Clinical and Neuroimaging Predictors of Alzheimer's Dementia Conversion in Patients with Mild Cognitive Impairment Using Amyloid Positron Emission Tomography by Quantitative Analysis over 2 Years.

Patients with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) have a relatively high risk of developing Alzheimer's dementia (AD), so early identification of the risk for AD conversion can lessen the socioeconomic burden. In this study, F-Florapronol, newly developed in Korea, was used for qualitative and quantitative analyses to assess amyloid positivity. We also investigated the clinical predictors of the progression from MCI to dementia over 2 years.

Highly sensitive ratiometric fluorescent chemosensor for silver ion and silver nanoparticles in aqueous solution.

A pyrene derivative chemosensor (Pyr-WH) based on a dipeptide shows a highly sensitive ratiometric response to Ag(I) as well as silver nanoparticles in aqueous solution at physiological pH. Pyr-WH penetrated live HeLa cells and exhibits a ratiometric response to intracellular Ag(I). The binding mode of Pyr-WH with Ag(I) was characterized based on fluorescence changes in different pH, NMR, and ESI mass spectrometer experiments.