Nature Communications (Feb 2021)

Facilitation of molecular motion to develop turn-on photoacoustic bioprobe for detecting nitric oxide in encephalitis

  • Ji Qi,
  • Leyan Feng,
  • Xiaoyan Zhang,
  • Haoke Zhang,
  • Liwen Huang,
  • Yutong Zhou,
  • Zheng Zhao,
  • Xingchen Duan,
  • Fei Xu,
  • Ryan T. K. Kwok,
  • Jacky W. Y. Lam,
  • Dan Ding,
  • Xue Xue,
  • Ben Zhong Tang

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-21208-1
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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Nitric oxide plays key roles in regulating many pathological processes and it is important to monitor NO and related diseases. Here, the authors report on the development of a molecular motion based NO responsive photoacoustic probe and demonstrate application in detecting encephalitis in vivo.