Black titanium dioxide@manganese dioxide for glutathione-responsive MR imaging and enhanced photothermal therapy

J Mater Chem B. 2021 Jan 14;9(2):314-321. doi: 10.1039/d0tb02514c. Epub 2020 Dec 11.

Abstract

Multifunctional nanoprobes with tumor microenvironment response are playing important roles in highly efficient theranostics of cancers. Herein, a kind of theranostic nanoprobe was synthesized by coating manganese dioxide (MnO2) on the surface of black commercial P25 titanium dioxide (b-P25). The resultant nanoprobe (b-P25@MnO2) possessed glutathione (GSH)-responsive magnetic resonance (MR) imaging and enhanced photothermal therapy (PTT). In tumor microenvironments, the excessive GSH was consumed by reacting with MnO2 to generate Mn2+ for GSH-responsive MR imaging, in which the longitudinal relaxation rate of b-P25@MnO2 was up to 30.44 mM-1 s-1, showing excellent cellular and intratumoral MR imaging. Moreover, the prepared b-P25@MnO2 exhibited stable and strong photothermal conversion capability with a high photothermal conversion efficiency of 30.67%, by which the 4T1 tumors disappeared completely, indicating safe and highly efficient PTT performance. The current work developed GSH-responsive b-P25@MnO2 nanoprobes, demonstrated for MR imaging and enhanced PTT in cancers.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Glutathione / metabolism*
  • Humans
  • Magnetic Resonance Imaging / methods*
  • Manganese Compounds / chemistry*
  • Oxides / chemistry*
  • Photothermal Therapy / methods*
  • Titanium / chemistry*

Substances

  • Manganese Compounds
  • Oxides
  • titanium dioxide
  • Titanium
  • Glutathione
  • manganese dioxide