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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2024

Single-particle imaging of nanomedicine entering the brain.

Mian Wei, Naixin Qian, Xin Gao, Xiaoqi Lang, Donghui Song, Wei Min

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

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9citing papers in PubMed
9.9field-weighted citation impact, top 2% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

9 citing papers in PubMed, 15 citations in OpenAlex.

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  3. Bond-Selective Imaging at the Frontier of Biomedicine.Chemical & biomedical imaging · 2025
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  7. Principle of Stimulated Raman Scattering Microscopy: Emerging at High Spatiotemporal Limits.The journal of physical chemistry. C, Nanomaterials and interfaces · 2025
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Mian WeiDepartment of Chemistry, Columbia University, New York, NY 10027.ORCID 0000-0003-0052-304X
Naixin QianDepartment of Chemistry, Columbia University, New York, NY 10027.ORCID 0000-0001-6433-063X
Xin GaoDepartment of Chemistry, Columbia University, New York, NY 10027.ORCID 0000-0002-0911-3656
Xiaoqi LangDepartment of Chemistry, Columbia University, New York, NY 10027.
Donghui SongDepartment of Chemistry, Columbia University, New York, NY 10027.
Wei MinDepartment of Chemistry, Columbia University, New York, NY 10027.ORCID 0000-0003-2570-3557
Columbia University · US

Funding

High-resolution volumetric imaging of metabolic activity in tissues and its application to tumor metabolismR01EB029523 · NIBIB · COLUMBIA UNIV NEW YORK MORNINGSIDE · PI MIN, WEI · 2020 to 2023
$1.6M
NIBIB NIH HHS R01 EB029523
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Nanomedicine has emerged as a revolutionary strategy of drug delivery. However, fundamentals of the nano-neuro interaction are elusive. In particular, whether nanocarriers can cross the blood-brain barrier (BBB) and release the drug cargo inside the brain, a basic process depicted in numerous books and reviews, remains controversial. Here, we develop an optical method, based on stimulated Raman scattering, for imaging nanocarriers in tissues. Our method achieves a suite of capabilities-single-particle sensitivity, chemical specificity, and particle counting capability. With this method, we visualize individual intact nanocarriers crossing the BBB of mouse brains and quantify the absolute number by particle counting. The fate of nanocarriers after crossing the BBB shows remarkable heterogeneity across multiple scales. With a mouse model of aging, we find that blood-brain transport of nanocarriers decreases with age substantially. This technology would facilitate development of effective therapeutics for brain diseases and clinical translation of nanocarrier-based treatment in general.

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Brain DiseasesNanomedicineAgingAnimalsBlood-Brain BarrierBrainMiceblood–brain barriernanomedicinesingle particle imagingstimulated Raman microscopy

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PMID38252832
PMCPMC10835139
OpenAlexW4391091915

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