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Monitoring Hg2+ and MeHg+ poisoning in living body with an activatable near-infrared II fluorescence probe
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Noninvasively imaging mercury poisoning in living organisms is critical to understanding its toxicity and treatments. Especially, simultaneous fluorescence imaging of Hg 2+ and MeHg+in vivo is helpful to disclose the mysteries of mercury poisoning. The key limitation for mercury imaging in vivo is the low imaging signal-to-background ratio (SBR) and limited imaging depth, which may result in unreliable detection results. Here, we designed and prepared a near-infrared II (NIR II) emissive probe, NIR-Rh-MS, leveraging the "spirolactam ring-open" tactic of xanthene dyes for in situ visualization of mercury toxicity in mice. The probe produces a marked fluorescence signal at 1015 nm and displays good linear responses to Hg 2+ and MeHg+ with excellent sensitivity, respectively. The penetration experiments elucidate that the activated NIR-II fluorescence signal of the probe penetrates to a depth of up to 7 mm in simulated tissues. Impressively, the probe can monitor the toxicity of Hg 2+ in mouse livers and the accumulation of MeHg+ in mouse brains via intravital NIR-II imaging for the first time. Thus, we believe that detecting Hg 2+ and MeHg+ in different organs with a single NIR-II fluorescence probe in mice would assuredly advance the toxicologic study of mercury poisoning in vivo.
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“Notably, NIR-Rh-MS successfully traversed the BBB, achieving for the first time the tracking of MeHg+ accumulation in the mouse brain.”
From Organic small-molecule NIR-II fluorophores for tumor phototheranostics (2026) · cites this paper as [174]
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“Xanthene dyes, particularly rhodamines and fluoresceins, have attracted considerable attention in biomedical imaging owing to their outstanding photophysical properties, including high molar absorptivity, excellent photostability, facile functionalization, and tunable emission”
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“Liu et al. designed and synthesized a novel activatable NIR-II probe, NIR-Rh-MS, based on the xanthene “spirolactam close/open-switched fluorescence” strategy (Fig. 18b)174.”
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“This probe specifically responded to both Hg2+ and MeHg+, exhibiting concentration-dependent fluorescence enhancement at 1015 nm with detection limits of 40 nM and 1.14 μM, respectively.”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Ye, M., Xiang, Y., Gong, J., Wang, X., Mao, Z., & Liu, Z.
- Affiliations
- Wuhan University (CN)
- Hubei University (CN)
- Corresponding author
- Mao, Zhiqiang
- Liu, Zhihong
- Venue
- Journal of Hazardous Materials
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2023-03
- Volume
- 445
- Pages
- 130612
- ISSN
- 0304-3894 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W4311752065
- Cited by
- 37
- References
- 56
- Citations by year
- 2026: 9 · 2025: 10 · 2024: 11 · 2023: 7
- FWCI
- 2.53
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Licence
- Locations
- Journal of Hazardous Materials (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- National Natural Science Foundation of China (21625503, 22174034)
- Natural Science Foundation of Hubei Province (2021CFB305)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Chemistry › Spectroscopy › Molecular Sensors and Ion Detection
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis › Mercury impact and mitigation studies
- Physical Sciences › Materials Science › Materials Chemistry › Luminescence and Fluorescent Materials
- Keywords
- mercury toxicity, mercury(II) detection, methylmercury, spirolactam ring opening, xanthene dyes, intravital imaging, noninvasive in vivo imaging, imaging depth
- MeSH terms
- Animals, Benzopyrans, Coloring Agents, Fluorescent Dyes, Mercury, Mercury Poisoning, Spectroscopy, Near-Infrared, Mice
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