Simultaneous imaging of mitochondrial viscosity and hydrogen peroxide in Alzheimer's disease by a single near-infrared fluorescent probe with a large Stokes shift.

It has been speculated that both the intracellular viscosity and H2O2 level in Alzheimer's disease (AD) brains are higher than that in healthy brains, but direct evidence from living beings is scarce. Herein, we report a NIR emissive fluorescent probe with a large Stokes shift for the associated detection of mitochondrial viscosity and H2O2 in live rat brains with AD for the first time.