人膀胱粘膜/粘膜下层组织病变致组织漫反射光谱的变化

研究了人正常膀胱和浅表性膀胱癌的粘膜/粘膜下层组织在300～900nm光谱范围的漫反射光谱特性及其差异,实验采用带积分球附件的分光光度计获取组织的漫反射光谱.结果表明,在300～900 nm,正常膀胱的粘膜/粘膜下层对任一个波长的漫反射率都明显地较癌变的粘膜/粘膜下层对相应波长的要大.正常膀胱的粘膜/粘膜下层的漫反射光谱的峰分别在370 nm、520 nm、550 nm和660nm,其峰值分别为52.4%、60.7%、56.1%和75.5%.而癌变的粘膜/粘膜下层的漫反射光谱的峰分别在320 nm、520 nm、550 nm和660 nm,其峰值分别为43.7%、33.4%、30.6%和70.2%.正常膀胱的粘膜/粘膜下层的漫反射光谱在370 nm处有一个峰,而癌变的粘膜/粘膜下层的漫反射光谱在370 nm处没有峰,320 nm处有一个峰.而正常膀胱的粘膜/粘膜下层的漫反射光谱在320 nm处没有峰.膀胱的粘膜/粘膜下层病变导致组织的漫反射光谱在520 nm、550 nm和660 nm处的峰的峰值分别减小了45.0%、45.5%和7.02%.说明膀胱的粘膜/粘膜下层病变导致组织的组分和结构尤其足组织中的氧合血红蛋白和去氧血红蛋白的含量发生了明显的改变.     

虹膜区域选取与识别率对应关系分析

在人眼自然张开状态下,虹膜遭受睫毛、眼睑和反射光斑不同程度地干扰而失去了部分信息,因此需要找出虹膜保留面积与虹膜识别率之间的对应关系,从而根据小同的识别率要求估计不同的人眼最小张开程度.利用相关系数识别方法作为评测手段分别在不同的虹膜图库中进行了实验.结果证明,选取靠近瞳孔的虹膜内环区域与整个虹膜区域的比率在大于37.5%时,或者暴露的虹膜两侧扇形的角度大于70.时,就可以获得区分个体的特征量,达到比较稳定的识别率.实验结果还给出了虹膜内环区域而积与识别率的对应关系曲线以及虹膜两侧扇形区域面积与识别率之间的对应关系曲线.     

Extraction of the Anticancer and Antimicrobial Agent,Prodigiosin, from Vibrio gazogenes PB1 and Its Identification by 1D and 2D NMR

Prodigiosin is a secondary metabolite produced in several species of bacteria. It exhibits antimicrobial and anticancer properties. Methods for the extraction and identification of prodigiosin and their related derivatives from bacterial cultures typically depend on solvent-based extractions followed by NMR spectroscopy. The estuarine bacterium, V. gazogenes PB1, was previously shown to produce prodigiosin. This conclusion, however, was based on analytical data obtained from ultraviolet-visible absorption spectrophotometry and infrared spectroscopy. Complete dependence on these techniques would be considered inadequate for the accurate identification of the various members of the prodiginine family of compounds, which possess very similar chemical structures and near-identical optical properties. In this study, we extracted prodigiosin from a culture of Vibrio gazogenes PB1 cultivated in minimal media, and for the first time, confirmed the synthesis of prodigiosin Vibrio gazogenes PB1 using NMR techniques. The chemical structure was validated by ¹H and ¹³C NMR spectroscopy, and further corroborated by 2D NMR, which included ¹H-¹H-gDQFCOSY, ¹H-¹³C-gHSQC, and ¹H-¹³C-gHMBC, as well as ¹H-¹H-homonuclear decoupling experiments. Based on this data, previous NMR spectral assignments of prodigiosin are reaffirmed and in some cases, corrected. The findings will be particularly relevant for experimental work relating to the use of V. gazogenes PB1 as a host for the synthesis of prodigiosin.     

Lab on Fiber Technology for biological sensing applications

This review presents an overview of “Lab on Fiber” technologies and devices with special focus on the design and development of advanced fiber optic nanoprobes for biological applications. Depending on the specific location where functional materials at micro and nanoscale are integrated, “Lab on Fiber Technology” is classified into three main paradigms: Lab on Tip (where functional materials are integrated onto the optical fiber tip), Lab around Fiber (where functional materials are integrated on the outer surface of optical fibers), and Lab in Fiber (where functional materials are integrated within the holey structure of specialty optical fibers). This work reviews the strategies, the main achievements and related devices developed in the “Lab on Fiber” roadmap, discussing perspectives and challenges that lie ahead, with special focus on biological sensing applications.

     

Injection Moulding of Parts with Microstructured Surfaces for Medical Applications

m2M-systems (micro-to-Macro) are parts with lateral dimensions of macroscopic scale and structures on the surface in the dimension of microns. The microstructure on the surface has a specific function depending on the intended purpose of the parts. With the use of m2M-systems new methods of medical diagnostics are possible. Nowadays for the realisation of such parts mainly planar methods known from microelectronics and their standard materials silicon and glass are used. An alternative is to make m2M-systems by injection moulding of plastics which lowers the manufacturing costs. In order to get an acceptable replication of the microstructure the use of special moulding techniques is necessary. The results of investigations in the variotherm moulding process and the requirements for the injection moulding machine are described in this paper.