Visualization of protease activity in vivo using an activatable photo-acoustic imaging probe based on CuS nanoparticles

Theranostics

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 134-141

  Yang, Kai ^a,b   Zhu, Lei ^b,c   Nie, Liming ^b   Sun, Xiaolian ^b   Cheng, Liang ^a   Wu, Chenxi ^b   Niu, Gang ^b   Chen, Xiaoyuan ^b   Liu, Zhuang ^a  

^a SOOCHOW UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF BIOMEDICAL IMAGING AND BIOENGINEERING   (United States)

^c XIAMEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Copper sulfide; Enzyme cleavage; MMPs detection; Peptide; Photoacoustic imaging

Indexed keywords

COPPER SULFIDE; ENZYME CLEAVAGE; MMPS DETECTION.; PEPTIDE; PHOTOACOUSTIC IMAGING;

ANIMALS; COPPER; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; MATRIX METALLOPROTEINASES; MICE, NUDE; NANOPARTICLES; NEOPLASMS; PHOTOACOUSTIC TECHNIQUES;

EID: 84893574648     PISSN: None     EISSN: 18387640     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7150/thno.7217     Document Type: Article

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