Real‐time in vitro detection of glioma cells facilitates precise tumor removal. However, the fluorescent labeling of tumor cells in clinical practice is limited by many factors, including the time consumed, low recognition efficiency, and fluorescence quenching. Here, a general strategy for building perovskite quantum dot (PQD)‐based biological probes utilizing the attraction between positive and negative electric charges is reported. Poly (lactic‐co‐glycolic acid) (PLGA) is chosen for encapsulating PQDs to completely prevent their aggregation, decomposition, or release in water or oxygen. The carboxyl group of PLGA has anchoring coordination with the PQDs, which reduces the surface defects. Moreover, it causes PQD‐based nanocrystals (P‐PNCs) to be surrounded by a positively charged layer in water. Given the specific recognition of chlorotoxin for the channels, rapid imaging of glioma cells is successfully performed in 15 min using P‐PNCs modified with chlorotoxin via charge attraction. The photoluminescence quantum yield of P‐PNC probes reached 87% and remained at 93% after 30 days of dispersion in water, while maintaining a much longer fluorescence lifetime of 15 µs. Therefore, this promising biological probe will be a general nanoplatform for identifying distinct cellular compartments using different biomarker imaging methods.
BACKGROUND Hepatoblastoma (HB) is the most common hepatic malignant tumour in children, accounting for approximately 50%-60% of primary hepatic malignant tumours in children, mostly in children under 3 years old. In Western countries, the incidence of hepatoblastoma is approximately 1-2/100000. Da Vinci surgical system is fast becoming a key instrument in microinvasive surgery. The past decade has seen the rapid development of robot-assisted laparoscopy, which expends many fields including the liver surgery. This paper discusses the significance and feasibility of robot-assisted gallbladder-preserving hepatectomy for treating S5 hepatoblastoma in children. The aim of this essay is to compare the safety and effectiveness of robotic surgery with conventional laparoscopic surgery, and explore the meaning of preservation of the gallbladder by sharing this case. CASE SUMMARY A 3-year-old child with a liver mass in the 5 th segment was treated using the Da Vinci surgical system, and the gallbladder was retained. The child was admitted to the hospital for 20 d for the discovery of the right hepatic lobe mass. Ultrasonography revealed a low echo mass, 46 mm × 26 mm × 58 mm in size, indicating hepatoblastoma in the right lobe, and enhanced computed tomography showed continuous enhancement of iso-low-density lesions with different sizes and nodules and unclear boundaries, without the dilation of the intrahepatic bile duct, no enlargement of the gallbladder, and uniform thickness of the wall. The diagnosis was “liver mass, hepatoblastoma”. It was decided to perform S5 liver tumour resection. During surgery, the tumour and gallbladder were isolated first, and the gallbladder could be completely separated from the tumour surface without obvious infiltration; therefore, the gallbladder was preserved. The cutting line was marked with an electric hook. The hepatic duodenal ligament was blocked with a urethral catheter using the Pringle method, and the tumour and part of the normal liver tissue were completely resected with an ultrasound knife along the incision. The hepatic portal interdiction time was approximately 25 min. An abdominal drainage tube was inserted. The auxiliary hole was connected to the lens, and the specimen was removed. The patient’s status was uneventful, and the operation time was 166 min. The robotic time was 115 min, and the bleeding amount was approximately 200 mL. In total, 300 mL of red blood cell suspension and 200 mL of plasma were injected. No serious complications occurred. Pathological findings confirmed fetal hepatoblastoma and R0 resection. A gallbladder contraction test was performed two weeks after surgery. CONCLUSION Robot-assisted S5 hepatectomy with gallbladder preservation is safe and feasible for specific patients.
Hydrogen isotope exchange (HIE) represents one of the most attractive labeling methods to synthesize deuterium-and tritium-labeled compounds. Catalytic HIE methods that enable site-selective CÀ H bond activation and exchange labeling with gaseous isotopes D 2 and T 2 are of vital importance, in particular for highspecific-activity tritiation of pharmaceuticals. As part of our interest in exploring s-block metals for catalytic transformations, we found CsN(SiMe 3 ) 2 to be an efficient catalyst for selective HIE of benzylic CÀ H bonds with D 2 gas. The reaction proceeds through a kinetic deprotonative equilibrium that establishes an exchange pathway between CÀ H bonds and D 2 gas. By virtue of multiple CÀ H bonds activation and high activity (isotope enrichment up to 99 %), the simple cesium amide catalyst provided a very powerful and practically convenient labeling protocol for synthesis of highly deuterated compounds and high-specific-activity tritiation of pharmaceuticals.
Two efficient processes based on the iodocyclization of ynamides have been developed: (i) N-alkynyl tert-butyloxycarbamates were found to undergo a rare 6-exo-dig ring closure reaction affording 1,3,5-oxadiazin-2-ones by using acetonitrile as solvent; (ii) In the absence of acetonitrile, N-alkynyl tert-butyloxycarbamates could undergo 5-endo-dig cyclization providing oxazolones.
A novel method for metal-free oxothiolation of ynamides to construct oxazolidine-2,4-diones bearing sulfur-substituted quaternary carbon atoms has been developed. It represents a rare C-O bond cleavage of ynamides, as well as a facile and tandem approach for the formation of C-O, C-S, and C-Cl bonds. This redox-neutral protocol can be applied to the synthesis of multisubstituted oxazolidine-2,4-diones with good chemoselectivity and good yields of isolated products under mild conditions.
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