Development of an ultra-performance liquid chromatography-electrospray ionization-Orbitrap mass spectrometry method for determination of xanthopurpurin in rat plasma and its application to pharmacokinetic study

A rapid and sensitive method was developed and validated for the quantitative determination of xanthopurpurin (XPP) in rat plasma using ultra-performance liquid chromatography-electrospray ionization-Orbitrap mass spectrometry. XPP inhibits IgE production and prevents peanut-induced anaphylaxis. The XPP and emodin (internal standard) were determined in negative ion mode with m/z 239.0350 → 211.0400 and 269.0455 → 241.0507, respectively. The separation process was achieved using an ACQUITY UPLC HSS T₃ column with acetonitrile and 0.1% formic acid in water (85:15). The linear range was 0.5–100 ng/mL, and the correlation coefficient (r²) was > 0.993. The inter-day and intra-day precision was within an acceptable range of 15%. The extraction recovery and matrix effect were 78.9–87.2% and 94.3–98.5%, respectively. Under different conditions, the XPP was stable in the range of 5.6–10.6%. This method was successfully applied to study the pharmacokinetics of XPP with an oral dose of 10.0 mg/kg and intravenous dose of 2.0 mg/kg in rats. The absolute oral bioavailability of XPP was 4.6%.     

Highly Specific,Single-step Cancer Cell Isolation with Multi-Aptamer-Mediated Proximity Ligation on Live Cell Membranes

A single-step method for isolation of specific cells based on multiple surface markers will have unique advantages because of its scalability, efficacy, and mildness. Herein, we developed multi-aptamer-mediated proximity ligation method on live cell membranes that leverages a multi-receptor co-recognition design for enhanced specificity, as well as a robust in situ signal amplification design for improved sensitivity of cell isolation. We demonstrated the promising efficacy of our method on differentiating tumor cell subtypes in both cell mixtures and clinical samples. Owing to its simple and fast operation with excellent cell isolation sensitivity and accuracy, this approach will have broad applications in biological science, biomedical engineering, and personalized medicine.     

Uniqueness of isometric immersions with the same mean curvature

Motivated by the quasi-local mass problem in general relativity, we study the rigidity of isometric immersions with the same mean curvature into a warped product space. As a corollary of our main result, two star-shaped hypersurfaces in a spatial Schwarzschild or AdS-Schwarzschild manifold with nonzero mass differ only by a rotation if they are isometric and have the same mean curvature. We also prove similar results if the mean curvature condition is replaced by an ${\sigma }_2$-curvature condition.     

基于深度学习的离轴菲涅耳数字全息非线性重构

针对离轴菲涅耳数字全息图,提出基于深度学习的单幅数字全息非线性重构方法 .采用经典的菲涅耳衍射积分模拟数字全息成像以供给网络训练所需样本,利用深度卷积残差神经网络通过学习数字全息图与相关物像之间的非线性数学映射关系实现全息图的物像重构.数值模拟表明,与传统的频率滤波和四步相移技术实现菲涅耳数字全息重构相比,本文提出的方法可直接消除零级像及孪生像,无需条纹物项抽取预处理步骤,且重构的物像具有较高的质量,针对相同记录参考光下不同衍射距离所生成的测试集亦具有较强的稳健性.     

基于非共轴阵列照明的小型化眼底相机光学系统设计

建立了非共轴阵列照明下的眼底成像数学模型,采用照明光路与成像光路独立设计方法,提出了一种微小型眼底相机光学系统,以避免传统眼底相机中人眼角膜与网膜物镜反射杂光对视网膜图像的干扰.设计了6阵列环形光源照明光路系统,长度仅17.9 mm,实现眼底视网膜有效照明线视场不小于12 mm;成像光路系统采用二次成像设计,光学调制传递函数优于0.2@91 lp/mm,畸变小于5%,长度仅为75 mm.仿真与设计结果表明,该眼底相机光学系统有效抑制了光路中的杂散光,有利于获得高对比度视网膜图像.研究结果可为高像质、小型化以及低杂光眼底相机发展提供设计参考.     

Strong π-π stacking interactions led to the mis-assignment of dimer emissions to the monomers of 1-acetylpyrene

Both experimental and computational studies showed owing to strong π-π stacking interactions, 1-acetylpyrene mainly exists in dimers and molecular aggregates even at low concentrations, which led to the mis-assignment of its monomer emission peaks.     

固相萃取-HPLC法同时测定滇龙胆中7种苯甲酸酯

建立了固相萃取-HPLC法同时测定滇龙胆中抗老年痴呆的7种主要成分gentiside G,gentiside H,gentiside I,gentiside A,gentiside J,gentiside B,gentiside K的含量的方法。滇龙胆样品经乙醇提取环己烷萃取后,用硅胶固相萃取小柱净化,HPLC-DAD对7种苯甲酸酯进行定量检测。7种苯甲酸酯类化合物在一定范围内线性关系良好,相关系数均大于0.999,加样回收率为92.8%~104.6%,RSD为0.8%~4.7%。不同产地龙胆样品中云南产滇龙胆苯甲酸酯含量高于其他产地龙胆,7种化合物中,gentiside B含量最高达0.3425μg/g,gentiside G含量最低只有8.5μg/g。方法为滇龙胆药材的质量控制和资源开发利用提供科学依据。     

Visible-light-mediated external-reductant-free reductive cross coupling of benzylammonium salts with (hetero)aryl nitriles

Herein we report a novel visible-light-mediated external reductant-free reductive cross coupling for the construction of C sp~2–C sp~3 bonds. A variety of benzylammonium salts underwent selective coupling with(hetero)aryl nitriles to deliver important diarylmethanes under mild reaction conditions. Importantly, photocatalysts can be omitted for many cases, which might involve the electron donor acceptor(EDA) complex. Mechanistic studies indicated benzylic radicals might be involved as the key intermediates. Moreover, the in situ generated NMe_3 via cleavage of C–N bond in ammonium salts acts as the electron donor,thus avoiding the use of external-reductant.