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Real-Time In Vivo Detection of Cellular Senescence through the Controlled Release of the NIR Fluorescent Dye Nile Blue.

Beatriz Lozano-TorresJuan F BlandezIrene GalianaAlba García-FernándezMaría AlfonsoMaría D MarcosMar OrzáezFélix SancenónRamón Martínez-Máñez
Published in: Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English) (2020)
In vivo detection of cellular senescence is accomplished by using mesoporous silica nanoparticles loaded with the NIR-FDA approved Nile blue (NB) dye and capped with a galactohexasaccharide (S3). NB emission at 672 nm is highly quenched inside S3, yet a remarkable emission enhancement is observed upon cap hydrolysis in the presence of β-galactosidase and dye release. The efficacy of the probe to detect cellular senescence is tested in vitro in melanoma SK-Mel-103 and breast cancer 4T1 cells and in vivo in palbociclib-treated BALB/cByJ mice bearing breast cancer tumor.
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