PMID- 33435676 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20210302 LR - 20240226 IS - 1944-8252 (Electronic) IS - 1944-8244 (Linking) VI - 13 IP - 3 DP - 2021 Jan 27 TI - Sandwich-Type Near-Infrared Conjugated Polymer Nanoparticles for Revealing the Fate of Transplanted Human Umbilical Cord Mesenchymal Stem Cells. PG - 3512-3520 LID - 10.1021/acsami.0c13815 [doi] AB - Near-infrared conjugated polymer nanoparticles (NIR-CPNs) have been widely used in in vivo imaging fields. However, most of them face the aggregation-induced fluorescence quenching (ACQ) dilemma and serious dye leakage behavior, which impedes the long-term monitoring of transplanted cells in vivo. In the present work, a novel strategy of sandwich-type encapsulation of the conjugated polymer interlayer in the crystalline SiO(2) core + shell ((S)SiO(2)@(S)PFTBT@(C)SiO(2)) is developed, which works well to avoid the ACQ problem by homogeneously dispersing poly((9,9-dioctylfluorene-2,7-diyl)-alt-(4,7-di(thiophene-2-yl)-2,1,3-benzothiadiazole)-5',5''-diyl) (PFTBT) and suppressing intermolecular pi-pi stacking. Furthermore, the unparalleled nanostructure efficiently stabilizes nanoparticles and successfully achieves long-term biocompatibility without interfering the biological characteristics of stem cells, indicating the potential of (S)SiO(2)@(S)PFTBT@(C)SiO(2) in cell labeling. In addition, the fate of human umbilical cord mesenchymal stem cells (hucMSCs) in a mouse model with acute liver injury was disclosed. We found that the hucMSCs mainly migrated from the lungs to the injured liver and most transplanted hucMSCs were cleared up by the liver at 8 days post-injection. Revelation of the shuttle process and period will benefit in improving the clinical efficacy of hucMSCs, and the sandwich-type encapsulation strategy could also open a new avenue to obtain bright and robust NIR-CPNs for long-term fluorescence imaging. FAU - Zhang, Junhong AU - Zhang J AD - State Key Laboratory of Bioreactor Engineering, East China University of Science and Technology, 130 Meilong Road, Shanghai 200237, P. R. China. FAU - Mohsin, Ali AU - Mohsin A AD - State Key Laboratory of Bioreactor Engineering, East China University of Science and Technology, 130 Meilong Road, Shanghai 200237, P. R. China. FAU - Peng, Yan AU - Peng Y AD - State Key Laboratory of Bioreactor Engineering, East China University of Science and Technology, 130 Meilong Road, Shanghai 200237, P. R. China. FAU - Dai, Yichen AU - Dai Y AD - State Key Laboratory of Bioreactor Engineering, East China University of Science and Technology, 130 Meilong Road, Shanghai 200237, P. R. China. FAU - Zhuang, Yingping AU - Zhuang Y AUID- ORCID: 0000-0002-6772-7306 AD - State Key Laboratory of Bioreactor Engineering, East China University of Science and Technology, 130 Meilong Road, Shanghai 200237, P. R. China. FAU - Guo, Meijin AU - Guo M AUID- ORCID: 0000-0002-3171-4802 AD - State Key Laboratory of Bioreactor Engineering, East China University of Science and Technology, 130 Meilong Road, Shanghai 200237, P. R. China. FAU - Zhao, Peng AU - Zhao P AUID- ORCID: 0000-0003-2380-2869 AD - School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, State Key Laboratory of Metal Matrix Composites, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, 800 Dong Chuan Road, Shanghai 200240, P. R. China. LA - eng PT - Journal Article DEP - 20210113 PL - United States TA - ACS Appl Mater Interfaces JT - ACS applied materials & interfaces JID - 101504991 RN - 0 (Polymers) RN - 0 (Thiadiazoles) RN - 0 (Thiophenes) RN - 25233-34-5 (polythiophene) RN - 273-77-8 (benzo-1,2,3-thiadiazole) RN - 7631-86-9 (Silicon Dioxide) SB - IM MH - Acute Lung Injury/diagnostic imaging/therapy MH - Animals MH - Cell Line MH - Cell Tracking/*methods MH - Humans MH - Male MH - Mesenchymal Stem Cell Transplantation MH - Mesenchymal Stem Cells/*cytology MH - Mice, Inbred BALB C MH - Nanoparticles/*chemistry MH - Optical Imaging/*methods MH - Polymers/*chemistry MH - Silicon Dioxide/chemistry MH - Thiadiazoles/chemistry MH - Thiophenes/*chemistry MH - Umbilical Cord/cytology MH - Mice OTO - NOTNLM OT - NIR fluorescence OT - conjugated polymer nanoparticles OT - hucMSCs OT - in vivo imaging OT - sandwich-type encapsulation EDAT- 2021/01/14 06:00 MHDA- 2021/03/03 06:00 CRDT- 2021/01/13 05:40 PHST- 2021/01/14 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2021/03/03 06:00 [medline] PHST- 2021/01/13 05:40 [entrez] AID - 10.1021/acsami.0c13815 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - ACS Appl Mater Interfaces. 2021 Jan 27;13(3):3512-3520. doi: 10.1021/acsami.0c13815. Epub 2021 Jan 13.