Publications by authors named "Hubert Tang"

Background And Purpose: The review of clinical reports is an essential part of monitoring disease progression. Synthesizing multiple imaging reports is also important for clinical decisions. It is critical to aggregate information quickly and accurately.

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It is well-established that the combined use of nanostructured substrates and immunoaffinity agents can enhance the cell-capture performance of the substrates, thus offering a practical solution to effectively capture circulating tumor cells (CTCs) in peripheral blood. Developing along this strategy, this study first demonstrated a top-down approach for the fabrication of tetrahedral DNA nanostructure (TDN)-NanoGold substrates through the hierarchical integration of three functional constituents at various length-scales: a macroscale glass slide, sub-microscale self-organized NanoGold, and nanoscale self-assembled TDN. The TDN-NanoGold substrates were then assembled with microfluidic chaotic mixers to give TDN-NanoGold Click Chips.

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Optimizing outcomes in prostate cancer (PCa) requires precision in characterization of disease status. This effort was directed at developing a PCa extracellular vesicle (EV) Digital Scoring Assay (DSA) for detecting metastasis and monitoring progression of PCa. PCa EV DSA is comprised of an EV purification device (i.

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  • Current methods for detecting early-stage hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) are not very effective, but extracellular vesicles (EVs) show potential as biomarkers for early detection.
  • This study developed an EV-based assay to identify specific surface protein markers and create an HCC EV ECG score, which helped differentiate early-stage HCC from cirrhosis in participants.
  • The assay demonstrated high accuracy in testing, with a receiver operating characteristic area of 0.95 in the training cohort and 0.93 in the validation cohort, suggesting it could improve current HCC surveillance methods and patient outcomes.*
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Syncytium formation, i.e., cell-cell fusion resulting in the formation of multinucleated cells, is a hallmark of infection by paramyxoviruses and other pathogenic viruses.

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A rapid qualitative method using on-line column-switching liquid chromatography/tandem mass spectrometry (LC/MS/MS) was developed and validated for screening 13 target veterinary drugs: four macrolides - erythromycin A, josamycin (leucomycin A3), kitasamycin (leucomycin A5), and tylosin A; six (fluoro)quinolones - ciprofloxacin, danofloxacin, enrofloxacin, flumequine, oxolinic acid, and sarafloxacin; and lincomycin, virginiamycin M1, and trimethoprim in different animal muscles. Clindamycin, norfloxacin, nalidixic acid, oleandomycin, ormetoprim, and roxithromycin were used as the internal standards. After simple deproteination and analyte extraction of muscle samples using acetonitrile, the supernatant was subjected to on-line cleanup and direct analysis by LC/MS/MS.

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A simple, cost-effective, and high throughput method using on-line column-switching liquid chromatography fluorescence detection was developed and validated for analysing five (fluoro)quinolones (FQs)--enrofloxacin (ENRO), ciprofloxacin (CIPR), sarafloxacin (SARA), oxolinic acid (OXOL), and flumequine (FLUM) in bovine milk. Norfloxacin (NORF) and nalixidic acid (NALI) were used as internal standards. After simple deproteination of milk sample with 5% (w/v) metaphosphoric acid, the supernatant was subject to on-line column clean-up and direct analysis by LC-FLD.

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