Anton Agapova, Olga Agapov, Igor Nabiev, Igor Sukhanova, Alyona |
author_facet | Nifontova, Galina Efimov, Anton Agapova, Olga Agapov, Igor Nabiev, Igor Sukhanova, Alyona |
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description | Fluorescent imaging is a widely used technique for detecting and monitoring the distribution, interaction, and transformation processes at molecular, cellular, and tissue level in modern diagnostic and other biomedical applications. Unique photophysical properties of fluorescent semiconductor nanocrystals “quantum dots” (QDs) make them advanced fluorophores for fluorescent labeling of biomolecules or optical encoding of microparticles to be used as bioimaging and theranostic agents in targeted delivery, visualization, diagnostics, and imaging. This paper reports on the results of development of an improved approach to the optical encoding of polyelectrolyte microcapsules with stable, covered with the multifunctional polyethyleneglycol derivatives water-soluble QDs, as well as characterization of the optical properties, morphological and structural properties of the encoded microcapsules. The embedding of QDs into the polymer microcapsule membrane through layer-by-layer deposition on a preliminarily formed polymeric polyelectrolyte shell makes it possible to obtain bright fluorescent particles with an adapted charge and size distribution that are distinctly discernible by flow cytometry as individual homogeneous populations. The fluorescent microcapsules developed can be used in further designing bioimaging and theranostic agents sensitive to various external stimuli along with photoexcitation. |
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spelling | pubmed-63386102019-02-01 Bioimaging Tools Based on Polyelectrolyte Microcapsules Encoded with Fluorescent Semiconductor Nanoparticles: Design and Characterization of the Fluorescent Properties Nifontova, Galina Efimov, Anton Agapova, Olga Agapov, Igor Nabiev, Igor Sukhanova, Alyona Nanoscale Res Lett Nano Express Fluorescent imaging is a widely used technique for detecting and monitoring the distribution, interaction, and transformation processes at molecular, cellular, and tissue level in modern diagnostic and other biomedical applications. Unique photophysical properties of fluorescent semiconductor nanocrystals “quantum dots” (QDs) make them advanced fluorophores for fluorescent labeling of biomolecules or optical encoding of microparticles to be used as bioimaging and theranostic agents in targeted delivery, visualization, diagnostics, and imaging. This paper reports on the results of development of an improved approach to the optical encoding of polyelectrolyte microcapsules with stable, covered with the multifunctional polyethyleneglycol derivatives water-soluble QDs, as well as characterization of the optical properties, morphological and structural properties of the encoded microcapsules. The embedding of QDs into the polymer microcapsule membrane through layer-by-layer deposition on a preliminarily formed polymeric polyelectrolyte shell makes it possible to obtain bright fluorescent particles with an adapted charge and size distribution that are distinctly discernible by flow cytometry as individual homogeneous populations. The fluorescent microcapsules developed can be used in further designing bioimaging and theranostic agents sensitive to various external stimuli along with photoexcitation. Springer US 2019-01-18 /pmc/articles/PMC6338610/ /pubmed/30659369 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s11671-019-2859-4 Text en © The Author(s). 2019 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. |
spellingShingle | Nano Express Nifontova, Galina Efimov, Anton Agapova, Olga Agapov, Igor Nabiev, Igor Sukhanova, Alyona Bioimaging Tools Based on Polyelectrolyte Microcapsules Encoded with Fluorescent Semiconductor Nanoparticles: Design and Characterization of the Fluorescent Properties |
title | Bioimaging Tools Based on Polyelectrolyte Microcapsules Encoded with Fluorescent Semiconductor Nanoparticles: Design and Characterization of the Fluorescent Properties |
title_full | Bioimaging Tools Based on Polyelectrolyte Microcapsules Encoded with Fluorescent Semiconductor Nanoparticles: Design and Characterization of the Fluorescent Properties |
title_fullStr | Bioimaging Tools Based on Polyelectrolyte Microcapsules Encoded with Fluorescent Semiconductor Nanoparticles: Design and Characterization of the Fluorescent Properties |
title_full_unstemmed | Bioimaging Tools Based on Polyelectrolyte Microcapsules Encoded with Fluorescent Semiconductor Nanoparticles: Design and Characterization of the Fluorescent Properties |
title_short | Bioimaging Tools Based on Polyelectrolyte Microcapsules Encoded with Fluorescent Semiconductor Nanoparticles: Design and Characterization of the Fluorescent Properties |
title_sort | bioimaging tools based on polyelectrolyte microcapsules encoded with fluorescent semiconductor nanoparticles: design and characterization of the fluorescent properties |
topic | Nano Express |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6338610/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30659369 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s11671-019-2859-4 |
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