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Int J Med Robot ; 19(1): e2474, 2023 Feb.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-36331902

ABSTRACT

BACKGROUND: Transoral robotic surgery (TORS) is a reliable, minimally invasive approach for treating recurrent nasopharyngeal carcinoma (rNPC). However, tumours involving the internal carotid artery (ICA) are considered to be unsuitable for TORS. This paper presents the first case of transoral robotic resection of advanced rNPC involving the ICA. MATERIALS AND METHODS: This case is a 55 year-old male patient who received radiotherapy 27 years ago. This patient underwent a standard TORS resection 2 weeks after ipsilateral ICA embolization. RESULTS: Postoperative Magnetic resonance imaging and biopsy results indicated total resection. During the 2 month follow-up, no severe complications were found, and the primary site was tumour-free. CONCLUSION: This study preliminarily presents the feasibility and efficiency of advanced rNPC resection with TORS. TORS can potentially provide better quality of life for patients as a less invasive approach than current endoscopic surgery. Even so, the surgical approach should be selected strictly according to the tumour's location.


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Nasopharyngeal Neoplasms , Robotic Surgical Procedures , Male , Humans , Middle Aged , Robotic Surgical Procedures/methods , Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma/surgery , Carotid Artery, Internal/diagnostic imaging , Carotid Artery, Internal/surgery , Quality of Life , Nasopharyngeal Neoplasms/diagnostic imaging , Nasopharyngeal Neoplasms/surgery
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Int J Biol Macromol ; 168: 395-402, 2021 Jan 31.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-33275979

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Spider silk, which is composed of diverse silk proteins (spidroin), is a kind of natural high-mass biomaterial with great potential. However, due to the complexity of both the structure and the composition of the spidroins in natural spider silk, application of this valuable biomass is still limited to date. There are diverse kinds of spider silk in the orb-weaving spider with different mechanical and structural characteristics. In order to systematically illustrate the landscape of all the different spidrons, here we chose Araneus ventricosus, an orb-weaving spider with superior silk mechanical features and genome information, to generate a long-read whole body transcriptome. We deciphered the repeat arrangements of each kind of spidroin, based on which we found that there are substantially transcriptional diversity of each spidroin gene. Some repeat motifs are not documented before. Specifically, we discovered novel full-lengh MaSp transcript as well as a relatively small full-length AcSp isoforms, which are potential promising materials for bioengineering of recombinant spidroin. Our study provided a batch of new spidron resources with detail sequential information. The finding of transcriptional diversity may provide cues in understanding of within-species variation of the mechanical properties of the natural spider silk and further molecular designing of recombinant spidroin.


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Fibroins/chemistry , Fibroins/genetics , Spiders/genetics , Amino Acid Sequence , Animals , China , Evolution, Molecular , Gene Expression Profiling/methods , Genetic Variation/genetics , Phylogeny , Sequence Analysis , Silk/chemistry , Transcriptome/genetics
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