A fluorescently labelled sialic acid for high performance intraoperative tumor detection
A fluorescently labelled sialic acid for high performance intraoperative tumor detection
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用于高性能术中肿瘤检测的荧光标记唾液酸
DOI:
10.1039/c4bm00028e
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发表时间:
2014-01-01
影响因子:
6.6
通讯作者:
Han, Shoufa
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作者:
Wu, Xuanjun;Tian, Yunpeng;Han, Shoufa
Surgical resection is widely used for tumor treatment, necessitating approaches for the precise locating of elusive tumor foci. We report the high performance detection of tumors in mice with fluorescein-isothiocyanate (FITC) labelled sialic acid (FITC-SA), a fluorescent monosaccharide with low cytoxicity. Analysis of mice intravenously injected with FITC-SA revealed high target-to-background fluorescence ratios in subcutaneous tumors and liver tumor implants with 0.2-5 mm diameters, which are significantly below the clinical threshold of minimal residual cancer (similar to 1 cm clearance). Extracellular FITC-SA is quickly cleared from circulation whereas the intracellular FITC-SA could be metabolically incorporated into glycoproteins via a cellular sialylation pathway. Compared with FITC-SA-laden nanoparticles, free FITC-SA is preferentially and quickly taken up by tumors in mice and displays high tumor-to-background signal contrast, suggesting the potential for fluorescence directed surgical ablation of tumors.