BACKGROUND Renal angiomyolipoma and renal cell carcinoma are the most common benign and malignant tumors of the kidney respectively,and the preoperative differential diagnosis is crucial due to the wide difference in ...BACKGROUND Renal angiomyolipoma and renal cell carcinoma are the most common benign and malignant tumors of the kidney respectively,and the preoperative differential diagnosis is crucial due to the wide difference in treatment methods.Fat-poor renal angiomyolipoma is a relatively rare type of in renal angiomyolipoma.Its fat imaging features are not obvious,and it is easily misdiagnosed as renal cell carcinoma.CASE SUMMARY We report the case of a 41-year-old man who complained of osphyalgia.Subsequent abdominal computed tomography scans revealed that a heterogeneous mass was seen in the lower pole of the right kidney,with the size of about 53 mm×47 mm.And showed two right renal arteries,with the mass supplied by an ectopic vessel from the abdominal aorta.Fluorescent laparoscopic blockade of the right renal heterotopic artery and partial nephrectomy was performed.Based on histological and immunohistochemical findings,the tumor was diagnosed as fatpoor renal angiomyolipoma.CONCLUSION The use of fluorescent laparoscopy can effectively help intraoperative management,and the fluorescence pattern provided by intravenous indocyanine green can help suggest the final diagnosis,effectively guide the surgical decisionmaking,and avoid preoperative imaging diagnosis leading to nephrectomy for benign renal tumors,through fluorescent navigation of tumor supply vessel precise block,minimize the loss of renal function.展开更多
Two new symmetric chromophores: 2, 8-bis-[(2-4′-ethoxy phenyl-5-4′-styryl)-1, 3, 4- oxadiazole] didibenzothiophene (abbreviated as SO-G1) and 2, 8-bis-[(2-4′-ethoxy phenyl-5-4′- styryl)-1, 3, 4-oxadiazole]-N-ethyl...Two new symmetric chromophores: 2, 8-bis-[(2-4′-ethoxy phenyl-5-4′-styryl)-1, 3, 4- oxadiazole] didibenzothiophene (abbreviated as SO-G1) and 2, 8-bis-[(2-4′-ethoxy phenyl-5-4′- styryl)-1, 3, 4-oxadiazole]-N-ethyl carbazole (abbreviated as NO-G1) have been synthesized and characterized. Both chromophores exhibit strong two-photon absorption (TPA) with the cross-sections of 2.99×10-48 and 3.48×10-48 cm4?s?photon-1 in THF and large up-conversion emission, when pumped by Ti:sapphire femto-second laser at 720 nm.展开更多
Single molecule protein sequencing would tremendously impact in proteomics and human biology and it would promote the development of novel diagnostic and therapeutic approaches.However,its technological realization ca...Single molecule protein sequencing would tremendously impact in proteomics and human biology and it would promote the development of novel diagnostic and therapeutic approaches.However,its technological realization can only be envisioned,and huge challenges need to be overcome.Major difficulties are inherent to the structure of proteins,which are composed by several different amino-acids.Despite long standing efforts,only few complex techniques,such as Edman degradation,liquid chromatography and mass spectroscopy,make protein sequencing possible.Unfortunately,these techniques present significant limitations in terms of amount of sample required and dynamic range of measurement.It is known that proteins can distinguish closely similar molecules.Moreover,several proteins can work as biological nanopores in order to perform single molecule detection and sequencing.Unfortunately,while DNA sequencing by means of nanopores is demonstrated,very few examples of nanopores able to perform reliable protein-sequencing have been reported sofar.Here,we investigate,by means of molecular dynamics simulations,how a re-engineered protein,acting as biological nanopore,can be used to recognize the sequence of a translocating peptide by sensing the MshapeH of individual amino-acids.In our simulations we demonstrate that it is possible to discriminate with high fidelity,9 different amino-acids in a short peptide translocating through the engineered construct.The method,here shown for fluorescence-based sequencing,does not require any labelling of the peptidic analyte.These results can pave the way for a new and highly sensitive method of sequencing.展开更多
文摘BACKGROUND Renal angiomyolipoma and renal cell carcinoma are the most common benign and malignant tumors of the kidney respectively,and the preoperative differential diagnosis is crucial due to the wide difference in treatment methods.Fat-poor renal angiomyolipoma is a relatively rare type of in renal angiomyolipoma.Its fat imaging features are not obvious,and it is easily misdiagnosed as renal cell carcinoma.CASE SUMMARY We report the case of a 41-year-old man who complained of osphyalgia.Subsequent abdominal computed tomography scans revealed that a heterogeneous mass was seen in the lower pole of the right kidney,with the size of about 53 mm×47 mm.And showed two right renal arteries,with the mass supplied by an ectopic vessel from the abdominal aorta.Fluorescent laparoscopic blockade of the right renal heterotopic artery and partial nephrectomy was performed.Based on histological and immunohistochemical findings,the tumor was diagnosed as fatpoor renal angiomyolipoma.CONCLUSION The use of fluorescent laparoscopy can effectively help intraoperative management,and the fluorescence pattern provided by intravenous indocyanine green can help suggest the final diagnosis,effectively guide the surgical decisionmaking,and avoid preoperative imaging diagnosis leading to nephrectomy for benign renal tumors,through fluorescent navigation of tumor supply vessel precise block,minimize the loss of renal function.
基金This work was supported by the NNSFC(No.50273024)the Natural Foundation of Jiangsu Province(No.BK2002041 and BK2003031)the Foundation of Jiangsu Province Education Committee(No.02KJB430001 and 03KJB150115).
文摘Two new symmetric chromophores: 2, 8-bis-[(2-4′-ethoxy phenyl-5-4′-styryl)-1, 3, 4- oxadiazole] didibenzothiophene (abbreviated as SO-G1) and 2, 8-bis-[(2-4′-ethoxy phenyl-5-4′- styryl)-1, 3, 4-oxadiazole]-N-ethyl carbazole (abbreviated as NO-G1) have been synthesized and characterized. Both chromophores exhibit strong two-photon absorption (TPA) with the cross-sections of 2.99×10-48 and 3.48×10-48 cm4?s?photon-1 in THF and large up-conversion emission, when pumped by Ti:sapphire femto-second laser at 720 nm.
基金the Horizon 2020 Program,FET-Open:PROSEQO,Grant Agreement no.[687089].We acknowledge PRACE for awarding us access to Marconi at CINECA,Italy.
文摘Single molecule protein sequencing would tremendously impact in proteomics and human biology and it would promote the development of novel diagnostic and therapeutic approaches.However,its technological realization can only be envisioned,and huge challenges need to be overcome.Major difficulties are inherent to the structure of proteins,which are composed by several different amino-acids.Despite long standing efforts,only few complex techniques,such as Edman degradation,liquid chromatography and mass spectroscopy,make protein sequencing possible.Unfortunately,these techniques present significant limitations in terms of amount of sample required and dynamic range of measurement.It is known that proteins can distinguish closely similar molecules.Moreover,several proteins can work as biological nanopores in order to perform single molecule detection and sequencing.Unfortunately,while DNA sequencing by means of nanopores is demonstrated,very few examples of nanopores able to perform reliable protein-sequencing have been reported sofar.Here,we investigate,by means of molecular dynamics simulations,how a re-engineered protein,acting as biological nanopore,can be used to recognize the sequence of a translocating peptide by sensing the MshapeH of individual amino-acids.In our simulations we demonstrate that it is possible to discriminate with high fidelity,9 different amino-acids in a short peptide translocating through the engineered construct.The method,here shown for fluorescence-based sequencing,does not require any labelling of the peptidic analyte.These results can pave the way for a new and highly sensitive method of sequencing.
