Thrombotic cardio-cerebrovascular diseases seriously threaten human
health. Currently, conventional thrombolytic treatments are challenged
by the low utilization, inferior thrombus penetration, and high
off-target bleeding risks of most thrombolytic drugs, resulting in
unsatisfactory treatment outcomes. Herein, it is proposed that these
challenges can be overcome by precisely integrating the conventional
thrombolytic strategy with photothermal therapy. After co-assembly
engineering optimization, a fibrin-targeting peptide-decorated
nanoassembly of DiR (a photothermal probe) and ticagrelor (TGL, an
antiplatelet drug) is prepared for thrombus-homing delivery, abbreviated
as FT-DT NPs. The elaborately engineered nanoassembly shows multiple
advantages, including simple preparation with high drug co-loading
capacity, synchronous delivery of two drugs with long systemic
circulation, thrombus-targeted accumulation with self-indicating
function, as well as photothermal-potentiated thrombus penetration and
thrombolysis with high therapeutic efficacy. As expected, FT-DT NPs not
only show bright fluorescence signals in the embolized vessels, but also
perform photothermal/antiplatelet synergistic thrombolysis in vivo.
This study offers a simple and versatile co-delivery nanoplatform for
imaging-guided photothermal/antiplatelet dual-modality thrombolysis.