A Multitheragnostic Nanobubble System to Induce Blood-Brain Barrier Disruption with Magnetically Guided Focused Ultrasound
A Multitheragnostic Nanobubble System to Induce Blood-Brain Barrier Disruption with Magnetically Guided Focused Ultrasound
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DOI:
10.1002/adma.201403889
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发表时间:
2015-01-27
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29.4
通讯作者:
Chen, You-Yin
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作者:
Huang, Hsin-Yang;Liu, Hao-Li;Chen, You-Yin
DOI: 10.1002/adma. 201403889 because they can penetrate tumor blood vessel pores for targeted imaging.[7] MNBs intrinsically provide a relatively low US scattering efficiency in comparison to micrometer-sized bubbles, making it difficult to induce enough acoustic cavitation activity to successfully disrupt the BBB.[8] Recently, there have been efforts to develop new structured bubbles to promote microstreaming and enhance the endothelium permeability [9] or to locally increase bubble concentration to produce sufficient activity cavitation.[10] It is still very challenging to use nanometer-sized bubbles to induce BBB disruption with minimal damage to brain tissue in vivo. We therefore hypothesized that by designing novel magnetically guidable (MG) MNBs and employing magnetic guidance to actively increase the local nanobubble concentration, it may enable successful BBB disruption for secure brain drug delivery or therapy. In this study, we synthesized MG theranostic MNBs with dual-modality contrast to concurrently perform FUS-induced BBB disruption and MRI/US dual-modality contrast agent imaging by embedding the super-paramagnetic iron oxide (SPIO) nanoparticles in a silica shell in MNBs.As illustrated in Scheme 1, the proposed MNBs have the potential to become effective US contrast agents and excellent MR susceptibility contrast agents. Interestingly, this is distinct from previous reports [11] on BBB disruption with lipid-based and micrometer-sized bubbles instead of the proposed magnetically silica-based nanometer-sized bubbles. A key feature in this case is the double-targeting scenario; MNBs are first magnetically guided to the nontarget side by an external magnetic field and then FUS exposure is used to locally disrupt the targeted BBB. The accumulated MNBs can increase the BBB disruption efficiency and enhance both US and MR imaging contrast intensity through accumulated MG-guided MNBs. Figure 1 illustrates the synthesis process for MNBs. We fabricated the bubble agents with a monodispersed distribution to provide maximum excitation efficiency. Polystyrene (PS) particles were used as a core template to form the sub-micrometer-sized MNBs. To adjust the shell properties, including the shell stiffness, porosity, and hydrophilicity, octyltriethoxysilane (OTES), tetraethyl orthosilicate (TEOS), and (3-aminopropyl) triethoxysilane (APTES) were used (Figure 1 a). First, the attachment of OTES to the SPIO surface through the organic affinity from the oleic acid conjugation was the key step to modify the surface charge, leading to OTES-modified SPIO nanoparticles that can be easily electrostatically attached to the positively charged PS core particles (shown in Figure 1 b). The zeta potential of the OTES-modified SPIO nanoparticles was measured