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Lin B, Nasir J, McDonald H, Graham R, Rommens JM, Goldberg YP, Hayden MR. Genomic organization of the human alpha-adducin gene and its alternately spliced isoforms. Genomics 1995; 25:93-9. [PMID: 7774961 DOI: 10.1016/0888-7543(95)80113-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023]
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The cDNA for the human alpha-adducin gene has been cloned, and different alternately spliced forms have been identified. We report the complete genomic organization of the human alpha-adducin gene and these alternately spliced forms. The human alpha-adducin gene, spanning approximately 85 kb, consists of 16 exons ranging in size from 34 to 1892 bp. One of the spliced forms of the human alpha-adducin gene results from alternate use of the 5' splice donor site for exon 10, while another results in a truncated protein following insertion of 34 bp comprising exon 15, followed by a premature stop codon. This alternate spliced form of alpha-adducin is predicted to result in an altered carboxyl terminus that would eliminate a protein kinase and calmodulin binding site. Seven nucleotide substitutions and 4 insertion/deletions were also identified. The 5' region of the human alpha-adducin gene contains one Sp1 site, two AP2 sites, and two CAAT boxes. No TATA box was apparent, consistent with features of a housekeeping gene. We have mapped another cDNA within the first intron of the human alpha-adducin gene, suggesting overlapping genes in this 4p16.3 genomic region.
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- B Lin
- Department of Medical Genetics, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
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Lin B, Rice SA, Weitz DA. Experimental evidence for the divergence of a transport coefficient in a quasi-two-dimensional fluid. Phys Rev E Stat Phys Plasmas Fluids Relat Interdiscip Topics 1995; 51:423-429. [PMID: 9962660 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.51.423] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/22/2023]
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Lei KJ, Shelly LL, Lin B, Sidbury JB, Chen YT, Nordlie RC, Chou JY. Mutations in the glucose-6-phosphatase gene are associated with glycogen storage disease types 1a and 1aSP but not 1b and 1c. J Clin Invest 1995; 95:234-40. [PMID: 7814621 PMCID: PMC295414 DOI: 10.1172/jci117645] [Citation(s) in RCA: 85] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023] Open
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Glycogen storage disease (GSD) type 1, which is caused by the deficiency of glucose-6-phosphatase (G6Pase), is an autosomal recessive disease with heterogenous symptoms. Two models of G6Pase catalysis have been proposed to explain the observed heterogeneities. The translocase-catalytic unit model proposes that five GSD type 1 subgroups exist which correspond to defects in the G6Pase catalytic unit (1a), a stabilizing protein (1aSP), the glucose-6-P (1b), phosphate/pyrophosphate (1c), and glucose (1d) translocases. Conversely, the conformation-substrate-transport model suggests that G6Pase is a single multifunctional membrane channel protein possessing both catalytic and substrate (or product) transport activities. We have recently demonstrated that mutations in the G6Pase catalytic unit cause GSD type 1a. To elucidate whether mutations in the G6Pase gene are responsible for other GSD type 1 subgroups, we characterized the G6Pase gene of GSD type 1b, 1c, and 1aSP patients. Our results show that the G6Pase gene of GSD type 1b and 1c patients is normal, consistent with the translocase-catalytic unit model of G6Pase catalysis. However, a mutation in exon 2 that converts an Arg at codon 83 to a Cys (R83C) was identified in both G6Pase alleles of the type 1aSP patient. The R83C mutation was also demonstrated in one homozygous and five heterogenous GSD type 1a patients, indicating that type 1aSP is a misclassification of GSD type 1a. We have also analyzed the G6Pase gene of seven additional type 1a patients and uncovered two new mutations that cause GSD type 1a.
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- K J Lei
- Human Genetics Branch, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892
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Examines some of the methodological problems encountered in conducting patient satisfaction surveys, including the sampling frames, quality of survey data and instruments, non-response problems, and reporting and interpretation of results. Proposes guidelines and lays out an agenda for future research.
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- B Lin
- College of Business Administration, Louisiana State University, Shreveport, USA
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Lin B, Hollingshead SK, Coligan JE, Egan ML, Baker JR, Pritchard DG. Cloning and expression of the gene for group B streptococcal hyaluronate lyase. J Biol Chem 1994; 269:30113-6. [PMID: 7982914] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/28/2023] Open
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Group B streptococci (GBS) are a major cause of serious human perinatal infections. Most clinical isolates of GBS secrete hyaluronate lyase, and production of high levels of the enzyme has been associated with strain virulence. Degenerate oligonucleotide primers, designed on the basis of the amino acid sequences of tryptic peptides prepared from the purified enzyme, permitted the polymerase chain reaction amplification from GBS chromosomal DNA of a 363-base pair internal DNA fragment of the GBS hyaluronate lyase gene (hylB). This DNA fragment was used as a probe to screen a lambda phage library of GBS chromosomal DNA fragments. Sequence analysis of positive clones identified an open reading frame capable of coding for a 111-kDa protein. Since no single clone was found to contain the entire gene it was necessary to reconstruct the gene from two plasmids containing inserts with suitable overlapping sequences. When this reconstructed gene was transformed into Escherichia coli, high level expression of hyaluronate lyase activity was obtained.
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- B Lin
- Department of Microbiology, University of Alabama at Birmingham 35294
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Hyaluronate lyase is one of several proteins secreted by group B streptococci which are believed to contribute to strain virulence. Characterization of the purified enzyme revealed that it degrades hyaluronan by a mechanism different from that of other previously studied hyaluronidases. Instead of randomly cleaving hyaluronan chains leading to a continuous decrease in average chain size, the group B streptococcal enzyme initially yields primarily unsaturated disaccharides. The observation that most of the free reducing ends generated during group B streptococcal hyaluronate lyase digestion are present in the unsaturated disaccharide units supports the conclusion that they are released primarily from the ends of the hyaluronan chains. Furthermore, the experimental evidence is consistent with a mode of action by which the enzyme initially makes a random cut in a hyaluronan chain and then processively moves along the chain releasing disaccharide units. Group B streptococcal hyaluronate lyase also slowly degrades chondroitin sulfate, and its desulfation greatly increases the reaction rate. A preferential cleavage of unsulfated residues is consistent with the observed extensive release of free chondroitin sulfate chains following very limited digestion of aggrecan from bovine nasal cartilage.
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- D G Pritchard
- School of Medicine/Joint Department, University of Alabama at Birmingham 35294
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Lin B, Su X. [The clinical observation of China-made ofloxacin eye drops in the treatment of bacterial infection of the external eye]. Yan Ke Xue Bao 1994; 10:251-3. [PMID: 7774703] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023]
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Ninety patients with extraocular infection were observed. After bacteriological examination on all of the patients, we found that staphylococcus epidermidis was the main pathogen and accounted for 43.3%. Next to it were staphylococcus aureus (31.1%), saprophytic staphylococcus was (5.6%), diplococcus catarrhus (3.3%) and moraxella sp. (2.2%). All the patients were treated with Ofloxacin eye drops produced in Guangzhou. The bacteriological examination showed negative in 98.9% of the patients, which proved this medicine has high antibiotic power.
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- B Lin
- Department of Ophthalmology, Guangdong Provincial People's Hospital, Guangzhou, China
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Lin B, Hollingshead SK, Coligan JE, Egan ML, Baker JR, Pritchard DG. Cloning and expression of the gene for group B streptococcal hyaluronate lyase. J Biol Chem 1994. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(18)43783-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/22/2022] Open
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Lin B, Sunner J. Ion transport by viscous gas flow through capillaries. J Am Soc Mass Spectrom 1994; 5:873-885. [PMID: 24226233 DOI: 10.1016/1044-0305(94)87012-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 64] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/30/1993] [Revised: 05/31/1994] [Accepted: 06/07/1994] [Indexed: 06/02/2023]
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The effects of a number of experimental parameters on the efficiency of ion transport by viscous gas flow through narrow capillaries have been studied. Both electrospray and corona ion sources were used. The experimental data are consistent with ions loss to the walls of the capillary, which initially is caused mainly by space-charge expansion, but later is caused by diffusion. These processes can result in severe discrimination against low mass ions. The extent of ion loss may be calculated by using a simple model for radial diffusional loss in long cylinders, with an exponential decay of the ion density along the transport capillary. However, such a simple model underestimates ion loss by ignoring the effects of space-charge, turbulent flow, and rapid decay of higher radial diffusion modes (enhanced loss of ions that enter the capillary close to the wall). In contrast, Monte Carlo simulations showed that the effect of the parabolic velocity profile, under laminar flow conditions, is to increase the transmitted ion current, sometimes by several orders of magnitude, relative to the predictions of the simple diffusion model. After considering all these factors, the transmitted current from a corona was well reproduced by using mobility values for ions formed in such discharges. However, the measured transmitted current from an electrospray source was much too high. To explain this, it was necessary to assume that about 2% of the electrospray current is carried by aerosol particles with radii in the 10-25-Å range. Finally, it is argued that in glass capillaries wall charging may explain why the transmitted ion current is observed to be very similar to that in metal capillaries.
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- B Lin
- Department of Chemistry, Montana State University, 59717, Bozeman, MT
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An 8;21 translocation with trisomy 4 is described in a 36-year-old Chinese woman who presented with an oligoblastic leukemia with myelodysplastic (MDS) features. Progression to acute myeloblastic leukemia (AML) occurred 3 months after presentation. She died of septicemia without remission. Through a review of the data in 10 cases of oligoblastic leukemia with t(8;21) in the literature, we make the following comments. (i) Oligoblastic leukemia with t(8;21) represents 2-3% of cases with this karyotype. (ii) Such cases behave in a similar manner to de novo AML. (iii) The presence of features of MDS has no affect on the behaviour of the disease. (iv) Such cases should be treated without delay with intensive chemotherapy.
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- Adult
- Anemia, Refractory, with Excess of Blasts/genetics
- Chromosomes, Human, Pair 21
- Chromosomes, Human, Pair 8
- Female
- Humans
- Karyotyping
- Leukemia, Myeloid, Acute/drug therapy
- Leukemia, Myeloid, Acute/genetics
- Translocation, Genetic
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- Y Xue
- Jiangsu Institute of Hematology, Suzhou Medical College, P.R. China
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Two neutralization-resistant variants of dengue virus type 2 were selected using the neutralizing monoclonal antibody G8D11. Virus N-GV4 was derived from the New Guinea C strain and virus P-GV3 from the PUO-218 strain. Both variants had an identical change at nucleotide 919 in the E gene, causing a substitution of glutamic acid for lysine at residue 307 in the E glycoprotein. The substitution abolished the ability of antibody G8D11 to bind to the E glycoprotein in radioimmunoprecipitation experiments. The epitope was sensitive to treatment with SDS and was dependent on the formation of a disulfide bridge. This dependency was determined by mutagenesis of Cys residues 11 and 12 in the E glycoprotein.
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- B Lin
- Department of Microbiology, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria, Australia
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Michalak TI, Lin B. Molecular species of hepadnavirus core and envelope polypeptides in hepatocyte plasma membrane of woodchucks with acute and chronic viral hepatitis. Hepatology 1994; 20:275-86. [PMID: 8045487] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/05/2022]
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Hepadnaviral antigens exposed on hepatocytes serve as targets and as possible modulators of immunopathogenic reactions causing liver damage. To identify molecular species of viral proteins at the liver cell surface and the relationship between their expression and the persistence and severity of virus-induced liver injury, we examined woodchuck hepatitis virus core and envelope polypeptides in host hepatocyte plasma membranes from acute and chronic hepatitis. Western blot analysis revealed that two virus core polypeptides with a molecular mass of 22 kD and 43 kD occur in the membranes of infected animals. The molecular profiles and the membrane levels of the core antigen were not related to the duration or histological severity of liver damage. In contrast, quantities of the virus surface antigen were significantly greater in hepatocyte membranes of animals with chronic hepatitis. The envelope preS1, preS2 and S polypeptides, with or without molecular mass equivalents in the subviral surface antigen particles and virions, were detected in all infected membranes, although the preS2 polypeptides were always dominant. Our findings indicate that hepadnavirus core and envelope polypeptides are integral constituents of hepatocyte membranes in the course of hepatitis. They demonstrate that the accumulation of viral envelope proteins, predominantly the S-domain sequences, in hepatocyte membranes is a prominent characteristic of chronic hepatitis. This event might contribute to promotion of development and maintenance of hepadnavirus-related chronic liver disease.
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- T I Michalak
- Liver Research Laboratory, Faculty of Medicine, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's, Canada
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The present study was undertaken to investigate the effects of human adrenomedullin, a newly discovered peptide present in normal human plasma, as well as a fragment of adrenomedullin, on systemic hemodynamics in the anesthetized rat. Intravenous (i.v.) bolus injections of rat adrenomedullin, rat adrenomedullin-(11-50), human adrenomedullin-(13-52) decreased mean systemic arterial pressure in a dose-dependent manner. Since rat adrenomedullin and human adrenomedullin did not decrease cardiac output, the decreases in systemic arterial pressure reflect dose-dependent reductions in systemic vascular resistance. The systemic vasodepressor responses to similar doses of the adrenomedullin fragments studied and to their respective parent adrenomedullin peptides were similar. The present data demonstrate that the entire adrenomedullin molecule is not required for full systemic vasodilator activity in vivo suggesting that rat adrenomedullin-(11-50) or a structurally similar peptide, if formed endogenously, could mediate the hemodynamic properties of adrenomedullin in vivo. Since rat adrenomedullin had significantly greater systemic vasodilator activity than human adrenomedullin at similar doses in the rat, the present data suggest that adrenomedullin has greater systemic vasodilator activity in its native species and that limited changes in the peptide's sequence confer markedly different vascular activity in vivo.
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- B Lin
- Department of Anesthesiology, Louisiana State University Medical School, New Orleans 70112
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Nasir J, Lin B, Bucan M, Koizumi T, Nadeau JH, Hayden MR. The murine homologues of the Huntington disease gene (Hdh) and the alpha-adducin gene (Add1) map to mouse chromosome 5 within a region of conserved synteny with human chromosome 4p16.3. Genomics 1994; 22:198-201. [PMID: 7959767 DOI: 10.1006/geno.1994.1361] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/28/2023]
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Huntington disease (HD) is a severe autosomal dominant neurodegenerative disorder associated with a novel gene (IT15). Recently, we reported the cloning of Hdh, the murine homologue of IT15. Here, using an interspecific backcross, we have mapped both Hdh and the mouse homologue of human alpha-adducin (Add1), a membrane-associated cytoskeletal protein gene. Both of these genes map in the same position on mouse chromosome 5 in a region associated with ancestral chromosomal rearrangements and show no recombination with D5H4S43, D5H4S115, and D5H4S62, the murine homologues of D4S43, D4S115, and D4S62, respectively. Further mapping studies of humans, mice, and other mammalian species should reveal the nature of the rearrangements affecting this chromosomal segment during mammalian evolution.
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- J Nasir
- Department of Medical Genetics, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
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Kremer B, Goldberg P, Andrew SE, Theilmann J, Telenius H, Zeisler J, Squitieri F, Lin B, Bassett A, Almqvist E. A worldwide study of the Huntington's disease mutation. The sensitivity and specificity of measuring CAG repeats. N Engl J Med 1994; 330:1401-6. [PMID: 8159192 DOI: 10.1056/nejm199405193302001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 366] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/29/2023]
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BACKGROUND Huntington's disease is associated with an expanded sequence of CAG repeats in a gene on chromosome 4p16.3. However, neither the sensitivity of expanded CAG repeats in affected persons of different ethnic origins nor the specificity of such repeats for Huntington's disease as compared with other neuropsychiatric disorders has been determined. METHODS We studied 1007 patients with diagnosed Huntington's disease from 565 families and 43 national and ethnic groups. In addition, the length of the CAG repeat was determined in 113 control subjects with a family history of Alzheimer's disease (44 patients), schizophrenia (39), major depression (16), senile chorea (5), benign hereditary chorea (5), neuroacanthocytosis (2), and dentatorubropallidoluysian atrophy (2). The number of CAG repeats was also assessed in 1595 control chromosomes, with the size of adjacent polymorphic CCG trinucleotide repeats taken into account. RESULTS Of 1007 patients with signs and symptoms compatible with a diagnosis of Huntington's disease, 995 had an expanded CAG repeat that included from 36 to 121 repeats (median, 44) (sensitivity, 98.8 percent; 95 percent confidence interval, 97.7 to 99.4 percent). There were no significant differences among national and ethnic groups in the number of repeats. No CAG expansion was found in the 110 control subjects with other neuropsychiatric disorders (specificity, 100 percent; 95 percent confidence interval, 95.2 to 100 percent). In 1581 of the 1595 control chromosomes (99.1 percent), the number of CAG repeats ranged from 10 to 29 (median, 18). In 12 control chromosomes (0.75 percent), intermediate-sized CAG sequences with 30 to 35 repeats were found, and 2 normal chromosomes unexpectedly had expanded CAG sequences, of 39 and 37 repeats. CONCLUSIONS CAG trinucleotide expansion is the molecular basis of Huntington's disease worldwide and is a highly sensitive and specific marker for inheritance of the disease mutation.
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- B Kremer
- Department of Medical Genetics, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
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Lin B, Taylor PL. Model of spatiotemporal dynamics of stick-slip motion. Phys Rev E Stat Phys Plasmas Fluids Relat Interdiscip Topics 1994; 49:3940-3947. [PMID: 9961682 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.49.3940] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/22/2023]
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Siegel MM, Huang J, Lin B, Tsao R, Edmonds CG. Structures of bacitracin A and isolated congeners: sequencing of cyclic peptides with blocked linear side chains by electrospray ionization mass spectrometry. Biol Mass Spectrom 1994; 23:186-204. [PMID: 8172927 DOI: 10.1002/bms.1200230403] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/29/2023]
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The bacitracin antibiotic complex consists principally of bacitracin A, a peptide antibiotic containing seven amino acid residues in a ring and five amino acid residues in a blocked side chain, together with a mixture of minor components presumably related but of unknown structures. A preparative high-performance liquid chromatographic method was developed for isolating the minor components A2, B1 and B2 which were then characterized by amino acid analysis, exact mass fast atom bombardment (FAB) mass spectrometry, FAB tandem mass spectrometry (MS/MS) and electrospray ionization (ESI) mass spectrometry. For bacitracins A (MW 1421), A2 (MW 1421), B1a (MW 1407), B1b (MW 1407), B2 (MW 1407) and F (MW 1419), the side chain sequences were determined by ESI MS/MS and ESI nozzle-skimmer collision-induced dissociation (CID) mass spectrometry and the ring sequences elucidated by ESI nozzle-skimmer CID MS/MS. Relative to bacitracin A, bacitracin A2a has the modified isoleucine residue at position 1 replaced by a modified allo-isoleucine residue, bacitracin B1a has the isoleucine residue at position 8 replaced by a valine residue, bacitracin B1b has the isoleucine residue at position 5 replaced by a valine residue and bacitracin B2 has the modified isoleucine residue at position 1 replaced by a modified valine residue. FAB tandem mass spectra were shown to be consistent with the above structural assignments for the isolated bacitracin components. Structures were also proposed for the trace bacitracin components C1 (MW 1393) and D1 (MW 1379) using ESI MS/MS data obtained from the analysis of the bacitracin complex without isolation.
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- M M Siegel
- American Cyanamid Company, Medical Research Division, Lederle Laboratories, Pearl River, New York 10965
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Xu G, Zhang M, Liu B, Li Z, Lin B, Xu X, Jin M, Li J, Wu J, Dong Z. Radioimmunoguided surgery in gastric cancer using 131-I labeled monoclonal antibody 3H11. Semin Surg Oncol 1994; 10:88-94. [PMID: 8052788 DOI: 10.1002/ssu.2980100205] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/28/2023]
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A clinical trial of radioimmunoguided surgery (RIGS) using 131-I labeled monoclonal antibody (MAb) 3H11 was performed on 25 cases with gastric cancer in this study. The results showed that the route of the administration of radiolabeled MAb is the key point of successful RIGS for gastric cancer. The RIGS in 19 cases in the group of submucosal injection via endoscope was very satisfying. For the detection of metastatic lymph nodes, the sensitivity rate of RIGS was 99.2% (118/119), the specificity, 97.7% (43/44), and the accuracy 98.8% (161/163). The accuracy rate in detecting tumor infiltration of the gastric wall was 95.9% (94/98), the sensitivity 94.6% (35/37), and the specificity 96.7% (59/61). Thus, the use of RIGS may improve the radical resectability rate and possibly the overall survival rate in patients with gastric cancer.
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- G Xu
- Department of Surgery, Beijing Institute for Cancer Research, China
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Cheng GL, Fang GR, Lin B. [Thumb and finger reconstruction by anastomosing the digital arteries of the toe to finger transplant]. Zhonghua Wai Ke Za Zhi 1994; 32:79-81. [PMID: 7924672] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023]
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In a series of 295 cases of toe-to-finger reconstruction, 30 cases with 40 digits were reconstructed by arterial anastomosis between digital arteries of the toe transplant and the recipient thumb or fingertoe. Among them 5 thumbs were reconstructed by the distal segment of the big toe. 11 thumbs (10 cases), 15 fingers (8 cases) and 1 case with concomitant thumb and 3 fingers were reconstructed by toe transfer. Six cases of thumb pulp defect were also reconstructed by the big toe pulp transfer. The anastomosis of digital arteries instead of dorsalis pedis artery and radial artery and saphenous vein with cephali vein to re-establish circulation is an innovation and has the advantages of simplifying the operative procedure, minimizing operative trauma, reducing operation time, attenuating patients suffering, and obtaining good appearance and function after reconstruction. Besides the operation would not be hindered by anatomical variations of the artery and would reduce blood supply disturbance of the donor foot.
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Lin B, Nasir J, MacDonald H, Hutchinson G, Graham RK, Rommens JM, Hayden MR. Sequence of the murine Huntington disease gene: evidence for conservation, alternate splicing and polymorphism in a triplet (CCG) repeat [corrected]. Hum Mol Genet 1994; 3:85-92. [PMID: 8162057 DOI: 10.1093/hmg/3.1.85] [Citation(s) in RCA: 63] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/29/2023] Open
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Huntington disease (HD) is associated with significant expansion of a CAG trinucleotide repeat within a novel gene. However, no clues to the function of this gene were apparent by sequence alignment to other proteins. We have therefore sought to identify the mouse gene (hd) as a first step in the development of an animal model for HD to provide insights into the molecular pathogenesis of this disease. Here, we report the sequencing of cDNA clones spanning 9,992 nucleotides encoding the murine HD homologue (hd), which exhibits 90% peptide sequence identity, including conservation of the CAG and adjacent CCG repeats. In addition, we show that the CCG is polymorphic in the mouse. Sequence analysis provides strong evidence that the first in frame methionine 5' to the CAG repeat, is the translational start site, for both the mouse and human transcript. As in human, the gene appears expressed in the mouse as 2 large transcripts. We observe evidence for alternate splicing of the hd gene in mouse tissues which would predict two protein products differing by 480 amino acid residues with a molecular mass difference of approximately 54 kilodaltons.
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- B Lin
- Department of Medical Genetics, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
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Poullet P, Lin B, Esson K, Tamanoi F. Functional significance of lysine 1423 of neurofibromin and characterization of a second site suppressor which rescues mutations at this residue and suppresses RAS2Val-19-activated phenotypes. Mol Cell Biol 1994; 14:815-21. [PMID: 8264648 PMCID: PMC358429 DOI: 10.1128/mcb.14.1.815-821.1994] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/29/2023] Open
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Lysine 1423 of neurofibromin (neurofibromatosis type I gene product [NF1]) plays a crucial role in the function of NF1. Mutations of this lysine were detected in samples from a neurofibromatosis patient as well as from cancer patients. To further understand the significance of this residue, we have mutated it to all possible amino acids. Functional assays using yeast ira complementation have revealed that lysine is the only amino acid that produced functional NF1. Quantitative analyses of different mutant proteins have suggested that their GTPase-activating protein (GAP) activity is drastically reduced as a result of a decrease in their Ras affinity. Such a requirement for a specific residue is not observed in the case of other conserved residues within the GAP-related domain. We also report that another residue, phenylalanine 1434, plays an important role in NF1 function. This was first indicated by the finding that defective NF1s due to an alteration of lysine 1423 to other amino acids can be rescued by a second site intragenic mutation at residue 1434. The mutation partially restored GAP activity in the lysine mutant. When the mutation phenylalanine 1434 to serine was introduced into a wild-type NF1 protein, the resulting protein acquired the ability to suppress activated phenotypes of RAS2Val-19 cells. This suppression, however, does not involve Ras interaction, since the phenylalanine mutant does not stimulate the intrinsic GTPase activity of RAS2Val-19 protein and does not have an increased affinity for Ras proteins.
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- P Poullet
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Chicago, Illinois 60637
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Lippton H, Gao Y, Lin B, Heaton J, Ferrara J, DeVito M, Granger T, Pigott J, Chang JK, Hyman A. Prodepin: a new product of the adrenomedullin (ADM) gene has systemic vasodilator activity. Life Sci 1994; 54:PL409-12. [PMID: 8196484 DOI: 10.1016/0024-3205(94)90124-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/29/2023]
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The purpose of the present study was to investigate the effects of products of the ADM gene other than ADM on systemic hemodynamics in the anesthetized rat, rabbit, piglet, cat and dog. Bolus intravenous (i.v.) injections of rat proADM22-41 (3-30 micrograms) significantly decreased systemic arterial pressure (SAP) and systemic vascular resistance in the anesthetized rat. Unlike ADM, rat proADM22-41 markedly increased cardiac output in the rat. Bolus i.v. injections of human proADM22-41 up to 500 micrograms had not effect in all species studied and rat proADM22-41 had no effect in species other than the rat. The present data suggest that rat proADM22-41 is a novel product of the ADM gene other than ADM and possesses marked systemic vasodilator activity. The present data also suggest that the hemodynamic activity of this peptide is species specific.
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- H Lippton
- Department of Internal Medicine, Louisiana State University Medical School, New Orleans 70112
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Lin B, Nasir J, MacDonald H, Hutchinson G, Graham R, Rommens J, Hayden M. Sequence of the murine Huntington disease gene: evidence for conservation, alternate splicing and polymorphism in a triplet (CCG) repeat. Hum Mol Genet 1994. [DOI: 10.1093/hmg/3.3.530-a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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Lin B, Dietrich WD, Ginsberg MD, Globus MY, Busto R. MK-801 (dizocilpine) protects the brain from repeated normothermic global ischemic insults in the rat. J Cereb Blood Flow Metab 1993; 13:925-32. [PMID: 8408318 DOI: 10.1038/jcbfm.1993.115] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/30/2023]
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We investigated the neuroprotective potential of MK-801 (dizocilpine), a noncompetitive N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) antagonist, in the setting of three 5-min periods of global cerebral ischemia separated by 1-h intervals in halothane-anesthetized rats. Each ischemic insult was produced by bilateral carotid artery occlusions plus hypotension (50 mm Hg). Brain temperature was maintained at normothermic levels (36.5-37.0 degrees C) throughout the experiment. MK-801 (3 mg/kg) (n = 6) or saline (n = 6) was injected intraperitoneally 45 min following the end of the first ischemic insult. Following 7-day survival, quantitative neuronal counts of perfusion-fixed brains revealed severe ischemic damage in hippocampal CA1 area, neocortex, ventrolateral thalamus, and striatum of untreated rats. By contrast, significant protection was observed in MK-801-treated rats. In area CA1 of the hippocampus, numbers of normal neurons were increased 11- to 14-fold by MK-801 treatment (p < 0.01). The ventrolateral thalamus of MK-801-treated rats showed almost complete histologic protection, and neocortical damage was reduced by 71% (p < 0.01). The degree of MK-801 protection of striatal neurons was less complete than that seen in other vulnerable structures, amounting to 63% for central striatum (p = 0.02, Mann-Whitney U test) and 48% in the dorsolateral striatum (NS). A repeated-measures analysis of variance demonstrated a highly significant overall protective effect of MK-801 treatment (F1,10 = 37.2, p = 0.0001).(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
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- B Lin
- Department of Neurology, University of Miami School of Medicine, FL 33101
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Lin B, Rommens JM, Graham RK, Kalchman M, MacDonald H, Nasir J, Delaney A, Goldberg YP, Hayden MR. Differential 3' polyadenylation of the Huntington disease gene results in two mRNA species with variable tissue expression. Hum Mol Genet 1993; 2:1541-5. [PMID: 7903579 DOI: 10.1093/hmg/2.10.1541] [Citation(s) in RCA: 76] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023] Open
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Recently a novel gene containing a CAG trinucleotide repeat that is expanded on HD chromosomes has been identified(1). This gene was shown to detect a single transcript of 10-11 kb by RNA hybridization. We have however, previously identified three cDNAs which are part of the same gene that have been shown to detect two distinct transcripts of 10 kb and one that is significantly larger(2,3). These different mRNA species could be due to use of alternate transcription start sites, alternate splicing or selection of different polyadenylation sites. We have identified cDNA clones spanning the HD gene including two (HD12 and HD14) that share identical protein coding sequences but differ in size and sequence of their 3' untranslated region. HD14 has 3,360 base pairs of additional sequence distal to the previously published 3' end (1). RNA hybridization has revealed that the larger 13.7 kb fragment is the predominant transcript in human brain. cDNA fragments unique to HD14 detected only the larger transcript. Sequence analysis identified two different putative polyadenylation sequences at position 10,326 and 13,645 of the HD14 cDNA. These findings indicate that the two observed mRNA species originate from a single gene and that differential polyadenylation leads to transcripts of different size. The relative increased abundance of the larger transcript in human brain may provide some insights into the mechanism by which a widely expressed gene may exert tissue specific effects.
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- B Lin
- Department of Medical Genetics, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
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The extracellular group B streptococcal enzyme described in numerous reports as a neuraminidase is really a hyaluronidase. Over the past 25 years, the enzyme was routinely assayed with bovine submaxillary mucin as the substrate and by the thiobarbituric acid procedure to measure released sialic acid. Characterization of the actual compound released by the enzyme revealed it to be an alpha,beta-unsaturated derivative of hyalobiuronic acid that was derived from hyaluronic acid contaminating the mucin preparation. Previous reports describing an association of elevated levels of extracellular neuraminidase with virulent strains of group B streptococci must be reevaluated with the recognition that the enzyme is really a hyaluronidase.
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- D G Pritchard
- School of Medicine Joint Departments, University of Alabama, Birmingham35294
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A 30-year-old Chinese man with acquired amegakaryocytic thrombocytopenic purpura (AATP) and a Ph chromosome is reported. At presentation, he had severe thrombocytopenia resulting in epistaxis, gingival bleeding, and ecchymoses, while other hematologic values were within the normal range. Bone marrow aspiration showed no megakaryocytes, with a normal appearance of erythroblastic and granulopoietic series. He failed to respond to prednisone treatment, and underwent a progress from isolated thrombocytopenia to full pancytopenia. At last he died of spontaneous intracranial hemorrhage. An in vitro culture for granulocyte-macrophage precursors showed very few colonies. Karyotypic analysis revealed a standard Ph chromosome translocation, t(9;22)(q34;q11), in the majority of bone marrow cells. Southern blot analysis using a 3' bcr-HE probe didn't detect a rearrangement within the bcr DNA sequence. This patient, in fact, was a myelodysplastic disorder, initially presenting as AATP. The diagnosis of chronic myelogenous leukemia was excluded on the basis of clinical and hematologic findings. The heterogeneity of Ph chromosome in myelodysplastic syndrome is discussed.
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- Y Xue
- Jiangsu Institute of Hematology, Suzhou Medical College, China
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Andrew SE, Goldberg YP, Kremer B, Telenius H, Theilmann J, Adam S, Starr E, Squitieri F, Lin B, Kalchman MA. The relationship between trinucleotide (CAG) repeat length and clinical features of Huntington's disease. Nat Genet 1993; 4:398-403. [PMID: 8401589 DOI: 10.1038/ng0893-398] [Citation(s) in RCA: 697] [Impact Index Per Article: 22.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/30/2023]
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Huntington's disease (HD) is associated with the expansion of a CAG trinucleotide repeat in a novel gene. We have assessed 360 HD individuals from 259 unrelated families and found a highly significant correlation (r = 0.70, p = 10(-7)) between the age of onset and the repeat length, which accounts for approximately 50% of the variation in the age of onset. Significant associations were also found between repeat length and age of death and onset of other clinical features. Sib pair and parent-child analysis revealed that the CAG repeat demonstrates only mild instability. Affected HD siblings had significant correlations for trinucleotide expansion (r = 0.66, p < 0.001) which was not apparent for affected parent-child pairs.
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- S E Andrew
- Department of Medical Genetics, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
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Rommens JM, Lin B, Hutchinson GB, Andrew SE, Goldberg YP, Glaves ML, Graham R, Lai V, McArthur J, Nasir J. A transcription map of the region containing the Huntington disease gene. Hum Mol Genet 1993; 2:901-7. [PMID: 7689900 DOI: 10.1093/hmg/2.7.901] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/26/2023] Open
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A transcription map of the Huntington disease gene region was generated by a direct cDNA selection strategy using genomic DNA from the 4p16.3 region surrounding the D4S95 and D4S127 loci. A total of 58 cDNA fragments were obtained from cDNAs derived from fetal brain, frontal cortex, liver and bone marrow following hybridization to overlapping YACs from this region. These cDNA clones were aligned into transcription units by hybridization to specific mRNAs, by sequence overlap and by physical mapping onto overlapping YAC clones. Nine separate transcription units spanning approximately one megabase were detected by RNA hybridization. They represent a minimum number of genes in this region and do not include those genes expressed specifically in tissues not used for the hybridization. The transcription map that is provided by the cDNA segments will lead to the generation of a detailed gene map of this region.
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- J M Rommens
- Department of Genetics, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Goldberg YP, Rommens JM, Andrew SE, Hutchinson GB, Lin B, Theilmann J, Graham R, Glaves ML, Starr E, McDonald H. Identification of an Alu retrotransposition event in close proximity to a strong candidate gene for Huntington's disease. Nature 1993; 362:370-3. [PMID: 8384324 DOI: 10.1038/362370a0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/30/2023]
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Huntington's disease (HD) is a late-onset autosomal dominant neuropsychiatric disorder presenting in mid-adult life with personality disturbance and involuntary movements, cognitive and affective disturbance, and inexorable progression to death. The underlying genetic defect has been mapped to chromosomal band 4p16.3 (refs 2, 3). Analysis of specific recombination events in some families with HD has further refined the location of the HD defect to a 2.2 megabase DNA interval. Using a direct complementary DNA selection strategy we have identified at least seven transcriptional units within the minimal region believed to contain the HD gene. Screening with one of the cDNA clones identified an Alu insertion in genomic DNA from two persons with HD which showed complete cosegregation with the disease in these families but was not found in 1,000 control chromosomes. Two genes including the previously identified alpha-adducin gene and another that encodes for a 12-kilobase transcript, map in close proximity to the Alu insertion site. The 12-kilobase transcript should be regarded as a strong candidate for the HD gene.
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- Y P Goldberg
- Department of Medical Genetics, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
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Xu S, Shi F, Shen W, Lin J, Wang Y, Lin B, Qian C, Ye P, Fu L, Shi Y. Vaccination of bovines against Schistosomiasis japonica with cryopreserved-irradiated and freeze-thaw schistosomula. Vet Parasitol 1993; 47:37-50. [PMID: 8493766 DOI: 10.1016/0304-4017(93)90174-l] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/31/2023]
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Four laboratory tests and one field trial with cryopreserved irradiated (CI) schistosomula vaccine and a freeze-thaw (F/T) vaccine against bovine Schistosomiasis japonica were carried out in 1979 and 1980 with the following results: (1) Single intradermal vaccination in buffalo calves each with 10,000 20 krad CI Schistosomula plus 1 ml BCG gave 62% worm reduction (P < 0.05). Using the same protocol 55% worm reduction (P < 0.01) was obtained in cattle. (2) Buffalo calves immunized twice, at a 1.5 month interval, with 10,000 and 20,000 CI schistosomula, respectively, resulted in a worm reduction 65%. (3) In a preliminary field trial with 10,000 CI schistosomula plus 1 ml BCG resulted in a worm reduction of 53% in buffalo calves. (4) Intradermal vaccination of 30,000 F/T schistosomula with 1 ml BCG was also tried in cattle and revealed a worm reduction of 57% but increasing the number of vaccinations did not improve the protective effect. (5) Evidence regarding the effects of immunization with CI vaccine in buffaloes and F/T vaccine in cattle, on the number of eggs and miracidia and that of female worms themselves was obtained. (6) Immune responses, cellular and humoral, elicited in buffaloes vaccinated with CI schistosomula were detected by means of Lymphocyte Transformation Assay and Enzyme Linked Immunosorbent Assay.
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- S Xu
- Shanghai Institute of Animal Parasitology, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences
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Xue Y, Yu F, Zhou Z, He Z, Guo Y, Wang M, Lin B. Complex karyotypic abnormalities including t(8;22) in a patient with chronic lymphocytic leukemia. Cancer Genet Cytogenet 1993; 65:157-60. [PMID: 8453602 DOI: 10.1016/0165-4608(93)90226-c] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/30/2023]
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The case of a 49-year-old Chinese man with B-cell chronic lymphocytic leukemia (B-CLL) is presented. Complex karyotypic abnormalities comprising t(8;22)(q24;q11), trisomy 7, a deletion of 11q, and two small marker chromosomes were observed in PWM-stimulated cultures of his peripheral blood cells. To our knowledge, this is the first report of a t(8;22) in CLL.
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- Y Xue
- Jiangsu Institute of Hematology, Leukemia Research Unit, Suzhou, Peoples Republic of China
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Lin B, Cotton RG, Trent DW, Wright PJ. Geographical clusters of dengue virus type 2 isolates based on analysis of infected cell RNA by the chemical cleavage at mismatch method. J Virol Methods 1992; 40:205-18. [PMID: 1452634 DOI: 10.1016/0166-0934(92)90069-p] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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Genetic variation in 12 strains of dengue virus type 2, isolated from several epidemic areas in different years, was studied by chemical cleavage at mismatched cytosine in DNA:RNA heteroduplexes. End-labelled cDNA probes derived from the E and NS2A genes of the New Guinea C strain were hybridized to total RNA extracted from cells infected by individual isolates. Following modification of mismatched cytosine by hydroxylamine and nucleic acid strand cleavage by piperidine, the resulting fragments of radiolabelled probe were analysed by electrophoresis and autoradiography. The patterns of bands generated corresponded to the geographical groupings of the isolates. Thus this method is suitable in epidemiological studies for rapidly surveying a large number of isolates for genetic variation in a particular gene of interest.
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- B Lin
- Department of Microbiology, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria, Australia
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This paper reports for the first time results of cytogenetic studies on 14 consecutive secondary acute non-lymphocytic leukemia (S-ANLL) induced by bimolane therapy. They included 10 males and 4 females with ages ranging from 17 to 54 years. They had all suffered from psoriasis and received bimolane treatment before the occurrence of their leukemia. The total dose of bimolane ranged from 40 to 400 g (mean dose 194 g). The interval between the initiation of bimolane therapy and the diagnosis of leukemia was 12-96 months (median 30 months). A preleukemic phase was only found in one case. No dysplastic features in the hemopoietic series were seen in any patient. Chromosome analysis of bone marrow cells using banding techniques revealed clonal karyotypic abnormalities in all cases: t(15;17) in 8 cases of M3, of which 75% had extra abnormalities, t(8;21) in 4 cases of M2, del(7q) only in one case of M4 and one case of M5. After antileukemic therapy, complete remission was obtained in 10 out of 12 cases with specific translocations and one out of 2 cases with 7q-anomaly, respectively. The former survived 4-58 months (median 12 months), while the latter 1 and 9 months, respectively. This study indicates that: (1) bimolane is a causative factor of leukemia in this series; (2) the leukemia in our series is therapy-related leukemia (TRL) rather than de novo ANLL; (3) there exists, in fact, a new subgroup of TRL characterized by specific rearrangements, whose clinical, hematological and prognostic features and pathogenetic mechanism may be different from classical TRL characterized by chromosome abnormalities involving absence or deletion of parts of chromosome 5 and/or 7.
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- Y Xue
- Jiangsu Institute of Hematology, Leukemia Research Unit, Suzhou Medical College, P.R. China
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Khan MS, Schwartz DJ, Pasha NA, Kakkar AK, Lin B, Raithby PR, Lewis J. Synthesis of cross linked platinum metal containing polyyne polymers. Z Anorg Allg Chem 1992. [DOI: 10.1002/zaac.19926161018] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Lin B, Chai W. Developing a quality-of-care system in hospitals. Health Care Superv 1991; 10:39-47. [PMID: 10114919] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/11/2023]
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- B Lin
- Department of Business Information Systems, Louisiana State University, Shreveport
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Lin B, Zhang ZZ, Hu B. Multifractal characterization of random resistor and random superconductor networks. Phys Rev A 1991; 44:960-967. [PMID: 9906044 DOI: 10.1103/physreva.44.960] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/22/2023]
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Ginsberg MD, Lin B, Morikawa E, Dietrich WD, Busto R, Globus MY. Calcium antagonists in the treatment of experimental cerebral ischemia. Arzneimittelforschung 1991; 41:334-7. [PMID: 1859503] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
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Calcium ion functions widely as an intracellular messenger and regulator. Intracellular calcium dyshomeostasis occurs during hypoxic/ischemic cell injury, and pharmacological antagonism of calcium entry into neurons has been considered to be of potential therapeutic value. Calcium antagonists, in addition, tend to improve cerebral perfusion of both the normal and abnormal (post-ischemic) brain. Studies of these agents have shown variable degrees of cerebroprotection in focal and global ischemia models. (S)-Emopamil is a phenylalkylamine-type calcium channel blocker which also exhibits stereoselective antagonism of the serotonin S2 receptor and has excellent blood-brain barrier penetrability. Protection of hippocampal CA1 neurons has been demonstrated with pre-ischemic administration of (S)-emopamil in global ischemia models. Our laboratory has compared the efficacy of pre- vs. post-ischemic (S)-emopamil treatment on neuronal necrosis resulting from 10 min of transient normothermic global ischemia in the rat. (S)-Emopamil pre-treatment, 20 mg/kg i.p., 30 min prior to ischemia, with a second dose 2.5 h later, resulted in 1.8-2.4 fold increases in numbers of surviving CA1 pyramidal neurons. Post-ischemic administration was ineffective. Intracerebral microdialysis has revealed a partial attenuation of dopamine release with pre-ischemic (S)-emopamil administration. In focal cerebral ischemia (middle cerebral artery occlusion in the rat), our laboratory has demonstrated a marked reduction in cortical infarct volume with (S)-emopamil pre- or post-treatment.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
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- M D Ginsberg
- Cerebral Vascular Disease Research Center, University of Miami School of Medicine, FL
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Lin B. Treatment of frontal headache with acupuncture on zhongwan--a report of 110 cases. J TRADIT CHIN MED 1991; 11:7-8. [PMID: 1861513] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
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- B Lin
- Chen Xiuyuan Hospital, Changle County, Fujian Province
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Cheng GL, Pan DD, Qu ZY, Lin B, Yang ZX, Fang GR, Gong XS, Tang HP. Digital replantation. A ten-year retrospective study. Chin Med J (Engl) 1991; 104:96-102. [PMID: 1874019] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022] Open
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Eight hundred and two digits (592 complete amputation and 210 incomplete amputations) of 549 patients were replanted. The male to female ratio was 3:1 and the age range 1-63 years. 728 digits survived and 74 digits failed. The overall survival rate was 90.8%. Special varieties of complicated amputation were encountered in this series: (1) distal segment replantation, 139 digits, 131 digits (94%) survived; (2) digital replantation of children, 45 cases, 78 digits, average age 3.8 years, the youngest being 1 year old, 68 digits survived (88.7%); (3) rotational avulsion amputation of thumb, 26 digits, 23 digits (88.4%) survived; (4) bilateral digit amputation, 8 cases, 44 digits amputated, 38 digits replanted, including 9 digits of a ten-digit guillotined case. All the digits were salvaged. We conclude that thorough debridement, meticulous anastomosis of blood vessels and timely management of vascular crisis are keys to high survival rate, while judicious selection of indication, proper internal fixation of bone, anastomosis of as many blood vessels as possible, attentive repair of nerves and tendons, sound rehabilitation program are important measures in improving postoperative function.
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- G L Cheng
- 401st Hospital & Hand Surgery Center, PLA, Qingdao
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Xu GF, Lin B, Tanaka K, Dunn D, Wood D, Gesteland R, White R, Weiss R, Tamanoi F. The catalytic domain of the neurofibromatosis type 1 gene product stimulates ras GTPase and complements ira mutants of S. cerevisiae. Cell 1990; 63:835-41. [PMID: 2121369 DOI: 10.1016/0092-8674(90)90149-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 556] [Impact Index Per Article: 16.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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Sequencing of the neurofibromatosis gene (NF1) revealed a striking similarity among NF1, yeast IRA proteins, and mammalian GAP (GTPase-activating protein). Using both genetic and biochemical assays, we demonstrate that this homology domain of the NF1 protein interacts with ras proteins. First, expression of this NF1 domain suppressed the heat shock-sensitive phenotype of yeast ira1 and ira2 mutants. Second, this NF1 domain, after purification as a glutathione S-transferase (GST) fusion protein, strongly stimulated the GTPase activity of yeast RAS2 and human H-ras proteins. The GST-NF1 protein, however, did not stimulate the GTPase activity of oncogenic mutant ras proteins, H-rasVal-12 and yeast RAS2Val-19 mutants, or a yeast RAS2 effector mutant. These results establish that this NF1 domain has ras GAP activity similar to that found with IRA2 protein and mammalian GAP, and therefore may also regulate ras function in vivo.
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- G F Xu
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City 84132
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Michalak TI, Lin B, Churchill ND, Dzwonkowski P, Desousa JR. Hepadna virus nucleocapsid and surface antigens and the antigen-specific antibodies associated with hepatocyte plasma membranes in experimental woodchuck acute hepatitis. J Transl Med 1990; 62:680-9. [PMID: 2359258] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/31/2022] Open
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Hepatocyte plasma membranes purified from five woodchucks with distinct serologic and histologic patterns of experimentally induced acute woodchuck hepatitis virus (WHV) infection were studied to determine the virus antigens expression and anti-viral specificity of the bound immunoglobulins. WHV core, e, and surface antigens (WHcAg, WHeAg, and WHsAg, respectively) were analyzed with the use of immunoblotting technique both in the native form of these membranes and in the membranes treated with high molar urea or a nonionic detergent. The eluted material was tested either for the presence of WHV antigens or reactivity of the antibodies directed to the virus antigens. The data revealed that acute WHV infection is accompanied by hepatocyte plasma membrane expression of all three viral antigens tested. In all cases, native membranes displayed both WHeAg and WHsAg, whereas WHcAg presence was detected in hepatocyte plasma membranes after their disruption with urea or a detergent. The data indicated that a part or, in some instances, even the whole detectable WHcAg specificity can be incorporated into plasma membrane structure in such a way that it is not accessible for recognition by the specific antibodies (anti-WHc), suggesting at least a partial functional disability of this antigen as a target for immunologic reactions in in vivo conditions. In contrast, WHeAg specificity was detectable in all native membrane preparations studied and its expression was not evidently influenced by the employed treatments, whereas that of WHsAg tended to decline. Further, anti-WHc reactivity was identified in all membrane eluates tested, but antibodies to WHeAg (anti-WHe) were exclusively found in the material eluted from membranes originating from woodchucks with borderline histologic activity of acute hepatitis, which cleared away e antigen from the serum shortly before liver perfusion. Antibodies to WHsAg (anti-WHs) did not show up in the eluates. The present findings demonstrated that WHeAg specificity is not only exposed on the surface of infected hepatocytes, but is also relatively more easily accessible for serologic recognition than that of WHcAg in acute WHV infection. The above observation suggests that e antigen can serve as a potential plasma membrane target for hepatocytolytic attack in addition to that of WHsAg or WHcAg. Moreover, the results of this study demonstrated an apparent relationship between low histologic activity of liver inflammation, e antigen clearance from the circulation, and detectability of hepatocyte plasma membrane-bound anti-e antibodies in acute hepadna viral hepatitis.
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- T I Michalak
- Liver Research Laboratory, Division of Basic Medical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's, Canada
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Bohanon TM, Lin B, Shih MC, Ice GE, Dutta P. Determination of lattice structure and calculation of molecular tilt in lipid monolayers on water using x-ray diffraction. Phys Rev B Condens Matter 1990; 41:4846-4849. [PMID: 9994335 DOI: 10.1103/physrevb.41.4846] [Citation(s) in RCA: 50] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 04/12/2023]
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Zheng XF, Zhao MH, Lin B, Mao LG, Bian RL. [Effects of clonidine and norepinephrine on rabbit pulmonary artery strips with or without endothelium]. Zhongguo Yao Li Xue Bao 1990; 11:133-7. [PMID: 2275387] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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Relaxing responses of strips of rabbit pulmonary artery (RPA) with endothelium (+E) to norepinephrine (NE) during sustained contraction with KCl 20 mmol/L in the presence of propranolol (Pro) 10 mumol/L and prazosin (Pra) 1 mumol/L were more sensitive than those without endothelium (-E) to NE. These responses were inhibited by yohimbine (Yoh) 1 mumol/L. However, the relaxing responses of the strips to clonidine (Clo) were not different between RPA strips +E and -E in the presence of Pro+ Pra or Pro + Pra + Yoh 1 mumol/L. Relaxing responses of RPA strips -E precontracted by phenylephrine (PE) 1 mumol/L to Pra and Clo were greater than that of those precontracted by KCl 20 mmol/L. The relaxing responses of these strips precontracted by PE to Pra were larger than those precontracted by PE mumol/L; but that of those precontracted by PE and Clo to Yoh were not different. The results suggest that integrity of the endothelium is an important factor in the relaxing responses of RPA strips to NE. The relaxing effect of Clo on RPA strips precontracted by KCl 20 mmol/L may be due to alpha 1-adrenoceptor blockade on smooth muscle cells of the RPA strips.
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- X F Zheng
- Department of Pharmacology, Zhejiang Medical University, Hangzhou, China
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Baeyens W, Bruggeman J, Dewaele C, Lin B, Imai K. Optimization of an HPLC peroxyoxalate chemiluminescence detection system for some dansyl amino acids. J Biolumin Chemilumin 1990; 5:13-23. [PMID: 2316391 DOI: 10.1002/bio.1170050105] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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Bis(2,4,6-trichlorophenyl) oxalate (TCPO)-hydrogen-peroxide-generated chemiluminescence (CL) of four dansyl amino acids has been used as a model system for the optimization of a detection system in reversed-phase high-performance liquid chromatography. Dansylated alanine, glutamic acid, methionine, and norleucine were subjected to peroxyoxalate induced CL in a static system and in a flow system under various conditions with respect to TCPO (ethyl acetate) and hydrogen peroxide (acetone) concentrations, solvent composition and flow, using a two-pump or a one-pump post-column reagent system. From the CL-decay curve, the influence on the emission signal from the total flow rate in the detector was investigated. Special attention was focused on the mixing of the LC eluate and the reagent in order to combine an efficient collection of the emitted light using a 74 microliter flow cell (originally 10 microliters in the fluorescence detector) with minimal extra column band broadening. Therefore, a capillary fused-silica tubing of about 100 microns i.d. was inserted against the end-frit of the column and brought through a mixing tee, in which the solutions of TCPO and hydrogen peroxide were added. The column end tubing ended in the flow cell and the LC eluate and the reagents were mixed when entering the flow-cell. Average detection limits (S/N = 2) of 200 fmol injected dansylated amino acid could be reached. A comparison is made between the use of TCPO and DNPO (bis (2, 4-dinitrophenyl) oxalate).
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- W Baeyens
- Laboratory of Pharmaceutical Chemistry and Drug Analysis, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, State University of Ghent, Belgium
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Lin B, Peng JB, Ketterson JB, Dutta P, Thomas BN, Buontempo J, Rice SA. Kinetics of a structural phase transition in Langmuir monolayers studied using x‐ray diffraction. J Chem Phys 1989. [DOI: 10.1063/1.456653] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022] Open
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Koppenhoefer B, Trettin U, Figura R, Lin B. Accurate determination of the intrinsic racemization in chiral synthesis via enantiomer resolution of underivatized vicinal diols. Tetrahedron Lett 1989. [DOI: 10.1016/s0040-4039(01)93460-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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Barton SW, Thomas BN, Flom EB, Rice SA, Lin B, Peng JB, Ketterson JB, Dutta P. X‐ray diffraction study of a Langmuir monolayer of C21H43OH. J Chem Phys 1988. [DOI: 10.1063/1.455068] [Citation(s) in RCA: 135] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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