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ArticleActa pharmaceutica Sinica. B2018

A novel nitroreductase-enhanced MRI contrast agent and its potential application in bacterial imaging.

Yun Liu, Leilei Zhang, Marc Nazare, Qingqiang Yao, Hai-Yu Hu

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Article in Acta pharmaceutica Sinica. B, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.

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10citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

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10 citing papers in PubMed, 35 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 4 institutions in 2 countries.

Yun LiuSchool of Medicine and Life Sciences, University of Jinan-Shandong Academy of Medical Sciences, Jinan 250200, China.
Leilei ZhangState Key Laboratory of Bioactive Substances and Function of Natural Medicine, Institute of Materia Medica, Peking Union Medical College and Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Beijing 100050, China.
Marc NazareLeibniz-Forschngsinstitut fϋr Molekulare Pharmakologie (FMP), Campus Berlin-Buch, Berlin 13125, Germany.
Qingqiang YaoInstitute of Materia Medica, Shandong Academy of Medical Sciences, Key Laboratory for Biotech-Drugs Ministry of Health, Key Laboratory for Rare & Uncommon Diseases of Shandong Province, Jinan 250062, China.
Hai-Yu HuState Key Laboratory of Bioactive Substances and Function of Natural Medicine, Institute of Materia Medica, Peking Union Medical College and Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Beijing 100050, China.
Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College · CNLeibniz-Forschungsinstitut für Molekulare Pharmakologie · DEShandong First Medical University · CNUniversity of Jinan · CN

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Nitroreductases (NTRs) are known to be able to metabolize nitro-substituted compounds in the presence of reduced nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NADH) as an electron donor. NTRs are present in a wide range of bacterial genera and, to a lesser extent, in eukaryotes hypoxic tumour cells and tumorous tissues, which makes it an appropriate biomarker for an imaging target to detect the hypoxic status of cancer cells and potential bacterial infections. To evaluate the specific activation level of NTR, great efforts have been devoted to the development of fluorescent probes to detect NTR activities using fluorogenic methods to probe its behaviour in a cellular context; however, NTR-responsive MRI contrast agents are still by far underexplored. In this study,

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Bacterial imagingBacterial infectionMRI contrast agentNitroreductaseSmart imaging probes

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