[Effects of E-selectin and their ligands on the adhesive metastasis of hepatocellular carcinoma].

Objectives: To explore the effects of E-selectin, ICAM-1 and their ligands on the adhesive metastasis of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), and to select possible anti-adhesion drugs for hepatocellular carcinoma metastasis.

Methods: 78 HCC patients were analyzed with the correlation of clinical features to the expression levels of E-selectin, sLeX, sLeA and CD44v6 in the tumor tissue. The adhesion between HepG2 and endothelial cell lines was examined by solid phase adhesion assay in vitro.

A colorimetric and fluorescent merocyanine-based probe for biological thiols.

A new "dual-mode" chromogenic and fluorescent turn-on probe (2) for the selective sensing of biological thiols is reported. In MeOH-H(2)O cosolvent at physiological pH 7.40 (MeOH-H(2)O = 3:7), biological thiols cleave the 2,4-dinitrobenzenesulfonyl group to release the chromo- and fluorophore merocyanine (3).

3',6'-Bis(diethyl-amino)-2-phenyl-spiro[isoindoline-1,9'-xanthen]-3-one.

The title compound, C(34)H(35)O(2)N(3), was synthesized by the reaction of 2-[3,6-bis-(diethyl-amino)-9H-xanthen-9-yl]benzoyl chloride with aniline. In the mol-ecular structure, the dihedral angles between the isoindoline and xanthene planes and between the isoindoline and benzene planes are 86.9 (3) and 47.