Self-calibration method for cerium-doped lanthanum bromide scintillator detector in the 0.1–2.0 MeV energy range

In recent years, the cerium-doped lanthanum bromide, LaBr₃ (Ce = 5 %) detector is increasingly playing an important role in radiation measurements because of its higher energy resolution (~3 % at 662 keV), faster luminescence decay time (~35 ns) and higher detection efficiency compared to 7.65 cm × 7.65 cm NaI(Tl) detector. Intrinsic spectra between 1,800 and 3,000 keV derived from internal radioactivity within LaBr₃(Ce) scintillators have been investigated in some literatures, and these results are confirmed by the experiments in this work. In this paper, a new method for LaBr₃(Ce) detector energy calibration from 100 to 2,000 keV is proposed using the intrinsic spectra (self-calibration) instead of the standard gamma sources. Proof-of-concept experiment results show that self-calibration can guarantee energy accuracy of better than 0.815 % and can be applied outside the laboratory. The stability and applicability of this method are also investigated systematically.     

新型咪唑[2,1-b][1,3,4]噻二唑衍生物的合成及Cdc25B抑制活性

大量研究表明,细胞分裂周期25磷酸酯酶B(Cdc25B)在许多癌症中都是过度表达的,如乳腺癌、结肠癌、子宫颈癌、肺癌等.因此,抑制Cdc25B是治疗癌症的一种潜在方法.采用微波辐射法,合成出了20个新的2,6-二芳基-咪唑[2,1-b][1,3,4]噻二唑衍生物4,然后再经Vilsmeier-Haack反应,合成出了19个新的2,6-二芳基-咪唑[2,1-b][1,3,4]噻二唑-5-甲醛(5).利用IR,1H NMR和元素分析对新的中间体化合物3及目标产物4和5进行了结构表征.对所合成的目标化合物4和5进行了Cdc25B抑制活性筛选.实验结果表明,在浓度为5μg/mL时,目标化合物4c对Cdc25B的抑制活性最高,抑制率为87.68%,目标化合物4o和5m具有中等的抑制活性,其抑制率分别为55.76%和57.69%.它们是潜在的Cdc25B抑制剂.     

新型双环新烟碱类似物的合成及其生物活性

设计合成了六个新型双环新烟碱类似物,通过1H NMR,13C NMR,高分辨质谱和单晶结构对目标化合物的结构进行了表征.初步的生物活性测试表明:在500 mg?L-1浓度下,目标化合物6a,6c~6f对豆蚜(Aphis craccivora)具有很好的杀虫活性.通过分子对接比较并解释了目标化合物6a和吡虫啉的活性和作用模式的差异,其结果表明目标化合物6a的吡啶环和受体残基色氨酸147的芳香环侧链具有?-?堆积作用,与吡虫啉的作用方式存在一定差异.     

2,4-二氨基喹唑啉和2,4-二氨基吡啶并[2,3-d]嘧啶衍生物的合成

以6-氯-5-氰基烟酸、3-氰基-4-氟苯甲酸、4-氰基-3-氟苯甲酸和6-氯-5氰基-2-吡啶甲酸为原料,经过酰胺化和关环两步反应合成了2,4-二氨基喹唑啉和2,4-二氨基吡啶并[2,3-d]嘧啶衍生物,该方法操作简便,除6-氯-5-氰基-2-吡啶甲酸外,其它三种酸的反应收率可达65%以上.采用氢核磁(1H NMR)、碳核磁(13C NMR)和高效液质联用(LC-MS)分析对目标产物进行了表征.采用四甲基偶氮唑盐(MTT)法考察所合成化合物的体外抗肿瘤活性测性,结果表明部分化合物对所选肿瘤细胞的增殖有一定的抑制活性,化合物4c,4d,4e和4f对人白血病细胞(K562)和人肝癌细胞(HepG2)的抑制活性强于阳性对照药5-氟尿嘧啶(5-Fu).     

4-二甲氨基黄酮衍生物的合成及其活性评价

设计合成了10个4-二甲氨基黄酮衍生物,产物结构均经1H NMR,ESI-MS和元素分析确认.采用噻唑蓝(MTT)法测试了化合物对HepG2(人肝癌细胞)的抑制作用,结果表明目标化合物在30μmol/L浓度下对HepG2细胞损伤均有一定的抑制作用,大部分化合物优于对照药物槲皮素,其中化合物5c,5e,5f和5j活性最强,抑制率分别为91.0%,90.1%,95.7%和92.1%,而且化合物5f在10μmol/L浓度下对HepG2的抑制率为93.1%,具有深入研究的价值.     

Development of a solid‐phase microextraction fiber by the chemical binding of graphene oxide on a silver‐coated stainless‐steel wire with an ionic liquid as the crosslinking agent

Graphene oxide was bonded onto a silver‐coated stainless‐steel wire using an ionic liquid as the crosslinking agent by a layer‐by‐layer strategy. The novel solid‐phase microextraction fiber was characterized by scanning electron microscopy, energy‐dispersive X‐ray spectroscopy and Raman microscopy. A multilayer graphene oxide layer was closely coated onto the supporting substrate. The thickness of the coating was about 4 μm. Coupled with gas chromatography, the fiber was evaluated using five polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (fluorene, anthracene, fluoranthene, 1,2‐benzophenanthrene, and benzo(a)pyrene) as model analytes in direct‐immersion mode. The main conditions (extraction time, extraction temperature, ionic strength, and desorption time) were optimized by a factor‐by‐factor optimization. The as‐established method exhibited a wide linearity range (0.5–200 μg/L) and low limits of determination (0.05–0.10 μg/L). It was applied to analyze environmental water samples of rain and river water. Three kinds of the model analytes were quantified and the recoveries of samples spiked at 10 μg/L were in the range of 92.3–120 and 93.8–115%, respectively. The obtained results indicated the fiber was efficient for solid‐phase microextraction analysis.     

Rapid assessment of drug response in cancer cells using microwell array and molecular imaging

Selection of personalized chemotherapy regimen for individual patients has significant potential to improve chemotherapy efficacy and to reduce the deleterious effects of ineffective chemotherapy drugs. In this study, a rapid and high-throughput in vitro drug response assay was developed using a combination of microwell array and molecular imaging. The microwell array provided high-throughput analysis of drug response, which was quantified based on the reduction in intracellular uptake (2-[N-(7-nitrobenz-2-oxa-1,3-diazol-4-yl)amino]-2-deoxy-d-glucose) (2-NBDG). Using this synergistic approach, the drug response measurement was completed within 4 h, and only a couple thousand cells were needed for quantification. The broader application of this microwell molecular imaging approach was demonstrated by evaluating the drug response of two cancer cell lines, cervical (HeLa) and bladder (5637) cancer cells, to two distinct classes of chemotherapy drugs (cisplatin and paclitaxel). This approach did not require an extended cell culturing period, and the quantification of cellular drug response was 4–16 times faster compared with other cell-microarray drug response studies. Moreover, this molecular imaging approach had comparable sensitivity to traditional cell viability assays, i.e., the MTT assay and propidium iodide labeling of cellular nuclei;and similar throughput results as flow cytometry using only 1,000–2,000 cells. Given the simplicity and robustness of this microwell molecular imaging approach, it is anticipated that the assay can be adapted to quantify drug responses in a wide range of cancer cells and drugs and translated to clinical settings for a rapid in vitro drug response using clinically isolated samples.      

A wide range optical pH sensor for living cells using Au@Ag nanoparticles functionalized carbon nanotubes based on SERS signals

p-Aminothiophenol (pATP) functionalized multi-walled carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs) have been demonstrated as an efficient pH sensor for living cells. The proposed sensor employs gold/silver core-shell nanoparticles (Au@Ag NPs) functionalized MWCNTs hybrid structure as the surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) substrate and pATP molecules as the SERS reporters, which possess a pH-dependent SERS performance. By using MWCNTs as the substrate to be in a state of aggregation, the pH sensing range could be extended to pH 3.0～14.0, which is much wider than that using unaggregated Au@Ag NPs without MWCNTs. Furthermore, the pH-sensitive performance was well retained in living cells with a low cytotoxicity. The developed SERS-active MWCNTs-based nanocomposite is expected to be an efficient intracellular pH sensor for bio-applications.     

Biological evaluation of 2-methylpyrimidine derivatives as active pan Bcr-Abl inhibitors

We designed a series of 2-methylpyrimidine derivatives as new BCR-ABL inhibitors using scaffold-hopping strategy.These synthetic compounds exhibited significant inhibition against a broad spectrum of Bcr-Abl mutants including the gatekeeper T315I mutant.Compound 7u showed very potent kinase inhibitory activities against Bcr-Abl WT,Bcr-Abl E255K,Bcr-Abl Q252H,Bcr-Abl G250E and Bcr-Abl T315I,with IC50 values of 0.13 nM,0.17 nM,0.24 nM,0.19 nM and 0.65μM,respectively.This compound also displayed anti-proliferation activity against K562 cell line with an IC50 value of 1.1 nM,thus representing a new lead for further optimization.     

Effects of substrate and transfer on CVD-grown graphene over sapphire-induced Cu films

We differentiated the effects of Cu films deposited on single crystalline a-,r-,and c-plane sapphire substrates upon graphene films synthesized with atmospheric pressure chemical vapor deposition(CVD).The data illustrate that the realization of high-crystalline Cu film is dependent not only on the crystallinity of underlying substrate,but also on the symmetric match of crystallographic geometry between metal film and substrate.We also systematically investigated the effects of PMMA removal on the Raman ID/IG and IG/I2D values of transferred graphene.The results reveal that different PMMA removal methods do not alter the ID/IG values;instead,the residue of PMMA increases the IG/I2D values and the thermal decomposition of PMMA leads to higher IG/I2D values than the removal of PMMA with acetone.The effects of PMMA removal on variations of the Raman spectra are also discussed.