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Hoechst-IR: An imaging agent that detects necrotic tissue in vivo by binding extracellular DNA
Dasari, Madhuri,Lee, Sungmun,Sy, Jay,Kim, Dongin,Lee, Seungjun,Brown, Milton,Davis, Michael,Murthy, Niren
supporting information; experimental part, p. 3300 - 3303 (2010/11/02)
(Equation Presented). Cell necrosis is central to the progression of numerous diseases, and imaging agents that can detect necrotic tissue have great clinical potential. We demonstrate here that a small molecule, termed Hoechst-IR, composed of the DNA binding dye Hoechst and the near-infrared dye IR-786, can image necrotic tissue in vivo via fluorescence imaging. Hoechst-IR detects necrosis by binding extracellular DNA released from necrotic cells and was able to image necrosis generated from a myocardial infarction and lipopolysaccharide/d-galactosamine (LPS-GalN) induced sepsis.