Recent Publications
2022
Peer-reviewed:
Jack C. Tang, Chi-Hua Lee, Thompson Lu, Raviraj Vankayala, Taylor Hanley, Chiemerie Azubuogu, Jiang Li, Meera G. Nair, Wangcun Jia, and Bahman Anvari "Membrane Cholesterol Enrichment of Red Blood Cell-Derived Microparticles Results in Prolonged Circulation" ACS Appl. Bio Mater. 2022.
2021
Peer-reviewed:
Taylor Hanley, Raviraj Vankayala, Chi-Hua Lee, Jack C. Tang, Joshua M. Burns and Bahman Anvari "Phototheranostics Using Erythrocyte-Based Particles" Biomolecules 2021, 11(5), 729.
Joshua M Burns , Elise Shafer, Raviraj Vankayala, Vikas Kundra, Bahman Anvari "Near Infrared Fluorescence Imaging of Intraperitoneal Ovarian Tumors in Mice Using Erythrocyte-Derived Optical Nanoparticles and Spatially-Modulated Illumination" Cancers (Basel). 2021 May 22;13(11):2544. doi: 10.3390/cancers13112544.
2020
Peer-reviewed:
Thompson Lu and Bahman Anvari" Characterization of the Viscoelastic Properties of Ovarian Cancer Cells Membranes by Optical Tweezers and Quantitative Phase Imaging" Front. Phys., 10 November 2020.
Taylor Hanley, Raviraj Vankayala, Jenny Mac, David Lo, and Bahman Anvari "The Acute Immune Response of Micro- and Nano-Sized Erythrocyte-Derived Optical Particles in Healthy Mice" Mol. Pharmaceutics 2020, 17, 10, 3900–3914.
Jack C. Tang, Raviraj Vankayala, Jenny Mac, and Bahman Anvari. "RBC-derived optical nanoparticles remain stable after a freeze-thaw cycle" Langmuir 2020, 36, 34, 10003–10011.
Raviraj Vankayala, Edver Bahena, Yadir Guerrero, Sheela P Singh, Ravoori K Murali, Vikas Kundra, and Bahman Anvari "Virus-mimicking nanoparticles for targeted near infrared fluorescence imaging of intraperitoneal ovarian tumors in mice" Annals of Biomedical Engineering. 2021 Feb;49(2):548-559. doi: 10.1007/s10439-020-02589-8. Epub 2020 Aug 6. PMID: 32761557.
Wangcun Jia, Joshua M. Burns, Betty Villantay, Jack C. Tang, Raviraj Vankayala, Ben Lertsakdadet, Bernard Choi, J. Stuart Nelson, and Bahman Anvari "Intravital Vascular Phototheranostics and Real Time Circulation Dynamics of Micro- and Nanosized Erythrocyte-Derived Carriers" ACS Appl Mater Interfaces. 2020 Jan 8;12(1):275-287
Liu, Y., Hanley, T., Chen, H. et al. Non-Invasive Photoacoustic Imaging of In Vivo Mice with Erythrocyte Derived Optical Nanoparticles to Detect CAD/MI. Sci Rep 10, 5983 (2020).
2019
Peer-reviewed:
Taylor Hanley, Rong Yin, Jenny T. Mac, Wenbin Tan, and Bahman Anvari "Functionalized erythrocyte-derived optical nanoparticles to target ephrin-B2 ligands" J. of Biomedical Optics, 24(8), 085002 (2019)
Raviraj Vankayala*, Jenny T. Mac*, Joshua M. Burns, Eugene Dunn, Stefanie Carroll, Edver M. Bahena, Dipti K. Patel, Stephen Griffey, and Bahman Anvari."Biodistribution and toxicological evaluation of micron- and nano-sized erythrocyte-derived optical particles in healthy Swiss Webster mice" * Raviraj and Jenny equally contributed. Biomater. Sci., 2019, 7, 2123-2133
Conference:
Thompson Lu; Jenny T. Mac; Ramzi Tweini; Kimmy Tran; Raviraj Vankayala and Bahman Anvari "Mechanical characterization of erythrocyte-derived optical microparticles by quantitative phase imaging and optical tweezers" Proceedings Volume 10887, Quantitative Phase Imaging V; 1088717 (2019)
2018
Peer-reviewed:
Jack C. Tang, Allen Partono, and Bahman Anvari "Near-Infrared-Fluorescent Erythrocyte-Mimicking Particles: Optical and Physical Characteristics." IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering (2018) 99
Joshua M. Burns, Raviraj Vankayala, Jenny T. Mac, and Bahman Anvari "Erythrocyte-derived theranostic nanoplatforms for near infrared fluorescence imaging and photodestruction of tumors." ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces (2018) 27621-27630
Jenny T. Mac, Raviraj Vankayala, Dipti K. Patel, Sabrina Wueste, and Bahman Anvari "Erythrocyte-derived optical nanoprobes doped with indocyanine green-bound albumin: material characteristics and evaluation for cancer cell imaging." ACS Biomaterials Science & Engineering (2018) 3055-3062
Raviraj Vankayala, Samantha R. Corber, Jenny T. Mac, Masaru P. Rao, Mohammad Shafie, and Bahman Anvari "Erythrocyte-derived nanoparticles as a theranostic agent for near infrared fluorescence imaging and thrombolysis of blood clots." Macromolecular Bioscience (2018) 1700379
Conference:
Joshua M. Burns, Elise Schaefer, and Bahman Anvari "Near infrared spatial frequency domain fluorescence imaging of tumor phantoms containing erythrocyte-derived optical nanoplatforms." Proceedings Volume 10506, Nanoscale Imaging, Sensing, and Actuation for Biomedical Applications XV (2018) 105060B.
2017
Peer-reviewed:
Yadir Guerrero, Sheela Singh, Truong Mai, Ravoori Murali, Leela Tanikella, Atta Zahedi, Vikas Kundra and Bahman Anvari "Optical Characteristics and Tumor Imaging Capabilities of Near Infrared Dyes in Free and Nano-Encapsulated Formulations Comprised of Viral Capsids." ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 9.23 (2017) 19601–19611
Joshua M. Burns, Rolf Saager, Boris Majaron, Wangcun Jia and Bahman Anvari "Optical properties of biomimetic probes engineered from erythrocytes." Nanotechnology 28.3 (2017) 035101.
2016
Peer-reviewed:
Jenny T. Mac, Vicente Nunez, Joshua M. Burns, Yadir Guerrero, Valentine I. Vullev, Bahman Anvari "Erythrocyte-derived nano-probes functionalized with antibodies for targeted near infrared fluorescence imaging of cancer cells." Biomedical Optics Express 7.4 (2016) 1311.
2015
Peer-reviewed:
Yadir A. Guerrero, Baharak Bahmani, Sheela P Singh, Valentine I Vullev, Vikas Kundra, Bahman Anvari “Virus-Resembling Nano-Structures for near Infrared Fl Uorescence Imaging of Ovarian Cancer HER2 Receptors.” Nanotechnology 26.43 435102.
Srigokul Upadhyayula, Vicente Nuñez, Eli M. Espinoza, Jillian M. Larsen, Duoduo Bao, Dewen Shi, Jenny T. Mac, Bahman Anvari, and Valentine I. Vullev. "Photoinduced dynamics of a cyanine dye: parallel pathways of non-radiative deactivation involving multiple excited-state twisted transients."Chemical Science 6, no. 4 (2015): 2237-2251.
Hamid Sarraf, Zhenghua Qian, Ludmila Škarpová, Bin Wang, Reinhard Herbig, Martin Maryška, Lidmila Bartovska, Jiří Havrda, and Bahman Anvari. “Direct Probing of Dispersion Quality of ZrO2 Nanoparticles Coated by Polyelectrolyte at Different Concentrated Suspensions.” Nanoscale research letters 10.1 (2015).
2014
Peer-reviewed:
Mohammad Sarshar, Winson T. Wong, and Bahman Anvari. “Comparative Study of Methods to Calibrate the Stiffness of a Single-Beam Gradient-Force Optical Tweezers over Various Laser Trapping Powers.” Journal of Biomedical Optics 19.11 (2014): 115001. PMC.
Baharak Bahmani , Yadir Guerrero, Danielle Bacon, Vikas Kundra, Valentine I. Vullev, and Bahman Anvari. “Functionalized Polymeric Nanoparticles Loaded with Indocyanine Green as Theranostic Materials for Targeted Molecular near Infrared Fluorescence Imaging and Photothermal Destruction of Ovarian Cancer Cells.” Lasers in Surgery and Medicine 46.7 (2014): 582–592.
Bongsu Jung, Valentine I. Vullev, and Bahman Anvari. “Revisiting Indocyanine Green: Effects of Serum and Physiological Temperature on Absorption and Fluorescence Characteristics.” IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics 20.2 (2014)
2013
Peer-reviewed:
Bongsu Jung and Bahman Anvari, "Virus-Mimicking Optical Nanomaterials: Near Infrared Absorption and Fluorescence Characteristics and Physical Stability in Biological Environments", ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 2013: 5(15), 7492-7500
Baharak Bahmani, Danielle Bacon, and Bahman Anvari, "Erythrocyte-derived photo-theranostic agents: hybrid nano-vesicles containing indocyanine green for near infrared imaging and therapeutics applications", Scientific Reports, 3, 2180, 2013. DOI:10.1038/srep02180
Baharak Bahmani, Christian Y. Lytle, Ameae M. Walker, Sharad Gupta, Valentine I. Vullev, and Bahman Anvari, "Effects of nanoencapsulation and PEGylation on biodistribution of indocyanine green in healthy mice: quantitative fluorescence imaging and analysis of organs", International Journal of Nanomedicine, 2013:8 1609–1620. DOI:10.2147/IJN.S42511
Nima Khatibzadeh, Alexander A. Spector, William E. Brownell and Bahman Anvari, "Effects of plasma membrane cholesterol level and cytoskeleton F-actin on cell protrusion mechanics", PLoS ONE 8(2): e57147. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0057147
Sharad Gupta , Muhammad R Chatni , Ayala L. N. Rao , Valentinea I. Vullev , Lihong V Wang and Bahman Anvari, "Virus-mimicking nano-constructs as a contrast agent for near infrared photoacoustic imaging", Nanoscale, 2013. DOI: 10.1039/C3NR34124K
2012
Peer-reviewed:
Brenda Farrell, Feng Qian, Anatoly Kolomeisky, Bahman Anvari and William E. Brownell, "Measuring forces at the leading edge: a force assay for cell motility", Integrative Biology, 2013, Advance Article. DOI: 10.1039/C2IB20097J
Sonali Chaturvedi, Bongsu Jung, Sharad Gupta, Bahman Anvari and A.L.N. Rao, "Simple and robust in vivo and in vitro approach for studying virus assembly", The Journal of Visualized Experiments, 2012, (61), e3645, DOI: 10.3791/3645
Nima Khatibzadeh, Sharad Gupta, Brenda Farrell, William E. Brownell and Bahman Anvari, "Effects of cholesterol on nano-mechanical properties of the living cell plasma membrane", Soft Matter, 2012. DOI:10.1039/c2sm25263e
Bongsu Jung and Bahman Anvari, "Synthesis and characterization of bovine serum albumin-coated nanocapsules loaded with indocyanine green as potential multifunctional nanoconstructs", Biotechnology Progress, 2012, 28(2), pp 533-539
Conference:
Baharak Bahmani, Valentine Vullev, and Bahman Anvari, "Development of anti-HER2 conjugated ICG-loaded polymeric nanoparticles for targeted optical imaging of ovarian cancer", Proc. SPIE 8233, 82330L (2012)
Sharad Gupta, Gerardo Ico, Paul Matsumura, A. L. N. Rao,Valentine Vullev, and Bahman Anvari, "Effect of capsid proteins to ICG mass ratio on fluorescent quantum yield of virus-resembling optical nano-materials", Proc. SPIE 8233, 82330I (2012)
Sharad Gupta, Hailey Wilder, A. L. N. Rao, V. I. Vullev, and Bahman Anvari, "Plant virus-resembling optical nano-materials conjugated with anti-EGFR for targeted cancer imaging", Proc. SPIE 8233, 82330S (2012)
2011
Peer-reviewed:
Baharak Bahmani, Sharad Gupta, Sirigokul Upadhyayula, Valentine Vullev and Bahman Anvari, "Effect of polyethylene glycol coatings on uptake of indocyanine green loaded nanocapsules by human spleen macrophages in vitro", Journal of Biomedical Optics, 2011, 16, 051303.
Bongsu Jung, Ayala L. N. Rao and Bahman Anvari. "Optical Nano-Constructs Composed of Genome-Depleted Brome Mosaic Virus Doped with a Near Infrared Chromophore for Potential Biomedical Applications", ACS Nano, 2011, 5 (2), pp 1243–1252.
Bing Xia, Srigokul Upadhyayula, Vicente Nunez, Pavel Landsman, Samuel Lam, Harbani Malik, Sharad Gupta, Mohammad Sarshar, Jingqiu Hu, Bahman Anvari, Guilford Jones and Valentine I. Vullev, "Amyloid histology stain for rapid bacterial endospore imaging", Journal of Clinical Microbiology, 2011, 48(8), pp. 2966-2975.
Conference:
Baharak Bahmani, Sharad Gupta, Valentine Vullev, and Bahman Anvari, "Uptake of PEGylated indocyanine green loaded nanocapsules by cells of reticuloendothelial system", Proc. SPIE 7910, 79101C (2011)
Sharad Gupta, Kumar Thenkondar, Hardik Mehta, Baharak Bahmani, Valentine Vullev, and Bahman Anvari, "Effect of nano-encapsulation on photophysical properties of ICG", Proc. SPIE 7910, 79100U (2011)
2010
Peer-reviewed:
Jie Yu, David Javier, Mohammad A. Yaseen, Nitin Nitin, Rebecca Richards-Kortum, Bahman Anvari and Michael S. Wong, " Self-Assembly Synthesis, Tumor Cell Targeting, and Photothermal Capabilities of Antibody-Coated Indocyanine Green Nanocapsules", J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2010, 132 (6), pp 1929–1938.
William E. Brownell, Feng Qian and Bahman Anvari, "Cell Membrane Tethers Generate Mechanical Force in Response to Electrical Stimulation", Biophysical Journal 99(3), 2010, pp 845-852
Conference:
Baharak Bahmani, Bongsu Jung, Sharad Gupta, and Bahman Anvari, "Cellular uptake of polymeric nanocapsules loaded with ICG by human blood monocytes and human spleen macrophages", Proc. SPIE 7576, 75761Q (2010)
2009
Peer-reviewed:
Mohammad A. Yaseen, Jie Yu, Bongsu Jung, Michael S. Wong and Bahman Anvari, "Biodistribution of encapsulated Indocyanine green in healthy mice", Mol. Pharmaceutics, 2009, 6(5), pp 1321-1332
Kristopher R. Schumacher, Aleksander S. Popel, Bahman Anvari, William E. Brownell, and Alexander A. Spector, "Computational analysis of the tether-pulling experiment to probe plasma membrane-cytoskeleton interaction in cells", PHYSICAL REVIEW E 80, 041905 2009
2008
Peer-reviewed:
Mohammad A. Yaseen, Jie Yu, Michael S. Wong and Bahman Anvari, " In-vivo fluorescence imaging of mammalian organs using charge-assembled mesocapsule constructs containing indocyanine green", Optics Express, Vol. 16, Issue 25, pp. 20577-20587 (2008)
2007
Peer-reviewed:
Jie Yu, Mohammad A. Yaseen, Bahman Anvari and Michael S. Wong, "Synthesis of Near-Infrared-Absorbing Nanoparticle-Assembled Capsules", Chem. Mater., 2007, 19 (6), pp 1277–1284
Mohammad A. Yaseen, Jie Yu, Michael S. Wong and Bahman Anvari, "Laser-Induced Heating of Dextran-Coated Mesocapsules Containing Indocyanine Green", Biotechnology Progress Vol. 23, Issue 6, pp. 1431–1440, 2007
Rui Zhang, Feng Qian, Lavanya Rajagopalan, Fred A. Pereira, William E. Brownell and Bahman Anvari, "Prestin Modulates Mechanics and Electromechanical Force of the Plasma Membrane", Biophysical Journal, Vol. 93, Issue 1, 2007, pp. L07-L09
Sergey A. Ermilov, Feng Qian, William E. Brownell and Bahman Anvari, "Studies of Plasma Membrane Mechanics and Plasma Membrane-Cytoskeleton Interactions Using Optical Tweezer and Fluorescence Imaging", Journal of Biomechanics Vol. 40, Issue 2, 2007, pp 476-480
Mohammad A. Yaseen, Jie Yu, Michael S. Wong and Bahman Anvari, "Stability Assessment of Indocyanine Green within Dextran-Coated Mesocapsules by Absorbance Spectroscopy", Journal of Biomedical Optics 12, 064031, 2007
Gentiana I. Wenzel, Bahman Anvari, Amaan Mazhar, Brian Pikkula, and John S. Oghalai, "Laser-induced collagen remodeling and deposition within the basilar membrane of the mouse cochlea", Journal of Biomedical Optics, Vol. 12, Issue 2, 021007, 2007
Conference:
Mohammad A. Yaseen, Jie Yu, Michael S. Wong and Bahman Anvari, "Encapsulation of indocyanine green within nano-assembled capsules changes its optical properties", Proc. SPIE 6449, 644908 (2007)
2006
Peer-reviewed:
Olga Gliko, Gaddum D. Reddy, Bahman Anvari, William E. Brownell and Peter Saggau, "Standing wave total internal reflection fluorescence microscopy to measure the size of nanostructures in living cells", Journal of Biomedical Optics 11, 064013, 2006
Parmeswaran Diagaradjane, Mohammad A. Yaseen, Bahman Anvari, Jie Yu and Michael S. Wong, " Synchronous fluorescence spectroscopic characterization of DMBA-TPA-induced squamous cell carcinoma in mice", Journal of Biomedical Optics 11, 014012, 200
Tianhong Dai, Mohammad A. Yaseen, Parmeswaran Diagaradjane, Bahman Anvari and David W. Chang, "Comparative study of cryogen spray cooling with R-134 and R-404a: implications for laser treatment of dark human skin", Journal of Biomedical Optics 11, 041116, 2006
Conference:
Linda Lee, William E. Brownell, Feng Qian and Bahman Anvari, "Optical trapping investigation on the effects of salicylate on electromechanical properties of plasma membranes", Proc. SPIE 6088, 60881A (2006)