We report that the dye nile red, 9-diethylamino-5H-benzo[alpha]phenoxazine-5-one, is an excellent vital stain for the detection of intracellular lipid droplets by fluorescence microscopy and flow cytofluorometry. The specificity of the dye for lipid droplets was assessed on cultured aortic smooth muscle cells and on cultured peritoneal macrophages that were incubated with acetylated low density lipoprotein to induce cytoplasmic lipid overloading. Better selectivity for cytoplasmic lipid droplets was obtained when the cells were viewed for yellow-gold fluorescence (excitation, 450-500 nm; emission, greater than 528 nm) rather than red fluorescence (excitation, 515-560 nm; emission, greater than 590 nm). Nile red-stained, lipid droplet-filled macrophages exhibited greater fluorescence intensity than did nile red-stained control macrophages, and the two cell populations could be differentiated and analyzed by flow cytofluorometry. Such analyses could be performed with either yellow-gold or red fluorescence, but when few lipid droplets per cell were present, the yellow-gold fluorescence was more discriminating. Nile red exhibits properties of a near-ideal lysochrome. It is strongly fluorescent, but only in the presence of a hydrophobic environment. The dye is very soluble in the lipids it is intended to show, and it does not interact with any tissue constituent except by solution. Nile red can be applied to cells in an aqueous medium, and it does not dissolve the lipids it is supposed to reveal.

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Nile red: a selective fluorescent stain for intracellular lipid droplets.

This Review summarizes the advancements in Pd-catalyzed C(sp3)–H activation via various redox manifolds, including Pd(0)/Pd(II), Pd(II)/Pd(IV), and Pd(II)/Pd(0). While few examples have been reported in the activation of alkane C–H bonds, many C(sp3)–H activation/C–C and C–heteroatom bond forming reactions have been developed by the use of directing group strategies to control regioselectivity and build structural patterns for synthetic chemistry. A number of mono- and bidentate ligands have also proven to be effective for accelerating C(sp3)–H activation directed by weakly coordinating auxiliaries, which provides great opportunities to control reactivity and selectivity (including enantioselectivity) in Pd-catalyzed C–H functionalization reactions.

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Palladium-Catalyzed Transformations of Alkyl C-H Bonds.

Complete Field Guide to Asymmetric BINOL-Phosphate Derived Brønsted Acid and Metal Catalysis: History and Classification by Mode of Activation; Brønsted Acidity, Hydrogen Bonding, Ion Pairing, and Metal Phosphates

Synthesis of oxygen- and nitrogen-containing heterocycles by ring-closing metathesis.

Electrophilic Trifluoromethylation by Use of Hypervalent Iodine Reagents

CXIX.—The formation and stability of spiro-compounds. Part I. spiro-Compounds from cyclohexane

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Jocelyn Field Thorpe

Papers

CXIX.—The formation and stability of spiro-compounds. Part I. spiro-Compounds from cyclohexane

CLXXV.—The formation and reactions of imino-compounds. Part I. Condensation of ethyl cyanoacetate with its sodium derivative

XXXVI.—A reaction of certain colouring matters of the oxazine series

CXLIII.—The influence of substituents on the formation and stability of heterocyclic compounds. Part I. Hydantoins

XLI.—The chemistry of the glutaconic acids. Part XIV. Three-carbon tautomerism in the cyclopropane series