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ArticleNano letters2021

Nanodiamond Theranostic for Light-Controlled Intracellular Heating and Nanoscale Temperature Sensing.

Yingke Wu, Md Noor A Alam, Priyadharshini Balasubramanian, Anna Ermakova, Stephan Fischer, Holger Barth, Manfred Wagner, Marco Raabe, Fedor Jelezko, Tanja Weil

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Article in Nano letters, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 29 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

29 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

10 authors.

Yingke WuMax Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Ackermannweg 10, 55128 Mainz, Germany.
Md Noor A AlamMax Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Ackermannweg 10, 55128 Mainz, Germany.ORCID 0000-0003-3246-3803
Priyadharshini BalasubramanianInstitute for Quantum Optics, Ulm University, Albert-Einstein-Allee 11, 89081 Ulm, Germany.ORCID 0000-0003-3699-8864
Anna ErmakovaMax Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Ackermannweg 10, 55128 Mainz, Germany.
Stephan FischerInstitute of Pharmacology and Toxicology, University of Ulm Medical Center, 89081 Ulm, Germany.
Holger BarthInstitute of Pharmacology and Toxicology, University of Ulm Medical Center, 89081 Ulm, Germany.
Manfred WagnerMax Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Ackermannweg 10, 55128 Mainz, Germany.
Marco RaabeMax Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Ackermannweg 10, 55128 Mainz, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-3677-6615
Fedor JelezkoInstitute for Quantum Optics, Ulm University, Albert-Einstein-Allee 11, 89081 Ulm, Germany.
Tanja WeilMax Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Ackermannweg 10, 55128 Mainz, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-5906-7205

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Temperature is an essential parameter in all biological systems, but information about the actual temperature in living cells is limited. Especially, in photothermal therapy, local intracellular temperature changes induce cell death but the local temperature gradients are not known. Highly sensitive nanothermometers would be required to measure and report local temperature changes independent of the intracellular environment, including pH or ions. Fluorescent nanodiamonds (ND) enable temperature sensing at the nanoscale independent of external conditions. Herein, we prepare ND nanothermometers coated with a nanogel shell and the photothermal agent indocyanine green serves as a heat generator and sensor. Upon irradiation, programmed cell death was induced in cancer cells with high spatial control. In parallel, the increase in local temperature was recorded by the ND nanothermometers. This approach represents a great step forward to record local temperature changes in different cellular environments inside cells and correlate these with thermal biology.

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NanodiamondsHeatingHot TemperaturePrecision MedicineTemperatureNanodiamondsintracellular temperature manipulation and sensingnanodiamondnanogelphotothermal application

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PMID33881327
PMCPMC8289278

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