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Zhou Q, He LL, Du LZ, Zhao NB, Lv CP, Liang JF. Impaired function of skeletal stem cells derived from growth plates in ovariectomized mice. J Bone Miner Metab 2023; 41:163-170. [PMID: 36847866 DOI: 10.1007/s00774-023-01406-1] [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] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/19/2022] [Accepted: 01/18/2023] [Indexed: 03/01/2023]
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INTRODUCTION Mouse skeletal stem cells (mSSCs, CD45-Ter119-Tie2-CD51+Thy-6C3-CD105-CD200+population) are identified in growth plates (GP) and play important roles in bone regeneration. However, the role of mSSCs in osteoporosis remains unclear. MATERIALS AND METHODS The GP were stained by HE staining, and the mSSC lineage was analyzed by flow cytometry at postnatal of 14 days and 30 days in wild-type mice. The mice (8 weeks) were either sham operated or ovariectomy (OVX) and then sacrificed at 2, 4 and 8 w. The GP were stained by Movat staining, and mSSC lineage was analyzed. Then, mSSCs were sorted by fluorescence-activated cell sorting (FACS); the clonal ability, chondrogenic differentiation and osteogenic differentiation were evaluated, and the changed genes were analyzed by RNA-seq. RESULTS The percentage of mSSCs were decreased with the narrow GP. Heights of GP were decreased significantly in 8w-ovx mice compared with 8w-sham mice. We found the percentage of mSSCs were decreased in mice at 2w after ovx, but the cell numbers were not changed. Further, the percentage and cell numbers of mSSCs were not changed at 4w and 8w after ovx. Importantly, the clonal ability, chondrogenic differentiation and osteogenic differentiation of mSSCs were impaired at 8w after ovx. We found 114 genes were down-regulated in mSSCs, including skeletal developmental genes such as Col10a1, Col2a1, Mef2c, Sparc, Matn1, Scube2 and Dlx5. On the contrary, 526 genes were up-regulated, including pro-inflammatory genes such as Csf1, Nfkbla, Nfatc2, Nfkb1 and Nfkb2. CONCLUSION Function of mSSCs was impaired by up-regulating pro-inflammatory genes in ovx-induced osteoporosis.
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- Q Zhou
- Key Laboratory of Shaanxi Province for Craniofacial Precision Medicine Research, College of Stomatology, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, China
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- Key Laboratory of Shaanxi Province for Craniofacial Precision Medicine Research, College of Stomatology, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, China
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- Key Laboratory of Shaanxi Province for Craniofacial Precision Medicine Research, College of Stomatology, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, China
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- Key Laboratory of Shaanxi Province for Craniofacial Precision Medicine Research, College of Stomatology, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, China
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- Key Laboratory of Shaanxi Province for Craniofacial Precision Medicine Research, College of Stomatology, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, China
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- Key Laboratory of Shaanxi Province for Craniofacial Precision Medicine Research, College of Stomatology, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, China.
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Liang JF, Zhu Y, Li JX, Wang C, Liu HC, Hou JS. [Management of major complications in surgical treatment of mandibular osteoradionecrosis by using vascularized free flaps]. Zhonghua Kou Qiang Yi Xue Za Zhi 2021; 56:435-440. [PMID: 33904277 DOI: 10.3760/cma.j.cn112144-20210118-00023] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/05/2022]
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Objective: To retrospectively analyze of the prevention and management of major complications in surgical treatment of osteoradionecrosis (ORN) of the mandible by using vascularized free flaps and to provide a reference for improving clinical treatments. Methods: All cases diagnosed as mandibular ORN and received surgical treatment in the Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Guanghua School of Stomatology, Hospital of Stomatology, Sun Yat-sen University from August 2014 to March 2019 were included. The patients' clinical data, mainly including general information, primary tumor, interval time between radiotherapy and osteoradionecrosis, surgical methods and postoperative complications, were collected. The data of surgical methods and postoperative complications of these patients were compared with the similar data of patients with malignant tumor surgically treated by using vascularized free flaps during the same period. Results: The postoperative follow-up data of 104 patients with mandibular ORN, who underwent surgery in our hospital, were collected. In the control group, surgeries of vascularized free flap transfer were performed in 430 patients with malignant tumor. Among the 34 ORN cases (34/104, 32.7%) of segmental resection with vascularized free flap transfer, there were 13 cases (13/34, 38.2%) of postoperative local infection in maxillofacial area, 6 cases (17.6%) of pulmonary infection, 2 cases (5.9%) of venous thrombosis, 3 cases (8.8%) of anastomotic artery rupture and 5 cases (14.7%) of vascular crisis. One case died of depression and misanthropy. Meanwhile, among 430 patients with malignant tumor who underwent surgeries of vascular free flap reconstruction, 25 cases (5.8%) had postoperative local infection and 29 cases (6.7%) had pulmonary infection. Vascular crisis occurred in 12 cases (2.8%) and anastomotic artery rupture in 1 case (0.2%). No venous thrombosis and misanthropy occurred. The incidence of postoperative complications in mandibular ORN was much higher than that of vascularized free flap transfer surgeries in malignant tumor cases (P<0.05). Conclusions: Compared with patients with malignant tumors undergoing vascularized free flap transfer surgeries, patients with mandibular ORN undergoing same surgeries are more likely to have postoperative complications. This study may help clinicians to fully understand the local, general and psychological conditions during the perioperative period of ORN patients.
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- J F Liang
- Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Guanghua School of Stomatology, Hospital of Stomatology, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangdong Provincal Key Laboratory of Stomatolagy, Guangzhou 510055, China
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- Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Guanghua School of Stomatology, Hospital of Stomatology, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangdong Provincal Key Laboratory of Stomatolagy, Guangzhou 510055, China
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- Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Guanghua School of Stomatology, Hospital of Stomatology, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangdong Provincal Key Laboratory of Stomatolagy, Guangzhou 510055, China
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- Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Guanghua School of Stomatology, Hospital of Stomatology, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangdong Provincal Key Laboratory of Stomatolagy, Guangzhou 510055, China
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- Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Guanghua School of Stomatology, Hospital of Stomatology, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangdong Provincal Key Laboratory of Stomatolagy, Guangzhou 510055, China
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- Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Guanghua School of Stomatology, Hospital of Stomatology, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangdong Provincal Key Laboratory of Stomatolagy, Guangzhou 510055, China
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Liang JF, He BC, Li M, Nong DX. [A case of neck abscess caused by Nocardia infection]. Zhonghua Er Bi Yan Hou Tou Jing Wai Ke Za Zhi 2020; 55:627-629. [PMID: 32610409 DOI: 10.3760/cma.j.cn115330-20191103-00663] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/05/2022]
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- J F Liang
- Department of Otorhinolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery, the First Affiliated Hospital of Guangxi Medical University, Nanning 530021, China
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- Department of Otorhinolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery, the First Affiliated Hospital of Guangxi Medical University, Nanning 530021, China
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- Department of Clinical Laboratory, the First Affiliated Hospital of Guangxi Medical University, Nanning 530021, China
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- Department of Otorhinolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery, the First Affiliated Hospital of Guangxi Medical University, Nanning 530021, China
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Yu F, Liang JF, Song J, Wang SK, Lu JK. Bacterial Community Selection of Russula griseocarnosa Mycosphere Soil. Front Microbiol 2020; 11:347. [PMID: 32269551 PMCID: PMC7109302 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2020.00347] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/14/2019] [Accepted: 02/17/2020] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Russula griseocarnosa is a wild, ectomycorrhizal, edible, and medicinal fungus with high economic value in southern China. R. griseocarnosa fruiting bodies cannot be artificially cultivated. To better understand the effects of abiotic and biotic factors on R. griseocarnosa growth, the physicochemical properties of R. griseocarnosa and its associated bacterial communities were investigated in two soil types (mycosphere and bulk soil) from Fujian, Guangdong, and Guangxi Provinces. The results revealed that the diversity, community structure, and functional characteristics of the dominant mycosphere bacteria in all geographical locations were similar. Soil pH and available nitrogen (AN) are the major factors influencing the mycosphere-soil bacterial communities' structure. The diversity of soil bacteria is decreased in R. griseocarnosa mycosphere when compared with the bulk soil. Burkholderia-Paraburkholderia, Mycobacterium, Roseiarcus, Sorangium, Acidobacterium, and Singulisphaera may also be mycorrhiza helper bacteria (MHB) of R. griseocarnosa. The functional traits related to the two-component system, bacterial secretion system, tyrosine metabolism, biosynthesis of unsaturated fatty acids, and metabolism of cofactors and vitamins were more abundant in R. griseocarnosa mycosphere soil. The mycosphere soil bacteria of R. griseocarnosa play a key role in R. griseocarnosa growth. Application of management strategies, such as N fertilizer and microbial fertilizer containing MHB, may promote the conservation, propagation promotion, and sustainable utilization of R. griseocarnosa.
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- Key Laboratory of State Forestry Administration on Tropical Forestry Research, Research Institute of Tropical Forestry, Chinese Academy of Forestry, Guangzhou, China
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Gray TJ, Allmond JM, Stuchbery AE, Yu CH, Baktash C, Gargano A, Galindo-Uribarri A, Radford DC, Batchelder JC, Beene JR, Bingham CR, Coraggio L, Covello A, Danchev M, Gross CJ, Hausladen PA, Itaco N, Krolas W, Liang JF, Padilla-Rodal E, Pavan J, Stracener DW, Varner RL. Early Signal of Emerging Nuclear Collectivity in Neutron-Rich ^{129}Sb. Phys Rev Lett 2020; 124:032502. [PMID: 32031845 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.124.032502] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/17/2019] [Revised: 11/05/2019] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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Radioactive ^{129}Sb, which can be treated as a proton plus semimagic ^{128}Sn core within the particle-core coupling scheme, was studied by Coulomb excitation. Reduced electric quadrupole transition probabilities, B(E2), for the 2^{+}⊗πg_{7/2} multiplet members and candidate πd_{5/2} state were measured. The results indicate that the total electric quadrupole strength of ^{129}Sb is a factor of 1.39(11) larger than the ^{128}Sn core, which is in stark contrast to the expectations of the empirically successful particle-core coupling scheme. Shell-model calculations performed with two different sets of nucleon-nucleon interactions suggest that this enhanced collectivity is due to constructive quadrupole coherence in the wave functions stemming from the proton-neutron residual interactions, where adding one nucleon to a core near a double-shell closure can have a pronounced effect. The enhanced electric quadrupole strength is an early signal of the emerging nuclear collectivity that becomes dominant away from the shell closure.
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- T J Gray
- Department of Nuclear Physics, Australian National University, Canberra ACT 2601, Australia
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- Physics Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, USA
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- Department of Nuclear Physics, Australian National University, Canberra ACT 2601, Australia
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- Physics Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, USA
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- Physics Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, USA
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- Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Complesso Universitario di Monte S. Angelo, Via Cintia, I-80126 Napoli, Italy
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- Physics Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, USA
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee 37996, USA
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- Physics Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, USA
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- Department of Nuclear Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- Physics Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, USA
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- Physics Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, USA
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee 37996, USA
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- Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Complesso Universitario di Monte S. Angelo, Via Cintia, I-80126 Napoli, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica "Ettore Pancini", Università di Napoli Federico II, Complesso Universitario di Monte S. Angelo, Via Cintia, I-80126 Napoli, Italy
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee 37996, USA
- Faculty of Physics, St. Kliment Ohridski University of Sofia, 1164 Sofia, Bulgaria
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- Physics Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, USA
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- Joint Institute for Heavy Ion Research, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, USA
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- Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Complesso Universitario di Monte S. Angelo, Via Cintia, I-80126 Napoli, Italy
- Dipartimento di Matematica e Fisica, Università degli Studi della Campania "Luigi Vanvitelli", Viale Abramo Lincoln 5, I-81100 Caserta, Italy
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- Joint Institute for Heavy Ion Research, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, USA
- Institute of Nuclear Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences (IFJ PAN), PL-31342 Kraków, Poland
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- Physics Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, USA
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- Joint Institute for Heavy Ion Research, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, USA
- Instituto de Ciencias Nucleares, UNAM, AP 70-543, 04510 Mexico City, Mexico
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- Joint Institute for Heavy Ion Research, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, USA
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- Physics Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, USA
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- Physics Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, USA
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Song J, Liang JF, Mehrabi-Koushki M, Krisai-Greilhuber I, Ali B, Bhatt VK, Cerna-Mendoza A, Chen B, Chen ZX, Chu HL, Corazon-Guivin MA, da Silva GA, De Kesel A, Dima B, Dovana F, Farokhinejad R, Ferisin G, Guerrero-Abad JC, Guo T, Han LH, Ilyas S, Justo A, Khalid AN, Khodadadi-Pourarpanahi S, Li TH, Liu C, Lorenzini M, Lu JK, Mumtaz AS, Oehl F, Pan XY, Papp V, Qian W, Razaq A, Semwal KC, Tang LZ, Tian XL, Vallejos-Tapullima A, van der Merwe NA, Wang SK, Wang CQ, Yang RH, Yu F, Zapparoli G, Zhang M, Antonín V, Aptroot A, Aslan A, Banerjee A, Chatterjee S, Dirks AC, Ebrahimi L, Fotouhifar KB, Ghosta Y, Kalinina LB, Karahan D, Liu J, Maiti MK, Mookherjee A, Nath PS, Panja B, Saha J, Ševčíková H, Voglmayr H, Yazıcı K, Haelewaters D. Fungal Systematics and Evolution: FUSE 5. Sydowia 2019; 71:141-245. [PMID: 31975743 PMCID: PMC6978154 DOI: 10.12905/0380.sydowia71-2019-0141] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/08/2023]
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Thirteen new species are formally described: Cortinarius brunneocarpus from Pakistan, C. lilacinoarmillatus from India, Curvularia khuzestanica on Atriplex lentiformis from Iran, Gloeocantharellus neoechinosporus from China, Laboulbenia bernaliana on species of Apenes, Apristus, and Philophuga (Coleoptera, Carabidae) from Nicaragua and Panama, L. oioveliicola on Oiovelia machadoi (Hemiptera, Veliidae) from Brazil, L. termiticola on Macrotermes subhyalinus (Blattodea, Termitidae) from the DR Congo, Pluteus cutefractus from Slovenia, Rhizoglomus variabile from Peru, Russula phloginea from China, Stagonosporopsis flacciduvarum on Vitis vinifera from Italy, Strobilomyces huangshanensis from China, Uromyces klotzschianus on Rumex dentatus subsp. klotzschianus from Pakistan. The following new records are reported: Alternaria calendulae on Calendula officinalis from India; A. tenuissima on apple and quince fruits from Iran; Candelariella oleaginescens from Turkey; Didymella americana and D. calidophila on Vitis vinifera from Italy; Lasiodiplodia theobromae causing tip blight of Dianella tasmanica 'variegata' from India; Marasmiellus subpruinosus from Madeira, Portugal, new for Macaronesia and Africa; Mycena albidolilacea, M. tenuispinosa, and M. xantholeuca from Russia; Neonectria neomacrospora on Madhuca longifolia from India; Nothophoma quercina on Vitis vinifera from Italy; Plagiosphaera immersa on Urtica dioica from Austria; Rinodina sicula from Turkey; Sphaerosporium lignatile from Wisconsin, USA; and Verrucaria murina from Turkey. Multi-locus analysis of ITS, LSU, rpb1, tef1 sequences revealed that P. immersa, commonly classified within Gnomoniaceae (Diaporthales) or as Sordariomycetes incertae sedis, belongs to Magnaporthaceae (Magnaporthales). Analysis of a six-locus Ascomycota-wide dataset including SSU and LSU sequences of S. lignatile revealed that this species, currently in Ascomycota incertae sedis, belongs to Pyronemataceae (Pezizomycetes, Pezizales).
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- Jie Song
- Key Laboratory of State Forestry Administration on Tropical Forestry Research, Research Institute of Tropical Forestry, Chinese Academy of Forestry, Guangzhou 510520, P.R. China
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- Key Laboratory of State Forestry Administration on Tropical Forestry Research, Research Institute of Tropical Forestry, Chinese Academy of Forestry, Guangzhou 510520, P.R. China
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- Department of Plant Protection, Faculty of Agriculture, Shahid Chamran University of Ahvaz, Ahvaz, Iran
- Biotechnology and Bioscience Research Center, Shahid Chamran University of Ahvaz, Ahvaz, Iran
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- Department of Plant Sciences, Faculty of Biological Sciences, Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad, 45320, Pakistan
- Department of Biochemistry, Genetics and Microbiology, Division of Genetics, Forestry and Agricultural Biotechnology Institute (FABI), University of Pretoria, Private Bag X20, Pretoria 0028, South Africa
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- Laboratorio de Biología y Genética Molecular, Universidad Nacional de San Martín, Jr. Amorarca 315, Morales, Peru
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- Key Laboratory of State Forestry Administration on Tropical Forestry Research, Research Institute of Tropical Forestry, Chinese Academy of Forestry, Guangzhou 510520, P.R. China
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- Management Bureau of Danxiashan National Nature Reserve of Guangdong, Shaoguan 512300, China
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- College of Biological Resource and Food Engineering, Center for Yunnan Plateau Biological Resources Protection and Utilization, Qujing Normal University, Qujing, Yunnan 655011, China
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- Laboratorio de Biología y Genética Molecular, Universidad Nacional de San Martín, Jr. Amorarca 315, Morales, Peru
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- Departamento de Micologia, CB, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Av. da engenharia s/n, Cidade Universitária, 50740-600, Recife, PE, Brazil
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- Meise Botanic Garden, Nieuwelaan 38, 1860 Meise, Belgium
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- Department of Plant Anatomy, Institute of Biology, Eötvös Loránd University, H-1117 Budapest, Hungary
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- Department of Life Sciences and Systems Biology, University of Torino, Viale P.A. Mattioli 25, I-10125 Torino, Italy
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- Department of Plant Protection, Faculty of Agriculture, Shahid Chamran University of Ahvaz, Ahvaz, Iran
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- Laboratorio de Biología y Genética Molecular, Universidad Nacional de San Martín, Jr. Amorarca 315, Morales, Peru
- Instituto Nacional de Innovación Agraria (INIA). Dirección General de Recursos Genéticos y Biotecnología. Av. La Molina 1981, La Molina - Lima, Peru
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- Key Laboratory of Edible Fungal Resources and Utilization (South), National Engineering Research Center of Edible Fungi, Key Laboratory of Agricultural Genetics and Breeding of Shanghai, Institute of Edible Fungi, Shanghai Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Shanghai 201106, China
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- College of Biological Resource and Food Engineering, Center for Yunnan Plateau Biological Resources Protection and Utilization, Qujing Normal University, Qujing, Yunnan 655011, China
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- Department of Botany, Lahore College for Women University, Lahore, Pakistan
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- New Brunswick Museum, 277 Douglas Ave., Saint John, New Brunswick, E2K 1E5, Canada
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- State Key Laboratory of Applied Microbiology Southern China, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Microbial Culture Collection and Application & Guangdong Open Laboratory of Applied Microbiology, Guangdong Institute of Microbiology, Guangzhou 510070, China
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- College of Biological Resource and Food Engineering, Center for Yunnan Plateau Biological Resources Protection and Utilization, Qujing Normal University, Qujing, Yunnan 655011, China
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- Key Laboratory of State Forestry Administration on Tropical Forestry Research, Research Institute of Tropical Forestry, Chinese Academy of Forestry, Guangzhou 510520, P.R. China
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- Department of Plant Sciences, Faculty of Biological Sciences, Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad, 45320, Pakistan
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- Agroscope, Competence Division for Plants and Plant Products, Ecotoxicology, Müller-Thurgau-Strasse 29, CH-8820 Wädenswil, Switzerland
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- Key Laboratory of State Forestry Administration on Tropical Forestry Research, Research Institute of Tropical Forestry, Chinese Academy of Forestry, Guangzhou 510520, P.R. China
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- Department of Botany, Szent István University, H-1518 Budapest, Hungary
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- Bureau of Parks and Woods of Mt. Huangshan Administrative Committee, Huangshan, Anhui 245000, China
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- Discipline of Botany, Faculty of Fisheries and Wildlife, University of Veterinary and Animal Sciences (UVAS), Ravi Campus, Pattoki, Pakistan
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- Department of Biology, College of Sciences, Eritrea Institute of Technology, Mai Nafhi, Asmara, Eritrea
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- College of Biological Resource and Food Engineering, Center for Yunnan Plateau Biological Resources Protection and Utilization, Qujing Normal University, Qujing, Yunnan 655011, China
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- College of Biological Resource and Food Engineering, Center for Yunnan Plateau Biological Resources Protection and Utilization, Qujing Normal University, Qujing, Yunnan 655011, China
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- Laboratorio de Biología y Genética Molecular, Universidad Nacional de San Martín, Jr. Amorarca 315, Morales, Peru
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- Department of Biochemistry, Genetics and Microbiology, Division of Genetics, Forestry and Agricultural Biotechnology Institute (FABI), University of Pretoria, Private Bag X20, Pretoria 0028, South Africa
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- Key Laboratory of State Forestry Administration on Tropical Forestry Research, Research Institute of Tropical Forestry, Chinese Academy of Forestry, Guangzhou 510520, P.R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of Applied Microbiology Southern China, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Microbial Culture Collection and Application & Guangdong Open Laboratory of Applied Microbiology, Guangdong Institute of Microbiology, Guangzhou 510070, China
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- Key Laboratory of Edible Fungal Resources and Utilization (South), National Engineering Research Center of Edible Fungi, Key Laboratory of Agricultural Genetics and Breeding of Shanghai, Institute of Edible Fungi, Shanghai Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Shanghai 201106, China
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- Key Laboratory of State Forestry Administration on Tropical Forestry Research, Research Institute of Tropical Forestry, Chinese Academy of Forestry, Guangzhou 510520, P.R. China
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- Università degli Studi di Verona, Dipartimento di Biotecnologie, Italy
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- State Key Laboratory of Applied Microbiology Southern China, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Microbial Culture Collection and Application & Guangdong Open Laboratory of Applied Microbiology, Guangdong Institute of Microbiology, Guangzhou 510070, China
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- Department of Botany, Moravian Museum, Zelný trh 6, CZ-659 37 Brno, Czech Republic
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- ABL Herbarium G.v.d.Veenstraat, 107 NL-3762, XK Soest, The Netherlands
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- Yüzüncü Yıl University, Faculty of Pharmacy, 65080 Campus, Van, Turkey; Kyrgyz-Turkish Manas University, Faculty of Arts and Science, Dept. of Biology, Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan
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- Department of Plant Pathology, Bidhan Chandra Krishi Viswavidyalaya, Nadia-741252, West Bengal, India
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- Department of Agricultural Entomology, Bidhan Chandra Krishi Viswavidyalaya, Nadia-741252, West Bengal, India
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Michigan, 1105 North University Avenue, 4050 Biological Sciences Building, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
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- Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology, Aburaihan Campus, University of Tehran, Tehran, 33916-53755, Iran
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- Department of Plant Protection, Faculty of Agricultural Sciences and Engineering, College of Agriculture and Natural Resources, University of Tehran, Karaj, 31587-77871, Iran
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- Department of Plant Protection, Faculty of Agriculture, Urmia University, Urmia, P. O. Box 165, Iran
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- Russian Academy of Sciences, Komarov Botanical Institute, Prof. Popov Str. 2, St. Petersburg RU-197376, Russia
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- Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Karadeniz Technical University, 61080, Trabzon, Turkey
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- Department of Botany and Plant Pathology, Purdue University, 915 W. State Street, West Lafayette, IN 47907, USA
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- Department of Biotechnology, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, 721302, West Bengal, India
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- Department of Biotechnology, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, 721302, West Bengal, India
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- Department of Plant Pathology, Bidhan Chandra Krishi Viswavidyalaya, Nadia-741252, West Bengal, India
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- Department of Plant Pathology, Bidhan Chandra Krishi Viswavidyalaya, Nadia-741252, West Bengal, India
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- Department of Plant Pathology, Bidhan Chandra Krishi Viswavidyalaya, Nadia-741252, West Bengal, India
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- Department of Botany, Moravian Museum, Zelný trh 6, CZ-659 37 Brno, Czech Republic
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- Department of Botany and Biodiversity Research, Universität Wien, Rennweg 14, 1030 Wien, Austria
- Institute of Forest Entomology, Forest Pathology and Forest Protection, BOKU-University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Peter-Jordan-Straße 82/I, 1190 Wien, Austria
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- Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Karadeniz Technical University, 61080, Trabzon, Turkey
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- Department of Botany and Plant Pathology, Purdue University, 915 W. State Street, West Lafayette, IN 47907, USA
- Harvard University Herbaria, 22 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
- Herbario UCH, Universidad Autónoma de Chiriquí, Apartado Postal 0427, David, Panama
- Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Apartado Postal 0843-03092, Balboa, Panama
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Pain SD, Bardayan DW, Blackmon JC, Brown SM, Chae KY, Chipps KA, Cizewski JA, Jones KL, Kozub RL, Liang JF, Matei C, Matos M, Moazen BH, Nesaraja CD, Okołowicz J, O'Malley PD, Peters WA, Pittman ST, Płoszajczak M, Schmitt KT, Shriner JF, Shapira D, Smith MS, Stracener DW, Wilson GL. Constraint of the astrophysical ^{26g}Al(p,γ)^{27}Si destruction rate at stellar temperatures. Phys Rev Lett 2015; 114:212501. [PMID: 26066430 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.114.212501] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/29/2014] [Indexed: 06/04/2023]
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The Galactic 1.809-MeV γ-ray signature from the β decay of ^{26g}Al is a dominant target of γ-ray astronomy, of which a significant component is understood to originate from massive stars. The ^{26g}Al(p,γ)^{27}Si reaction is a major destruction pathway for ^{26g}Al at stellar temperatures, but the reaction rate is poorly constrained due to uncertainties in the strengths of low-lying resonances in ^{27}Si. The ^{26g}Al(d,p)^{27}Al reaction has been employed in inverse kinematics to determine the spectroscopic factors, and hence resonance strengths, of proton resonances in ^{27}Si via mirror symmetry. The strength of the 127-keV resonance is found to be a factor of 4 higher than the previously adopted upper limit, and the upper limit for the 68-keV resonance has been reduced by an order of magnitude, considerably constraining the ^{26g}Al destruction rate at stellar temperatures.
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- S D Pain
- Physics Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, USA
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- Physics Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, USA
- Department of Physics, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana 46556, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70803, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of Surrey, Guildford, Surrey GU2 7XH, United Kingdom
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee 37996, USA
- Department of Physics, Sungkyunkwan University, Suwon 440-746, Korea
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey 08903, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey 08903, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee 37996, USA
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- Department of Physics, Tennessee Technological University, Cookeville, Tennessee 38505, USA
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- Physics Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, USA
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- Oak Ridge Associated Universities, Building 6008, P.O. Box 2008, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831-6374, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70803, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee 37996, USA
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- Physics Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, USA
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- Institute of Nuclear Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Radzikowskiego 152, PL-31342 Kraków, Poland
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey 08903, USA
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- Oak Ridge Associated Universities, Building 6008, P.O. Box 2008, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831-6374, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee 37996, USA
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- Grand Accélérateur National d'Ions Lourds (GANIL), CEA/DSMCNRS/IN2P3, Boîte Postale 55027, F-14076 Caen Cedex, France
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee 37996, USA
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- Department of Physics, Tennessee Technological University, Cookeville, Tennessee 38505, USA
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- Physics Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, USA
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- Physics Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, USA
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- Physics Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of Surrey, Guildford, Surrey GU2 7XH, United Kingdom
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Yin HL, Qiu CY, Ye ZX, Li SP, Liang JF. Seasonal variation and source apportionment of organic tracers in PM10 in Chengdu, China. Environ Geochem Health 2015; 37:195-205. [PMID: 25119534 DOI: 10.1007/s10653-014-9636-1] [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] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/23/2014] [Accepted: 07/17/2014] [Indexed: 06/03/2023]
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Organic compound tracers including n-alkanes, triterpane, sterane, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) and dicarboxylic acids of airborne particulate matter (PM10) were characterized for samples collected at five sites from July 2010 to March 2011 using GC/MS. Spatial and temporal variations of these organic tracers in PM10 were studied, and their sources were then identified respectively. Average daily concentrations of PM10 varied in different seasons with the trend of PM10 in winter (0.133 mg/m(3)) > autumn (0.120 mg/m(3)) > spring (0.103 mg/m(3)) > summer (0.098 mg/m(3)). Daily concentrations of n-alkanes (C11-C36) ranged from 12.11 to 163.58 ng/m(3) with a mean of 61.99 ng/m(3). The C max and CPI index of n-alkanes indicated that vehicle emissions were the major source in winter, while the contributions of high plant wax emissions became significant in other seasons. It was discovered that the main sources of triterpenoid and steranes were gasoline and diesel engine emissions. Concentrations of ∑15PAHs in PM10 also varied (12.25-58.56 ng/m(3)) in different seasons, and chrysene, benzo(a)pyrene, benzo(b)fluoranthene, benzo(k)fluoranthene, benzo(ghi) perylene and fluoranthene were the dominant components. In the four seasons, the concentration of ∑15PAHs was relatively higher at the northern site because of traffic congestion. The main source of airborne PAHs was traffic emissions and coal combustion. Average daily concentrations of dicarboxylic acids (C4-C10) in PM10 ranged from 12.11 to 163.58 ng/m(3), of which azeleic acid was the major compound (0.49-52.04 ng/m(3), average 14.93 ng/m(3)), followed by succinic acid (0.56-19.08 ng/m(3), average 6.84 ng/m(3)). The ratio of C6/C9 showed that the major source in winter was biological, while the contributions of emissions from anthropogenic activities were much higher in summer.
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- H L Yin
- Chengdu University of Information Technology, Chengdu, 610225, Sichuan Province, China,
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Allmond JM, Stuchbery AE, Beene JR, Galindo-Uribarri A, Liang JF, Padilla-Rodal E, Radford DC, Varner RL, Ayres A, Batchelder JC, Bey A, Bingham CR, Howard ME, Jones KL, Manning B, Mueller PE, Nesaraja CD, Pain SD, Peters WA, Ratkiewicz A, Schmitt KT, Shapira D, Smith MS, Stone NJ, Stracener DW, Yu CH. Double-magic nature of 132Sn and 208Pb through lifetime and cross-section measurements. Phys Rev Lett 2014; 112:172701. [PMID: 24836240 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.112.172701] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/04/2014] [Indexed: 06/03/2023]
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Single-neutron states in (133)Sn and (209)Pb, which are analogous to single-electron states outside of closed atomic shells in alkali metals, were populated by the ((9)Be, (8)Be) one-neutron transfer reaction in inverse kinematics using particle-γ coincidence spectroscopy. In addition, the s(1/2) single-neutron hole-state candidate in (131)Sn was populated by ((9)Be, (10)Be). Doubly closed-shell (132)Sn (radioactive) and (208)Pb (stable) beams were used at sub-Coulomb barrier energies of 3 MeV per nucleon. Level energies, γ-ray transitions, absolute cross sections, spectroscopic factors, asymptotic normalization coefficients, and excited-state lifetimes are reported and compared with shell-model expectations. The results include a new transition and precise level energy for the 3p(1/2) candidate in (133)Sn, new absolute cross sections for the 1h(9/2) candidate in (133)Sn and 3s(1/2) candidate in (131)Sn, and new lifetimes for excited states in (133)Sn and (209)Pb. This is the first report on excited-state lifetimes of (133)Sn, which allow for a unique test of the nuclear shell model and (132)Sn double-shell closure.
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- J M Allmond
- JINPA, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, USA
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- Department of Nuclear Physics, Australian National University, Canberra ACT 0200, Australia
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- Physics Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, USA
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- Physics Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, USA and Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee 37996, USA
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- Physics Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, USA
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- Instituto de Ciencias Nucleares, UNAM, AP 70-543, 04510 Mexico, D.F., Mexico
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- Physics Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, USA
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- Physics Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee 37996, USA
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- UNIRIB, Oak Ridge Associated Universities, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee 37996, USA
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- Physics Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, USA and Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee 37996, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey 08903, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee 37996, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey 08903, USA
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- Physics Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, USA
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- Physics Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, USA
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- Physics Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, USA
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- Oak Ridge Associated Universities, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37830, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey 08903, USA
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- Physics Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, USA and Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee 37996, USA
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- Physics Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, USA
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- Physics Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee 37996, USA and Department of Physics, Oxford University, Oxford OX1 3PU, United Kingdom
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- Physics Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, USA
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- Physics Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, USA
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Kozub RL, Arbanas G, Adekola AS, Bardayan DW, Blackmon JC, Chae KY, Chipps KA, Cizewski JA, Erikson L, Hatarik R, Hix WR, Jones KL, Krolas W, Liang JF, Ma Z, Matei C, Moazen BH, Nesaraja CD, Pain SD, Shapira D, Shriner JF, Smith MS, Swan TP. Neutron single particle structure in 131Sn and direct neutron capture cross sections. Phys Rev Lett 2012; 109:172501. [PMID: 23215181 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.109.172501] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/29/2012] [Revised: 07/17/2012] [Indexed: 06/01/2023]
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Recent calculations suggest that the rate of neutron capture by (130)Sn has a significant impact on late-time nucleosynthesis in the r process. Direct capture into low-lying bound states is expected to be significant in neutron capture near the N=82 closed shell, so r-process reaction rates may be strongly impacted by the properties of neutron single particle states in this region. In order to investigate these properties, the (d,p) reaction has been studied in inverse kinematics using a 630 MeV beam of (130)Sn (4.8 MeV/u) and a (CD(2))(n) target. An array of Si strip detectors, including the Silicon Detector Array and an early implementation of the Oak Ridge Rutgers University Barrel Array, was used to detect reaction products. Results for the (130)Sn(d, p)(131)Sn reaction are found to be very similar to those from the previously reported (132)Sn(d, p)(133)Sn reaction. Direct-semidirect (n,γ) cross section calculations, based for the first time on experimental data, are presented. The uncertainties in these cross sections are thus reduced by orders of magnitude from previous estimates.
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- R L Kozub
- Department of Physics, Tennessee Technological University, Cookeville, Tennessee 38505, USA
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Schmitt KT, Jones KL, Bey A, Ahn SH, Bardayan DW, Blackmon JC, Brown SM, Chae KY, Chipps KA, Cizewski JA, Hahn KI, Kolata JJ, Kozub RL, Liang JF, Matei C, Matoš M, Matyas D, Moazen B, Nesaraja C, Nunes FM, O'Malley PD, Pain SD, Peters WA, Pittman ST, Roberts A, Shapira D, Shriner JF, Smith MS, Spassova I, Stracener DW, Villano AN, Wilson GL. Halo nucleus 11Be: a spectroscopic study via neutron transfer. Phys Rev Lett 2012; 108:192701. [PMID: 23003029 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.108.192701] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/18/2012] [Indexed: 06/01/2023]
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The best examples of halo nuclei, exotic systems with a diffuse nuclear cloud surrounding a tightly bound core, are found in the light, neutron-rich region, where the halo neutrons experience only weak binding and a weak, or no, potential barrier. Modern direct-reaction measurement techniques provide powerful probes of the structure of exotic nuclei. Despite more than four decades of these studies on the benchmark one-neutron halo nucleus 11Be, the spectroscopic factors for the two bound states remain poorly constrained. In the present work, the 10Be(d,p) reaction has been used in inverse kinematics at four beam energies to study the structure of 11Be. The spectroscopic factors extracted using the adiabatic model were found to be consistent across the four measurements and were largely insensitive to the optical potential used. The extracted spectroscopic factor for a neutron in an nℓj=2s(1/2) state coupled to the ground state of 10Be is 0.71(5). For the first excited state at 0.32 MeV, a spectroscopic factor of 0.62(4) is found for the halo neutron in a 1p(1/2) state.
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- K T Schmitt
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee 37996, USA
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Kohley Z, Liang JF, Shapira D, Varner RL, Gross CJ, Allmond JM, Caraley AL, Coello EA, Favela F, Lagergren K, Mueller PE. Near-barrier fusion of Sn + Ni and Te + Ni systems: examining the correlation between nucleon transfer and fusion enhancement. Phys Rev Lett 2011; 107:202701. [PMID: 22181728 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.107.202701] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/14/2011] [Indexed: 05/31/2023]
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The fusion excitation functions for radioactive (132)Sn + (58)Ni and stable (130)Te + (58,64)Ni were measured at energies near the Coulomb barrier. The coupling of transfer channels in heavy-ion fusion was examined through a comparison of Sn + Ni and Te + Ni systems, which have large variations in the number of positive Q-value nucleon transfer channels. In contrast with previous experimental comparisons, where increased sub-barrier fusion cross sections were observed in systems with positive Q-value neutron transfer channels, the reduced excitation functions were equivalent for the different Sn + Ni and Te + Ni systems. The present results suggest a dramatically different influence of positive Q-value transfer channels on the fusion process for the Sn + Ni and Te + Ni systems.
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- Z Kohley
- Physics Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Tennessee 37831, USA.
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Kharidia R, Friedman KA, Liang JF. Improved gene expression using low molecular weight peptides produced from protamine sulfate. Biochemistry (Mosc) 2008; 73:1162-8. [PMID: 18991564 DOI: 10.1134/s0006297908100143] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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DNA condensation plays a key role in non-viral gene delivery by affecting gene transfection, nuclear targeting, and eventual gene expression efficiency. Theoretically, a DNA condenser with the appropriate DNA condensation ability but without affecting DNA dissociation from DNA condensates inside the cytoplasm should be a perfect carrier for gene delivery. Protamine is a natural DNA condensation agent and has been widely used in gene delivery. In this work, protamine was selectively digested enzymatically to produce low molecular weight protamine fragments (LMWPs) of various lengths and amino acid compositions. The DNA condensation ability and gene transfection efficiency of these LMWP peptides were tested. Compared to protamine, all the LMWP peptides showed lower DNA binding strength. However, some LMWP peptides demonstrated excellent DNA condensation ability and could form very compact DNA condensates with small particle size (approximately 100 nm). More interestingly, LMWP peptide-mediated in vitro gene delivery showed prolonged (up to 12 days) gene expression. Results from this study suggest that designing DNA condensers with appropriate and tunable DNA binding strengths and condensation abilities would be an effective means to improve gene expression and thus gene therapy efficiency. Since LMWP peptides have low immunogenicity, they would be safer than protamine for use in gene therapies.
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- R Kharidia
- Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, NJ 07030, USA
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Liang JF. [Experimental study on changes of sexual hormones in senior males living on high altitude]. Zhonghua Nan Ke Xue 2007; 9:286-7. [PMID: 12931373] [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: 03/04/2023]
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OBJECTIVES To investigate the characteristics of testosterone (T) and estradiol (E2) in senior males living on high altitude METHODS According to the years of living on 3,100-meter high altitude. 90 senior males who were more than sixty years old were divided into three groups: group 1 (one year on the high altitude, n = 30), group 2 (two years on the high altitude, n = 30) and group 3 (over 10 years on the high altitude, n = 30). Additionally, there was a control group (living on the sea level). Radioimmunoassay technique was used to measure the level of T and E2 in their serum respectively. At the same time, the ratio of T/E2 was also examined. RESULTS The levels of T, E2 and T/E2 of the three groups were 42.2 +/- 38.5, 70.0 +/- 31.5, 190.3 +/- 73.5 and 44.0 +/- 42.2, 60.6 +/- 28.3, 144.9 +/- 62.0 and 0.96 +/- 0.19, 1.16 +/- 0.11, 1.33 +/- 0.24, respectively. The levels of T, E2 and T/E2 of group 3 increased obviously than those of the other two groups (P < 0.01). CONCLUSIONS The sexual hormone levels in senior males living on high altitude increase along with the living years.
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- Jun-Feng Liang
- No. 1 Surgery Department, Qinghai Corps Hospital, Armed Police Force, PLA, Xining, Qinghai 810000, China
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A novel enzyme drug delivery system, Antibody, Targeted, Triggered, Electrically, Modified, Prodrug, Type, Strategy ("ATTEMPTS"), was developed in our laboratory to attenuate the toxicity associated with drug activity at non-targeted tissues. Tissue plasminogen activator is a prime example of an enzyme drug that exhibits systemic toxicity due to its indiscriminate activation of both targeted (i.e., clot-bound) and non-targeted (i.e., systemic) plasminogen. In brief, tissue plasminogen activator (t-PA) was modified to contain positive surface charges and then rendered inactive upon electrostatic binding with a negatively charged heparin-antifibrin antibody conjugate. After targeting the complex to the clot site, t-PA activity was restored by administration of protamine, a clinical heparin antidote. Cation-modified t-PA (CM-tPA) was obtained by chemical conjugation of t-PA with a poly(Arg)7Cys peptide using the crosslinker N-succinimidyl 3-2-(pyridlydithio)propionate (SPDP). Anti-fibrin IgG was chemically conjugated with heparin via oxidation of the carbohydrate moiety on its Fc region. Both in vitro characterization and in vivo studies using a rat thrombosis model clearly demonstrated that heparin-IgG conjugate induced inhibition of CM-tPA could be effectively reversed upon addition of protamine. Overall, the ATTEMPTS system was proven to induce clot dissolution without causing t-PA associated systemic toxicity due to the degradation of critical plasma factors by systemic plasmin production.
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- Sarita S Naik
- Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, College of Pharmacy, The University of Michigan, 428 Church Street, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1065, USA
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Liang JF, Shapira D, Gross CJ, Beene JR, Bierman JD, Galindo-Uribarri A, Gomez del Campo J, Hausladen PA, Larochelle Y, Loveland W, Mueller PE, Peterson D, Radford DC, Stracener DW, Varner RL. Enhanced fusion-evaporation cross sections in neutron-rich 132Sn on 64Ni. Phys Rev Lett 2003; 91:152701. [PMID: 14611462 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.91.152701] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/31/2003] [Indexed: 05/24/2023]
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Evaporation residue cross sections have been measured with neutron-rich radioactive 132Sn beams on 64Ni in the vicinity of the Coulomb barrier. The average beam intensity was 2 x 10(4) particles per second and the smallest cross section measured was less than 5 mb. Large sub-barrier fusion enhancement was observed. Coupled-channel calculations taking into account inelastic excitation significantly underpredict the measured cross sections below the barrier. The presence of several neutron transfer channels with large positive Q values suggests that multinucleon transfer may play an important role in enhancing the fusion of 132Sn and 64Ni.
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- J F Liang
- Physics Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, USA
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Park YJ, Liang JF, Song H, Li YT, Naik S, Yang VC. ATTEMPTS: a heparin/protamine-based triggered release system for the delivery of enzyme drugs without associated side-effects. Adv Drug Deliv Rev 2003; 55:251-65. [PMID: 12564979 DOI: 10.1016/s0169-409x(02)00181-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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A prodrug type delivery system based on competitive ionic binding for the conversion of the prodrug to an active drug has been developed for delivery of enzyme drugs without their associated toxic side-effects. This approach, termed "ATTEMPTS" (antibody targeted, triggered, electrically modified prodrug-type strategy), would permit the administration of an inactive drug and then subsequently triggered release of the active drug at the target site. The underlying principle was to modify the enzyme with small cationic species so that it could bind a negatively charged heparin-linked antibody, and the latter would block the activity of the enzyme drug until it reached the target. To provide the enzyme drug with appropriate binding strength to heparin, a cationic poly(Arg)(7) peptide was incorporated onto the enzyme either by the chemical conjugation method using a bifunctional crosslinker or by the biological conjugation method using the recombinant methodology. Methods for drug modification, heparin-antibody conjugation, and the prodrug and triggered release features of the "ATTEMPTS" approach are described in detail in this review article.
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- Yoon-Jeong Park
- College of Pharmacy, The University of Michigan, 428 Church Street, Ann Arbor, MI 48108-1065, USA
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A new thirteen amino acid peptide, named low molecular weight protamine (LMWP), was obtained through the enzymatic digestion of native protamine. Both in vitro and in vivo results showed that LMWP fully maintained the heparin neutralization function of protamine but had much lower immunogenicity and antigenicity. Unlike protamine, neither LMWP nor LMWP/heparin complexes caused significant blood platelet aggregation in rats. These results suggest that LMWP can be used as a substitute for protamine for developing a new generation of nontoxic heparin antagonists.
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- J F Liang
- College of Pharmacy, The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1065, USA.
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A prodrug delivery system termed "Antibody Targeted, Triggered, Electrically Modified Prodrug-Type Strategy (ATTEMPTS)" has been developed to permit the antibody-directed administration of inactive enzyme drug including tissue-type plasminogen activator (tPA), and allow a subsequent triggered release of the active tPA at the target site. Cation-modified tPA (mtPA) was attached to a heparin-antifibrin complex via ionic interaction, and the active tPA can subsequently be released by the addition of protamine, a competitive heparin inhibitor. Anti-fibrin IgG was conjugated to heparin via an end-point attachment to form the heparin-antifibrin complex which provides the targeting efficiency of the final heparin/mtPA complex. Cation modification was performed by either chemical conjugation by linking (Arg)7Cys to tPA with N-succinimidy-3-(2-pyridyldithio) propionate or by recombinant DNA methods. Results show that the modification process did not significantly alter the specific activity of tPA with regard to plasminogen activation, fibrin-binding ability, and response toward fibrinogen. The complexes of both modified tPA-heparin did not yield any intrinsic catalytic activity owing to the blockage of the active site of tPA by the attached heparin. On the other hand, heparin-induced inhibition of modified tPA activity was reversed by adding protamine, which is similar to that of a prodrug delivery system. These results suggest that heparin/protamine-based enzyme delivery systems may be a useful tool to improve current enzyme therapeutic status, as well as thrombolytic therapy, by both regulating the release of active enzyme and aborting the associated systemic toxic effect. Currently, modification of enzyme drugs has been optimized by recombinant DNA technology assisted by computer simulation. In addition, the original strategy has been revised to obtain enhanced therapeutic efficacy.
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- J F Liang
- Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, College of Pharmacy, The University of Michigan, 428 Church Street, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1065, USA
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The aim of this study is to develop a heparin/protamine-based prodrug system for the controlled delivery of enzyme such as tissue-type plasminogen activator (tPA). This approach, termed antibody targeted, triggered, electrically modified prodrug-type strategy (ATTEMPTS), would permit antibody-directed administration of inactive tPA, and allow a subsequent triggered release of the active tPA at the target site. Cation-modified tPA (mtPA) was attached to a heparin--antifibrin complex via ionic interaction. The active tPA can be subsequently released by the addition of protamine, a competitive heparin inhibitor. Anti-fibrin IgG was conjugated to heparin via an end-point attachment to form the heparin--antifibrin--complex which provides the targeting efficiency of the final heparin--mtPA complex. Cation-modification was performed either by chemical conjugation by linking (Arg)(7)Cys to tPA with N-succinimidy-3-(2-pyridyldithio) propionate or by recombinant DNA method. Results show that the chemical modification process did not significantly alter specific activity of tPA with regard to plasminogen activation, fibrin-binding ability, and response toward fibrinogen. Expressed modified tPA (EmtPA) produced by recombinant DNA methods retained the same catalytic activity of the parent tPA, as well as a dynamic catalytic behavior depending upon the presence of heparin and protamine. Both types of modified tPA, especially the mtPA demonstrated a significantly higher affinity toward heparin or heparin--antifibrin complex than native tPA. In addition, the complexes of mtPA--heparin did not yield any intrinsic clot lysis activity owing to the blockage of the active site of tPA by attached heparin. On the other hand, heparin-induced inhibition of both mtPA and EmtPA activity was reversed by adding protamine, as confirmed by chromogenic and in vitro clot lysis assays. These results suggested that a heparin/protamine-based tPA delivery system may be a useful tool to improve current thrombolytic therapeutic status, by both precisely regulating the release of active tPA and aborting the associated bleeding risk. Alternatively, this ATTEMPTS approach could also be used to deliver enzyme drugs while diminishing their associated toxic effects.
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- J F Liang
- College of Pharmacy, The University of Michigan, 428 Church Street, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1065, USA
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- B Tsui
- College of Pharmacy, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1065, USA
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Galindo-Uribarri A, Beene JR, Gross CJ, Liang JF, Halbert ML, Stracener DW, Shapira D, Varner RL, Chavez-Lomeli E, Ortiz ME. Decay of a Resonance in 18Ne by the Simultaneous Emission of Two Protons. Phys Rev Lett 2001; 86:43-46. [PMID: 11136089 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.86.43] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/10/2000] [Indexed: 05/23/2023]
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Radioactive ion beams of 17F were used to study several resonance states in 18Ne. Clear evidence for simultaneous two-proton emission from the 6.15 MeV state (Jpi = 1(-)) in 18Ne has been observed with the reaction 17F+1H. Because of limited angular coverage, the data did not differentiate between the two possible mechanisms of simultaneous decay, diproton (2He) emission or direct three-body decay. The two-proton partial width was found to be 21+/-3 eV assuming 2He emission and 57+/-6 eV assuming three-body decay. The total width of the 1(-) state was measured to be 50+/-5 keV. Several additional resonances that decay by single proton emission were also studied.
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Chiang HS, Wen TC, Liang JF. Titration study of MUSE (Medicated Urethral System for Erection) in erectile dysfunction. J Formos Med Assoc 2000; 99:926-30. [PMID: 11155746] [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: 02/18/2023] Open
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PURPOSE We assessed the erectile responses and adverse reactions to prostaglandin E1 delivered via the medicated urethral system for erection (MUSE) in a titration study to determine optimal dose. METHODS Sixty-four patients with erectile dysfunction underwent in-office testing with MUSE to determine erectile response. Following thorough instructions, patients were taught how to use MUSE themselves. The titration study started with a dose of 125 micrograms, and increased to 250 micrograms, 500 micrograms, and finally 1,000 micrograms. In patients who had an erectile response, erection scoring, color duplex Doppler study, blood pressure monitoring, recording of subjective complaints, and repeated laboratory examinations were performed to evaluate the positive and adverse effects of MUSE. RESULTS Forty-three of the 64 patients achieved a maximal erection with MUSE, as shown by systolic peak flow velocities in the deep penile arteries of greater than 27 cm/s on Doppler ultrasonography. One patient was unsatisfied with his erectile response and dropped out of the study. Of the 42 patients who completed the study, most (35) were satisfied with the response achieved at the higher doses of 500 micrograms and 1,000 micrograms. A modified soft rubber band was needed to achieve a satisfactory erectile response in 18 patients. Only four patients experienced serious urethral burning during MUSE application. CONCLUSIONS MUSE was effective and safe in most patients with erectile dysfunction in this study. For patients not satisfied with the extent of penile rigidity achieved with MUSE, the use of a modified soft rubber band for erectile assistance, as well as a program for improved patient education, may help to achieve a better erectile response and facilitate compliance with treatment regimens at home.
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- H S Chiang
- Department of Urology, Taipei Medical College Hospital, 252 Wu-Hsing Street, Taipei, Taiwan
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Song H, Liang JF, Yang VC. A prodrug approach for delivery of t-PA: construction of the cationic t-PA prodrug by a recombinant method and preliminary in vitro evaluation of the construct. ASAIO J 2000; 46:663-8. [PMID: 11110262 DOI: 10.1097/00002480-200011000-00005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022] Open
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Previously, we reported a novel prodrug approach, that could lead to targeted thrombolysis without the risk of bleeding. The approach consists of a protein conjugate made of two components: a fibrin targeting antibody (Ab) linked to an anionic heparin, and a plasminogen activator (PA) derivatized with cationic species. These two components are linked by means of an electrostatic interaction. Because the cationic species are small, the modified PA would retain its thrombolytic activity. However, this activity would be inhibited after binding to the counterpart due to the blockage of the PA active site by the appended macromolecules. Because protamine is a clinical antagonist to heparin, it can be used in humans to dissociate the modified PA from its counterpart. Thus, the approach would permit the administration of a fibrin targeting but inactive thrombolytic drug (thereby alleviating the bleeding risk by avoiding systemic generation of plasmin), and subsequently a triggered release of the active drug to the fibrin deposit. In our previous work, we demonstrated the feasibility of the approach by producing a positively charged PA by means of chemical conjugation of a cationic CRRRRRRR peptide with urokinase. In this study, we further extended our work and produced a similar cationic t-PA by means of a recombinant DNA approach; i.e., by fusion of a poly(Arg)7 peptide to the kringle-1 domain of t-PA. Results obtained from the restriction enzyme analysis and the Western blot yielded full identification of this recombinant protein. This recombinant poly(Arg)7-modified-t-PA protein conjugate (termed "rmt-PA" hereafter) completely retained the fibrinolytic activity of the original recombinant, unmodified t-PA (termed "rt-PA" hereafter), as measured by the chromogenic assay and fibrin agar lysis assay. The prodrug and triggered release features of the proposed approach were confirmed by partial inhibition of the plasminogen activating activity of this protein by heparin, and the partial reversal of such inhibition by protamine.
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- H Song
- College of Pharmacy, The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor 48109-1065, USA
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Reports on chemical immobilization of proteins and enzymes first appeared in the 1960s. Since then, immobilized proteins and enzymes have been widely used in the processing of variety of products and increasingly used in the field of medicine. Here, we present a review of recent developments in immobilized enzyme use in medicine. Generally speaking, the use of immobilized enzyme in medicine can be divided into two major categories: biosensors and bioreactors. A brief overview of the evolution of the biosensor and bioreactor technology, of currently existing applications of immobilized enzymes, of problems that researchers encountered, and of possible future developments will be presented.
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- J F Liang
- College of Pharmacy, The University of Michigan, 428 Church Street, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-1065, USA
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A novel heparin/protamine-based approach for delivery of enzyme drugs without associated toxic effects has been proposed. This approach would allow an enzyme drug to be administered in an inactive (i.e. pro-drug) form and then released at the target site in an active form using protamine as the triggering agent. The pro-drug and the triggered release features of this approach would permit the enzyme drug to act specifically and only on its target substrates while sparing normal substrates, thereby alleviating unwanted toxic effects. The in vitro feasibility of the approach has been successfully demonstrated using trypsin as the model protease drug. In addition, the utility of the approach has also been demonstrated by applying the system in delivering streptokinase, one of the most widely used clinical drugs in thrombolytic therapy. This approach may open up the possibility of developing a wide range of new catalytic drugs that are initially thought to be impossible for therapeutic use due to their potent toxic effects.
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- J F Liang
- College of Pharmacy, The University of Michigan, 428 Church Street, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1065, USA
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Previously we proposed a heparin/protamine-based system for delivery of protease drugs such as tissue-specific plasminogen activator (tPA). To demonstrate the feasibility of this approach as well as its pro-drug and triggered release features, positively charged peptides [(Arg)(7)Cys] were successfully linked to tissue-specific plasminogen activator (tPA) using the crosslinking agent N-succinimidyl-3-(2-pyridyldithio)- propionate. This cation-modified tPA showed much stronger heparin affinity than the parent tPA. The complex formed by mtPA and heparin was stable in human plasma, and the activity of mtPA in such a complex was inhibited by the appended heparin. Similarly, the activity of mtPA could also be inhibited by a heparin-antifibrin IgG conjugate in which heparin was linked, via endpoint attachment, to the sugar moieties in the F(c) region of anti-fibrin IgG. Aside from this pro-drug feature exhibited by the binding of the macromolecule heparin to mtPA, results from chromogenic and in vitro clot lysis assay demonstrated that the heparin-induced inhibition of the mtPA activity could be easily reversed by the addition of an adequate amount of protamine. These findings suggest the applicability of the heparin/protamine delivery system to abort the potential bleeding risks associated with clinical use of tPA. In addition to the chemical conjugation method, modified tPA could also be produced by the recombinant DNA method. The expressed modified tPA (EmtPA) thus prepared retained the full catalytic activity of the parent tPA, and this activity could also be inhibited by heparin, and the heparin-induced inhibition could be reversed following the addition of protamine.
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- J F Liang
- College of Pharmacy, The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-1065, USA
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The effects and possible role of heparin on tissue plasminogen activator-mediated plasminogen activation was thoroughly investigated. Direct analysis by sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis demonstrated that heparin increased the conversion of plasminogen to plasmin. Experiments by fluorescence quenching suggested that the stimulation of tissue plasminogen activator activity probably was due to a direct binding of heparin to tissue plasminogen activator, causing a conformational change of tissue plasminogen activator and rendering it more accessible to plasminogen interaction. The absence of additive stimulation effects on tissue plasminogen activator-mediated plasminogen activation when both heparin and fibrinogen were present also implied that both compounds interacted with tissue plasminogen activator via the same domain; it appeared to be most likely via the kringle-2 domain in tissue plasminogen activator based on studies using epsilon-aminocaproic acid as an inhibitor. Unlike heparin-induced stimulation of antithrombin-thrombin interaction, the heparin-induced stimulation of tissue plasminogen activator did not seem to follow a template model. Only in the presence of a high plasminogen or a low tissue plasminogen activator concentration, massive stimulation of tissue plasminogen activator activity was observed via a pseudotemplate model. The results suggest that precautions concerning high heparin dose should be given during its conjunctive clinical use with tissue plasminogen activator in thrombolytic therapy to reduce the risk of hemorrhage.
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- J F Liang
- College of Pharmacy, The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor 48109-1065, USA
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Recent work shows that septic or endotoxic shock is associated with lipopolysaccharide and cytokine mixture-induced nitric oxide (NO) synthesis in liver. Here we found that DL-alpha-lipoic acid inhibited but other thiol-containing antioxidants such as glutathione and N-acetylcysteine enhanced lipopolysaccharide and cytokine mixture (referred as LPS/CM)-induced NO synthesis in hepatocytes. The inhibitory action of alpha-lipoic acid on hepatocyte NO synthesis was as potent as that of NG-monomethyl-L-arginine without obvious cytotoxicity. Deletion by diethylmaleate or inhibition by buthionine sulfoximine of intracellular glutathione caused a significant decrease in hepatocyte NO synthesis, implying that increased intracellular reduced glutathione levels could not be the reason for alpha-lipoic acid inhibited NO synthesis. alpha-Lipoic acid inhibition of NO synthesis seems to be from alpha-lipoic acid improved carbohydrate metabolism in hepatocytes. Since alpha-lipoic acid is an essential compound existing naturally in physiological systems, it may serve as both a research and therapeutic agent for sepsis.
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- J F Liang
- Department of Biomolecular Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Yokohama, Japan.
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Liang JF, Kim SC. Not only the nature of peptide but also the characteristics of cell membrane determine the antimicrobial mechanism of a peptide. J Pept Res 1999; 53:518-22. [PMID: 10424346 DOI: 10.1034/j.1399-3011.1999.00051.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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The mechanisms of antimicrobial actions of magainin 2, buforin II and poly L-lysine against various Escherichia coli strains were studied. Poly L-lysine inhibited BL21, AD 434 and GroE+/DnaK+ growth without lysing the cell. Magainin 2 had a pore-forming activity on BL 21 and AD 434 membrane but could not inhibit the GroE+/DnaK+ growth in a nutrient-rich medium. Buforin II, which killed BL21 and AD 434 without cell membrane damage, lysed GroE+/DnaK+ to death. Once they were introduced into the cell by electroporation, all three peptides were able to inhibit cell growth at concentrations of 10 times lower than their MICs. These results indicate that the nature of the peptide and also the characteristics of the cell membrane determine the antimicrobial actions of a peptide.
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- J F Liang
- Department of Biological Sciences and Biotechnology, School of Life Sciences and Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, People's Republic of China.
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Liang JF, Akaike T. Mitogenic-factor-dependent regulation of lipopolysaccharide and cytokine mixture-mediated hepatocyte nitric oxide synthesis in vitro. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 1998; 243:833-7. [PMID: 9501015 DOI: 10.1006/bbrc.1998.8190] [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] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Hepatocellular mitogen (HGF and EGF) inhibited lipopolysaccharide and cytokine mixture (referred as LPS/CM)-induced NO synthesis and cellular injury in hepatocytes. Mitogenic inhibitors such as hydroxyurea and Wortmannin could not reverse EGF or HGF-inhibited NO production, whereas both of them showed some inhibitory effect on hepatocyte NO synthesis. Although activation of protein kinase C (PKC) by phorbol 12-myristate 13-acetate (PMA) had no effect on hepatocyte NO synthesis, deletion of PKC activity by long-term treatment of hepatocytes with PMA abolished LPS/CM-induced NO production. In addition, pretreatment of hepatocytes with HGF and EGF also blocked LPS/CM-induced NO synthesis in the hepatocyte. These results suggest that proliferating signal is not directly involved in mitogen-inhibited NO synthesis in the hepatocyte, and LPS/CM-mediated NO synthesis is associated with the metabolic/redox state of hepatocytes.
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- J F Liang
- National Key Laboratory of Biomembrane and Membrane Engineering, School of Life Science and Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, People's Republic of China
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We have previously demonstrated that treatment of hepatocytes with IFN gamma results a series of cellular injury processes, including DNA synthesis arrest, membrane breakage and apoptosis. In the present work, we show that IFN gamma suppresses cellular respiration and protein synthesis in hepatocytes, and that cellular respiration suppression is an early event in the IFN gamma-induced cellular injuries. Polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFAs) increased cellular respiration of hepatocytes, but only linoleic acid showed some protective effect against IFN gamma-induced cellular respiration suppression. Linoleic acid also reduced other IFN gamma-mediated cellular injuries, including membrane breakage and protein synthesis inhibition. Like linoleic acid, fetal bovine serum also inhibited IFN gamma-induced cellular damage. Increased NAD levels were found in both IFN gamma-treated and non-treated hepatocytes following the addition of PUFAs, but clofibrate, a peroxisome proliferator, bromophenacyl bromide (BPB), an inhibitor of phospholipase, nordihydroguaiaretic acid (NDGA), an inhibitor of lipoxygenase, and arachidonic acid, a metabolite of linoleic acid, did not inhibit IFN gamma-induced cellular injury. In addition, the combination of linoleic acid and IFN gamma induced nitric oxide (NO) synthesis in hepatocytes. These results suggest that fatty acid may play an important role in liver homeostasis during chronic inflammatory states and sepsis.
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- J F Liang
- Department of Biological Sciences and Biotechnology, School of Life Science and Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, P.R. China
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Liang JF, Akaike T, Kim SC. Nitric oxide is not involved in lipopolysaccharide and cytokine mixture-induced cellular injuries in primary cultured hepatocytes. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 1997; 240:664-8. [PMID: 9398622 DOI: 10.1006/bbrc.1997.7700] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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Nitric oxide (NO) from artificial NO donors induces cell death through complete inhibition of mitochondrial respiration of hepatocytes. Treatment of hepatocytes with lipopolysaccharide (LPS) and cytokine mixture (interferon gamma and tumor necrosis factor alpha) not only results in NO production but also causes cellular respiration suppression and cell death in hepatocytes. NG-monomethyl-L-arginine, a specific inhibitor of nitric oxide synthase, inhibits hepatocyte NO synthesis but cannot prevent hepatocytes from LPS and cytokine mixture-induced cellular injuries. Similarly, some metabolic intermediates capable of inhibiting hepatocyte NO synthesis cannot block LPS and cytokine mixture-mediated cellular injuries in hepatocytes. These results imply that lipopolysaccharide and cytokine mixture-induced cellular injuries and NO syntheses are parallel events, NO is not involved in LPS and cytokine mixture-induced cell damage.
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- J F Liang
- State Key Laboratory of Biomembrane and Membrane Engineering, School of Life Science and Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, P.R. China.
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Liang JF, Akaike T. Inhibition of lipopolysaccharide and cytokine mixture-mediated hepatocyte nitric oxide synthesis by dimethyl sulfoxide. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 1997; 239:517-21. [PMID: 9344862 DOI: 10.1006/bbrc.1997.7506] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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Treatment and pretreatment of hepatocytes with 2% dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO) inhibited lipopolysaccharide and cytokine mixture (LPS/CM)-mediated NO synthesis in hepatocytes without any obvious effects on cell viability. DMSO at concentrations of 0.5-4% stimulated DNA replication and increased albumin secretion in LPS/CM-treated hepatocytes. Genisein, a inhibitor of protein tyrosine kinase (PTK), inhibited LPS/CM-mediated NO synthesis in hepatocytes. These results suggest that PTK is critical for hepatocyte NO synthesis, and DMSO-inhibited NO synthesis may be associated with prevention of LPS/CM-induced PTK activation in hepatocytes.
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- J F Liang
- Department of Biological Sciences and Biotechnology, Tsinghua University, Beijing, People's Republic of China
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Liang JF, Akaike T. Role of metabolic intermediates in lipopolysaccharide/cytokine-mediated production of nitric oxide in isolated mouse hepatocytes. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 1997; 236:379-82. [PMID: 9240445 DOI: 10.1006/bbrc.1997.6983] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [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: 02/04/2023]
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Induction of nitric oxide synthase by bacterial endotoxin in vivo can be mimicked by treating cultured hepatocytes with a combination of lipopolysaccharide and cytokines (LPS/cytokines), but the role of LPS/cytokine-induced nitric oxide in hepatocyte glucose metabolism is ambiguous. In this study, intermediary metabolite effects on LPS/cytokine-induced hepatocyte nitric oxide synthesis were examined. Pyruvate, lactate, oxaloacetate, and fumarate all showed some inhibitory effects on hepatocyte nitric oxide synthesis. However, these metabolic intermediates could not improve the mitochondrial respiration of LPS/cytokine-treated hepatocytes. Phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase activity (or flux) relating factors, glucocorticoids and cAMP, also blocked LPS/cytokine-induced nitric oxide synthesis. Insulin was much less potent than cAMP and glucocorticoids, and phorbol ester did not show any effect on hepatocyte nitric oxide synthesis. These results suggest that LPS/cytokine-induced nitric oxide synthesis is related, at least partly, to phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase activity (or flux) in hepatocytes.
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- J F Liang
- Department of Biological Sciences and Biotechnology, School of Life Science and Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, People's Republic of China.
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Bierman JD, Chan P, Liang JF, Kelly MP, Sonzogni AA, Vandenbosch R. Fusion barrier distributions for heavy ion systems involving prolate and oblate target nuclei. Phys Rev C Nucl Phys 1996; 54:3068-3075. [PMID: 9971680 DOI: 10.1103/physrevc.54.3068] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/22/2023]
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Vandenbosch R, Bierman JD, Lestone JP, Liang JF, Prindle DJ, Sonzogni AA, Kailas S, Nadkarni DM, Kapoor SS. Disappearance of entrance channel dependence of fission fragment anisotropies at well-above-barrier energies. Phys Rev C Nucl Phys 1996; 54:R977-R980. [PMID: 9971495 DOI: 10.1103/physrevc.54.r977] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/22/2023]
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Bierman JD, Chan P, Liang JF, Kelly MP, Sonzogni AA, Vandenbosch R. Experimental fusion barrier distributions reflecting projectile octupole state coupling to prolate and oblate target nuclei. Phys Rev Lett 1996; 76:1587-1590. [PMID: 10060467 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.76.1587] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/23/2023]
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Liang JF, Vandenbosch R, Will DI. D-D fusion induced by oxygen clusters impacting deuterated ice targets. Phys Rev A 1995; 51:1691-1693. [PMID: 9911763 DOI: 10.1103/physreva.51.1691] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 04/11/2023]
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Liang JF, Lee LL, Mahon JC, Vojtech RJ. Transfer reactions in 32S+92,98,100Mo and 93Nb at near barrier energies. Phys Rev C Nucl Phys 1994; 50:1550-1560. [PMID: 9969816 DOI: 10.1103/physrevc.50.1550] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/22/2023]
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Roberts RB, Gazes SB, Mason JE, Satteson M, Teichmann SG, Lee LL, Liang JF, Mahon JC, Vojtech RJ. Erratum: Sub-barrier one- and two-neutron pickup measurements in 32S+93Nb, 98,100Mo reactions at 180 degrees. Phys Rev C Nucl Phys 1994; 49:2856. [PMID: 9969550 DOI: 10.1103/physrevc.49.2856] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/22/2023]
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Roberts RB, Gazes SB, Mason JE, Satteson M, Teichmann SG, Lee LL, Liang JF, Mahon JC, Vojtech RJ. Sub-barrier one- and two-neutron pickup measurements in 32S+93Nb, 98,100Mo reactions at 180 degrees. Phys Rev C Nucl Phys 1993; 47:R1831-R1834. [PMID: 9968713 DOI: 10.1103/physrevc.47.r1831] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [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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Liang JF, Lee LL, Mahon JC, Vojtech RJ. Comparison of one- and two-proton transfer in 32S+92,98,100Mo, 93Nb at energies near the Coulomb barrier. Phys Rev C Nucl Phys 1993; 47:R1342-R1346. [PMID: 9968634 DOI: 10.1103/physrevc.47.r1342] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/22/2023]
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Tighe RJ, Kolata JJ, Dixit S, Liu G, Vojtech RJ, Liang JF, Mahon JC. Elastic-scattering angular distributions for 40Ca+48Ca near the Coulomb barrier. Phys Rev C Nucl Phys 1990; 42:1200-1202. [PMID: 9966851 DOI: 10.1103/physrevc.42.r1200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/22/2023]
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