Construction of CNA35 Collagen-Targeted Phase-Changeable Nanoagents for Low-Intensity Focused Ultrasound-Triggered Ultrasound Molecular Imaging of Myocardial Fibrosis in Rabbits

Myocardial fibrosis plays an important role in the development of heart failure and malignant arrhythmia, which potentially increases the incidence of sudden cardiac death. Therefore, early detection of myocardial fibrosis is of great significance for evaluating the prognosis of patients and formula...

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Published in:ACS applied materials & interfaces 2019-07, Vol.11 (26), p.23006-23017
Main Authors: Zhou, Qin, Zeng, Yalin, Xiong, Qingsong, Zhong, Shigen, Li, Pan, Ran, Haitao, Yin, Yuehui, Reutelingsperger, Chris, Prinze, Frits W, Ling, Zhiyu
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Language:English
Subjects:
Animals
Cardiomyopathies - diagnostic imaging
Cardiomyopathies - pathology
Collagen - chemistry
Disease Models, Animal
Fibrosis - diagnostic imaging
Fibrosis - pathology
Heart - diagnostic imaging
Heart - physiopathology
Humans
Myocardium - pathology
Nanocomposites - chemistry
Nanocomposites - therapeutic use
Nanoparticles - chemistry
Rabbits
Ultrasonography - methods
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Summary:Myocardial fibrosis plays an important role in the development of heart failure and malignant arrhythmia, which potentially increases the incidence of sudden cardiac death. Therefore, early detection of myocardial fibrosis is of great significance for evaluating the prognosis of patients and formulating appropriate treatment strategies. Late gadolinium-enhanced magnetic resonance imaging is considered as the currently effective strategy for noninvasive detection of myocardial fibrosis, but it still suffers from some critical issues. In this work, multifunctional CNA35-labeled perfluoropentane nanoparticles (CNA35-PFP NPs) have been elaborately designed and constructed for molecular imaging of fibrotic myocardium based on ultrasound imaging. These as-constructed CNA35-PFP NPs are intravenously infused into rabbit circulation with an animal model of myocardial infarction. Especially, these targeted CNA35-PFP NPs with nanoscale size could efficiently pass through the endothelial cell gap and adhere to the surface of fibroblasts in the fibrotic myocardium. Importantly, followed by low-intensity focused ultrasound irradiation on the myocardium, these intriguing CNA35-PFP NPs could transform from liquid into gaseous microbubbles, which further significantly enhanced the ultrasound contrast in the fibrotic area, facilitating the detection by diagnostic ultrasound imaging. Therefore, this work provides a desirable noninvasive, economical, and real-time imaging technique for the assessment of cardiac fibrosis with diagnostic ultrasound based on the rational design of liquid-to-gas phase-changeable nanoplatforms.
ISSN:1944-8244
1944-8252
DOI:10.1021/acsami.9b05999