PMID- 36854197 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20230322 LR - 20230322 IS - 2050-6120 (Electronic) IS - 2050-6120 (Linking) VI - 11 IP - 2 DP - 2023 Mar 21 TI - Fluorescent carbon dots tailored iron oxide nano hybrid system forin vivooptical imaging of liver fibrosis. LID - 10.1088/2050-6120/acc009 [doi] AB - Hybrid nanoparticles are innovative invention of last decade designed to overcome limitations of single-component nanoparticles by introducing multiple functionalities through combining two or more different nanoparticles. In this study, we are reporting development of magneto-fluorescent hybrid nanoparticles by combining iron oxide and carbon nanoparticles to enablein vivofluorescence imaging which also has all the required characteristic properties to use as Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) contrast agent. In order to achieve dual-functional imaging, alginate and pullulan coated super paramagnetic iron oxide nanoparticles (ASPION and PSPION) and Carbon dots (Cdts) were synthesised separately. ASPIONs and PSPIONs were further chemically conjugated with Cdts and developed dual-functional nanohybrid particles ASPION-Cdts and PSPION-Cdts. Subsequently, evaluation of the materials for its size, functionalisation efficiency, fluorescence and magnetic properties, biocompatibility and cellular uptake efficiency has been carried out. Fluorescence imaging of liver fibrosis was performedin vivoin rodent model of liver fibrosis using the two nanohybrids, which is further confirmed by high fluorescence signal from the harvested liver. CI - (c) 2023 IOP Publishing Ltd. FAU - Nazeer, Shaiju S AU - Nazeer SS AUID- ORCID: 0000-0002-8409-1426 AD - Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Space Sciences and Technology, Thiruvananthapuram-695547, Kerala, India. AD - Division of Biophotonics and Imaging, Biomedical Technology Wing, Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences &Technology, Poojappura, Thiruvananthapuram-695012, Kerala, India. FAU - Saraswathy, Ariya AU - Saraswathy A AD - Department of Physics, HHMSPBNSS College, Thiruvananthapuram-695040, Kerala, India. AD - Division of Biophotonics and Imaging, Biomedical Technology Wing, Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences &Technology, Poojappura, Thiruvananthapuram-695012, Kerala, India. FAU - Nimi, Nirmala AU - Nimi N AD - Division of Biophotonics and Imaging, Biomedical Technology Wing, Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences &Technology, Poojappura, Thiruvananthapuram-695012, Kerala, India. FAU - Sarathkumar, Elangovan AU - Sarathkumar E AUID- ORCID: 0000-0002-1221-8803 AD - Division of Biophotonics and Imaging, Biomedical Technology Wing, Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences &Technology, Poojappura, Thiruvananthapuram-695012, Kerala, India. FAU - Resmi, A N AU - Resmi AN AD - Division of Biophotonics and Imaging, Biomedical Technology Wing, Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences &Technology, Poojappura, Thiruvananthapuram-695012, Kerala, India. FAU - Shenoy, Sachin J AU - Shenoy SJ AD - Division of In Vivo Models and Testing, Biomedical Technology Wing, Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences &Technology, Poojappura, Thiruvananthapuram-695012, Kerala, India. FAU - Jayasree, Ramapurath S AU - Jayasree RS AUID- ORCID: 0000-0001-6810-9879 AD - Division of Biophotonics and Imaging, Biomedical Technology Wing, Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences &Technology, Poojappura, Thiruvananthapuram-695012, Kerala, India. LA - eng PT - Journal Article DEP - 20230321 PL - England TA - Methods Appl Fluoresc JT - Methods and applications in fluorescence JID - 101608648 RN - 1K09F3G675 (ferric oxide) RN - 7440-44-0 (Carbon) RN - 0 (Ferric Compounds) RN - 0 (Contrast Media) SB - IM MH - Humans MH - *Carbon/chemistry MH - Ferric Compounds/chemistry MH - Liver Cirrhosis/chemically induced/diagnostic imaging MH - *Nanoparticles/chemistry MH - Contrast Media/chemistry OTO - NOTNLM OT - carbon dots OT - fluorescence imaging OT - hybrid nanoparticles OT - liver fibrosis OT - magnetic resonance imaging OT - magneto-optic material OT - multimodality imaging EDAT- 2023/03/01 06:00 MHDA- 2023/03/23 06:00 CRDT- 2023/02/28 17:52 PHST- 2022/03/28 00:00 [received] PHST- 2023/02/28 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2023/03/01 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2023/03/23 06:00 [medline] PHST- 2023/02/28 17:52 [entrez] AID - 10.1088/2050-6120/acc009 [doi] PST - epublish SO - Methods Appl Fluoresc. 2023 Mar 21;11(2). doi: 10.1088/2050-6120/acc009.