Recently,photothermal therapy(PTT)has been proved to have great potential in tumor therapy.In the last several years,MoS_(2),as one novel member of nanomaterials,has been applied into PTT due to its excellent photothe...Recently,photothermal therapy(PTT)has been proved to have great potential in tumor therapy.In the last several years,MoS_(2),as one novel member of nanomaterials,has been applied into PTT due to its excellent photothermal conversion efficacy.In this work,we applied fuorescence lifetime imaging microscopy(FLIM)techniques into monitoring the PPT-triggered cell death under MoS_(2) nanosheet treatment.Two types of MoS_(2) nanosheets(single layer nanosheets and few layer nanosheets)were obtained,both of which exhibited presentable photothermal conversion fficacy,leading to high cell death rates of 4T1 cells(mouse breast cancer cells)under PTT.Next,live cell images of 4T1 cells were obtained via directly labeling the mitochondria with Rodamine123,which were then continuously observed with FLIM technique.FLIM data showed that the fuorescence lifetimes of mitochondria targeting dye in cells treated with each type of MoS_(2) nanosheets significantly increased during PTT treatment.By contrast,the fuorescence lifetime of the same dye in control cells(without nanomaterials)remained constant after laser irradiation.These findings suggest that FLIM can be of great value in monitoring cell death process during PTT of cancer cells,which could provide dynamic data of the cellular microenvironment at single cell level in multiple biomedical applications.展开更多
The North Himalayan gneiss domes(NHGD),as one of the extensional structures widely distributed across the southern Tibetan Plateau,are an important window for studying post-collisional diastrophism and magmation as we...The North Himalayan gneiss domes(NHGD),as one of the extensional structures widely distributed across the southern Tibetan Plateau,are an important window for studying post-collisional diastrophism and magmation as well as polymetallic mineralization.However,the deep mechanism for the formation of NHGD remains controversial.The magnetotelluric(MT)method was adopted to study the deep structure of the Cuonadong dome in the Northern Himalayas.The characteristics of the dome were explored by using the MT sounding curves and phase tensors.Three-dimensional(3D)MT inversion was performed to determine the electrical resistivity structure beneath the Cuonadong dome.The preferred 3D electrical resistivity model shows that an obvious low-resistivity anomaly develops beneath the Cuonadong dome which is overlaid by a high-resistivity body and surrounded by an apparent subcircular zone of low-resistivity anomalies.The integrated conductivity(longitudinal conductance)from depths of 1-20 km indicates that the average longitudinal conductance at the core of the Cuonadong dome is about 10,000 S.The high-conductivity anomaly at the core is found to be analogous to that of lava,mainly resulting from the crustal partial melting,and the estimated melt content is 11.0-17.3%.The high conductance surrounding the dome reaches 20,000 S on average,which is mainly attributed to saline fluids.MT results in this study support that the Cuonadong dome experienced magmatic diapirism.Taken together with previous geological and geochemical studies,we suggest that under the east-west(E-W)extensional tectonic setting in southern Tibet,deep crustal partial melting constantly accumulated beneath the dome,and therefore the magmatic diapirism resulted in the formation of the Cuonadong dome.In addition,the MT results also indicate that the development of the Cuonadong dome provides abundant mineralizing fluids and the space for migration of metallogenic fluids for(rare-metal)polymetallic mineralization.展开更多
基金supported by the National Key R&D Program of China(2018YFC0910602)the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.31771584/61775145/61605121,61620106016/61525503/61835009/81727804)+2 种基金Guangdong Natural Science Foundation Innovation Team(2014A030312008)Shenzhen Basic Research Project(JCYJ20170818100153423/JCYJ20170412110212234/JCYJ20160328144746940/JCYJ20170412105003520/JCYJ20170302142902581)Science Foundation of SZU(Grant No.000193).
文摘Recently,photothermal therapy(PTT)has been proved to have great potential in tumor therapy.In the last several years,MoS_(2),as one novel member of nanomaterials,has been applied into PTT due to its excellent photothermal conversion efficacy.In this work,we applied fuorescence lifetime imaging microscopy(FLIM)techniques into monitoring the PPT-triggered cell death under MoS_(2) nanosheet treatment.Two types of MoS_(2) nanosheets(single layer nanosheets and few layer nanosheets)were obtained,both of which exhibited presentable photothermal conversion fficacy,leading to high cell death rates of 4T1 cells(mouse breast cancer cells)under PTT.Next,live cell images of 4T1 cells were obtained via directly labeling the mitochondria with Rodamine123,which were then continuously observed with FLIM technique.FLIM data showed that the fuorescence lifetimes of mitochondria targeting dye in cells treated with each type of MoS_(2) nanosheets significantly increased during PTT treatment.By contrast,the fuorescence lifetime of the same dye in control cells(without nanomaterials)remained constant after laser irradiation.These findings suggest that FLIM can be of great value in monitoring cell death process during PTT of cancer cells,which could provide dynamic data of the cellular microenvironment at single cell level in multiple biomedical applications.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.91962109,42174094)the Second Tibetan Plateau Scientific Expedition and Research Program(STEP)(Grant No.2019QZKK0701)+1 种基金the Fund of Chinese Geological Survey(Grant No.DD20190016)the Basic Scientific Research Fund of the Institute of Geology,Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences(Grant No.J2015)。
文摘The North Himalayan gneiss domes(NHGD),as one of the extensional structures widely distributed across the southern Tibetan Plateau,are an important window for studying post-collisional diastrophism and magmation as well as polymetallic mineralization.However,the deep mechanism for the formation of NHGD remains controversial.The magnetotelluric(MT)method was adopted to study the deep structure of the Cuonadong dome in the Northern Himalayas.The characteristics of the dome were explored by using the MT sounding curves and phase tensors.Three-dimensional(3D)MT inversion was performed to determine the electrical resistivity structure beneath the Cuonadong dome.The preferred 3D electrical resistivity model shows that an obvious low-resistivity anomaly develops beneath the Cuonadong dome which is overlaid by a high-resistivity body and surrounded by an apparent subcircular zone of low-resistivity anomalies.The integrated conductivity(longitudinal conductance)from depths of 1-20 km indicates that the average longitudinal conductance at the core of the Cuonadong dome is about 10,000 S.The high-conductivity anomaly at the core is found to be analogous to that of lava,mainly resulting from the crustal partial melting,and the estimated melt content is 11.0-17.3%.The high conductance surrounding the dome reaches 20,000 S on average,which is mainly attributed to saline fluids.MT results in this study support that the Cuonadong dome experienced magmatic diapirism.Taken together with previous geological and geochemical studies,we suggest that under the east-west(E-W)extensional tectonic setting in southern Tibet,deep crustal partial melting constantly accumulated beneath the dome,and therefore the magmatic diapirism resulted in the formation of the Cuonadong dome.In addition,the MT results also indicate that the development of the Cuonadong dome provides abundant mineralizing fluids and the space for migration of metallogenic fluids for(rare-metal)polymetallic mineralization.