Photodynamic activity of dibiotinylated aluminum sulfophthalocyanine in vitro and in vivo

The photodynamic activity of dibiotinylated aluminum sulfophthalocyanine was studied in vitro and in vivo. Dibiotinylated aluminum sulfophthalocyanine provided enhanced phototoxic action on OAT-75 cell monolayers as compared with the parent drug. Photodynamic therapy of mice with Ehrlich carcinoma using dibiotinylated aluminum sulfophthalocyanine (0.25 mg/kg) resulted in enhanced inhibition of tumor growth, pronounced vascular damage (thrombosis and destruction of vascular walls) and eventual tumor necrosis.     

The methoxycarbonylcarbene insertion into 1,3-dithiolane and 1,3-oxathiolane rings

Treatment of substituted 1,3-dithiolanes and 1,3-oxathiolanes with methyl diazoacetate in the presence of Rh₂(OAc)₄ effects ring expansion to the corresponding substituted 1,4-dithiane-2-carboxylates and 1,4-oxathiane-3-carboxylates. The sulfur ylides initially generated in these reactions undergo Stevens rearrangement in competition with both [2,3]-C-C-sigmatropic rearrangement and intramolecular fragmentation. In the case of 2-styryl-substituted 1,3-oxathiolane and 1,3-dithiolane, ring expansion on one-, three- and four-carbons subsequently takes place.     

Dynamics of curved DNA molecules: prediction and experiment

We have developed a quantitative predictive model capable of describing the dynamics of migration of intrinsically curved DNA fragments on polyacrylamide gels. The model takes into account structural features of DNA, end-to-end distance, screening of hydrodynamic interactions, ionic strength of buffer, electrostatic persistence length, structural fluctuations of the macromolecule, counter condensation, and variation of dielectric constant and viscosity of water with MPD. In doing so, we have also addressed a decade old issue on the effect of the organic solvent 2-methyl-2,4-pentanediol on gel migration of phased A-tracts. We show here that A-tract-solvent interactions are less favored compared with A-tract-A-tract and solvent-solvent interactions.     

New 3-hydroxyflavone derivatives for probing hydrophobic sites in microheterogeneous systems

Nine new 3-hydroxyflavone derivatives as fluorescent molecular sensors having two well-separated emission bands were synthesized. These sensors can occupy well-determined locations and orientations in macromolecular ensembles, such as micelles due to their finely-tuned designs. These polarity-sensitive dyes can incorporate into the anhydrous hydrophobic core of aqueous micelles.     

A fast $$(2 + \frac{2}{7})$$ ( 2 + 2 7 ) -approximation algorithm for capacitated cycle covering

Mathematical Programming - We consider the capacitated cycle covering problem: given an undirected, complete graph G with metric edge lengths and demands on the vertices, we want to cover the...     

Cyclic Projections in Hadamard Spaces

Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications - We show that cyclic products of projections onto convex subsets of Hadamard spaces can behave in a more complicated way than in Hilbert spaces,...     

Konvexität in halbgeordneten Ebenen

Let (E, (ie63-01),) be a halfordered plane and call convex if M contains for any two points a,bM all pointsx between a and b. It is shown that segments [a,b] are convex if and only if (E, (ie63-02)) is the affine plane of order 3, (E, (ie63-03),) is an ordered plane or is near-trivial.

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Herrn Professor Johannes Böhm zum 70. Geburtstag gewidmet     

Two new bounds on the size of binary codes with a minimum distance of three

We prove two new upper bounds on the size of binary codes with a minimum distance of three, namelyA(10, 3)76 andA(11, 3)152.