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ArticleACS pharmacology & translational science2025

Molecular Tuning of Cyanine 5 Dyes to Improve the Pharmacokinetic Profile of Nanobody-Based Fluorescent Tracers.

Łukasz Mateusiak, Dora M Chigoho, Sam Floru, Sofie Pollenus, Pieterjan Debie, Danny M van Willigen, Fijs W B van Leeuwen, Sophie Hernot

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Article in ACS pharmacology & translational science, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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  1. More Than a Glow: How Cyanine Dyes Shape Tracer Pharmacokinetics.Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English) · 2026
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5 · Who and what money

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8 authors.

Łukasz MateusiakLaboratory for Molecular Imaging and Therapy, MITH, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), Laarbeeklaan 103, 1090 Brussels, Belgium.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2837-8342
Dora M ChigohoLaboratory for Molecular Imaging and Therapy, MITH, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), Laarbeeklaan 103, 1090 Brussels, Belgium.
Sam FloruLaboratory for Molecular Imaging and Therapy, MITH, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), Laarbeeklaan 103, 1090 Brussels, Belgium.
Sofie PollenusLaboratory for Molecular Imaging and Therapy, MITH, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), Laarbeeklaan 103, 1090 Brussels, Belgium.
Pieterjan DebieLaboratory for Molecular Imaging and Therapy, MITH, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), Laarbeeklaan 103, 1090 Brussels, Belgium.
Danny M van WilligenInterventional Molecular Imaging Laboratory, Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC), Albinusdreef 2, 2333ZA Leiden, The Netherlands.
Fijs W B van LeeuwenInterventional Molecular Imaging Laboratory, Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC), Albinusdreef 2, 2333ZA Leiden, The Netherlands.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6844-4025
Sophie HernotLaboratory for Molecular Imaging and Therapy, MITH, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), Laarbeeklaan 103, 1090 Brussels, Belgium.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8739-6137

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Over the past two decades, it has become evident that fluorescence imaging holds substantial value in preclinical research and could also play a pivotal role in clinical applications such as intraoperative molecular imaging. The latter relies on applying targeted fluorescent agents designed to recognize specific biomarkers expressed in diseased tissues. Targeting moieties, such as camelid-derived nanobodies (Nbs), exhibit remarkable pharmacokinetics for molecular imaging owing to their robustness and compact size. However, the relatively small size of Nbs makes their pharmacokinetics sensitive to the chemical structure of attached fluorophores. In this study, we conducted a comparative analysis between Nbs labeled with three different sulfoCy5 derivatives (Cy5

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cyanine dyesintraoperative molecular imagingin vivo fluorescence imagingkidney retentionpharmacokineticssingle-domain antibodies

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PMID40534666
PMCPMC12171874

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