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A GSH-Activatable Theranostic Prodrug Based on Photoinduced Electron Transfer for Cancer Fluorescence Imaging and Therapy
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Recent Progress in Photodynamic Immunotherapy with Metal‐Based Photosensitizers
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Diaminonaphthalene Boronic Acid (DANBA): New Approach for Peroxynitrite Sensing Site
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A dual-platform phenothiazine-based fluorescent probe for hydrazine (N2H4) bioimaging in multiple organisms and smartphone-assisted environmental monitoring
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A Near-Infrared Fluorescent Probe for Visualization of Acetylcholinesterase Flux in the Acute Epileptic Mice Brain
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Advances in ferroptosis: Synergistic therapies and fluorescent probes as arrows to target cancer's achilles heel
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An endoplasmic reticulum-targeting fluorescent probe for the visualization of the viscosity fluctuations during ferroptosis in live cells
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Intracellular Formation of Hemicyanine Nanoparticle Enhances Tumor‐Targeting Photoacoustic Imaging and Photothermal Therapy
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Quantitative Tracking of Apoptotic Caspase‐3 In Vivo for Early Evaluation of Radiation Therapy Efficacy
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A fast and specific near‐infrared fluorescent probe for hydrogen sulfide detection in aquaculture freshwater
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Recent advances in self‐immobilizing fluorescent probes for in vivo imaging
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A BTK-activatable targeted covalent NIR fluorescent probe for kinase monitoring and B-cell lymphoma imaging
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A facile near-infrared xanthene fluorescence probe for visualizing of hypochlorous acid in vitro and in vivo
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Advances in smartphone assisted sensors for on-site detection of food safety based on fluorescence on-off-on mode: A review
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NIRFluor: A Deep Learning Platform for Rapid Screening of Small Molecule Near-Infrared Fluorophores with Desired Optical Properties
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Rational construction of reliable fluorescent probes for rapid detection and imaging evaluation of hazardous thiophenol in real-food and biosystems
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An Activatable Heavy-Atom-Free Upconversion Photosensitizer for Targeted Imaging and Treatment of Tumors
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Rational design of α-glucosidase activated near-infrared fluorescent probe and its applications in diagnosis and treatment of diabetes
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Photosensitizer-based small molecule theranostic agents for tumor-targeted monitoring and phototherapy
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Research Progress of Naphthalimide Derivatives Optical Probes for Monitoring Physical and Chemical Properties of Microenvironment and Active Sulfur Substances
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Super-Resolution Imaging of Mitochondrial HClO during Cell Ferroptosis Using a Near-Infrared Fluorescent Probe
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Engineering a γ-glutamyl transpeptidase-activated fluorogenic probe for quantitative visualization and imaging-guided tumor resection
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Tumor‐Targeted Exosome‐Based Heavy Atom‐Free Nanosensitizers With Long‐Lived Excited States for Safe and Effective Sono‐Photodynamic Therapy of Solid Tumors
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Orderly Self‐Assembly of Organic Fluorophores for Sensing and Imaging
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π Bridge Engineering-Boosted Dual Enhancement of Type-I Photodynamic and Photothermal Performance for Mitochondria-Targeting Multimodal Phototheranostics of Tumor
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THQ–Xanthene: An Emerging Strategy to Create Next‐Generation NIR‐I/II Fluorophores
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Recent Development of Lysosome-Targeted Organic Fluorescent Probes for Reactive Oxygen Species
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A novel activated NIR-II phototheranostic nanoagent and its application to photothermal therapy
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Fluorescence detection of amantadine based on competitive β-Cyclodextrin host-guest inclusion process
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Rational Design of NIR‐II Ratiometric Fluorescence Probes for Accurate Bioimaging and Biosensing In Vivo
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Brain-targeted Near-Infrared Nanobeacon for In Situ Monitoring H2S Fluctuation during Epileptic Seizures
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An ESIPT-based ratiometric fluorescent probe for detecting H2O2 in water environment and biosystems
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Versatile iodinated styryl dyes: Promising probes for viscosity detection with dual anti-cancer and anti-bacterial properties
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An activatable NIR‐II fluorescent probe for tracking heavy‐metal ion and high‐level salt‐induced oxidative stress in plant sprouts
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Enzyme‐Activatable Near‐Infrared Hemicyanines as Modular Scaffolds for in vivo Photodynamic Therapy
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Fluorogenic Granzyme A Substrates Enable Real‐Time Imaging of Adaptive Immune Cell Activity
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Tumor-Targeted Fluorescent/Photoacoustic Imaging of Legumain Activity In Vivo
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Near-Infrared Hemicyanine Fluorophores with Optically Tunable Groups: A ‘Leap Forward’ for in Vivo Sensing and Imaging
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An activity-based near-infrared (NIR) fluorogenic probe for labeling lysosomal β-hexosaminidase in cells
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Three Strategies in Engineering Nanomedicines for Tumor Microenvironment‐Enabled Phototherapy
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Engineering an ultra-low background nitroreductase-activated near infrared targeted theranostic probe for lung tumor surgery navigation
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Fabrication of a Dual‐Responsive Fluorescence Probe for Monitoring Cardiac Injury and Repairing by a Golgi‐Targeting Hydrogen Sulfide Donor
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Coumarin-based near-infrared fluorogenic probes: Recent advances, challenges and future perspectives
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A near-infrared absorbing ring-fused quinoid-bisboron pyrrole dye with double BF2 chelation
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Rapid and visual evaluation the internal corruption of meat tissue by a designed near-infrared fluorescence probe with a broad pH response range
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Inverted Cucurbit[7]uril-induced supramolecular fluorescence enhancement in hemicyanine dye and its analysis application
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Tuning Tumor Targeting and Ratiometric Photoacoustic Imaging by Fine‐Tuning Torsion Angle for Colorectal Liver Metastasis Diagnosis
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Tumor microenvironment and Fe3+-triggered croconium nanoplatform for precise tumor location and combined type I photodynamic and photothermal amplified therapy
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A biodegradable D-π-A structured hemicyanine for constructing tumor-targeted nanoplatform by Cu-64 PET/NIR-II fluorescent/photoacoustic imaging-guided photodynamic and photothermal therapy
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Advancing Photodynamic Therapy: The Role of PET and SPECT in Imaging-Guided Theranostics
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Rational design of photofunctional dyes BODIPYs/aza-BODIPYs and applications for photocatalysis, photoelectric conversion and thermochromic materials
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Molecular Engineering of a Tumor‐Targeting Thione‐Derived Diketopyrrolopyrrole Photosensitizer to Attain NIR Excitation Over 850 nm for Efficient Dual Phototherapy
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Recent advances in developing bioorthogonally activatable photosensitizers for photodynamic therapy
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Activatable Near‐Infrared Versatile Fluorescent and Chemiluminescent Dyes Based on the Dicyanomethylene‐4H‐pyran Scaffold: From Design to Imaging and Theranostics
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Reviewing the evolutive ACQ‐to‐AIE transformation of photosensitizers for phototheranostics
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Ion−π interactions for constructing organic luminescent materials
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A Near-Infrared Fluorescent and Photoacoustic Probe for Visualizing Biothiols Dynamics in Tumor and Liver
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Rational Molecular Design of a Fluorescent Probe for Selectively Sensing Human Cytochrome P450 2D6
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A hypoxia-activated and microenvironment-remodeling nanoplatform for multifunctional imaging and potentiated immunotherapy of cancer
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Light-Facilitated Reassembly to Generate J-Aggregates of Glucosyl aza-BODIPY with Second Near-Infrared Emission for Bioimaging
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Evolving an Ultra-Sensitive Near-Infrared β-Galactosidase Fluorescent Probe for Breast Cancer Imaging and Surgical Resection Navigation
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Sulfur-substituted hemicyanine-based NIR fluorescent probe for hypochlorous acid enables imaging of liver injury and plasma diagnosis of sepsis
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A glutathione-activatable near-infrared fluorescent probe with a large Stokes shift for imaging 4T1 tumor and its ferroptosis
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Fabrication of a carboxylesterases-activated near-infrared fluorescence probe for assisting hepatocellular carcinoma surgery in mice and clinical blood serum testing
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Inorganic–organic hybrid nanomaterials for photothermal antibacterial therapy
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Imaging of peroxynitrite in mitochondria by a near-infrared fluorescent probe with a large Stokes shift
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Dual-locked fluorescent probes for precise diagnosis and targeted treatment of tumors
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Recent progress of TP/NIR fluorescent probes for metal ions
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Near-infrared and multifunctional fluorescent probe enabled by cyanopyridine cyanine dye for bisulfite recognition and biological imaging
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Modifications and applications of heptamethine cyanine (Cy7) dyes as near-infrared photosensitizers
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Rational Molecular Design of a Fluorescent Probe for Selectively Sensing Human Cytochrome P450 2D6
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3D dynamic tracking Aβ plaques in live brains using vinyl-bridged dyes with two-photon excitation/NIR emission and large Stokes shifts
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Facile construction of fluorescent probes for monitoring pH fluctuations in diabetic cataract
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Application of the VSP near-infrared fluorescence probe in hyperlipidemia viscosity monitoring
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NIR Fluorescent/Photoacoustic Bimodal Imaging of Ferroptosis in Pancreatic Cancer Using Biothiols-Activable Probes
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Accelerated Activity-Based Sensing by Fluorogenic Reporter Engineering Enables to Rapidly Determine Unstable Analyte
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Fluorescent Silk Obtained by Feeding Silkworms with Fluorescent Materials†
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Magnetothermal-regulated dual-atom nanozyme amplifying cascade ROS generation and NK cell–mediated immunotherapy in metastatic breast cancer
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An activatable near-infrared fluorescent probe for tracking nitroxyl in vitro and in vivo
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Red‐to‐Near‐Infrared Emitting PyrrolylBODIPY Dyes: Synthesis, Photophysical Properties and Bioimaging Application
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Insight into mercury ion detection in environmental samples and imaging in living systems by a near-infrared fluorescent probe
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A New Deep‐Red to Near‐infrared Emission and Polarity Sensitive Fluorescent Probe Based on β‐Diketone‐boron Difluoride and Coumarin Derivative
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Three positive charge nonapoptotic-induced photosensitizer with excellent water solubility for tumor therapy
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Chemical Approaches to Photoresponsive Fluorophores
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Benzoselenazolium-based hemicyanine dye for G-Quadruplex detection
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Novel phenothiazine-based amphiphilic Aza-BODIPYs for high-efficient photothermal therapy
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Orderly Self‐Assembly of Organic Fluorophores for Sensing and Imaging
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Bifunctional fluorescent probe revealing viscosity and SO2 in cell, zebrafish and NASH model
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Research Progress of Fluorescent Probes for Cysteine Targeting Cellular Organelles
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Superoxide Anion-Mediated Afterglow Mechanism-Based Water-Soluble Zwitterion Dye Achieving Renal-Failure Mice Detection
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Fabricating a mitochondrial viscosity-activated fluorescent probe for highly sensitive imaging of kidney injury in vivo
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Electronic Characterization of Vis–NIR Absorbing Noninnocent Ruthenium Oxyquinolate–merocyanine Complexes and their Photoacoustic Emission in Aqueous Micellar Solution†
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Engineering cyanine cyclizations for new fluorogenic probes
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Activity-Based Fluorescent Probes Based on Hemicyanine for Biomedical Sensing
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In situ detection of enzymatic activities by the bioorthogonal reaction-coupled assay using a dialkoxysilylated fluorogenic probe
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Near-Infrared Fluoride Sensing Nano-Optodes and Distance-Based Hydrogels Containing Aluminum-Phthalocyanine
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ROS and Caspase-3 Dual-Activated Photoacoustic Probe for Enhanced Imaging of Myocardial Ischemia-Reperfusion Injury
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Molecular Engineering of Self-Immolative Bioresponsive MR Probes
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A Versatile Synthetic Strategy Enables the Discovery of Regioisomer‐Dependent in Vivo Performance in Self‐Immobilizing Hemicyanine Dyes
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Early detection of necrotizing enterocolitis via a hypochlorous acid biosensor tracking pathological signals
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A mitochondria-targeted fluorescent probe toward cysteine in drug-induced liver injury models
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Novel Ultrasensitive Fluorescent Probe for Bioimaging Carboxylesterase and Detecting Pesticide Residues in Foods
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A novel fluorescent probe for imagining hydrogen sulfide upregulation in acute lung injury
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Tunable Wavelength, High-Brightness, and NIR-II Emission Phenanthridinium-Based Heptamethine Dyes for High-Contrast Vascular and Intestinal Imaging In Vivo
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Simply Designed and Universal DNA Nanohydrogel for Stimuli-Responsive NIR-II Fluorescence Imaging of Early-Stage Tumor
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Acidic Lysosome-Anchoring Croconium-Based Nanoplatform for Enhanced Triple-Mode Bioimaging and Fe3+-Triggered Tumor Synergistic Therapy
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Near-Infrared Probes Designed with Hemicyanine Fluorophores Featuring Rhodamine and 1,8-Naphthalic Derivatives for Viscosity and HSA Detection in Live Cells
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Rational engineering of novel rhodamines with stable far red to NIR emission and high brightness for in vivo imaging
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Tumor-microenvironment-activatable organic phototheranostic agents for cancer therapy
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Recent Advances in Strategies to Enhance Photodynamic and Photothermal Therapy Performance of Single‐Component Organic Phototherapeutic Agents
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Small organic molecule-based next-generation NIR fluorescent probes for cancer theranostics
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Merged Molecular Switches Excel as Optoacoustic Dyes: Azobenzene–Cyanines Are Loud and Photostable NIR Imaging Agents
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Novel Lysosome-Targeting Fluorescence Off-On Photosensitizer for Near-Infrared Hypoxia Imaging and Photodynamic Therapy In Vitro and In Vivo
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Recent progresses in combination cancer therapy using cyanine dye-based nanoparticles
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A novel near-infrared fluorescent probe with large Stokes shift for monitoring peroxynitrite in liver injury caused by abuse of western medicine and herbal medicine
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Molecular engineering and bioimaging applications of C2-alkenyl indole dyes with tunable emission wavelengths covering visible to NIR light
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Activatable Molecular Probes With Clinical Promise for NIR‐II Fluorescent Imaging
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Activatable Fluorescence/Photoacoustic Macromolecular Probe for Imaging of Tumor‐Associated Natural Killer Cells
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Synthesis, Photophysical Properties, and Practical Hg(II)‐Sensing Applications of a Rigidified Phenolo‐Merocyanine Dye
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Screening drug-induced liver injury through two independent parameters of lipid droplets and peroxynitrite with a π-extended coumarin-based NIR fluorescent probe
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A highly selective and sensitive fluorescent light-up probe for rapid detection of mercury ions in aqueous solution
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Dissecting Exciton Dynamics in pH‐Activatable Long‐Wavelength Photosensitizers for Traceable Photodynamic Therapy
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Computational Investigation of Dicyanoisophorone-Based Fluorophores: Substituent and Site Effects
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A novel Golgi-targetable isocyano-based cysteine-specific fluorescent probe for the visualization of cysteine during drug-induced oxidative stress
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Tandem‐Activatable PROTAC Prodrug for Tumor Biomarker‐Driven Near‐Infrared Opto‐Proteolysis
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Advances in phototheranostic agents: From imaging to targeted therapy
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Near-infrared theranostics for brain diseases: Design, engineering, and emerging applications
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Engineering of Kidney‐Targeting Fluorophores with Tunable Emission from NIR‐I to NIR‐II for Early Diagnosis of Kidney Disease
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Progress in the Design and Clinical Application of Probes for Fluorescence-Guided Laparoscopic Surgery
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A BODIPY-based activatable nanotheranostics for tumor hypoxia imaging and hypoxia-induced drug resistance reversal
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Metabolic Acidity/H2O2 Dual‐Cascade‐Activatable Molecular Imaging Platform Toward Metastatic Breast Tumor Malignancy
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Family of hNQO1 Activatable Near-Infrared Fluoro-Photoacoustic Probes for Diagnosis of Wound Infection and Ulcerative Colitis
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A near-infrared fluorescent probe with a self-immolative linker for rapid detection of beta-galactosidase and specific imaging of ovarian cancer cells
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