Perylene Diimide-Grafted Polymeric Nanoparticles Chelated with Gd3+ for Photoacoustic/T1-Weighted Magnetic Resonance Imaging-Guided Photothermal Therapy

Xiaoming Hu, Feng Lu, Liang Chen, Yufu Tang, Wenbo Hu, Xiaomei Lu, Yu Ji, Zhen Yang, Wansu Zhang, Chao Yin, Wei Huang, Quli Fan

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Abstract

Developing versatile and easily prepared nanomaterials with both imaging and therapeutic properties have received significant attention in cancer diagnostics and therapeutics. Here, we facilely fabricated Gd3+-chelated poly(isobutylene-alt-maleic anhydride) (PMA) framework pendent with perylene-3,4,9,10-tetracarboxylic diimide (PDI) derivatives and poly(ethylene glycol) (PEG) as an efficient theranostic platform for dual-modal photoacoustic imaging (PAI) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)-guided photothermal therapy. The obtained polymeric nanoparticles (NPs) chelated with Gd3+ (PMA-PDI-PEG-Gd NPs) exhibited a high T1 relaxivity coefficient (13.95 mM-1 s-1) even at the higher magnetic fields. After 3.5 h of tail vein injection of PMA-PDI-PEG-Gd NPs, the tumor areas showed conspicuous enhancement in both photoacoustic signal and T1-weighted MRI intensity, indicating the efficient accumulation of PMA-PDI-PEG-Gd NPs owing to the enhanced permeation and retention effect. In addition, the excellent tumor ablation therapeutic effect in vivo was demonstrated with living mice. Overall, our work illustrated a straightforward synthetic strategy for engineering multifunctional polymeric nanoparticles for dual-modal imaging to obtain more accurate information for efficient diagnosis and therapy.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)30458-30469
Number of pages12
JournalACS Applied Materials and Interfaces
Volume9
Issue number36
DOIs
StatePublished - 13 Sep 2017
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • gadolinium ion
  • magnetic resonance imaging
  • multifunctional polymeric nanoparticle
  • photoacoustic imaging
  • photothermal therapy

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