The search of alternative approaches to epithelial cell adhesion molecule (EpCAM), for the isolation of circulating tumor cells (CTC), is on the rise. This work attempts at evaluating the feasibility of using a new glycosaminoglycan, SCH45, as a probe to isolate CTCs from the peripheral blood of 65 advanced/metastatic cholangiocarcinoma (CCA) patients. The positive enrichment of CTCs from 1 mL of blood using SCH45‐bound magnetic beads and subsequent staining on an integrated microfluidic platform is demonstrated. Results detailing CTC concentrations averaging ≥1 CTCs mL−1 of blood are shown, and a conventional protein biomarker, EpCAM, has been used to corroborate the finding that 100% of the patients possess CTCs in their blood. Studies detailing the use of CTCs in the prognostic monitoring and treatment effectiveness of advanced/metastatic CCA are scarce, and the isolation of CTCs from all CCA patients tested has not been reported yet. A strong correlation between CTC counts and disease progression at the time of and/or in advance of radiographic imaging in patients receiving chemotherapy is also reported. This study is one of its kind with the new probe and reduced sample volume and has potential for use in CCA diagnosis and prognosis in the near future.
This report delineates our efforts towards the synthesis of a stereochemically well‐defined ketone, the C1−C10 fragment of muamvatin, the first example of a 2, 4, 6‐trioxaadamantane ring skeletal polypropionate marine natural product, using two non‐aldol variants. i) The Shimizu reaction, a Pd(0) mediated stereoselective epoxy‐ring opening of alkenyl oxiranes, was employed for the stereoselective installation of methyl groups in syn‐fashion and ii) Bode's protocol, a NHC‐mediated reaction on β‐epoxy aldehydes, was utilized for stereoselective construction of methyl and hydroxyl groups in anti‐fashion.
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