Manganese porphyrin-incorporated conjugated polymer nanoparticles for T1-enhanced magnetic resonance and fluorescent imaging
作者:Tianshe Yang、Wenguo Feng、Changyong Hu、Zhuang Lv、Huanjie Wei、Jiayang Jiang、Shujuan Liu、Qiang Zhao
DOI:10.1016/j.ica.2017.06.014
日期:2017.9
Conjugated polymer nanoparticles (CPNs) possess many useful and fascinating properties, including high brightness, excellent photostability, good water-dispersibility, low cytotoxicity, and easy functionalization, showing promising application in bioimaging. In this work, one kind of optical/magnetic conjugated polyelectrolyte has been designed and synthesized by introducing Mn(III) porphyrin (T-1-weighted relaxivity) into a fluorescent fluorene based polymer backbone. Fluorescent/magnetic conjugated polymer nanoparticles (FM-CPNs) were prepared by self-assembly in the phosphate buffer solution caused by their amphiphilic structures with hydrophobic backbones and hydrophilic side chains. Their photophysical properties have been investigated in details via UV-vis absorption and fluorescent emission spectra. Investigation of its magnetic properties has shown that the FM-CPNs exhibit high T-1-weighted relaxivity value, making them promising candidates for T-1-enhanced magnetic resonance imaging agent. Further cell imaging has been realized successfully using FM-CPNs as staining label, and cytotoxicity was evaluated by the methyl thiazolyl tetrazolium (MTT) assay. (C) 2017 Published by Elsevier B.V.