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Zhou SY, Li L, Xie E, Li MX, Cao JH, Yang XB, Wu DY. Small-diameter PCL/PU vascular graft modified with heparin-aspirin compound for preventing the occurrence of acute thrombosis. Int J Biol Macromol 2023; 249:126058. [PMID: 37524284 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijbiomac.2023.126058] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/24/2023] [Revised: 07/20/2023] [Accepted: 07/28/2023] [Indexed: 08/02/2023]
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The occurrence of acute thrombosis, directly related to platelet aggregation and coagulant system, is a considerable reason for the failure of small-diameter vascular grafts. Heparin is commonly used as a functional molecule for graft modification due to the strong anticoagulant effect. Unfortunately, heparin cannot directly resist the adhesion and aggregation of platelets. Therefore, we have prepared a heparin-aspirin compound by coupling heparin with aspirin, an antiplatelet drug, and covalently grafted it onto the surface of polycaprolactone/polyurethane composite tube. In this way, the graft not only showed a dual function of both anticoagulation and antiplatelet, but also effectively avoided the rapid drug release and excessive toxicity to other organs caused by simple blending the medicine with material matrix. The compound retained the original function of heparin, showing good hydrophilicity and biocompatibility, which could promote the adhesion and proliferation of endothelial cells (ECs) and facilitate the process of tissue regeneration. What's more, the compound showed more effective than heparin in reducing platelet activation and preventing thrombosis. The graft modified by this compound maintained completely unobstructed for one month of implantation, while severe obstruction or stenosis occurred in PCL/PU and PCL/PU-Hep lumen at the first week, verifying the effect of the compound on preventing acute thrombosis. In general, this study proposed a designing method for small-diameter vascular graft which could prevent acute thrombosis and promote intimal construction.
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- Si-Yuan Zhou
- Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, PR China; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, PR China
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- Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, PR China; CAS Key Laboratory of Cryogenics, Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, PR China.
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- Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, National Center for Cardiovascular Diseases, Fuwai Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Peking Union Medical College, Beijing 100037, PR China
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- Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, PR China; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, PR China
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- Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, PR China
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- Department of Cardiac Surgery, Beijing Institute of Heart, Lung and Blood Vessel Diseases, Beijing Anzhen Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing 100029, PR China.
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- Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, PR China.
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Li MX, Wu DY, Tang RY, Zhou SY, Liang WH, Liu J, Li L. Liquid metal integrated PU/CNT fibrous membrane for human health monitoring. Front Bioeng Biotechnol 2023; 11:1169411. [PMID: 37082218 PMCID: PMC10111225 DOI: 10.3389/fbioe.2023.1169411] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/19/2023] [Accepted: 03/22/2023] [Indexed: 04/03/2023] Open
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Wearable flexible sensors are widely used in several applications such as physiological monitoring, electronic skin, and telemedicine. Typically, flexible sensors that are made of elastomeric thin-films lack sufficient permeability, which leads to skin inflammation, and more importantly, affects signal detection and consequently, reduces the sensitivity of the sensor. In this study, we designed a flexible nanofibrous membrane with a high air permeability (6.10 mm/s), which could be effectively used to monitor human motion signals and physiological signals. More specifically, a flexible membrane with a point (liquid metal nanoparticles)-line (carbon nanotubes)-plane (liquid metal thin-film) multiscale conductive structure was fabricated by combining liquid metal (LM) and carbon nanotubes (CNTs) with a polyurethane (PU) nanofibrous membrane. Interestingly, the excellent conductivity and fluidity of the liquid metal enhanced the sensitivity and stability of the membrane. More precisely, the gauge factor (GF) values of the membrane is 3.0 at 50% strain and 14.0 at 400% strain, which corresponds to a high strain sensitivity within the whole range of deformation. Additionally, the proposed membrane has good mechanical properties with an elongation at a break of 490% and a tensile strength of 12 MPa. Furthermore, the flexible membrane exhibits good biocompatibility and can efficiently monitor human health signals, thereby indicating potential for application in the field of wearable electronic devices.
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- Mei-Xi Li
- Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
- School of Chemical Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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- Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
- *Correspondence: Lei Li, ; Da-Yong Wu,
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- The State Key Laboratory on Integrated Optoelectronics, Institute of Semiconductors, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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- Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
- School of Chemical Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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- Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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- Key Laboratory of Cryogenics, Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
- School of Chemical Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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- Key Laboratory of Cryogenics, Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
- School of Chemical Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
- *Correspondence: Lei Li, ; Da-Yong Wu,
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Wu DY, Feng L, Hao XY, Huang SB, Wu ZF, Ma S, Yin YL, Tan CQ. Effects of dietary supplementation of gestating sows with adenosine 5 '-monophosphate or adenosine on placental angiogenesis and vitality of their offspring. J Anim Sci 2022; 100:6628671. [PMID: 35781577 DOI: 10.1093/jas/skac237] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/29/2022] [Accepted: 07/01/2022] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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Our previous study found that dietary nucleotide supplementation, including adenosine 5 '-monophosphate (AMP), could increase AMP content in sow milk and promote piglet growth, but its effects on placental efficiency and piglet vitality remains unknown. This experiment aimed to investigate the effects of dietary AMP or its metabolite adenosine (ADO) supplementation on sow reproductive performance and placental angiogenesis. A total of 135 sows with a similar farrowing time were blocked by backfat and body weight (BW) at day 65 of gestation, and assigned to 1 of 3 dietary treatment groups (n = 45 per treatment): basal diet, basal diet supplemented with 0.1% AMP, or 0.1% ADO, respectively. Placental analysis and the characteristics of sows and piglets unveiled that compared with control (CON) group, AMP or ADO supplementation could improve sow placental efficiency (P<0.05) and newborn piglet vitality (P<0.05), increase piglet birth weight (P<0.05), and reduce stillbirth rate (P<0.05). More importantly, AMP or ADO supplementation could increase the contents of AMP, ADO, and their metabolites in placentae (P<0.05). Meanwhile, AMP or ADO supplementation could also increase placental vascular density (P<0.05) and the expression of vascular endothelial growth factor A (P<0.05), as well as promote the migration and tube formation of porcine iliac artery endothelial cells (P<0.05). Overall, maternal dietary AMP or ADO supplementation could increase their contents in the placenta, thereby improving placental angiogenesis and neonatal piglet vitality.
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- D Y Wu
- Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Animal Nutrition Control, National Engineering Research Center for Breeding Swine Industry, Institute of Subtropical Animal Nutrition and Feed, College of Animal Science, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou, Guangdong 510642, China
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- Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Animal Nutrition Control, National Engineering Research Center for Breeding Swine Industry, Institute of Subtropical Animal Nutrition and Feed, College of Animal Science, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou, Guangdong 510642, China
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- Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Animal Nutrition Control, National Engineering Research Center for Breeding Swine Industry, Institute of Subtropical Animal Nutrition and Feed, College of Animal Science, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou, Guangdong 510642, China
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- Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Animal Nutrition Control, National Engineering Research Center for Breeding Swine Industry, Institute of Subtropical Animal Nutrition and Feed, College of Animal Science, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou, Guangdong 510642, China
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- Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Animal Nutrition Control, National Engineering Research Center for Breeding Swine Industry, Institute of Subtropical Animal Nutrition and Feed, College of Animal Science, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou, Guangdong 510642, China
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- Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Animal Nutrition Control, National Engineering Research Center for Breeding Swine Industry, Institute of Subtropical Animal Nutrition and Feed, College of Animal Science, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou, Guangdong 510642, China
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- Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Animal Nutrition Control, National Engineering Research Center for Breeding Swine Industry, Institute of Subtropical Animal Nutrition and Feed, College of Animal Science, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou, Guangdong 510642, China.,National Engineering Laboratory for Pollution Control and Waste Utilization in Livestock and Poultry Production, Institute of Subtropical Agriculture, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changsha, Hunan 410125, China
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- Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Animal Nutrition Control, National Engineering Research Center for Breeding Swine Industry, Institute of Subtropical Animal Nutrition and Feed, College of Animal Science, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou, Guangdong 510642, China
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Yang LY, Cao JH, Liang WH, Wang YK, Wu DY. Effects of the Separator MOF-Al 2O 3 Coating on Battery Rate Performance and Solid-Electrolyte Interphase Formation. ACS Appl Mater Interfaces 2022; 14:13722-13732. [PMID: 35274932 DOI: 10.1021/acsami.2c00390] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
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Metal organic frameworks (MOFs) have unique advantages in optimizing the ionic conductivity of battery separators because of their rich cavity structure and highly ordered and connected pores. In this study, we used a hydrothermal method to synthesize a functional material, Ag-MOF crystal, as a separator coating content, and then studied the properties and application effect of the MOF-Al2O3-blended coating applying to a polyethylene (PE) separator (MOFxAl1-x/PE). Results show that MOF0.08Al0.92/PE (MOF/Al2O3 = 0.08:0.92) used in NCM811||Li cells significantly not only improves the fast charge-discharge performance of the cells but also inhibits the growth of lithium dendrites during long-term charge-discharge cycling; the Li+ transference number (tLi+) of the MOF0.08Al0.92/PE composite separator is 0.61; the Li||separator||Li half-cell circulates stably for 1000 h at varying current density from 0.5 to 10 mA cm-2 and only produces low overpotentials, indicating that MOF0.08Al0.92 stabilizes lithium. The initial capacity of the NCM811||Li cell using the MOF0.08Al0.92/PE separator is 165.0 mA h g-1, its capacity retention is 70.67% after 300 cycles at 5 C, and the interface resistance of the cells only increases from 13.8 to 31.5 Ω, whereas the capacity retention of Al2O3/PE separator batteries is only 40.41% (62.2 mA h g-1) under the same conditions. During the charge-discharge cycling, the MOF-Al2O3 coating induces the lithium anode to quickly form a stable and dense solid-electrolyte interphase layer, promotes the uniform deposition of Li+, and inhibits the growth of lithium dendrites as well.
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- Lu-Ye Yang
- Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Science, 29 Zhong-guan-cun East Road, Haidian District, Beijing 100190, P. R. China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, 19A Yu-Quan Road, Beijing 100049, P. R. China
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- Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Science, 29 Zhong-guan-cun East Road, Haidian District, Beijing 100190, P. R. China
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- Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Science, 29 Zhong-guan-cun East Road, Haidian District, Beijing 100190, P. R. China
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- China University of Political Science and Law, No. 27 Fu-xue Road, Changping District, Beijing 102249, China
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- Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Science, 29 Zhong-guan-cun East Road, Haidian District, Beijing 100190, P. R. China
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Lee CC, Wu DY, Lee TM. Exercise intensities modulate cognitive function in spontaneously hypertensive rats through oxidative mediated synaptic plasticity in hippocampus. Eur Heart J 2021. [DOI: 10.1093/eurheartj/ehab724.2281] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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Background
Oxidative damage in the brain may lead to cognitive impairments. There was considerable debate regarding the beneficial effects of physical exercise on cognitive functions because exercise protocols have varied widely across studies.
Purpose
We investigated whether different exercise intensities alter performance on cognitive tasks.
Methods
The experiment was performed on spontaneously hypertensive rats (6 months at the established phase of hypertension) distributed into 3 groups: sedentary, low-intensity exercise, and high-intensity exercise.
Results
Systolic blood pressure measurements confirmed hypertension in spontaneously hypertensive rats. In comparison to normotensive Wistar-Kyoto rats, sedentary spontaneously hypertensive rats had similar escape latencies and a similar preference for the correct quadrant in the probe trial. Compared to the sedentary group, the low-intensity exercise group had significantly better improvements in spatial memory assessed by Morris water maze. Low-intensity exercise was associated with attenuated reactive oxygen species, as measured by dihydroethidine fluorescence and nitrotyrosine staining in the dentate gyrus of the hippocampus. This was coupled with increased numbers of neurons and dendritic spines as well as a significant upregulation of synaptic density. In contrast, the beneficial effects of low-intensity exercise are abolished in high-intensity exercise as shown by increased free radical levels and an impairment in spatial memory.
Conclusions
We concluded that exercise is an effective strategy to improve spatial memory in spontaneously hypertensive rats even at an established phase of hypertension. Low-intensity exercise exhibited better improvement on cognitive deficits than high-intensity exercise by attenuating free radical levels and improving downstream synaptic plasticity.
Funding Acknowledgement
Type of funding sources: None.
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- C C Lee
- Kang-Ming Senior High School, Tainan, Taiwan
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- Catholic Sheng Kung Girls' High School, Tainan, Taiwan
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- Cardiovascular Institute, An Nan Hospital, China Medical University, Tainan, Taiwan
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Li MX, Li L, Zhou SY, Cao JH, Liang WH, Tian Y, Shi XT, Yang XB, Wu DY. A biomimetic orthogonal-bilayer tubular scaffold for the co-culture of endothelial cells and smooth muscle cells. RSC Adv 2021; 11:31783-31790. [PMID: 35496878 PMCID: PMC9041441 DOI: 10.1039/d1ra04472a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/09/2021] [Accepted: 09/17/2021] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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In blood vessels, endothelial cells (ECs) grow along the direction of blood flow, while smooth muscle cells (SMCs) grow circumferentially along the vessel wall. To mimic this structure, a polycaprolactone (PCL) tubular scaffold with orthogonally oriented bilayer nanofibers was prepared via electrospinning and winding. ECs were cultured on the inner layer of the scaffold with axial nanofibers and SMCs were cultured on the outer layer of the scaffold with circumferential nanofibers. Fluorescence images of the F-actin distribution of ECs and SMCs indicated that cells adhered, stretched, and proliferated in an oriented manner on the scaffold. Moreover, layers of ECs and SMCs formed on the scaffold after one month of incubation. The expression levels of platelet-endothelial cell adhesion molecule 1 (PECAM-1) and a contractile SMC phenotype marker in the EC/SMC co-culture system were much higher than those in individual culture systems, thus demonstrating that the proposed biomimetic scaffold promoted the intercellular junction of ECs and preserved the contractile phenotype of SMCs. To mimic blood vessels, a polycaprolactone tubular scaffold was prepared via electrospinning and winding. Endothelial cells were cultured on the inner layer with axial nanofibers and smooth muscle cells were cultured on the outer layer with circumferential nanofibers.![]()
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- Mei-Xi Li
- Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences Beijing 100190 P. R. China .,University of Chinese Academy of Sciences Beijing 100049 P. R. China
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- Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences Beijing 100190 P. R. China .,CAS Key Laboratory of Cryogenics, Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences Beijing 100190 P. R. China
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- Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences Beijing 100190 P. R. China .,University of Chinese Academy of Sciences Beijing 100049 P. R. China
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- Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences Beijing 100190 P. R. China
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- Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences Beijing 100190 P. R. China
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- Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences Beijing 100190 P. R. China .,Key Laboratory of Photochemical Conversion and Optoelectronic Materials, Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences Beijing 100190 P. R. China
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- National Engineering Research Center for Tissue Restoration and Reconstruction, South China University of Technology Guangzhou 510006 P. R. China
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- Department of Cardiac Surgery, Beijing Institute of Heart, Lung and Blood Vessel Diseases, Beijing Anzhen Hospital, Capital Medical University Beijing 100029 P. R. China
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- Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences Beijing 100190 P. R. China
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Wang L, Jin YP, Gao G, Wu DY, Zhou XJ, Liu YY, Xia QX. [Clinicopathological features and molecular genetics of Burkitt-like lymphoma with 11q aberration]. Zhonghua Bing Li Xue Za Zhi 2021; 50:655-657. [PMID: 34078056 DOI: 10.3760/cma.j.cn112151-20201228-00980] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
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- L Wang
- Department of Pathology, the Affiliated Cancer Hospital of Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou 450008, China
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- Department of Pathology, the Affiliated Cancer Hospital of Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou 450008, China
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- Department of Pathology, the Affiliated Cancer Hospital of Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou 450008, China
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- Department of Pathology, the Affiliated Cancer Hospital of Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou 450008, China
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- Department of Pathology, the Affiliated Cancer Hospital of Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou 450008, China
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- Department of Pathology, the Affiliated Cancer Hospital of Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou 450008, China
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- Department of Pathology, the Affiliated Cancer Hospital of Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou 450008, China
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Yang LY, Cao JH, Cai BR, Liang T, Wu DY. Electrospun MOF/PAN composite separator with superior electrochemical performances for high energy density lithium batteries. Electrochim Acta 2021. [DOI: 10.1016/j.electacta.2021.138346] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/21/2022]
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Hu WM, Shi ZH, Wu DY, Ye SY, Xiang YJ, Liu C, Chen JC, Zeng CL. Effects of combined therapy of valsartan and rosuvastatin on patients with atrial fibrillation. J BIOL REG HOMEOS AG 2021; 34:2215-2220. [PMID: 33185084 DOI: 10.23812/20-335-l] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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- W M Hu
- Department of Cardiology, Lishui Municipal Central Hospital, Lishui, Zhejiang, China
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- Department of Cardiology, Lishui Municipal Central Hospital, Lishui, Zhejiang, China
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- Department of Cardiology, Lishui Municipal Central Hospital, Lishui, Zhejiang, China
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- Department of Cardiology, Lishui Municipal Central Hospital, Lishui, Zhejiang, China
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- Department of Cardiology, Lishui Municipal Central Hospital, Lishui, Zhejiang, China
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- Department of Cardiology, Lishui Municipal Central Hospital, Lishui, Zhejiang, China
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- Department of Cardiology, Lishui Municipal Central Hospital, Lishui, Zhejiang, China
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- Department of Cardiology, Lishui Municipal Central Hospital, Lishui, Zhejiang, China
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Wu DY, Tang DJ, Zhang Y, He BL, Wang Y, Tan RJ. [Subcutaneous sparganosis: a case report]. Zhongguo Xue Xi Chong Bing Fang Zhi Za Zhi 2021; 33:439-441. [PMID: 34505457 DOI: 10.16250/j.32.1374.2020175] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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This case report presents the diagnosis and treatment of a case with subcutaneous sparganosis.
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- D Y Wu
- Department of Dermatology, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing 400010, China
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- Department of Pathology, Shizhu Tujia Autonomous County People's Hospital, China
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- Department of Dermatology, Chongqing First People's Hospital, China
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- Department of Dermatology, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing 400010, China
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- Department of Dermatology, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing 400010, China
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- Department of Dermatology, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing 400010, China
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Yan JY, Chen YJ, He LJ, Peng CH, Pang WB, Wang ZM, Wu DY, Wang K. [Experience of diagnosis and treatment in 4 children with colorectal cancer and literature review]. Zhonghua Wei Chang Wai Ke Za Zhi 2019; 22:1209-1213. [PMID: 31874540 DOI: 10.3760/cma.j.issn.1671-0274.2019.12.019] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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Wu DY, Qiao D, Zhang X, Zhang HQ, Luo ZC, Wang Y, Pan J, Wang C. Lipid profiles as potential mediators linking body mass index to osteoporosis among Chinese adults: the Henan Rural Cohort Study. Osteoporos Int 2019; 30:1413-1422. [PMID: 30834945 DOI: 10.1007/s00198-019-04878-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/21/2018] [Accepted: 01/24/2019] [Indexed: 12/17/2022]
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UNLABELLED This study is to examine the relationship between body mass index (BMI) and osteoporosis in rural areas of China, and then explore whether this association was mediated by lipid profiles. Results showed that with the increasing of BMI, the risk of osteoporosis was reduced, and lipid profiles mediate this association. INTRODUCTION To examine the relationship between BMI and osteoporosis, and explore whether this association was mediated by lipid profiles. METHODS A total of 8272 participants (18-79 years) were enrolled from the Henan Rural Cohort Study. The bone mineral density of the calcaneus was measured using an ultrasonic bone density apparatus. Logistic regression and restricted cubic splines were used to evaluate the odds ratio (OR) and 95% confidence intervals (95% CI). Mediation analysis using bootstrap was performed to examine the contribution of lipid profiles to BMI-related osteoporosis. RESULTS The crude and age-standardized prevalence of osteoporosis were 15.93% and 11.77%, respectively. The mean BMIs were 24.12 kg/m2 for participants with osteoporosis and 25.06 kg/m2 for non-osteoporosis participants (P < 0.001). After adjusting for potential confounders, subjects with obesity had a lower OR of osteoporosis (0.493 [95% CI: 0.405-0.600], Ptrend < 0.001) compared with normal-weight individuals. Mediation analysis showed that lipid profile partly mediated the relationship between BMI and osteoporosis with indirect effect OR (95% CI) of 0.985 (0.978-0.992), and the proportion explained of BMI was 15.48% for lipid profile. CONCLUSION With the increasing of BMI, the risk of osteoporosis was reduced in the Chinese adult population, and lipid profiles may be a potential mediator linking reduced risk of osteoporosis. Elucidating the underlying mechanisms will facilitate developing feasible preventive and therapeutic measures for osteoporosis. Chinese clinical trial register: ChiCTR-OOC-15006699.
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- D Y Wu
- Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, The Second Affiliated Hospital and Yuying Children's Hospital of Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou, Zhejiang, People's Republic of China
- The Second Clinical Medical School, Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou, Zhejiang, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, College of Public Health, Zhengzhou University, 100 Kexue Avenue, Zhengzhou, 450001, Henan, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, College of Public Health, Zhengzhou University, 100 Kexue Avenue, Zhengzhou, 450001, Henan, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, College of Public Health, Zhengzhou University, 100 Kexue Avenue, Zhengzhou, 450001, Henan, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, College of Public Health, Zhengzhou University, 100 Kexue Avenue, Zhengzhou, 450001, Henan, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, College of Public Health, Zhengzhou University, 100 Kexue Avenue, Zhengzhou, 450001, Henan, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, The Second Affiliated Hospital and Yuying Children's Hospital of Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou, Zhejiang, People's Republic of China.
- The Second Clinical Medical School, Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou, Zhejiang, People's Republic of China.
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- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, College of Public Health, Zhengzhou University, 100 Kexue Avenue, Zhengzhou, 450001, Henan, People's Republic of China.
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Ma F, Yuan CW, Liu JN, Cao JH, Wu DY. Colorimetric Immunosensor Based on Au@g-C 3N 4-Doped Spongelike 3D Network Cellulose Hydrogels for Detecting α-Fetoprotein. ACS Appl Mater Interfaces 2019; 11:19902-19912. [PMID: 31074952 DOI: 10.1021/acsami.9b06769] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/10/2023]
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A colorimetric immunoassay is a powerful tool for detecting tumor markers, with outstanding advantages of visualization and convenience. This study designed a colorimetric immunoassay using the antibody/antigen to control the catalytic activity to be "switched on/off". This system, where Au NPs (18.5 ± 3.9 nm) were loaded on the g-C3N4 nanosheets that were fixed in a three-dimensional porous cellulose hydrogel, was used as a binding site for the antibody/antigen. After being incubated with an antibody of a cancer marker, the turned-off catalytic sites on Au NPs in Au@g-C3N4/microcrystalline cellulose hydrogels would not be "turned on" until the corresponding antigen was added. The number of the recovered Au active sites was related to the amount of the antigen added. The Fourier transform infrared and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy measurements did not detect the existence of Au-S bonds. Catalyzed by the turned-on Au NPs, 4-nitrophenol was reduced to 4-aminophenol accompanied by a color fading. The color and the absorption spectrum changes in the process were used as the colorimetric quantitative basis for immunoassays. The colorimetric immunoassay showed a linear relationship with the liver cancer marker (α-fetoprotein, AFP) in the range of 0.1-10 000 ng/mL with the detection limit of 0.46 ng/mL. In addition, 4-nitrophenol had a significant color fading when the AFP concentration exceeded the healthy human threshold. The clinical patient's serum test results obtained from the developed colorimetric immunosensor were consistent with those obtained from the commercial enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay. Furthermore, the immunosensor exhibited a good selectivity, repeatability, and stability, which demonstrated its potential for practical diagnostic application.
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- Fang Ma
- Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry , Chinese Academy of Sciences , 29 Zhong-guan-cun East Road , Haidian District, Beijing 100190 , P. R. China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences , Beijing 100049 , P. R. China
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- Center of Interventional Oncology and Liver Diseases, Beijing Youan Hospital , Capital Medical University , 08 Xitoutiao, Youwai Street , Fengtai District, Beijing 100069 , P. R. China
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- Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry , Chinese Academy of Sciences , 29 Zhong-guan-cun East Road , Haidian District, Beijing 100190 , P. R. China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences , Beijing 100049 , P. R. China
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- Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry , Chinese Academy of Sciences , 29 Zhong-guan-cun East Road , Haidian District, Beijing 100190 , P. R. China
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- Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry , Chinese Academy of Sciences , 29 Zhong-guan-cun East Road , Haidian District, Beijing 100190 , P. R. China
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Liang T, Cao JH, Liang WH, Li Q, He L, Wu DY. Asymmetrically coated LAGP/PP/PVDF–HFP composite separator film and its effect on the improvement of NCM battery performance. RSC Adv 2019; 9:41151-41160. [PMID: 35540032 PMCID: PMC9076374 DOI: 10.1039/c9ra09200e] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/06/2019] [Accepted: 11/30/2019] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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Li1.5Al0.5Ge1.5(PO4)3 (LAGP) is an inorganic solid electrolyte with a Na superionic conductor (NASICON) structure that provides a channel for lithium ion transport. We coated LAGP particles on one side of a polypropylene (PP) separator film to improve the ionic conductivity of the separator, and water-dispersed polyvinylidene fluoride–hexafluoropropylene (PVDF–HFP) on the other side to reduce the interfacial resistance between the separator and the lithium metal anode. The results show that the LAGP/PP/PVDF–HFP separator has a high ionic conductivity (1.06 mS cm−1) at room temperature (PP separator: 0.70 mS cm−1), and an electrochemical window of 5.2 V (vs. Li+/Li). The capacity retention of a NCM|LAGP/PP/PVDF–HFP|graphite full cell is 81.0% after 300 charge–discharge cycles at 0.2C. When used in a NCM|LAGP/PP/PVDF–HFP|Li half-cell system, the initial discharge capacity is 172.5 mA h g−1 at 0.2C, and the capacity retention is 83.2% after 300 cycles. More significantly, the surface of the Li anode is smooth and flat after 200 cycles. The interface resistance increased from 7 to 109 Ω after 100 cycles at 0.2C. This indicates that the synergistic effect of the asymmetric coated LAGP and PVDF–HFP is beneficial to inhibiting the growth of lithium dendrites in the battery and reduces the interface resistance. A LAGP/PP/PVDF–HFP double-sided asymmetric composite separator film was prepared to improve the battery performance in LIBs.![]()
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- Tian Liang
- Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry
- Chinese Academy of Science
- Beijing 100190
- P. R. China
- University of Chinese Academy of Science
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- Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry
- Chinese Academy of Science
- Beijing 100190
- P. R. China
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- Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry
- Chinese Academy of Science
- Beijing 100190
- P. R. China
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- University of Chinese Academy of Science
- Beijing 100049
- P. R. China
- Beijing National Laboratory for Condensed Matter Physics
- Institute of Physics
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- Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry
- Chinese Academy of Science
- Beijing 100190
- P. R. China
- University of Chinese Academy of Science
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- Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry
- Chinese Academy of Science
- Beijing 100190
- P. R. China
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Ma F, Yuan CW, Ren XX, You CJ, Cao JH, Wu DY. 5,10,15,20-Tetrakis (4-carboxyphenyl) porphin-conjugated poly(l-lactic) acid/polyethylene oxide nanofiber membranes for photodynamic therapy. J Photochem Photobiol A Chem 2018. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jphotochem.2017.08.062] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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Gao F, Zang L, Wu DY, Li YJ, Zhang Q, Wang HB, Tian GL, Mu YM. Pioglitazone improves the ability of learning and memory via activating ERK1/2 signaling pathway in the hippocampus of T2DM rats. Neurosci Lett 2017; 651:165-170. [PMID: 28458023 DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2017.04.052] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/12/2017] [Revised: 04/25/2017] [Accepted: 04/26/2017] [Indexed: 01/05/2023]
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OBJECTIVE To explore the correlation between effect of PIO (pioglitazone, PIO) on learning as well as memory and ERK1/2 (extracellular signal regulated kinase 1/2, ERK1/2) pathway in T2DM (type 2 diabetes mellitus, T2DM) rats, further to elucidate the potential mechanism of PIO in improvement of learning and memory. METHODS 12-week-old male SD rats (number of 10 per group) were randomly divided into control group (CON), T2DM group (DM) and T2DM +PIO group (DM+PG). Rats in DM and DM+PG groups were given high fat diet for 20 weeks, then treated with Streptozotocin (27mg/kg) by intraperitoneal injection at 21week. After 72h, the FBG (fasting blood glucose, FBG) was greater than 7.0mmol/L can considered T2DM rats. DM+PG group was treated with PIO (10 mg·kg-1·d-1) by gavage daily. After Hyperinsulinemic-Euglycemic Clamp Study and Morris water maze test at 30-week, all of animals were sacrificed. The expressions of RKIP (Raf-1 kinase inhibitor protein, RKIP) and ERK1/2 in hippocampus were detected using Western Blot and real-time PCR. RESULTS The FBG level: DM group (7.68±0.54mmol/L) was higher than CON group (5.35±0.63mmol/L) and DM+PG group (6.07±0.84mmol/L), the differences were considered statistically significant (P <0.05). Hyperinsulinemic-Euglycemic Clamp Studies: GIR (glucose infusion rate, GIR) of DM group (21.02±5.10 mg·kg-1·d-1) was less than CON group (27.64±3.87 mg·kg-1·d-1) and DM+PG group (26.04 ±5.41 mg·kg-1·d-1), the differences were considered statistically significant (P <0.05). Morris water maze training: The escape latencies and searching platform performance of DM group (24.54±5.02s) decreased significantly compared with CON group (16.73±4.02s) and DM+PG group (18.05±4.12s) (P <0.05). Changes of RKIP, ERK, p-ERK protein relative content in rat hippocampus: Compared with CON groupand DM+PG group, the relative content of RKIP in DM group remarkably increased (P<0.01); ERK protein levels were not considered statistically significant among the three groups (P>0.05); The relative content of p-ERK1/2 protein in CON group and DM+PG group rats dorsal were higher than those in group DM, the difference was considered statistically significant (P<0.01). Changes in hippocampus of rat RKIP and ERK gene relative content: Compared with CON group and DM+PG group, levels of RKIP mRNA in DM group were significantly increased (P<0.01); ERK mRNA levels were not considered statistically significant among the three groups (P>0.05). CONCLUSION Activation of ERK1/2 signal transduction pathway via reducing RKIP in the hippocampus may be one of the mechanisms of PIO to improve the learning and memory of the T2DM rats.
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- F Gao
- Department of Endocrinology, Chinese PLA General Hospital, Beijing 100853, China; Department of End-ocrinology, First Hospital of Shijiazhuang City, Shijiazhuang 050011, China
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- Department of Endocrinology, Chinese PLA General Hospital, Beijing 100853, China
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- Department of End-ocrinology, First Hospital of Shijiazhuang City, Shijiazhuang 050011, China
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- Department of Endocrinology, Chinese PLA General Hospital, Beijing 100853, China
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- Department of Endocrinology, Chinese PLA General Hospital, Beijing 100853, China
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- Department of Endocrinology, Chinese PLA General Hospital, Beijing 100853, China
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- Department of Endocrinology, Chinese PLA General Hospital, Beijing 100853, China
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- Department of Endocrinology, Chinese PLA General Hospital, Beijing 100853, China.
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Tang QH, Yu FY, Zhang SQ, Niu XQ, Zhu H, Song WW, Han CW, Wu DY, Qin WQ. First Report of Burkholderia andropogonis Causing Bacterial Leaf Spot of Betel Palm in Hainan Province, China. Plant Dis 2013; 97:1654. [PMID: 30716817 DOI: 10.1094/pdis-07-12-0653-pdn] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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In May 2009, a severe bacterial disease of arecanut (Areca catechu L.) with an incidence of 100% was observed in a plantation of about 8,400 plants in Wenchang City, Hainan Province, China (19°47.171' N, 110°54.335' E). Symptoms consisted of small circular to elongated brown lesions, ranging from 1 to 105 mm in length and 1 to 21 mm in width, surrounded by yellow halos. White colonies, without fluorescent or diffusible pigments, were consistently recovered on King's B Medium plates from lesions surface-sterilized in 70% ethyl alcohol for 1 min. All isolates were gram-negative and each had a single, polar, sheathed flagellum. Isolates were identified as a Burkholderia sp. based on physiological and biochemical tests: oxidase and catalase positive, negative for arginine dihydrolase, gelatin hydrolysis and starch hydrolysis, and negative for acid production from levan (1,3). Sequences (approx. 1,400 bp each) of the 16S rRNA gene amplified from four isolates using primer pair 27F/1492R (2) (GenBank Accession Nos. JX415481, JX415479, JX415482, and JX415483) shared 99% sequence identity with that of Burkholderia andropogonis strain 6369 (DQ786951). Representative isolates Y11 (China General Microbiological Culture Collection Center No. CGMCC 1.12337), Y30 (CGMCC 1.12338), W15, and W20 were compared with B. andropogonis strain NCPPB No. 1012 and all caused a hypersensitive reaction on leaves of Nicotiana benthamiana. Isolate pathogenicity was tested twice with a total of three replications per isolate. Two young leaves each of 2-year-old arecanut plants were infiltrated with a bacterial suspension of 108 CFU/ml, then covered individually with plastic bags for 48 h, and incubated at 100% relative humidity with 16 h of daylight at 25°C by day and 8 h of darkness at 20°C by night. After 7 days, small water-soaked spots with yellow halos were observed and 60 days after inoculation, lesions developed similar to those caused by B. andropogonis in the field. Koch's postulates were fulfilled by reisolating bacteria from typical lesions on inoculated plants. These bacteria were identical to inoculated strains in colony morphology and sequences of the 16S ribosomal RNA gene. To our knowledge, this is the first report of B. andropogonis infection on betel in Hainan Province, mainland China. This disease was first reported in Taiwan, a province of China. Conditions of high humidity and high temperature support disease outbreaks and infection can result in severe economic losses. In 2012, this disease also appeared on a number of plantations located in other counties. As betel is, economically, the second most important crop in Hainan Province, measures should be required to control this disease, especially in typhoon seasons. References: (1) S. H. Hseu et al. Plant Pathol. Bull. 16:131, 2007. (2) D. J. Lane. In: E. Stackebrandt, et al. Nucleic acid techniques in bacterial systematics. John Wiley & Sons, Chichester, United Kingdom, pp. 115-175, 1991. (3) X. Li and S. H. De Boer. Plant Dis. 89:1132. 2005.
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- Q H Tang
- Coconut Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Tropical Agricultural Sciences, Wenchang, Hainan 571339 P. R. China
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- Coconut Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Tropical Agricultural Sciences, Wenchang, Hainan 571339 P. R. China
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- Institute of Tropical Bioscience and Biotechnology, CATAS, Haikou, Hainan 571101 P. R. China
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- Coconut Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Tropical Agricultural Sciences, Wenchang, Hainan 571339 P. R. China. The project was funded by National Nonprofit Institute Research Grant of CATAS-ITBB (No. 1630052012016) and Natural Science Foundation of Hainan Province (No. 312041)
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- Coconut Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Tropical Agricultural Sciences, Wenchang, Hainan 571339 P. R. China. The project was funded by National Nonprofit Institute Research Grant of CATAS-ITBB (No. 1630052012016) and Natural Science Foundation of Hainan Province (No. 312041)
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- Coconut Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Tropical Agricultural Sciences, Wenchang, Hainan 571339 P. R. China. The project was funded by National Nonprofit Institute Research Grant of CATAS-ITBB (No. 1630052012016) and Natural Science Foundation of Hainan Province (No. 312041)
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- Coconut Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Tropical Agricultural Sciences, Wenchang, Hainan 571339 P. R. China. The project was funded by National Nonprofit Institute Research Grant of CATAS-ITBB (No. 1630052012016) and Natural Science Foundation of Hainan Province (No. 312041)
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- Coconut Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Tropical Agricultural Sciences, Wenchang, Hainan 571339 P. R. China. The project was funded by National Nonprofit Institute Research Grant of CATAS-ITBB (No. 1630052012016) and Natural Science Foundation of Hainan Province (No. 312041)
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- Institute of Tropical Bioscience and Biotechnology, CATAS, Haikou, Hainan 571101 P. R. China
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Wu PC, Wang Q, Grobman L, Chu E, Wu DY. Accelerated cellular senescence in solid tumor therapy. Exp Oncol 2012; 34:298-305. [PMID: 23070015] [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: 06/01/2023]
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Accelerated cellular senescence (ACS) is an emerging concept that implicates sustained, telomere-independent cell cycle arrest of neoplastic cells in response to chemotherapeutic agents, ionizing radiation, oxidative stress, or the presence of selective oncogenic stimuli. Recent evidence suggests that a subset of tumor cells induced in a state of reversible ACS can escape cell cycle arrest and resume proliferation accounting for cancer progression. The purpose of this review is to describe our current understanding of ACS including signaling pathways of senescence escape, role of senescence biomarkers, and rationale for senescence-based therapy. This article is part of a Special Issue entitled "Apoptosis: Four Decades Later".
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- Department of Surgery, VA Puget Sound Health Care System, Seattle, WA 98108, USA.
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BACKGROUND NKT cells recognize glycolipids presented by CD1d on antigen-presenting cells (APC) and have been largely characterized by their ability to be activated by alpha-galactosylceramide, a glycolipid not expressed on mammalian cells. We have shown previously that GD3 can be cross-presented by CD1d to NKT cells and is the first tumor-derived glycolipid recognized by NKT cells. But the ability of NKT cells to modulate B-cell responses to tumor glycolipids that are themselves recognized by NKT cells has not been explored. METHODS We tested whether NKT cells are required for antibody (Ab) responses to GD3. We immunized wild-type mice, mice deficient in invariant chain NKT cells (iNKT cells) and mice deficient in total NKT cells against GD3. Ab titer against GD3 was measured by ELISA. RESULTS We found the IgM and IgG responses against GD3 were similar among the three strains of mice, including the IgG isotypes induced. Pre-expanded NKT cells to GD3 did not affect the anti-GD3 Ab response. DISCUSSION We conclude that Ab responses to GD3 are independent of NKT cells and that strategies to manipulate NKT cells in vivo are not likely to enhance the anti-GD3 Ab response induced by vaccines.
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- J-E Park
- Department of Medicine and Swim Across America Laboratory, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York 10021, USA
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Chalco K, Wu DY, Mestanza L, Muñoz M, Llaro K, Guerra D, Palacios E, Furin J, Shin S, Sapag R. Nurses as providers of emotional support to patients with MDR-TB. Int Nurs Rev 2006; 53:253-60. [PMID: 17083413 DOI: 10.1111/j.1466-7657.2006.00490.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [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: 11/29/2022]
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AIM To identify the forms and means of emotional support that nurses provide to patients living with multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MTR-TB) in Lima, Peru. BACKGROUND A fundamental role of nurses is to provide emotional support, defined as all the strategies that a health team employs to assure the psychosocial well-being of the patient. However, neither the forms of emotional support nor the means used by nurses in resource-poor settings have been much written about. This paper describes a qualitative study of a team of seven nurses working in a programme that provides individualized MDR-TB treatment to patients in Lima, Peru. It describes the various forms of support that facilitated the ability of patients to adhere to treatment despite socio-economic difficulties, social stigma, drug side effects, problems related to different stages of treatment and concurrent illnesses/special situations. METHODS Qualitative study methods were employed over the course of 8 years to observe nurses and patients in an MDR-TB treatment programme. These included participant observation, structured observation sessions of nurses with their patients and focus groups with seven nurses. CONCLUSION Through theme and content analyses of qualitative data, ten situations related to MDR-TB treatment were found. These ten issues served as an analytical framework used to identify and discuss the various types of emotional support provided by both formal and informal means. This type of support focused on problems related to different stages of treatment, social stigma of the illness, treatment adherence, side effects, socio-economic difficulties, death and concurrent illnesses/special situations. PRACTICE IMPLICATIONS The essential role of the nurse as a provider of emotional support in the development or implementation of similar programmes with MDR-TB should, in future, be taken into account.
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Wu DY, Marzini M, Lindner E, Mayer HA. Supported Organometallic Complexes. XLI [1] Enhanced Catalytic Activity of Ruthenium Interphase Catalysts Produced by a Surfactant-Templated Sol-Gel Process. Z Anorg Allg Chem 2005. [DOI: 10.1002/zaac.200500298] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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Lee MT, Wu DY, Tian ZQ, Lin SH. Effect of displacement and distortion of potential energy surfaces and overlapping resonances of electronic transitions on surface-enhanced Raman scattering: Models and ab initio theoretical calculation. J Chem Phys 2005; 122:094719. [PMID: 15836174 DOI: 10.1063/1.1859283] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022] Open
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A previously developed theory for the temperature-dependent resonance Raman scattering is used to study the surface-enhanced Raman scattering. Two models, the displaced oscillator model and the displaced-distorted oscillator model, based on the harmonic potential energy surfaces are carried out to calculate the surface-enhanced Raman scattering excitation profiles of the pyridine molecule adsorbed on a silver electrode, for which the density functional theory method is applied to evaluate the potential energy surfaces of the adsorption structure. In this framework, the distortion effect on the surface-enhanced Raman scattering will be discussed by comparing both models. The overlapping resonance of multiexcited electronic transitions is also studied, in which the interference between electronic transitions has been taken into account. It will be used to study the abnormal band at 1005.6 cm(-1) with the exciting radiation 457.9 nm.
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- M T Lee
- Institute of Atomic and Molecular Sciences, Academia Sinica, P.O. Box 23-166, 106 Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China
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Wu DY, Pang YH, Cui YF, Wu WH. [Clinical observation on Zaisheng II Capsule in treating idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura: a report of 96 cases]. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2004; 2:332, 336. [PMID: 15383250 DOI: 10.3736/jcim20040505] [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] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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- Da-Yong Wu
- Boshi Institute of Haematology, Ping'an Hospital, Shijiazhuang, Hebei Province 050021, China.
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Wu DY, Hayashi M, Lin SH, Tian ZQ. Theoretical differential Raman scattering cross-sections of totally-symmetric vibrational modes of free pyridine and pyridine-metal cluster complexes. Spectrochim Acta A Mol Biomol Spectrosc 2004; 60:137-146. [PMID: 14670470 DOI: 10.1016/s1386-1425(03)00190-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 47] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/24/2023]
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The differential Raman scattering cross-sections of totally-symmetric vibrational modes for pyridine and pyridine-metal clusters have been calculated by using ab initio and density functional methods. The results are compared with experimental data and a good agreement is obtained. In particular, we can theoretically reproduce the significant changes in the relative Raman intensities of the nu(12) mode in pyridine-metal cluster complexes. We focus on two mechanisms for these Raman intensities changes: (1) the chemical interaction between the pyridine and the metal clusters; and (2) the charge transfer mechanism. For the pyridine-silver cluster complexes, we find that due to the weak bonding, the chemical interaction does not influence the relative intensities of the Raman peaks of the nu(1) and nu(12) modes. However, in the case where the copper or the gold clusters are attached to pyridine, the intensity of the band of the nu(12) mode is weakened significantly. We also find that the charge transfer mechanism increases the asymmetry of the bands of the nu(1) and nu(12) modes on all three metals.
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- D Y Wu
- Institute of Atomic and Molecular Sciences, Academia Sinica, P.O. Box 23-166, Taipei 106, Taiwan, ROC.
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Wu DY, Chen B, Fu XG, Wu LZ, Zhang LP, Tung CH. Nanosized particles of organically modified silica as microreactors to enhance the regioselectivity in the photocycloaddition of 9-substituted anthracenes. Org Lett 2003; 5:1075-7. [PMID: 12659577 DOI: 10.1021/ol0341041] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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[reaction: see text] Nanosized particles of modified silica with 3-ammoniumpropyl residue have been prepared and successfully used as microreactors to control the regioselectivity of the photocycloaddition of five 9-substituted anthracences [AnCH(2)N(+)(CH(3))(3)Br(-) (1), AnCH(2)COO(-)Na(+) (2), AnCH(2)CH(2)COOH (3), AnCH(2)OH (4), AnCH(3) (5), where An = 9-anthryl]. While the photocycloaddition of the five substrates in methanol mainly gave rise to their head-to-tail (h-t) photocyclomers, irradiation of 1-4 incorporated in the suspension of the modified silica in methanol almost exclusively yielded the head-to-head (h-h) photocyclomers with high quantum yields.
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- Da-Yong Wu
- Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry, The Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China
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Hangai M, Moon YS, Kitaya N, Chan CK, Wu DY, Peters KG, Ryan SJ, Hinton DR. Systemically expressed soluble Tie2 inhibits intraocular neovascularization. Hum Gene Ther 2001; 12:1311-21. [PMID: 11440624 DOI: 10.1089/104303401750270968] [Citation(s) in RCA: 53] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [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: 11/13/2022] Open
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Retinal and choroidal neovascularization are the most frequent causes of severe and progressive vision loss. Studies have demonstrated that Tie2, an endothelial-specific receptor tyrosine kinase, plays a key role in angiogenesis. In this study, we determined whether adenovirus-mediated gene delivery of extracellular domain of the Tie2 receptor (ExTek) could inhibit experimental retinal and choroidal neovascularization. Immunofluorescence histochemistry with a monoclonal antibody to human Tie2 showed that Tie2 expression is prominent around and within the base of newly formed blood vessels of retinal and choroidal neovascular lesions. A single intramuscular injection of adenovirus expressing ExTek genes achieved plasma levels of ExTek exceeding 500 microg/ml in mice for 10 days (in neonates) and 7 days (in adults). This treatment inhibited retinal neovascularization by 47% (p < 0.05) in a murine model of ischemia-induced retinopathy. The same treatment reduced the incidence and extent of sodium fluorescein leakage from choroidal neovascular lesions by 52% (p < 0.05) and 36% (p < 0.01), respectively, in a laser-induced murine choroidal neovascularization model. The same mice showed a 45% (p < 0.001) reduction of integrated area of the choroidal neovascularization. These findings indicate that Tie2 signaling is a common component of the angiogenic pathway in both retinal and choroidal neovascularization, providing a potentially useful target in the treatment of intraocular neovascular diseases.
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- M Hangai
- Department of Ophthalmology, Keck School of Medicine at the University of Southern California, 2011 Zonal Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90033, USA
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Wu DY, Goldschneider I. Tolerance to cyclosporin A-induced autologous graft-versus-host disease is mediated by a CD4+CD25+ subset of recent thymic emigrants. J Immunol 2001; 166:7158-64. [PMID: 11390462 DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.166.12.7158] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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Our previous studies revealed that both the autoeffector and immunoregulatory T cells in cyclosporin A (CSA)-induced autologous graft-vs-host disease are recent thymic emigrants (RTEs). The autoeffector cells appear in and are released from the thymus during the first week of CSA treatment, whereas the immunoregulatory thymocytes appear during the second week but are not released until several days after cessation of CSA treatment. In the present study, the antigenic phenotypes of these functional T cell subsets were determined by immunomagnetic separation and flow immunocytometric analysis. During CSA wk 1, the autoeffector T cells in both the thymus and lymph node (LN) expressed a CD4+8+ double-positive (DP) phenotype, after which those in the LN became CD8 single positive (SP). Timed thymectomy experiments confirmed that the CD8-SP autoeffector T cells in LN originated from these DP RTEs. During CSA wk 2, the immunoregulatory thymocytes also displayed a DP phenotype. However, they were not exported to the periphery until several days after CSA treatment had been interrupted and they had acquired a CD4-SP phenotype. In LN, these immunoregulatory RTEs expressed the CD25+ marker characteristic of anergic/suppressor T cells. Cell separation and mixing experiments demonstrated that the autoeffector T cells persist in LN after cessation of CSA treatment, but their activity is not detectable in the presence of recently exported CD4+ T cells. Hence, the results indicate that tolerance to CSA-induced autologous graft-vs-host disease is actively mediated by CD25+CD4+ RTEs that suppress the function of CD8 autoeffector T cells.
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- D Y Wu
- Department of Pathology, School of Medicine, University of Connecticut Health Center, Farmington, CT 06030, USA
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Xin Y, Li XL, Wang YP, Zhang SM, Zheng HC, Wu DY, Zhang YC. Relationship between phenotypes of cell-function differentiation and pathobiological behavior of gastric carcinomas. World J Gastroenterol 2001; 7:53-9. [PMID: 11819733 PMCID: PMC4688701 DOI: 10.3748/wjg.v7.i1.53] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/18/2000] [Revised: 06/16/2000] [Accepted: 06/23/2000] [Indexed: 02/06/2023] Open
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AIM To reveal the correlation between the functional differentiation phenotypes of gastric carcinoma cells and the invasion and metastasis by a new way of cell-function classification. METHODS Surgically resected specimens of 361 gastric carcinomas(GC) were investigated with enzyme-, mucin-, and tumor-related marker immunohistochemistry. According to the direction of cell-function differentiation, stomach carcinomas were divided into five functionally differentiated types. RESULTS (1) Absorptive function differentiation type (AFDT): there were 82 (22.7%) patients including 76 (92.7%) aged 45 years. Sixty-nine (84.1%) cases belonged to the intestinal type. Thirty-eight (46.3%) expressed CD44v6 and 9 (13.6%) of 66 male patients developed liver metastasis. The 5-year survival rate of patients in this group (58.5%) was higher than those with the other types (P<0.01). (2) Mucin secreting function differentiation type (MSFDT): 54 (15%) cases. Fifty-three (98.1%) tumors had penetrated the serosa, 12 (22.2%) expressed ER and 22 (40.7%) expressed CD44v6. The postoperative 5-year survival rate was 28.6%. (3) Absorptive and mucin-producing function differentiation type (AMPFDT): there were 180 (49.9%) cases, including 31 (17.2%) aged younger than 45 years. The tumor was more common in women (62, 34.4%,) and expressed more frequently estrogen receptors (ER) (129, 81.7%) than other types (P<0.01). Ovary metastasis was found in 12 (19.4%) out of 62 female subjects. The patients with this type GC had the lowest 5-year survival rate (24.7%) among all types. (4) Specific function differentiation type (SFDT): 13 (3.6%) cases. Nine (69.2%) tumors of this type derived from APUD system, the other 4 (30.7%) were of different histological differentiation. Sixty per cent of the patients survived at least five years. (5) Non-function differentiation type (NFDT): 32 (8.9%) cases. Nineteen (59.4%) cases had lymph node metastases but no one with liver or ovary metastasis. The 5-year survival rate was 28.1%. CONCLUSION This new cell-function classification of GC is helpful in indicating the characteristics of invasion and metastasis of GC with different cell-function differentiation phenotypes. Further study is needed to disclose the correlation between the cell-functional differentiation phenotypes and the relevant genotypes and the biological behavior of gastric carcinoma.
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- Y Xin
- The Fourth Laboratory of Cancer Institute, China Medical University, Shenyang 110001, Liaoning Province, China
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Tian WD, Wei XL, Wu DY, Li J, Sheng HZ. Analysis of ingredient and heating value of municipal solid waste. J Environ Sci (China) 2001; 13:87-91. [PMID: 11590726] [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: 05/23/2023]
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Great differences between municipal solid wastes (MSW) produced at different places and different times in terms of such parameters as physical ingredient and heating value lead to difficulty in effective handling of MSW. In this paper, ingredient, heating value and their temporal varying trends of typical MSW in Beijing were continuously measured and analyzed. With consideration of the process in pyrolysis and incineration, correlation between physical ingredients and heating values was induced, favorable for evaluation of heating value needed in handling of MSW from simple analysis of physical ingredients of it.
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- W D Tian
- Institute of Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100080, China
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The multiprotein human SWI-SNF (hSWI-SNF) complex is a chromatin-remodeling machine that facilitates transcription by overcoming chromatin-mediated gene repression. We had previously shown that hSNF5/INI1, an intrinsic, consistent component of the hSWI/SNF complex, is associated with Epstein-Barr nuclear antigen 2 (EBNA2) and have proposed that EBNA2 directs this complex to key EBNA2-responsive viral and cellular genes. Using chromatin immunoprecipitation and quantitative PCR, we show that antibodies directed against components of the hSWI-SNF complex preferentially precipitate chromatin-associated DNA that contains a targeted EBNA2-responsive element in the context of both episomal and cellular chromatin. This enrichment does not occur in EBNA2-negative cells or when the EBNA2-responsive element is mutated. The stable association of the hSWI-SNF complex with the EBNA2-responsive promoter can also be disrupted by deletion of the TATA element, suggesting that EBNA2 in itself is insufficient to mediate stable targeting of the hSWI-SNF complex. These results demonstrate that recruitment of the hSWI-SNF complex to selected promoters can occur in vivo through its interaction with site-specific activator proteins and that stable targeting may require the presence of basal transcription factors.
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- D Y Wu
- Division of Medical Oncology, Department of Medicine, Veterans Administration Puget Sound Health Care System, Seattle Division, Seattle, Washington 98108, USA
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Adler HT, Chinery R, Wu DY, Kussick SJ, Payne JM, Fornace AJ, Tkachuk DC. Leukemic HRX fusion proteins inhibit GADD34-induced apoptosis and associate with the GADD34 and hSNF5/INI1 proteins. Mol Cell Biol 1999; 19:7050-60. [PMID: 10490642 PMCID: PMC84700 DOI: 10.1128/mcb.19.10.7050] [Citation(s) in RCA: 123] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.9] [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: 02/06/2023] Open
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One of the most common chromosomal abnormalities in acute leukemia is a reciprocal translocation involving the HRX gene (also called MLL, ALL-1, or HTRX) at chromosomal locus 11q23, resulting in the formation of HRX fusion proteins. Using the yeast two-hybrid system and human cell culture coimmunoprecipitation experiments, we show here that HRX proteins interact directly with the GADD34 protein. We have found that transfected cells overexpressing GADD34 display a significant increase in apoptosis after treatment with ionizing radiation, indicating that GADD34 expression not only correlates with apoptosis but also can enhance apoptosis. The amino-terminal third of the GADD34 protein was necessary for this observed increase in apoptosis. Furthermore, coexpression of three different HRX fusion proteins (HRX-ENL, HRX-AF9, and HRX-ELL) had an anti-apoptotic effect, abrogating GADD34-induced apoptosis. In contrast, expression of wild-type HRX gave rise to an increase in apoptosis. The difference observed here between wild-type HRX and the leukemic HRX fusion proteins suggests that inhibition of GADD34-mediated apoptosis may be important to leukemogenesis. We also show here that GADD34 binds the human SNF5/INI1 protein, a member of the SNF/SWI complex that can remodel chromatin and activate transcription. These studies demonstrate, for the first time, a gain of function for leukemic HRX fusion proteins compared to wild-type protein. We propose that the role of HRX fusion proteins as negative regulators of post-DNA-damage-induced apoptosis is important to leukemia progression.
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- H T Adler
- VA Puget Sound Health Care System, Seattle, Washington 98108, USA
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Wu DY, Goldschneider I. Cyclosporin A-induced autologous graft-versus-host disease: a prototypical model of autoimmunity and active (dominant) tolerance coordinately induced by recent thymic emigrants. J Immunol 1999; 162:6926-33. [PMID: 10352315] [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: 02/12/2023]
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Cyclosporin A (CSA)-induced autologous graft-vs-host disease (autoGVHD) is an autoimmune syndrome initiated by autoeffector T cells presumed to be exported from the thymus during CSA treatment. The appearance of noncytotoxic immunoregulatory T cell activity after cessation of CSA treatment is also thymus dependent. In the present study, we have tested the hypothesis that both autoeffector and immunoregulatory T cells in CSA-treated rats are recent thymic emigrants (RTEs). Local syngeneic graft-vs-host reaction (synGVHR) and timed thymectomy (Tx) assays revealed that autoeffector T cells appear initially in the thymus and are promptly exported to lymph nodes (LN) during the first week of CSA treatment. In contrast, immunoregulatory thymocytes are first detectable by local synGVHR inhibition assays during the second week of CSA treatment but are not exported to LN until approximately 4 days post-CSA. Both the autoeffector and immunoregulatory T cells in LN express Thy-1, a selective marker for RTEs in the rat. However, the autoeffector RTEs have a CD4+8+ phenotype, whereas the immunoregulatory RTEs have a CD4+8- phenotype. Thus, the coordinate formation in and release from the thymus cortex and medulla of autoeffector and immunoregulatory T cells in CSA-treated rats directly demonstrates that centrally induced, nondeletional tolerance can serve as a fail-safe mechanism by which clones of autoeffector T cells that have escaped intrathymic negative selection for self-MHC class II Ag can be suppressed postthymically.
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- D Y Wu
- Department of Pathology, School of Medicine, University of Connecticut Health Center, Farmington 06030, USA
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Wu DY, Schneider GE, Silver J, Poston M, Jhaveri S. A role for tectal midline glia in the unilateral containment of retinocollicular axons. J Neurosci 1998; 18:8344-55. [PMID: 9763478 PMCID: PMC6792857] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/31/1997] [Revised: 07/23/1998] [Accepted: 07/30/1998] [Indexed: 02/09/2023] Open
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Retinal fibers approach close to the tectal midline but do not encroach on the other side. Just before the entry of retinal axons into the superior colliculus (SC), a group of radial glia differentiates at the tectal midline; the spatiotemporal deployment of these cells points to their involvement in the unilateral containment of retinotectal axons. To test for such a barrier function of the tectal midline cells, we used two lesion paradigms for disrupting their radial processes in the neonatal hamster: (1) a heat lesion was used to destroy the superficial layers of the right SC, including the midline region, and (2) a horizontally oriented hooked wire was inserted from the lateral edge of the left SC toward the midline and was used to undercut the midline cells, leaving intact the retinorecipient layers in the right SC. In both cases, the left SC was denervated by removing its contralateral retinal input. Animals were killed 12 hr to 2 weeks later, after intraocular injections of anterograde tracers to label the axons from the remaining eye. Both lesions resulted in degeneration of the distal processes of the tectal raphe glia and in an abnormal crossing of the tectal midline by retinal axons, leading to an innervation of the opposite ("wrong") tectum. The crossover occurred only where glial cell attachments were disrupted. These results document that during normal development, the integrity of the midline septum is critical in compartmentalizing retinal axons and in retaining the laterality of the retinotectal projection.
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- D Y Wu
- Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
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A 39-year-old woman suffered from swelling and tenderness of the right leg for 31 years. Imaging studies showed a large soft tissue lesion on the right side extending from the proximal portion of the thigh to the ankle. She underwent several operations due to the leg mass and associated equinovarus deformity of the right ankle. The pathologic findings were those of an ossified cavernous hemangioma. This appears to be one of the largest hemangiomas to be reported. It revealed the three types of calcification characteristic of hemangiomas. Equinovarus deformity of the ankle caused by contracture of the calf in this case was probably related to repeated bleeding.
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- Y C Wang
- Department of Radiology, Cathay General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan
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Wang Y, Goldschneider I, Foss D, Wu DY, O'Rourke J, Cone RE. Direct thymic involvement in anterior chamber-associated immune deviation: evidence for a nondeletional mechanism of centrally induced tolerance to extrathymic antigens in adult mice. The Journal of Immunology 1997. [DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.158.5.2150] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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Recent reports have suggested that the dichotomy between central (thymic) and peripheral T cell tolerance is not absolute and that self-tolerance in perinatal animals may also involve the intrathymic generation and release to the periphery of Ag-specific immunoregulatory T cells. We have expanded this concept to include tolerance to non self Ags administered extrathymically to adult animals. In this study, we use the anterior chamber-associated immune deviation (ACAID) to demonstrate that central regulation of acquired peripheral tolerance can be induced in adult mice by the intraocular administration of low doses of nonself Ag. The results show that adult thymectomy prevents the inhibition of trinitrophenol (TNP)-specific delayed-type hypersensitivity, which normally occurs after injection of TNP-BSA into the anterior chamber (AC) of the eye. Thymocytes obtained from mice 1 to 3 days, but not 5 to 7 days, after AC injection of TNP-BSA or BSA alone specifically transfer inhibition of delayed-type hypersensitivity to mice primed with the homologous Ag. The latter observation, when correlated with the time of onset of ACAID, suggests that immunoregulatory T cells are formed in the thymus within 24 h and are exported to the peripheral lymphoid tissues between 2 and 5 days after AC injection of Ag. Immunomagnetic separation of thymocytes revealed that the immunoregulatory activity resides within the minor subset of CD4-, CD8-, TCR-alphabeta+ cells, previously postulated to induce fas ligand-mediated apoptosis and Th1 to Th2 immune deviation. Hence, the present study identifies ACAID as a prototypical model of centrally induced, nondeletional tolerance to extrathymic nonself Ags.
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- Department of Pathology, University of Connecticut Health Center, Farmington 06030, USA
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- Department of Pathology, University of Connecticut Health Center, Farmington 06030, USA
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- Department of Pathology, University of Connecticut Health Center, Farmington 06030, USA
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- Department of Pathology, University of Connecticut Health Center, Farmington 06030, USA
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- Department of Pathology, University of Connecticut Health Center, Farmington 06030, USA
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- Department of Pathology, University of Connecticut Health Center, Farmington 06030, USA
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Wang Y, Goldschneider I, Foss D, Wu DY, O'Rourke J, Cone RE. Direct thymic involvement in anterior chamber-associated immune deviation: evidence for a nondeletional mechanism of centrally induced tolerance to extrathymic antigens in adult mice. J Immunol 1997; 158:2150-5. [PMID: 9036960] [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: 02/03/2023]
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Recent reports have suggested that the dichotomy between central (thymic) and peripheral T cell tolerance is not absolute and that self-tolerance in perinatal animals may also involve the intrathymic generation and release to the periphery of Ag-specific immunoregulatory T cells. We have expanded this concept to include tolerance to non self Ags administered extrathymically to adult animals. In this study, we use the anterior chamber-associated immune deviation (ACAID) to demonstrate that central regulation of acquired peripheral tolerance can be induced in adult mice by the intraocular administration of low doses of nonself Ag. The results show that adult thymectomy prevents the inhibition of trinitrophenol (TNP)-specific delayed-type hypersensitivity, which normally occurs after injection of TNP-BSA into the anterior chamber (AC) of the eye. Thymocytes obtained from mice 1 to 3 days, but not 5 to 7 days, after AC injection of TNP-BSA or BSA alone specifically transfer inhibition of delayed-type hypersensitivity to mice primed with the homologous Ag. The latter observation, when correlated with the time of onset of ACAID, suggests that immunoregulatory T cells are formed in the thymus within 24 h and are exported to the peripheral lymphoid tissues between 2 and 5 days after AC injection of Ag. Immunomagnetic separation of thymocytes revealed that the immunoregulatory activity resides within the minor subset of CD4-, CD8-, TCR-alphabeta+ cells, previously postulated to induce fas ligand-mediated apoptosis and Th1 to Th2 immune deviation. Hence, the present study identifies ACAID as a prototypical model of centrally induced, nondeletional tolerance to extrathymic nonself Ags.
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- Department of Pathology, University of Connecticut Health Center, Farmington 06030, USA
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Epstein-Barr nuclear antigen 2 (EBNA2), one of the six viral nuclear proteins expressed in latently infected B lymphocytes, is essential to the immortalization of B cells by Epstein-Barr virus (EBV). EBNA2 promotes transcriptional transactivation of viral and cellular genes by acting as an adapter molecule that binds to cellular sequence-specific DNA-binding proteins, JK recombination signal-binding protein (RBP-JK), and PU.1 and engages multiple members of the RNA polymerase II transcription complex. In the present study, we show that EBNA2 also interacts with hSNF5/Ini1, the human homolog of the yeast transcription factor SNF5. Gel filtration fractionation of partially purified EBV-positive lymphocyte nuclear extracts shows that a fraction of EBNA2 coelutes with both hSNF5/Ini1 and BRG1, a human homolog of SWI/SNF2, in the high-molecular-mass region (1.5 to 2.0 MDa) of a Superose 6 chromatogram. An affinity-purified rabbit antibody directed against hSNF5/Ini1 coimmunoprecipitates EBNA2 from this high-molecular-mass nuclear protein fraction, demonstrating that EBNA2 and hSNF5/Ini1 interact in vivo. This interaction is restricted to a subpopulation of phosphorylated viral EBNA2. Deletion mutation analysis of EBNA2 shows that the proline-rich aminoterminal end and a domain within the divergent region of EBNA2 mediate EBNA2-hSNF5/Ini1 interaction. Since the SNF-SWI complex participates in gene regulation through the alteration of nucleosome configuration and may be a component of the RNA polymerase II holoenzyme, the EBNA2-hSNF5/Ini1 interaction supports the hypothesis that EBNA2 facilitates transcriptional transactivation by acting as a transcription adapter molecule. We postulate that EBNA2 engages the hSNF-SWI complex to generate an open chromatin conformation at the EBNA2-responsive target genes, thereby potentiating the function of the RBP-JK-EBNA2-polymerase II transcription complex.
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- D Y Wu
- Department of Medicine, Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Seattle, Washington 98108, USA
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Zhang J, Chunyu ST, You YL, Zhang QR, Yang SJ, Huang WZ, Wu DY, Zhuang XQ, Liu SP, Cai YQ, Du FY, Yuan XD, Wei XF, Zhao YK, Peng HS, Nilsen J. Soft-x-ray lasing at 32.6 nm in Ne-like Ti ions driven by 40 J of energy from two 650-ps laser pulses. Phys Rev A 1996; 53:3640-3646. [PMID: 9913308 DOI: 10.1103/physreva.53.3640] [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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Wu DY, Wang LC, Mason CA, Goldberg DJ. Association of beta 1 integrin with phosphotyrosine in growth cone filopodia. J Neurosci 1996; 16:1470-8. [PMID: 8778298 PMCID: PMC6578544] [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: 02/02/2023] Open
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Filopodia of growth cones are key elements in the transduction of extracellular cues that guide axon growth during development. How they are specialized to carry out this role is poorly understood. We previously had found tyrosine phosphorylated protein to be heavily concentrated at the tips of many filopodia of Aplysia growth cones in certain culturing conditions, suggesting that tyrosine phosphorylation might be involved in filopodial specialization. Immunocytochemistry was used to analyze the protein composition of the tip aggregates to determine whether there was an association of the tip phosphorylation with any important extracellular cue. beta 1 integrin, a subunit of the receptor for laminin-type neurite growth promoters, coconcentrated with phosphotyrosine at filopodial tips of both Aplysia and mouse growth cones. Several observations indicated that the association of beta 1 integrin with phosphotyrosine is close. beta 1 integrin and phosphotyrosine are known to colocalize at focal contacts, sites of adhesion of cells to the extracellular matrix, but the composition and behavior of the tip aggregates mark them as distinct structures. Also found in the tip aggregates was a member of the ezrin-radixin-moesin family of proteins, which are thought to link membrane proteins to submembranous bundles of actin filaments. Use of an inhibitor of protein-tyrosine kinases to deplete tip phosphotyrosine also caused disappearance of beta 1 integrin from the tip, suggesting a role for tyrosine phosphorylation in facilitating interaction of growth cones with certain environmental cues by fostering the aggregation of receptors in filopodia.
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- D Y Wu
- Department of Pharmacology, Columbia University, New York, New York 10032, USA
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Abnormalities in postthymic T cell development in the BB/W rat model of autoimmune insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus (IDDM) result in part from a lymphopenia (lyp) gene defect. To better characterize these abnormalities, the phenotypes of T cells from diabetes-prone (DP) and diabetes-resistant (DR) coisogenic rats were analyzed by multiparameter flow immunocytometry (FCM). Marked decreases in the numbers of Thy1- RT6+ T cells, most of which are CD8+, were documented in DP rats by live-gating. Conversely, an approximately 3-fold increase was observed in the percentage of Thy1+ RT6- T cells, which normally serve as the precursors of both Thy1- RT6+ and Thy1- RT6- T cell subsets in rats. These results suggested that, at a minimum, an arrest in maturation of the Thy1+ precursors of RT6+ T cells occurs postthymically in DP rats. To determine more precisely the stage(s) in T cell development at which lymphopenia occurs, the export and fate of recent thymic emigrants (RTE's) and their immediate descendants in DP rats was traced after intrathymic (i.t.) labelling with fluorescein isothiocyanate (FITC). The results showed that in DP, as compared with DR, rats: 1) 5-fold fewer RTE's are exported from the thymus per 24 hr; 2) more than 80% of the RTE's are CD4+; 3) most of the immediate descendants of RTE's disappear from the peripheral lymphoid tissues within one week after export from the thymus; and 4) few of the descendants of the RTE's that do survive differentiate into RT6+ T cells. Staining with propidium iodide revealed that a significantly higher proportion of Thy1+ T cells in DP than in DR rats are in cycle (S/G2/M), thereby accounting for their disproportionately high numbers relative to RTE's. These results indicate that, in addition to defective thymic export, most of the immediate descendants of RTE's in DP rats undergo non-productive proliferation and death at the time (3-7 days postthymic) at which their counterparts in DR rats differentiate into Thy1- RT6+ T cells. The resulting deficiency of immunoregulatory T cells, acting in concert with defective intrathymic selection of effector T cell precursors, appears to conspire to markedly enhance the predisposition of DP rats to autoimmunity.
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- H H Zadeh
- Department of Pathology, School of Medicine, University of Connecticut Health Center, Farmington 06030, USA
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Goldberg DJ, Wu DY. Tyrosine phosphorylation and protrusive structures of the growth cone. Perspect Dev Neurobiol 1996; 4:183-92. [PMID: 9168200] [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: 02/04/2023]
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Protein-tyrosine kinase, such as those of the trk and Eph families, serve as membrane receptors for extracellular cues which regulate the rate and direction of growth of numerous groups of axons. Certain cytoplasmic protein-tyrosine kinases, such as src, are also abundant in growth cones. But, how protein-tyrosine phosphorylation regulates the growth cone is poorly understood. We discuss here potential roles for tyrosine phosphorylation in the protrusive structures of the growth cone, especially filopodia, which are important in detecting cues. A particular focus is the integrin receptor for substrate-bound growth promoters like laminin. Changes in tyrosine phosphorylation may be important in both facilitating and mediating the interaction of filopodia with these growth promoters.
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- D J Goldberg
- Department of Pharmacology and Center for Neurobiology and Behavior, Columbia University, New York, NY 10032, USA
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Jeng CM, Wu DY, Shih CC, Lee WY, Kung CH, Lau MK. Computed tomography and magnetic resonance imaging of diffuse pigmented villonodular synovitis: report of a case. J Formos Med Assoc 1995; 94:638-40. [PMID: 8527969] [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: 01/31/2023]
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We describe the computed tomographic (CT) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) features of a surgically proven case of diffuse pigmented villonodular synovitis (PVNS) of the knee in a 34-year-old woman. A complex mass consisting of solid and multicystic components was clearly demonstrated by CT and MRI. The solid part showed homogeneous hypodense attenuation relative to adjacent muscles on CT scans, but it showed inhomogeneous signal intensity on spin echo T1- and T2-weighted images (WI). The solid component enhanced homogeneously on CT scans but heterogeneously on MR images. Multiseptated enhancement of the cystic component on both CT and MR images were displayed. All of the above features were better demonstrated on MRI. Multiple marked hypointense round and patchy areas, and also a few areas isointense to subcutaneous fat within the lesion were also found on T1WI, proton density WI and T2WI. These characteristic MRI features of PVNS correlated well with its histologic structures: depositions of hemosiderin and fat in the proliferative synovial villi and bloody cystic content. These features may help to distinguish PVNS from other disease entities arising from the synovium.
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- C M Jeng
- Department of Radiology, Cathay General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan ROC
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The activity of motile protrusions of the growth cone--filopodia, veils, and lamellipodia--is essential for directed growth of a neuronal process. The regulation of the formation of these protrusions is not well understood. Numerous filopodia and veils or lamellipodia form within minutes of transection of an Aplysia axon in culture, as the initial components of growth cones of regenerating neurites. Axotomy, therefore, provides a robust and reliable protocol for analyzing the formation of these protrusions. We evaluated the involvement of protein phosphorylation in the regulation of protrusive activity. Of the inhibitors of protein kinases assayed, only the inhibitors of protein tyrosine kinases--genistein, lavendustin A, herbimycin A, and erbstatin analogue--suppressed the formation of protrusions, as assessed by high magnification video microscopy. These drugs did not work by preventing resealing of the axon, as evident from visual inspection and by the unimpaired effectiveness of genistein or lavendustin in preventing formation of filopodia when applied after resealing. Inhibition of protein tyrosine kinases not only prevented the formation of actin-based protrusions, but also caused deterioration of the actin network underlying the protrusive area of preexisting growth cones. Consistent with an involvement of protein tyrosine phosphorylation in the generation of protrusive structures, immunocytochemistry revealed that aggregates of phosphotyrosine appeared at the margins of the axon, from which protrusions emerge shortly after axotomy. These results suggest a role for protein tyrosine phosphorylation in the formation and maintenance of actin-based protrusive structures.
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- D J Goldberg
- Department of Pharmacology, Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons, New York, New York 10032, USA
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Wu DY, Jhaveri S, Schneider GE. Glial environment in the developing superior colliculus of hamsters in relation to the timing of retinal axon ingrowth. J Comp Neurol 1995; 358:206-18. [PMID: 7560282 DOI: 10.1002/cne.903580204] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [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: 01/25/2023]
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We have examined the developmental changes of glial cell organization in the superior colliculus of embryonic and neonatal hamsters in reference to the known sequence of retinal axon ingrowth and arborization in the midbrain. Immunolocalization of vimentin, a marker for neuronal and glial cell precursors, reveals a uniform distribution of radially oriented cells, with perikarya located at the ventricular surface and thin, elongated processes fanning out toward the pia. These vimentin-positive cells, referred to as the lateral radial cells, are present in the tectum from embryonic day (E) 10 (earliest day examined) until approximately postnatal day (P) 5. Vimentin expression in the lateral radial cells decreases markedly during the second week of postnatal life: application of DiI to the ventricular surface reveals that the pial attachment of the lateral radial cells is withdrawn and that the radial processes are gradually pulled back toward the ventricular zone. By P14, virtually no vimentin-positive radial cells are detectable in the superior colliculus. At no time during development are the lateral radial cells immunopositive for the glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP); however, shorter, vimentin-positive astrocytic profiles can be seen in the tectum around the time the radial fibers have been withdrawn, suggesting that at least some radial cells are transformed into astrocytes that will colonize the mature colliculus. At approximately E12, a second group of cells, referred to as the midline radial glia, is detected at the tectal midline. These cells are tightly bundled, forming a raphe in the tectum. They are intensely vimentin positive from E13 until at least P14. From the time of birth, the midline radial cells also exhibit intense immunoreactivity for GFAP. The lateral radial cells are present in the superior colliculus prior to and during the period of neurogenesis but remain well past the time when collicular neuronal migration is completed. Pial processes of the lateral radial cells are present within the superficial tectal layers during the time retinal axons are entering this target; they may be involved in directing the growth and initial collateralization of retinotectal axons. Their withdrawal from retinorecipient collicular zones begins at about the time arbors are being elaborated on retinal axons. In contrast, the midline glia become distinct just prior to the time retinal axons enter the superior colliculus and persist during the time retinotectal projections are being fully established. These raphe glia may be involved in maintaining the laterality of the retinotectal projection.
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- D Y Wu
- Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge 02139, USA
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Wang YC, Lin FK, Hung KL, Wu DY. Brachial plexus neuropathy secondary to septic arthritis and osteomyelitis: report of two cases. Zhonghua Min Guo Xiao Er Ke Yi Xue Hui Za Zhi 1994; 35:449-454. [PMID: 7942033] [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: 05/22/2023]
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Two infants, delivered uneventfully, later developed right brachial plexus palsy secondary to pyogenic osteomyelitis and arthritis of the right shoulder joint. Weakness of right arms occurred at the sixth and tenth days of age respectively. Both had right arm tenderness on palpation and passive movement. Roentgenograms of their right shoulder joints showed irregular radiolucency of the proximal margin of right humerus head. In both cases, electromyography revealed various degrees of significant denervation pattern for the C5-C7 innervated muscles. Pus culture from right shoulder joints grew Streptococcus viridans and Staphylococcus aureus, respectively. After antibiotic therapy and arthrotomy with drainage, weakness improved gradually following continuous rehabilitation. Follow-up at six months of age showed almost complete recovery of right upper extremity function in one patient, but mild residual weakness in the other. Follow-up electromyography studies showed continued improvement. The possible mechanism of this rare occurrence is discussed.
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- Y C Wang
- Department of Pediatrics and Surgery, Cathay General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, R.O.C
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- D J Goldberg
- Department of Pharmacology, Columbia University, New York, NY 10032
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Several types of evidence suggest that protein-tyrosine phosphorylation is important during the growth of neuronal processes, but few specific roles, or subcellular localizations suggestive of such roles, have been defined. We report here a localization of tyrosine-phosphorylated protein at the tips of growth cone filopodia. Immunocytochemistry using a mAb to phosphorylated tyrosine residues revealed intense staining of the tips of most filopodia of Aplysia axons growing slowly on a polylysine substrate, but of few filopodia of axons growing rapidly on a substrate coated with Aplysia hemolymph, which has growth-promoting material. Cytochalasin D, which causes F-actin to withdraw rapidly from the growth cone, caused the tyrosine-phosphorylated protein to withdraw rapidly from filopodia, suggesting that the protein associates or interacts with actin filaments. Phosphotyrosine has previously been found concentrated at adherens junctions, where bundles of actin filaments terminate, but video-enhanced contrast-differential interference contrast and confocal interference reflection microscopy demonstrated that the filopodial tips were not adherent to the substrate. Acute application of either hemolymph or inhibitors of protein-tyrosine kinases to neurons on polylysine resulted in a rapid loss of intense staining at filopodial tips concomitant with a lengthening of the filopodia (and their core bundles of actin filaments). These results demonstrate that tyrosine-phosphorylated protein can be concentrated at the barbed ends of actin filaments in a context other than an adherens junction, indicate an association between changes in phosphorylation and filament dynamics, and provide evidence for tyrosine phosphorylation as a signaling mechanism in the filopodium that can respond to environmental cues controlling growth cone dynamics.
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- D Y Wu
- Department of Pharmacology, Columbia University, New York 10032
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Wu DY, Ugozzoli L, Pal BK, Qian J, Wallace RB. The effect of temperature and oligonucleotide primer length on the specificity and efficiency of amplification by the polymerase chain reaction. DNA Cell Biol 1991; 10:233-8. [PMID: 2012681 DOI: 10.1089/dna.1991.10.233] [Citation(s) in RCA: 111] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [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: 12/29/2022] Open
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The polymerase chain reaction (PCR) is most effectively performed using a thermostable DNA polymerase such as that isolated from Thermus aquaticus. Since temperature and oligonucleotide length are known to control the specificity of oligonucleotide hybridization, we have investigated the effect of oligonucleotide length, base composition, and the annealing temperature on the specificity and efficiency of amplification by the PCR. Generally, the specificity of PCR is controlled by the length of the oligonucleotide and/or the temperature of annealing of the primer to the template. An empirical relationship between oligonucleotide length and ability to support amplification was determined. This relationship allows for the design of specific oligonucleotide primers. A model is proposed which helps explain the observed dependence of PCR on annealing temperature and length of the primer.
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- D Y Wu
- Department of Molecular Biochemistry, Beckman Research Institute of the City of Hope, Duarte, CA 91010
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Wu DY, Hayes K, Perl ML, Barklow T, Boyarski A, Burchat PR, Burke DL, Dorfan JM, Feldman GJ, Gladney L, Hanson G, Hollebeek RJ, Innes WR, Jaros JA, Karlen D, Klein SR, Lankford AJ, Larsen RR, LeClaire BW, Lockyer NS, Lüth V, Ong RA, Richter B, Riles K, Yelton JM, Abrams G, Amidei D, Baden AR, Boyer J, Butler F, Gidal G, Gold MS, Goldhaber G, Golding L, Haggerty J, Herrup D, Juricic I, Kadyk JA, Levi ME, Nelson ME, Rowson PC, Schellman H, Schmidke WB, Sheldon PD, Trilling GH, Wood DR, Schaad T. Radiative tau production and decay. Phys Rev D Part Fields 1990; 41:2339-2342. [PMID: 10012615 DOI: 10.1103/physrevd.41.2339] [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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A novel DNA sequence detection method that utilizes the ligation of oligonucleotide pairs that are complementary to adjacent sites on appropriate DNA templates is described. The product is increased by either linear or exponential amplification using sequential rounds of template-dependent ligation. In the case of linear amplification, a single pair of oligonucleotides is ligated, the reaction is heated to dissociate the ligation product, and an additional round of ligation is performed. After n rounds there is a (1 + x) X n-fold amplification of product, where x is the efficiency of the ligation reaction. Exponential amplification utilizes two pairs of oligonucleotides, one complementary to the upper strand and one to the lower strand of a target sequence. The products of the ligation reaction serve as templates for subsequent rounds of ligation. In this case there is (1 + x)(n-1)-fold amplification of product after n rounds. A single base-pair mismatch between the annealed oligonucleotides and the template prevents ligation, thus allowing the distinction of single base-pair differences between DNA templates. At high template concentrations, the ligation reaction has an efficiency approaching 100%. In this report, we demonstrate the use of the ligation amplification reaction (LAR) to distinguish the normal from the sickle cell allele of the human beta-globin gene. We also report the use of LAR as a detection system for polymerase chain reaction-enriched DNA sequences.
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- D Y Wu
- Department of Molecular Biochemistry, Beckman Research Institute of the City of Hope, Duarte, California 91010
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