Design, Synthesis and Application of Multi-Functional Fluorescent Probes for Bioimaging
A special issue of Sensors (ISSN 1424-8220). This special issue belongs to the section "Biosensors".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (5 December 2025) | Viewed by 845
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Cancers are a major cause of death and create a major burden on public healthcare systems. The pharmacological mechanisms of candidate drugs are central to the translational paradigm. Since many signal transduction and molecular events are implicated in these cancers, a novel method for investigating the key pharmacological mechanisms of candidate drugs is required to accelerate drug discovery. Recently, much attention has been paid to the real-time imaging of molecular events in order to yield new insights into the pathogenesis of diseases. This Special Issue, “Design, Synthesis and Application of Multi-Functional Fluorescent Probes for Bioimaging”, focuses on recent advances in the development of chemical probes for imaging pathological events to facilitate the study of the pharmacodynamics and toxicity involved. Fluorescent imaging is now viewed as an indispensable technique in the field of biological research. Promoting interdisciplinary collaboration is necessary to further refine functional fluorescent probes for diagnostic and therapeutic applications. Researchers from all relevant scientific fields (e.g., biology, chemistry, medicine, environment, engineering, and material sciences) are invited to submit original and review articles that focus on the following:
(1) Fluorescent probes for sensitive biosensing.
(2) Using fluorescent probes to evaluate intracellular signaling cascades.
(3) The pathology and toxicology of molecular events and their implications.
(4) Fluorescent probes for detecting molecular events in pathology and toxicology.
(5) Fluorescent probes related to cell damage.
Prof. Dr. Lijuan Wang
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- fluorescent probes
- bioimaging
- pharmacological mechanisms
- molecular events
- pathology and toxicology
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