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Zhang J, Liu J, Niu C, Wu Q, Tan J, Jing N, Wen Y. Functionalized Fluorescent Organic Nanoparticles Based AIE Enabling Effectively Targeting Cancer Cell Imaging. Chembiochem 2023; 24:e202300391. [PMID: 37718314 DOI: 10.1002/cbic.202300391] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/24/2023] [Revised: 08/21/2023] [Accepted: 09/17/2023] [Indexed: 09/19/2023]
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We report a fluorescent dye TM by incorporating the tetraphenylethylene (TPE) and cholesterol components into perylene bisimides (PBI) derivative. Fluorescence emission spectrum shows that the dye has stable red emission and aggregation-induced emission (AIE) characteristics. The incorporation of cholesterol components triggers TM to show induced chirality through supramolecular self-assembly. The cRGD-functionalized nanoparticles were prepared by encapsulating fluorescent dyes with amphiphilic polymer matrix. The functionalized fluorescent organic nanoparticles exhibit excellent biocompatibility, large Stokes' shift and good photostability, which make them effective fluorescent probes for targeting cancer cells with high fluorescence contrast.
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- Jing Zhang
- Institute of Applied Chemistry, Shanxi University, 030006, Taiyuan, China
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- College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Shanxi University, 030006, Taiyuan, China
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- College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Shanxi University, 030006, Taiyuan, China
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- College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Shanxi University, 030006, Taiyuan, China
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- Research Center for Fine Chemicals Engineering, Shanxi University, 030006, Taiyuan, China
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- Institute of Molecular Science, Shanxi University, 030006, Taiyuan, China
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- Institute of Molecular Science, Shanxi University, 030006, Taiyuan, China
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Jing N, Zhao J, Zhang M. Reservoir computing-based digital signal equalizer for equivalent-time sampling. Rev Sci Instrum 2023; 94:115102. [PMID: 37909839 DOI: 10.1063/5.0166523] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/05/2023] [Accepted: 10/10/2023] [Indexed: 11/03/2023]
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A sampling oscilloscope is an important instrument for evaluating the quality of optical communication signals. Since its working principle is equivalent-time sampling, the data obtained for digital signals with random characteristics do not have continuity, which makes it impossible to use methods such as filtering and averaging to equalize the signal. For this reason, this paper proposes a signal equalization method based on reservoir computing. Through training of the reservoir model, an equivalent-time equalizer is established to solve the problem that the sampling oscilloscope cannot equalize random digital signals. Compared with the continuous-time equalizer, the coincidence degree exceeds 95%. The eye height and eye width are increased by 7 and 1.6, respectively, while the jitter in the eye diagram is reduced by 2.3 times, which solves the problem that the sampling oscilloscope cannot equalize random digital signals.
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- Ning Jing
- School of Information and Communication Engineering, North University of China, Taiyuan 030051, China
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- School of Information and Communication Engineering, North University of China, Taiyuan 030051, China
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- School of Information and Communication Engineering, North University of China, Taiyuan 030051, China
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Wen Y, Jing N, Zhang M, Huo F, Li Z, Yin C. A Space-Dependent 'Enzyme-Substrate' Type Probe based on 'Carboxylesterase-Amide Group' for Ultrafast Fluorescent Imaging Orthotopic Hepatocellular Carcinoma. Adv Sci (Weinh) 2023; 10:e2206681. [PMID: 36651112 PMCID: PMC10015879 DOI: 10.1002/advs.202206681] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/15/2022] [Revised: 12/21/2022] [Indexed: 05/14/2023]
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Fast and selective fluorescence imaging for a biomarker to related-disease diagnosis remains a significant challenge due to complex physical environment. Human carboxylesterase (CE) is expected to be a potential biomarker of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) to improve the accuracy of diagnosis. However, existing probes for CE has slow response rate and low selectivity. Herein, the amide group is selected as CE-responsive sites based on the "substrate-hydrolysis enzymatic reaction" approach. From a series of off-on probes with leave groups in the amide unit, probe JFast is screened with the optimal combination of rapid response rate and high selectivity toward CE. JFast requires only 150 s to reach the maximum fluorescence at 676 nm in the presence of CE and free from the interference of other esterase. Computational docking simulations indicate the shortest distance between the CE and active site of JFast . Cell and in vivo imaging present that the probe can turn on the liver cancer cells and tumor region precisely. Importantly, JFast is allowed to specifically image orthotopic liver tumor rather than metastatic tumor and distinguish human primary liver cancer tissue from adjacent ones. This study provides a new tool for CE detection and promotes advancements in accurate HCC diagnosis.
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- Ying Wen
- Key Laboratory of Chemical Biology and Molecular Engineering of Ministry of EducationKey Laboratory of Materials for Energy Conversion and Storage of Shanxi ProvinceInstitute of Molecular ScienceShanxi UniversityTaiyuan030006China
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- Key Laboratory of Chemical Biology and Molecular Engineering of Ministry of EducationKey Laboratory of Materials for Energy Conversion and Storage of Shanxi ProvinceInstitute of Molecular ScienceShanxi UniversityTaiyuan030006China
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- State Key Laboratory of Component‐based Chinese MedicineTianjin University of Traditional Chinese MedicineTianjin301617China
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- Research Institute of Applied ChemistryShanxi UniversityTaiyuan030006China
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- Institute of BiotechnologyKey Laboratory of Chemical Biology and Molecular Engineering of National Ministry of EducationShanxi UniversityTaiyuan030006China
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- Key Laboratory of Chemical Biology and Molecular Engineering of Ministry of EducationKey Laboratory of Materials for Energy Conversion and Storage of Shanxi ProvinceInstitute of Molecular ScienceShanxi UniversityTaiyuan030006China
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Su F, Xu C, Yang H, Chen Z, Jing N. Neural entity alignment with cross-modal supervision. Inf Process Manag 2023. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ipm.2022.103174] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/05/2022]
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Xu X, Xiaomin Z, Jing N, Xiangdong X, Yong Y. An optimized method for neutron dose evaluation based on 24Na activity distribution in the human body. J Radiol Prot 2023; 43:011510. [PMID: 36649650 DOI: 10.1088/1361-6498/acb3d7] [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] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/22/2022] [Accepted: 01/17/2023] [Indexed: 06/17/2023]
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The neutron dose resulting from external irradiation can be evaluated by measuring the counts of characteristicγrays produced by24Na in the human body. The detection geometry with the highest detection efficiency for measuring the whole-body24Na activity has not been studied. In this work, the MCNP code is used to calculate the spatial distribution of24Na in the human body irradiated by neutrons with different energies in different irradiation geometries. The fluence distribution of24Na characteristicγrays on the body surface is calculated. The counts of24Na characteristicγrays induced by monochromatic neutron irradiation are simulated to fit the scenarios of neutron irradiation by a continuous energy spectrum neutron. When the spontaneous neutrons from252Cf with 1Gy dose irradiate the human body, (3.63-4.35) × 1010 24Na atoms are produced. The lower detection limit for the neutron absorption dose is reduced from ∼100 to less than 1 mGy when the radiation detector is placed over the back of the human body close to the liver. The relative error between the measured counts of24Na characteristic γ rays caused by252Cf neutron irradiation and the counts fitted by monochromatic neutron irradiation data is less than 5.7%. The neutron dose received from a continuous energy spectrum neutron can be acquired quickly and accurately by weighted summing of the data for monochromatic neutron irradiations calculated in this paper, which is more convenient and practical than the previous method.
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- Xu Xu
- Beijing Institute of Radiation Medicine, Beijing, People's Republic of China
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- Beijing Institute of Radiation Medicine, Beijing, People's Republic of China
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- Beijing Institute of Radiation Medicine, Beijing, People's Republic of China
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- Beijing Institute of Radiation Medicine, Beijing, People's Republic of China
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- Beijing Institute of Radiation Medicine, Beijing, People's Republic of China
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Wen Y, Jing N, Huo F, Yin C. Rational design of a turn-on fluorescent probe for visualization of GRP78 protein in tumor models. CHINESE CHEM LETT 2022. [DOI: 10.1016/j.cclet.2022.06.027] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/03/2022]
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Fluorescent probes along with fluorescence microscopy are essential tools for biomedical research. Various cellular ubiquitous chemical factors such as pH, H2O2, and Ca2+ are labeled and traced using specific fluorescent probes, therefore helping us to explore their physiological function and pathological change. Among them, intracellular pH value is an important factor that governs biological processes, generally ∼7.2. Furthermore, specific organelles within cells possess unique acid-base homeostasis, involving the acidic lysosomes, alkalescent mitochondria, and neutral endoplasmic reticulum and Golgi apparatus, which undergo various physiological processes such as intracellular digestion, ATP production, and protein folding and processing. In this review, recently reported fluorescent probes targeted toward the lysosomes, mitochondria, endoplasmic reticulum, Golgi apparatus, and cytoplasm for sensing pH change are discussed, which involves molecular structures, fluorescence behavior, and biological applications.
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- Ying Wen
- Key Laboratory of Chemical Biology and Molecular Engineering of Ministry of Education, Institute of Molecular Science, Shanxi University, Taiyuan 030006, China.
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- Key Laboratory of Chemical Biology and Molecular Engineering of Ministry of Education, Institute of Molecular Science, Shanxi University, Taiyuan 030006, China.
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- Research Institute of Applied Chemistry, Shanxi University, Taiyuan, 030006, P. R. China
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- Key Laboratory of Chemical Biology and Molecular Engineering of Ministry of Education, Institute of Molecular Science, Shanxi University, Taiyuan 030006, China.
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Ding X, Jing N, Shen A, Guo F, Song Y, Pan M, Ma X, Zhao L, Zhang H, Wu L, Qin G, Zhao Y. MiR-21-5p in macrophage-derived extracellular vesicles affects podocyte pyroptosis in diabetic nephropathy by regulating A20. J Endocrinol Invest 2021; 44:1175-1184. [PMID: 32930981 DOI: 10.1007/s40618-020-01401-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 48] [Impact Index Per Article: 16.0] [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: 03/19/2020] [Accepted: 08/19/2020] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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OBJECTIVES Podocyte pyroptosis, characterized by inflammasome activation, plays an important role in inflammation-mediated diabetic nephropathy (DN). Our study aimed to investigate whether miR-21-5p in macrophage-derived extracellular vesicles (EVs) could affect podocyte injury in DN. METHODS EVs were extracted after the treatment of RAW 264.7 (mouse macrophage line) with high glucose (HG). The podocyte pyroptosis was determined using the flow cytometry and the western blot. After the knockdown of miR-21-5p in HG-induced RAW264.7 cells, we injected the extracted EVs into DN model mice. RESULTS The level of miR-21-5p was higher in HG-stimulated macrophage-derived EVs than in normal glucose-cultured macrophage-derived EVs. The co-culture of EVs and podocytes promoted reactive oxygen species (ROS) production and activation of inflammatory in MPC5 cells (mouse podocyte line). However, restraint of miR-21-5p in EVs reduced ROS production and inhibit inflammasome activation in MPC5 cells, thereby reducing podocytes injury. Meanwhile, we found that miR-21-5p inhibited the A20 expression through binding with its 3'-untranslated regions in MPC5 cells. Further studies showed that A20 was also involved in the regulation of miR-21-5p of RAW 264.7-derived EVs on MPC5 injury. At the same time, it was also proved in the DN model mice that miR-21-5p in macrophage-derived EVs could regulate podocyte injury. CONCLUSION MiR-21-5p in macrophage-derived EVs can regulate pyroptosis-mediated podocyte injury by A20 in DN.
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- X Ding
- Department of Endocrinology and Metabolism, The First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University, No. 1 Jianshe East Road, Zhengzhou City, 450052, Henan, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Endocrinology and Metabolism, The First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University, No. 1 Jianshe East Road, Zhengzhou City, 450052, Henan, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Endocrinology and Metabolism, The First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University, No. 1 Jianshe East Road, Zhengzhou City, 450052, Henan, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Endocrinology and Metabolism, The First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University, No. 1 Jianshe East Road, Zhengzhou City, 450052, Henan, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Endocrinology and Metabolism, The First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University, No. 1 Jianshe East Road, Zhengzhou City, 450052, Henan, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Endocrinology and Metabolism, The First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University, No. 1 Jianshe East Road, Zhengzhou City, 450052, Henan, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Endocrinology and Metabolism, The First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University, No. 1 Jianshe East Road, Zhengzhou City, 450052, Henan, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Endocrinology and Metabolism, The First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University, No. 1 Jianshe East Road, Zhengzhou City, 450052, Henan, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Endocrinology and Metabolism, The First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University, No. 1 Jianshe East Road, Zhengzhou City, 450052, Henan, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Endocrinology and Metabolism, The First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University, No. 1 Jianshe East Road, Zhengzhou City, 450052, Henan, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Endocrinology and Metabolism, The First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University, No. 1 Jianshe East Road, Zhengzhou City, 450052, Henan, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Endocrinology and Metabolism, The First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University, No. 1 Jianshe East Road, Zhengzhou City, 450052, Henan, People's Republic of China.
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Lingyun H, Ailing L, Yali L, Yanqin Y, Jing N. Expression of CUE domain containing 2 protein in serous ovarian cancer tissue: predicting disease-free and overall survival of patients. J Int Med Res 2021; 48:300060520954770. [PMID: 32967504 PMCID: PMC7521062 DOI: 10.1177/0300060520954770] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [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] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
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Objective The aim of this study was to predict disease-free (DFS) and overall (OS) survival of cancer patients through expression of CUE domain containing 2 (CUEDC2) protein. Methods In this retrospective study, we investigated CUEDC2 expression in 75 serous ovarian cancer tissues and 34 tubal fimbria tissues by immunohistochemistry. Chemoresistance was analyzed using clinical follow-up data. Results CUEDC2 expression scores were 1.35 ± 0.60, 1.54 ± 0.57, 1.78 ± 0.71, and 2.13 ± 0.27 for International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics (FIGO) stages I, II, III, and IV tissues, respectively, indicating that CUEDC2 expression increased with stage and that scores differed between patients with early and advanced cancers. We found no differences in CUEDC2 expression for tissues with low, medium, and high differentiation. CUEDC2 expression was unrelated to patient age, pathological grade, or presence or absence of lymph node metastasis, but was related to tumor stage. For CUEDC2-positive patients, median DFS and OS survival were 32.6 and 54.3 months, respectively. For CUEDC2-negative patients, median DFS and OS were 51.9 and 63.5 months, respectively. Expression of CUEDC2 was correlated with DFS but not OS. Conclusion CUEDC2 is highly expressed in ovarian cancer tissues and is related to tumor stage and DFS.
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- Hu Lingyun
- Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, PLA General Hospital, Beijing, China
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- Center of Instrument, Academy of Military Medical Sciences, Beijing, China
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- Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, PLA General Hospital, Beijing, China
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- Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, PLA General Hospital, Beijing, China
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- Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, Hainan Hospital of PLA General Hospital, Hainan, China
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LI J, Jing N, Lili Z. POS-381 Podocyte B7-1 Mediates Cell Injury and Glomerulosclerosis through Communicating with β-catenin Pathway. Kidney Int Rep 2021. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ekir.2021.03.399] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022] Open
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Shi X, Ren X, Jing N, Zhang J. Electrochemical Determination of Ampicillin Based on an Electropolymerized Poly(o-Phenylenediamine)/Gold Nanoparticle/Single-Walled Carbon Nanotube Modified Glassy Carbon Electrode. ANAL LETT 2020. [DOI: 10.1080/00032719.2020.1759619] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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- Xiaohong Shi
- Department of Chemistry, Taiyuan Normal University, Jinzhong, China
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- Department of Chemistry, Taiyuan Normal University, Jinzhong, China
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- Department of Chemistry, Taiyuan Normal University, Jinzhong, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Chemo/Biosensing and Chemometrics, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Hunan University, Changsha, China
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Yunlong J, Dawei L, Decheng Q, Jing N. An improved method of nasal swab analysis for assessing alpha internal radioactive contaminants. J Radiol Prot 2020; 40:270-279. [PMID: 31887728 DOI: 10.1088/1361-6498/ab6628] [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] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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When responding to nuclear and radiological emergencies, rapid and on-site detections of possible internal radioactive contaminants are required for early dose estimation and medical triage. Nasal swab analysis is an effective method to provide valuable information for early and fast estimates of alpha radionuclide inhalation intakes and resultant doses. In this study, to improve the quality of nasal swab measurements, a specialised double-detector alpha counter was designed. Various parameters including swab materials, sample pre-preparation, angle-dependence and vacuum dependence were investigated to optimise the reliability and convenience of the nasal swab method. An improved procedure of direct nasal swab measurement was eventually established, which could be used to obtain early data for initial dose assessment during the first response of nuclear and radiological emergencies.
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- Ji Yunlong
- Beijing Institute of Radiation Medicine, People's Republic of China
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Zhang Y, Jing N, Song M. Food quality information cognition and public purchase decisions: research from China. Quality Assurance and Safety of Crops & Foods 2019. [DOI: 10.3920/qas2018.1385] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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- Y. Zhang
- China Jiliang University, No. 258, Xueyuan street, Jianggan District, Hangzhou, 310018 Zhejiang, China P.R
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- China Jiliang University, No. 258, Xueyuan street, Jianggan District, Hangzhou, 310018 Zhejiang, China P.R
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- China Jiliang University, No. 258, Xueyuan street, Jianggan District, Hangzhou, 310018 Zhejiang, China P.R
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Su Y, Sun C, Chen Y, Liu S, Jing N, Li S. Toxic trans-crotonaldehyde in mitochondria intercepted by oxyresveratrol contributing to anticancer. IUBMB Life 2019; 71:1014-1020. [PMID: 31012998 DOI: 10.1002/iub.2051] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/27/2019] [Revised: 04/01/2019] [Accepted: 04/01/2019] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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The aim of this study was to explore how the toxic trans-crotonaldehyde (TCA) in mitochondria or aldehyde dehydrogenase (ALDH) at different pHs was intercepted by oxyresveratrol (Oxy-Res) contributing to anticancer. Ultraviolet-visible (UV-vis) spectroscopy and Raman spectroscopy were employed. UV-vis spectra showed that the Oxy-Res red shifted the peak of the toxic TCA from 316 nm to 325 nm, while the peaks of the Oxy-Res shifted from 329 nm with 290 nm and 300 nm to 325 nm with 303 nm. In the mitochondria, the Oxy-Res blue shifted the peaks of the toxic TCA from 325 nm with 303 nm to 321 nm with 301 nm. Raman spectra revealed that the Oxy-Res caused shifting of the CHO of the toxic TCA from 1,689 cm-1 to 1,671 cm-1 with band decline. The CC of the toxic TCA at 1641 cm-1 was split into 1,639 cm-1 and 1,642 cm-1 with band decline. The bands of the Oxy-Res at 1634 cm-1 , 1,617 cm-1 , and 1,595 cm-1 disappeared. In the mitochondria, the CC of the toxic TCA at 1641 cm-1 splitting disappeared. In ALDH, with the decrease of pH from 7.8 to 6.5, the CHO of the toxic TCA did not red shift from 1,689 cm-1 to 1,674 cm-1 up to pH 6.5. There was no change in the CC of the toxic TCA at 1640 cm-1 in ALDH at different pHs. The conclusion of the study was that the CHO of the toxic TCA was intercepted by the Oxy-Res under the action of ALDH in the mitochondria, particularly at pH 7.8. © 2019 IUBMB Life, 2019.
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- Yanbin Su
- College of Chemical and Pharmaceutical Engineering, Jilin Institute of Chemical Technology, Jilin, China
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- College of Information and Control Engineering, Jilin Institute of Chemical Technology, Jilin, China
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- College of Chemical and Pharmaceutical Engineering, Jilin Institute of Chemical Technology, Jilin, China
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- College of Chemical and Pharmaceutical Engineering, Jilin Institute of Chemical Technology, Jilin, China
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- College of Chemical and Pharmaceutical Engineering, Jilin Institute of Chemical Technology, Jilin, China
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- College of Chemical and Pharmaceutical Engineering, Jilin Institute of Chemical Technology, Jilin, China
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Zhang R, Wang Z, Li K, Chen Y, Jing N, Qiao Y, Xie K. Spectropolarimetric measurement based on a fast-axis-adjustable photoelastic modulator. Appl Opt 2019; 58:325-332. [PMID: 30645310 DOI: 10.1364/ao.58.000325] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/09/2018] [Accepted: 11/30/2018] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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A fast-axis-adjustable photoelastic modulator (Faa-PEM) is developed and studied, and a spectropolarimetric imaging method using the Faa-PEM and an acousto-optic tunable filter is presented. The Faa-PEM modulation retardation amplitude and fast-axis direction of the Faa-PEM can be adjusted by adjusting the two drives with no mechanical rotation. The I, Q, and U of the Stokes parameters of the incident light can be obtained by adjusting the retardation amplitude and fast-axis direction of the Faa-PEM. This measurement method does not require high-frequency components, and thus a general area array detector can realize the measurement. Theoretical simulation analyses show that the relative errors ΔI/I, ΔQ/Q, ΔU/U, and ΔDoLP/DoLP are less than 5.6% and that the deviation error ΔAoLP is less than 0.2° (at I=1.00, Q=0.707, U=0.707, V=0.0, -0.1°≤Δθ0≤0.1°, and -0.05 rad≤Δδ0≤0.05 rad). A prototype was developed and tested. The test results show that the average absolute relative error of the degree of linear polarization is 0.36%, and the average absolute deviation error of the angle of linear polarization is 0.048°. The method has potential application value in spectropolarimetric imaging technology.
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Ma M, Jing N, Gao S. A reliable nomogram for predicting overall survival in patients with triple-negative breast cancer. Ann Oncol 2018. [DOI: 10.1093/annonc/mdy427.011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Lu R, Wang J, Tao R, Wang J, Zhu T, Guo W, Sun Y, Li H, Gao Y, Zhang W, Fowler CJ, Li Q, Chen S, Wu Z, Masters CL, Zhong C, Jing N, Wang Y, Wang Y. Reduced TRPC6 mRNA levels in the blood cells of patients with Alzheimer's disease and mild cognitive impairment. Mol Psychiatry 2018; 23:767-776. [PMID: 28696436 DOI: 10.1038/mp.2017.136] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/15/2016] [Revised: 04/24/2017] [Accepted: 05/10/2017] [Indexed: 02/01/2023]
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Transient receptor potential canonical 6 (TRPC6) inhibits β-amyloid (Aβ) production. Hyperforin, the TRPC6 agonist, reduces Aβ levels and improves cognitive performance in Alzheimer's disease (AD) models. However, it's unknown whether TRPC6 expression is changed in AD patients. In this case-control study, we measured TRPC6 expression levels in the peripheral blood cells of four independent AD sets from five hospitals and one mild cognitive impairment (MCI) set from a local community (229 AD, 70 MCI, 40 Parkinson disease and 359 controls from China, total n=698) using quantitative real-time PCR assay. We found a specific reduction of TRPC6 mRNA levels in four AD sets and one MCI set. The median TRPC6 mRNA levels were lower in the following: (1) combined AD patients than in age-matched controls (0.78 vs 1.73, P<0.001); (2) mild-to-moderate AD patients than in age-matched controls (0.81 vs 1.73, P<0.001); and (3) MCI patients than in age-matched controls (0.76 vs 1.72, P<0.001). In the receiver-operating characteristic curve analysis, the area under curve was 0.85 for combined AD, 0.84 for mild-to-moderate AD and 0.79 for MCI. In a subgroup of AD patients with brain Aβ examination, TRPC6 was associated with standardized uptake value ratio of Pittsburgh Compound B (Spearman's r=-0.49, P=0.04) and cerebrospinal fluid Aβ42 (Spearman's r=0.43, P=0.04). The TRPC6 reduction in AD patients was further confirmed in blood RNA samples from The Australian Imaging, Biomarkers and Lifestyle Flagship Study of Aging, in post-mortem brain tissues from The Netherlands Brain Bank and in induced pluripotent stem cells-derived neurons from Chinese donors. We conclude that TRPC6 mRNA levels in the blood cells are specifically reduced in AD and MCI patients, and TRPC6 might be a biomarker for the early diagnosis of AD.
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- R Lu
- Laboratory of Neural Signal Transduction, Institute of Neuroscience, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China.,Graduate School of Chinese Academy of Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China.,Beijing Institute of Medical Sciences, Beijing, China
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- Laboratory of Neural Signal Transduction, Institute of Neuroscience, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Cell Biology, CAS Center for Excellence in Molecular Cell Science, Shanghai Institute of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China
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- Department of Neurology and Center for Clinical Neuroscience, Daping Hospital, Third Military Medical University, Chongqing, China
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- Laboratory of Neural Signal Transduction, Institute of Neuroscience, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Cell Biology, CAS Center for Excellence in Molecular Cell Science, Shanghai Institute of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China.,School of Life Science and Technology, ShanghaiTech University, Shanghai, China
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- Department of Neurology and Institute of Neurology, Huashan Hospital, Shanghai Medical College, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
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- Department of Neurology and Institute of Neurology, Huashan Hospital, Shanghai Medical College, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
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- Department of Neurology and Institute of Neurology, Rui Jin Hospital affiliated to Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China
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- Department of Geriatrics, Tiantan Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China
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- The Florey Institute, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
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- The Florey Institute, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
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- Department of Neurology and Institute of Neurology, Rui Jin Hospital affiliated to Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China
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- Department of Neurology and Institute of Neurology, Huashan Hospital, Shanghai Medical College, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
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- The Florey Institute, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
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- Department of Neurology, Zhongshan Hospital and Shanghai Medical College, State Key Laboratory of Medical Neurobiology, Institute of Brain Science, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Cell Biology, CAS Center for Excellence in Molecular Cell Science, Shanghai Institute of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China.,School of Life Science and Technology, ShanghaiTech University, Shanghai, China
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- Department of Neurology and Center for Clinical Neuroscience, Daping Hospital, Third Military Medical University, Chongqing, China
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- Laboratory of Neural Signal Transduction, Institute of Neuroscience, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China.,Beijing Institute of Medical Sciences, Beijing, China
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Zhang MJ, Jing N, Li KW, Wang ZB. Thermal stability control system of photo-elastic interferometer in the PEM-FTs. Rev Sci Instrum 2018; 89:013105. [PMID: 29390690 DOI: 10.1063/1.5020714] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/07/2023]
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A drifting model for the resonant frequency and retardation amplitude of a photo-elastic modulator (PEM) in the photo-elastic modulated Fourier transform spectrometer (PEM-FTs) is presented. A multi-parameter broadband-matching driving control method is proposed to improve the thermal stability of the PEM interferometer. The automatically frequency-modulated technology of the driving signal based on digital phase-locked technology is used to track the PEM's changing resonant frequency. Simultaneously the maximum optical-path-difference of a laser's interferogram is measured to adjust the amplitude of the PEM's driving signal so that the spectral resolution is stable. In the experiment, the multi-parameter broadband-matching control method is applied to the driving control system of the PEM-FTs. Control of resonant frequency and retardation amplitude stabilizes the maximum optical-path-difference to approximately 236 μm and results in a spectral resolution of 42 cm-1. This corresponds to a relative error smaller than 2.16% (4.28 standard deviation). The experiment shows that the method can effectively stabilize the spectral resolution of the PEM-FTs.
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- M J Zhang
- School of Information and Communication Engineering, North University of China, Taiyuan 030051, China
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- School of Information and Communication Engineering, North University of China, Taiyuan 030051, China
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- School of Information and Communication Engineering, North University of China, Taiyuan 030051, China
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- Engineering and Technology Research Center of Shanxi Provincial for Optical-Electric Information and Instrument, North University of China, Taiyuan 030051, China
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Li K, Wang S, Wang L, Yu H, Jing N, Xue R, Wang Z. Fast and Sensitive Ellipsometry-Based Biosensing. Sensors (Basel) 2017; 18:s18010015. [PMID: 29271894 PMCID: PMC5795863 DOI: 10.3390/s18010015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/11/2017] [Revised: 12/13/2017] [Accepted: 12/20/2017] [Indexed: 01/27/2023]
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In this work, a biosensing method based on in situ, fast, and sensitive measurements of ellipsometric parameters (Ψ, ∆) is proposed. Bare silicon wafer substrate is functionalized and used to bind biomolecules in the solution. Coupled with a 45° dual-drive symmetric photoelastic modulator-based ellipsometry, the parameters Ψ and ∆ of biolayer arising due to biomolecular interactions are determined directly, and the refractive index (RI) of the solution and the effective thickness and surface mass density of the biolayer for various interaction time can be further monitored simultaneously. To illustrate the performance of the biosensing method, immunosensing for immunoglobulin G (IgG) was taken as a case study. The experiment results show that the biosensor response of the limit of detection for IgG is 15 ng/mL, and the data collection time is in milliseconds. Moreover, the method demonstrates a good specificity. Such technique is a promising candidate in developing a novel sensor which can realize fast and sensitive, label-free, easy operation, and cost-effective biosensing.
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- Kewu Li
- School of Information and Communication Engineering, North University of China, Taiyuan 030051, China.
- Engineering Technology Research Center of Shanxi Province for Opto-Electric Information and Instrument, Taiyuan 030051, China.
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- Engineering Technology Research Center of Shanxi Province for Opto-Electric Information and Instrument, Taiyuan 030051, China.
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- School of Information and Communication Engineering, North University of China, Taiyuan 030051, China.
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- Engineering Technology Research Center of Shanxi Province for Opto-Electric Information and Instrument, Taiyuan 030051, China.
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- School of Information and Communication Engineering, North University of China, Taiyuan 030051, China.
- Engineering Technology Research Center of Shanxi Province for Opto-Electric Information and Instrument, Taiyuan 030051, China.
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- Engineering Technology Research Center of Shanxi Province for Opto-Electric Information and Instrument, Taiyuan 030051, China.
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- School of Information and Communication Engineering, North University of China, Taiyuan 030051, China.
- Engineering Technology Research Center of Shanxi Province for Opto-Electric Information and Instrument, Taiyuan 030051, China.
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Teng C, Jing N, Yu F, Ding Y, Zheng J. Refractive index sensor based on a multi-notched plastic optical fiber. Appl Opt 2017; 56:1833-1838. [PMID: 28248378 DOI: 10.1364/ao.56.001833] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/06/2023]
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We propose a plastic optical fiber (POF) with a multi-notched structure as a long-period grating for refractive index (RI) sensing. A new approach to modify the structure of POFs with enhanced RI sensitivity was carried out. The multi-notched structure was made on the surface of the fiber by pressing a thread rod against the POF. The RI sensing performances for straight and macro-bending (U-shaped) POFs with this structure were studied. It is found that the POF probes with straight multi-notched structures were not sensitive enough for RI measurements. After bending the multi-notched structure into U-shaped probes, the RI sensing performance was improved markedly. By altering the structural parameters, the RI sensing performance of the U-shaped POF probes with multi-notched structures were optimized, and the highest sensitivity of 1130%/RIU with a resolution of 8.44×10-4RIU in the RI range of 1.333-1.410 was obtained. In addition, the characteristic of the temperature dependence of the sensor was presented. The probe is a low-cost solution for RI sensing purpose, which has the features of simple structure, easy fabrication, compact size, and intensity modulation at visible wavelengths.
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Li S, Chen YY, Wang ZB, Zhang MJ, Jing N. [Photo-Elastic Modulation Fourier Transform Spectrum Phase Correction and DSP Implementation]. Guang Pu Xue Yu Guang Pu Fen Xi 2017; 37:374-378. [PMID: 30264964] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
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Photo-elastic modulation Fourier transform spectrum (PEM-FTS) has the characteristics of fast modulation speed and large amount of information. However, because of the sampling position error and other reasons, there exists phase difference in the output interference data, which affects the accuracy of the reconstructed spectrum. Therefore, a phase correction scheme with high computing speed must be adopted. The 300K infrared blackbody was used as the radiant source in the experiment, and interference data were generated by the photo-elastic modulation interferometer. Mertz method is used to correct the phase of photo-elastic modulation interference data on the TMS320C6713 DSP (digital signal processor) chip. First a complete double interference data is extracted befroe the apodization processing to calculate the phase error of small double interference data, which takes the zero optical path as the center. Then a whole interference figure error phase is acquired with interpolating zero and the spectrum of the complete interference data and correcting phase are obtained at last . With two-norm to define the accuracy of corrected spectrum ,and using the method of calculating timer period register to count code running time, and observing program and data memory space in the file of command. The correction results of Mertz method and modulus square method were analysed comparatively. Experimental results show that Mertz method has advantages of fast speed, occupying less storage space and less correction error when implement phase correction on the DSP. And the operation time of Mertz phase correction method is 20 times faster than that of modulus square method.Consequently, it is suitable for high speed and accurate phase correction of PEM-FTS interference data.
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Yin LL, Jing N, Zhao ZY, Liu XH, Du J, Qin LL, Song JG, Xu Y. Relationship between the gene polymorphism of osteoprotegerin and bone mineral density in hemodialysis patients. Eur Rev Med Pharmacol Sci 2017; 21:37-41. [PMID: 28121359] [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: 06/06/2023]
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OBJECTIVE To investigate the relationship between the gene polymorphism of osteoprotegerin (OPG) and bone mineral density (BMD) in hemodialysis patients. PATIENTS AND METHODS A total of 147 patients with end-stage renal disease (ESRD) who were admitted to the Weifang People's Hospital for maintenance hemodialysis between January 2014 and December 2015 were enrolled. Peripheral blood was collected from the subjects for assay of the polymorphism of A163G and G1181C loci of OPG. The measurements of the levels of RANK, RANKL, TNF-α, IL-6, PINP, CTX-I, CTX-II and TRACP5 in the isolated serum were taken. RESULTS For the polymorphism of A163G locus on the OPG gene, the BMDs of left femoral neck and lumbar poster anterior L1-L4 of the AA genotype were significantly higher than those of the AG and GG genotypes. There was no significant difference in comparison of BMDs at the forearm (distal 1/3) between the AA genotype and AG and GG genotypes. No significant differences were found in the comparison of BMDs at all sites between AG and GG genotypes. The serum level of RANKL of the AA genotype was significantly higher than levels of AG and GG genotypes, but the levels of RANK, TNF-α, IL-6, PINP, CTX-I, CTX-II and TRACP5 were prominently lower than those levels of AG and GG genotypes. For the polymorphism of G1181C locus on the OPG gene, the BMDs of left femoral neck and lumbar poster anterior L1-L4 of the CC genotype were significantly higher than the BMDs of GG and GC genotypes, There was no significant difference in the comparison of BMDs at the forearm (distal 1/3) between the CC genotype and GG and GC genotypes. No significant differences were found in the comparison of BMDs at all sites between GG and GC genotypes. The serum level of RANKL of the CC genotype was significantly higher than the level of GG and GC genotypes. However, the levels of RANK, TNF-α, IL-6, PINP, CTX-I, CTX-II and TRACP5 were prominently lower than those levels of GG and GC genotypes. CONCLUSIONS The polymorphisms of A163G and G1181C loci on the OPG gene were correlated with the BMD of hemodialysis patients. The genotype AA of A163G and genotype CC of G1181C were identified as the protective factors for BMD.
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- L-L Yin
- Qingdao University, Qingdao, Shandong, P.R. China.
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Jing N, Teng C, Zhao X, Zheng J. Temperature dependence of a refractive index sensor based on a macrobending micro-plastic optical fiber. Appl Opt 2015; 54:1890-1893. [PMID: 25968362 DOI: 10.1364/ao.54.001890] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/12/2014] [Accepted: 01/22/2015] [Indexed: 06/04/2023]
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We investigate the temperature dependence of a refractive index (RI) sensor based on a macrobending micro-plastic optical fiber (m-POF) both theoretically and experimentally. The performance of the RI sensor at different temperatures (10°C-70°C) is measured and simulated over an RI range from 1.33 to 1.45. It is found that the temperature dependent bending loss and RI measurement deviation monotonically change with temperature, and the RI deviation has a higher gradient with temperature variation for a higher measured RI. Because of the linear trend of temperature dependence of the sensor, it is feasible to correct for changes in ambient temperature.
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Jing N, Zheng J, Zhao X, Teng C. Investigation of a macrobending micro-plastic optical fiber for refractive index sensing. Appl Opt 2014; 53:8145-8150. [PMID: 25607975 DOI: 10.1364/ao.53.008145] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/04/2023]
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This paper investigates a refractive index (RI) sensor based on a macrobending micro-plastic optical fiber (m-POF), which is used as a sensitive probe. The m-POFs are fabricated from commercial POFs using a heating and pulling method. The m-POFs have diameters of approximately 20-40 μm and act as multimode fibers at visible wavelengths. The macrobending structure of the m-POFs is simulated and optimized using the ray tracing method. The RI sensitivity and the range of RI measurements are affected by the structure parameter R/ρ, which is the ratio of the radius of curvature of the macrobending fiber to the radius of the fiber itself. A linear RI sensing response is obtained when R/ρ=20 and the sensitivity reaches 500%/RIU. The experimental results coincide well with the simulation results.
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Xue J, Liu Z, Zhu H, Niu X, Jing N. PW289 Anthocyanins Extracted From Lycium Ruthenicum Murray Alleciate Cardiac Cardiomyopathy In Experimental Diabetic Rats. Glob Heart 2014. [DOI: 10.1016/j.gheart.2014.03.2369] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022] Open
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Jing N, Lin ZH, Li ZF, Xie LD. GW24-e2105 The effects of ruanmailing on the reorganisation of cofilin, twinfilin-1 and profilin-1 induced by PDGF in vascular smooth muscle cells. Heart 2013. [DOI: 10.1136/heartjnl-2013-304613.189] [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: 11/03/2022]
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Zhang MJ, Zhang JL, Wang ZB, Jing N, Hao J. [Phase correction technology research and improvement based on single-sided interferograms in FTIR]. Guang Pu Xue Yu Guang Pu Fen Xi 2012; 32:1203-1208. [PMID: 22827054] [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: 06/01/2023]
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In the Fourier transform infrared spectrometers the interferograms are usually sampled by the means of the single-side beyond zero path difference and the interferograms are asymmetric. These phase-corrected technologies are researched and improved in the present paper. In the Mertz method which requires apodization to be higher, the interferograms are apodized by these asymmetric windows so that the width of the main lobe increases and spectral resolution reduced. In order to solve these problems, a method which combines the Mertz and Forman methods is presented in the paper. In the method a double-side interferogram is constructed by the mirrored processing of the single-side interferogram beyond zero path difference, followed by the symmetric apodization, fast Fourier transform (FFT) to rebuild spectrum. And in the method high resolution phase spectrum is computed by the symmetrization of double-side interfergram to improve the phase-correction accuracy. In the experiment, these asymmetric window functions have the lower resolution compared with these symmetric window functions. And the spectrum which is acquired by the improved phase corrected method is compared with the spectra which are acquired by the Mertz and Forman methods, and the improved method has less error than Mertz, less computation than Forman, and the spectral resolution achieved 2 cm(-1).
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- Min-juan Zhang
- Key Laboratory of Instrumentation Science & Dynamic Measurement (North University of China), Ministry of Education, Taiyuan 030051, China.
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Jing N, Reddy K, Guan Y. 103 Combination treatment of targeting Stat3 and HIF-1alpha is a potent strategy for prostate cancer therapy. EJC Suppl 2010. [DOI: 10.1016/s1359-6349(10)71808-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/18/2022] Open
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Kailing S, Jian W, Chunsong K, Jing N. e0370 Relation of cardiovascular risk factors to left ventricular geometric remodelling in young adults. Heart 2010. [DOI: 10.1136/hrt.2010.208967.370] [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: 11/04/2022]
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Jing J, Ren W, Chen X, Wang Y, Yu Q, Wang G, Davey AK, Wang J, Jing N. Glucuronide-sulfate diconjugate as a novel metabolite of glycyrrhetic acid in rat bile. Drug Metab Pharmacokinet 2008; 23:175-80. [PMID: 18574321 DOI: 10.2133/dmpk.23.175] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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To study the metabolites of glycyrrhetic acid (GA) in rat bile, an analytical method was developed to identify GA and its metabolites by liquid chromatography mass spectrometry (LC-MS). Rat bile was collected after i.v. injection of GA. Three major GA-related peaks were detectable in rat bile by high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) analysis at 254 nm. LC-MS spectra showed their protonated molecular ions at m/z 727, 647, and 551. Furthermore, the three metabolites were also confirmed to exist in rat bile on LC-MS total ion chromatogram (TIC). Taken together with the susceptible nature to beta-glucuronidase digestion and alkaline conditions, they were identified to be a novel sulfate-glucuronide diconjugate and the known monoglucuronide and sulfate conjugate, respectively.
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- Jing Jing
- Center of Drug Metabolism & Pharmacokinetics, China Pharmaceutical University, Jiangsu, China
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Chen X, Jing J, Ren W, Han DE, Jing N, Wang G. Determination of 5-aminoimidazole-4-carboxamide in human plasma by ion-pair extraction and LC–MS/MS. J Chromatogr B Analyt Technol Biomed Life Sci 2007; 855:140-4. [PMID: 17561451 DOI: 10.1016/j.jchromb.2007.04.036] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [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] [Received: 11/03/2006] [Revised: 04/04/2007] [Accepted: 04/24/2007] [Indexed: 11/15/2022]
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A liquid chromatography/tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS) method was established for the determination of 5-aminoimidazole-4-carboxamide (AICA) in human plasma. The method included a solvent extraction of AICA as an ion pair with 1-pentanesulfonate ion and a separation on a Hypersil ODS2 column with the mobile phase of methanol-water (68:32, v/v). Determination was performed using an electrospray ionization source in positive ion mode (ESI(+)). Multiple reaction monitoring (MRM) was utilized for the detection monitoring m/z at 127-->110 for AICA, and 172-->128 for IS. The calibration curve was linear within a range from 20 to 2000 ng/mL and the limit of quantity for AICA in plasma was 20 ng/mL. RSD of intra-assay and inter-assay were no more than 5.90% and 5.65%.
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- Xijing Chen
- Center of Drug Metabolism & Pharmacokinetics, China Pharmaceutical University, 24 Tongjiaxiang, Nanjing, China.
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Jin M, Wang XM, Tu Y, Zhang XH, Gao X, Guo N, Xie Z, Zhao G, Jing N, Li BM, Yu L. The negative cell cycle regulator, Tob (transducer of ErbB-2), is a multifunctional protein involved in hippocampus-dependent learning and memory. Neuroscience 2005; 131:647-59. [PMID: 15730870 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2004.10.044] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 10/03/2004] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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Tob (transducer of ErbB2) is a negative cell cycle regulator with anti-proliferative activity in the periphery. Using a behavioral screening paradigm to look for novel gene functions in the brain, we identified Tob as a brain-expressed protein involved in learning and memory. Behavioral training of fear-conditioning triggered a transient elevation of Tob protein, which preceded the formation of long-term memory. Functional perturbation of Tob by intra-CA1 infusion of antisense oligonucleotides in rats impaired spatial learning and memory in the Morris water maze and long-term memory for contextual fear conditioning, two behavioral paradigms that require the hippocampus. Furthermore, long-term potentiation was suppressed by Tob antisense infusion into the CA1 region. Together, these results indicate that the negative cell cycle regulator Tob is a multifunctional protein involved in hippocampus-dependent learning and memory.
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MESH Headings
- Amino Acid Sequence
- Animals
- Animals, Newborn
- Avoidance Learning/physiology
- Base Sequence
- Behavior, Animal/drug effects
- Behavior, Animal/physiology
- Blotting, Northern/methods
- Blotting, Western/methods
- Carrier Proteins/physiology
- Cloning, Molecular
- Conditioning, Classical/physiology
- Excitatory Postsynaptic Potentials/drug effects
- Excitatory Postsynaptic Potentials/radiation effects
- Fear
- Gene Expression/physiology
- Gene Expression Regulation/physiology
- Gene Library
- Hippocampus/metabolism
- Humans
- Intracellular Signaling Peptides and Proteins
- Long-Term Potentiation/drug effects
- Long-Term Potentiation/physiology
- Long-Term Potentiation/radiation effects
- Male
- Maze Learning
- Mice
- Mice, Inbred BALB C
- Mice, Inbred ICR
- Oligonucleotides/pharmacology
- Oligonucleotides, Antisense/pharmacology
- Rats
- Rats, Sprague-Dawley
- Reaction Time/drug effects
- Reaction Time/physiology
- Time Factors
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- M Jin
- Research Center of Biotechnology, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 500 Cao-Bao Road, Shanghai 200233, China
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Jing N, Li Y, Sha W, Xiong W, Tweardy D. 119 A novel strategy to inhibit Stat3 for human cancer therapy. EJC Suppl 2004. [DOI: 10.1016/s1359-6349(04)80127-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022] Open
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Tang K, Yang J, Gao X, Wang C, Liu L, Kitani H, Atsumi T, Jing N. Wnt-1 promotes neuronal differentiation and inhibits gliogenesis in P19 cells. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 2002; 293:167-73. [PMID: 12054580 DOI: 10.1016/s0006-291x(02)00215-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 70] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [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: 11/21/2022]
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Wnt-1, the vertebrate counterpart of the Drosophila wingless gene, plays an important role in the early morphogenesis of neural tissues. In this report, we have shown that overexpression of Wnt-1 can direct embryonic carcinoma P19 cells to differentiate into neuron-like cells in the absence of retinoic acid. Immunocytochemistry showed that these cells expressed neuronal markers, such as the neurofilament (NF) and microtubule-associated protein 2 (MAP2), but failed to express the glial cell marker, glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP). RT-PCR revealed that two basic helix-loop-helix (bHLH) genes, Mash-1 and Ngn-1, were up-regulated during the differentiation stage of Wnt-1-overexpressing P19 cells. These results suggest that the Wnt-1 gene promotes neuronal differentiation and inhibits gliogenesis during the neural differentiation of P19 cells, and that neural bHLH genes might be involved in this process.
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- K Tang
- Laboratory of Molecular Cell Biology, Institute of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 320 Yue Yang Road, Shanghai 200031, China
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Yang J, Cheng L, Yan Y, Bian W, Tomooka Y, Shiurba R, Jing N. Mouse nestin cDNA cloning and protein expression in the cytoskeleton of transfected cells. Biochim Biophys Acta 2001; 1520:251-4. [PMID: 11566362 DOI: 10.1016/s0167-4781(01)00275-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Complementary DNA (cDNA) corresponding to mouse nestin intermediate filament protein, a specific marker for neural stem cells, was isolated and characterized. The complete sequence comprised 5983 base pairs encoding 1821 amino acids, and the deduced polypeptide was similar to rat (84%), hamster (73%), and human (62%) nestin. Southern blots showed that mouse nestin was a single-copy gene, and Northern blots detected a 6.0 kilobase mRNA transcript. When the cDNA was overexpressed as an enhanced green fluorescent fusion protein in COS7 cells, nestin immunoreactivity appeared in the filamentous cytoskeletal network. Accordingly, biologically active mouse nestin cDNA may offer an important new tool for stem cell research.
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- J Yang
- Institute of Biochemstry and Cell Biology, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, PR China
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DNA oligonucleotides as anti-HIV therapeutic agents have been developed for more than a decade. Numbers of oligonucleotides have been designed as potential anti-HIV inhibitors. Here we summarized the designed anti-viral oligonucleotides in last decade and divided the designed DNA HIV inhibitors into three categories: (i) antisense inhibitors, (ii) triplex inhibitors and (iii) G-quartet inhibitors, based upon their inhibitory mechanism and structures. Also we proposed a strategy of rational drug design of anti-HIV oligonucleotides, which includes several critical steps, such as (1) structure-based rational drug design, (2) chemical synthesis/combinational chemistry, (3) the determination of structural properties, (4) assays of the inhibition of HIV-1 IN and virus replication, and (5) 3D QSAR operation. This methodology has been used by the design of G-quartet inhibitors.
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- N Jing
- Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030, USA.
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Jing N, Marchand C, Guan Y, Liu J, Pallansch L, Lackman-Smith C, De Clercq E, Pommier Y. Structure-activity of inhibition of HIV-1 integrase and virus replication by G-quartet oligonucleotides. DNA Cell Biol 2001; 20:499-508. [PMID: 11560782 DOI: 10.1089/104454901316976136] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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As novel anti-HIV agents, the G-tetrad-forming oligonucleotides have been explored for their structure-activity relations with regard to inhibition of integrase (IN) (N. Jing, Expert Opin. Investig. Drugs (2000) 9, 1777-1785). We have now developed two families of G-quartet oligonucleotides: T40217-T40222, with potential formation of a tail-to-tail G-quartet dimer, and T40224-T40227, with phosphorothioate (PT) linkages in the guanine loops. The results obtained from biophysical measurements and the assays of the inhibition of HIV-1 IN and virus replication demonstrated that an increase in the length of the G-quartet structure from a monomer (15A) to a tail-to-tail dimer (47A) does not distinctly disrupt the inhibition of HIV-1 IN activity or the inhibition of HIV-1 replication in cell cultures. G-quartet oligonucleotides were observed to induce molecular aggregation of HIV-1 IN and interrupt the binding of viral DNA to HIV-1 IN. Also, PT substitutions did not confer any advantages compared with the regular phosphodiesters for the inhibition of HIV-1 replication by intramolecular G-quartets. The G-quartet motif is the primary requirement for the remarkable nuclease resistance and pronounced biological efficacy of these oligonucleotides.
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- N Jing
- Section of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas 77030, USA.
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Gao X, Bian W, Yang J, Tang K, Kitani H, Atsumi T, Jing N. A role of N-cadherin in neuronal differentiation of embryonic carcinoma P19 cells. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 2001; 284:1098-103. [PMID: 11414696 DOI: 10.1006/bbrc.2001.5089] [Citation(s) in RCA: 79] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [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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N-cadherin is one of the important molecules for cell to cell interaction in the development of the central nervous system (CNS). In this report, we have shown that N-cadherin mRNA and protein were increased rapidly in retinoic acid (RA)-induced neuronal differentiation of embryonic carcinoma P19 cells. To explore possible roles for N-cadherin during this process, N-cadherin-overexpressing P19 cell lines were established. These transfected cells could differentiate into neurofilament-expressing neurons in the absence of RA. RT-PCR revealed that the expression patterns of development-related genes, such as Oct-3/4, nestin, Notch-1, and Mash-1 were similar between the transfected P19 cells and the RA-induced wild-type P19 cells during their neuronal differentiation. On the contrary, the Wnt-1 gene was up-regulated in the N-cadherin-overexpressing P19 cells, but could not be detected in the wild-type P19 cells. These results suggest N-cadherin may play a role in neuronal differentiation of P19 cells, possibly through the Wnt-1 signaling pathway.
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- X Gao
- Institute of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 320 Yue Yang Road, Shanghai, 200031, China
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To elucidate the molecular mechanism underlying the physiological responses to injury in the central nervous system, gene expression profiles in rodent hippocampus following perforant path transection were investigated using cDNA array hybridization. Of the 8000 arrayed clones, 47 exhibited differential expression by >3-fold difference in the denervated hippocampus from control, with 15 up-regulated and 22 down-regulated. They can be functionally assigned into several classes, among which the most prominent are those coding proteins involved in macromolecules synthesis and processing. Northern blot analysis verified the validation of the aforementioned array data. These results throw some new light on the physiological responses of the hippocampus to entorhinal deafferentation at molecular level.
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- G Ying
- Laboratory of Neurobiology, Institute of Physiology, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 320 Yue-Yang Road, 200031, P.R., Shanghai, China
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The neuronal growth cone, a highly motile structure at the distal tip of growing axons, contains filamentous actin and microtubules as its main cytoskeletal components. Using immunocytochemistry, we observed that nestin, which is the predominant intermediate filament protein in neuroepithelial cells and young neurons of the developing brain, appears to be strongly expressed in neurites and growth cones of neurons differentiating from P19 embryonic carcinoma cells in vitro. Double-staining of nestin and microtubule-associated protein-2 as well as nestin and growth-associated protein-43 revealed that nestin protein localizes in neurites and the central regions of growth cones of primary cultures of cerebellar granule cells from postnatal day 6 mice. These results suggest a role for nestin in growth cone guidance during axon elongation.
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- Y Yan
- Institute of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 320 Yue Yang Road, 200031, Shanghai, China
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Zhang X, Lu X, Jing N, Zhu S. cDNA cloning and functional expression of growth hormone receptor from soft-shelled turtle (Pelodiscus sinensis japonicus). Gen Comp Endocrinol 2000; 119:265-75. [PMID: 11017774 DOI: 10.1006/gcen.2000.7530] [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] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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The growth hormone receptor (GHR) cDNA was cloned from the liver of soft-shelled turtle (Pelodiscus sinensis japonicus) using the polymerase chain reaction (PCR). Although GHR has been cloned from several mammalian and avian species, this is the first description of the reptilian receptor. As deduced from the nucleotide sequence, the precursor GHR of soft-shelled turtle (tGHR) is a protein of 615 amino acids which presents 72% identity with the chicken receptor and 57-64% identity with GHRs of several mammals. The tGHR expressed in COS-7 cells specifically bound human growth hormone (hGH) and was able to transduce an activation of transcription in the transfected cells. Binding of (125)I-hGH to the expressed receptor was decreased by the addition of excess unlabeled hGH, pig GH, and bream GH but not by pig insulin. The open reading frame of tGHR cDNA was inserted into the pSINrep/gfp (green fluorescence protein) vector and the tGHR-gfp fusion protein was stably expressed in baby hamster kidney (BHK) cells. Confocal imaging showed that tGHR-gfp was largely concentrated on the plasma membrane. Western blot analysis and deglycosylation treatment with PNGase F demonstrated that tGHR was a glycoprotein in BHK cells.
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- X Zhang
- Shanghai Institute of Biochemistry, Academia Sinica, Shanghai 200031, China
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Recently, a new class of oligonucleotides, forming G-quartet structures, has been developed as novel anti-HIV agents. Several critical structure-activity relationships between HIV-1 integrase and G-quartet oligonucleotides have been demonstrated. In addition the mechanism of the inhibition of HIV-1 integrase by G-quartet oligonucleotides, such as T30695 and its derivatives, has been explored. This review summarises the preliminary studies of developing G-quartet oligonucleotides as novel anti-HIV agents in several aspects including structure-activity relationship, stability-activity correlation, mechanism of HIV-1 integrase inhibition, substitution of phosphorothioates and targeting HIV-1 integrase in infected cells, which, hopefully, could help for developing a novel, efficient anti-HIV agent.
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- N Jing
- Department of Molecular Physiology & Biophysics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030, USA.
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Jing N, Marchand C, Liu J, Mitra R, Hogan ME, Pommier Y. Mechanism of inhibition of HIV-1 integrase by G-tetrad-forming oligonucleotides in Vitro. J Biol Chem 2000; 275:21460-7. [PMID: 10801812 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m001436200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 84] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [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: 11/06/2022] Open
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The G-tetrad-forming oligonucleotides and have been identified as potent inhibitors of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 integrase (HIV-1 IN) activity (Rando, R. F., Ojwang, J., Elbaggari, A., Reyes, G. R., Tinder, R., McGrath, M. S., and Hogan, M. E. (1995) J. Biol. Chem. 270, 1754-1760; Mazumder, A., Neamati, N., Ojwang, J. O., Sunder, S., Rando, R. F., and Pommier, Y. (1996) Biochemistry 35, 13762-13771; Jing, N., and Hogan, M. E. (1998) J. Biol. Chem. 273, 34992-34999). To understand the inhibition of HIV-1 IN activity by the G-quartet inhibitors, we have designed the oligonucleotides and, composed of three and four G-quartets with stem lengths of 19 and 24 A, respectively. The fact that increasing the G-quartet stem length from 15 to 24 A kept inhibition of HIV-1 IN activity unchanged suggests that the binding interaction occurs between a GTGT loop domain of the G-quartet inhibitors and a catalytic site of HIV-1 IN, referred to as a face-to-face interaction. Docking the NMR structure of (Jing and Hogan (1998)) into the x-ray structure of the core domain of HIV-1 IN, HIV-1 IN-(51-209) (Maignan, S., Guilloteau, J.-P. , Qing, Z.-L., Clement-Mella, C., and Mikol, V. (1998) J. Mol. Biol. 282, 359-368), was performed using the GRAMM program. The statistical distributions of hydrogen bonding between HIV-1 IN and were obtained from the analyses of 1000 random docking structures. The docking results show a high probability of interaction between the GTGT loop residues of the G-quartet inhibitors and the catalytic site of HIV-1 IN, in agreement with the experimental observation.
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- N Jing
- Department of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas 77030, USA.
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Nestin is an intermediate filament protein, which is expressed predominantly in the developing central nervous system and skeletal muscles. In situ hybridization revealed that mouse nestin mRNA is in the optic stalk at 9.0 days post coitus (dpc) and in the lens vesicle at 10.0 dpc. From 14.5 dpc onward, nestin transcripts appear in lens fibers and neuroretina. Immunohistochemistry showed that nestin protein appears in the optic stalk at 9.5 dpc and in the posterior lens epithelium at 10.5 dpc. By 12.5 dpc, it is found in the lens, neuroretina, and optic stalk as well as in developing extrinsic ocular muscle, and it localizes in lens epithelium, optic disc, and optic nerve from 14.5 dpc to postnatal day 1. In adult eye, nestin protein appears in the optic nerve.
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- J Yang
- Shanghai Institute of Biochemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shangei, People's Republic of China
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Wang F, Zhao F, Guo J, Jing N. [Mechanism of impairment to microtubule polymerization resulting from zinc deficiency during pregnancy and lactation in mice]. Wei Sheng Yan Jiu 2000; 29:156-8. [PMID: 12725061] [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: 03/02/2023]
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To probe into the mechanism of zinc deficiency on microtubule polymerization impairment, the learning ability and the levels of alpha-tubulin, beta-tubulin and microtubule-associated protein 2 expression in the brain of zinc deficient offsprings, maternal ICR mice were fed with experiment diets containing different levels of zinc(1, 5, 30 and 100 mg/kg) during pregnancy and lactation respectively. On the postnatal day 70 of offsprings, the learning ability and the expression of alpha-tubulin, beta-tubulin and microtubule-associated protein 2 in the brain were examined by shuttle box and Western blot assays respectively. The results showed that the number of trials needed to reach the learning criterion for zinc deficient groups (1 and 5 mg/kg) was much higher than that for non zinc deficient groups (30 and 100 mg/kg). The levels of alpha-tubulin, beta-tubulin and microtubule-associated protein 2 expression in the brain of zinc deficient offsprings (1 and 5 mg/kg) were lower than those in the brain of offsprings whose dams fed with zinc adequately supplied diet (30 mg/kg) and zinc supplemented supplied diet (100 mg/kg) respectively. These results suggested that the inhibition of alpha-tubulin, beta-tubulin and microtubule-associated protein 2 expression might be the most important mechanism of microtubule polymerization decline resulting from zinc deficiency, which had close relationship with brain function impairment.
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- F Wang
- Department of Public Health, Second Military Medical University, Shanghai 200433, China
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Jing N, De Clercq E, Rando RF, Pallansch L, Lackman-Smith C, Lee S, Hogan ME. Stability-activity relationships of a family of G-tetrad forming oligonucleotides as potent HIV inhibitors. A basis for anti-HIV drug design. J Biol Chem 2000; 275:3421-30. [PMID: 10652335 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.275.5.3421] [Citation(s) in RCA: 45] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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Recently, we have demonstrated that T30695, a G-tetrad-forming oligonucleotide, is a potent inhibitor of human immunodeficiency virus, type I (HIV-1) integrase and the K(+)-induced loop folding of T30695 plays a key role in the inhibition of HIV-1 integrase (Jing, N., and Hogan, M. E. (1998) J. Biol. Chem. 273, 34992-34999). Here we have modified T30695 by introducing a hydrophobic bulky group, propynyl dU, or a positively charged group, 5-amino dU, into the bases of T residues of the loops, and by substitution of the T-G loops by T-T loops. Physical measurements have demonstrated that the substitution of propynyl dU or 5-amino dU for T in the T residues of the loops did not alter the structure of T30695, and these derivatives also formed an intramolecular G-quartet structure, which is an essential requirement for anti-HIV activity. Measured IC(50) and EC(50) values show that these substitutions did not induce an apparent decrease in the ability to inhibit HIV-1 integrase activity and in the inhibition of HIV-1 replication in cell culture. However, the substitution of T-T loops for T-G loops induced a substantial decrease in both thermal stability and anti-HIV activity. The data analysis of T30695 and the 21 derivatives shows a significant, functional correlation between thermal stability of the G-tetrad structure and the capacity to inhibit HIV-1 integrase activity and between thermal stability of the G-tetrad structure and the capacity to inhibit HIV-1 replication, as assessed with the virus strains HIV-1 RF, IIIB, and MN in cell culture. This relationship between thermostability and activity provides a basis for improving the efficacy of these compounds to inhibit HIV-1 integrase activity and HIV-1 replication in cell culture.
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- N Jing
- Department of Molecular Physiology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas 77030, USA
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Recently, we have described the design and characterization of oligonucleotides containing only G and T bases, i.e. T30695 and T30177, that are potent inhibitors of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) replication in culture (Jing, N., Rando, R. F., Pommier, Y., and Hogan, M. E. (1997) Biochemistry 36, 12498-12505). To understand that observation and to rationalize the generally high thermal stability of oligonucleotide folding for these compounds, we have used NMR methods, coupled to molecular modeling, to obtain a high resolution structure model for T30695, which is the most potent of the integrase inhibitors that have been identified thus far. Modeling and NMR data obtained in the presence of Li+ ions show that T30695 assumes an intramolecular fold with a distorted G-octet core and a set of three open, partially disordered loops. This is referred to as Li+-form structure. The NMR-based model suggests that, upon coordination with three K+ equivalents, the central G-octet becomes more regular and that the loop domains become orderly and compact. This is referred to as K+-form structure. Based upon the assay of inhibition of HIV-1 integrase, T30695 demonstrated a strong inhibition of HIV-1 integrase activity as the K+-form structure, but a poor inhibition of HIV-1 integrase activity as the Li+-form structure. The structure/activity analysis suggests that the K+-induced conformation transition of the tetrad-forming oligonucleotides, such as T30695 and T30177, plays a key role in inhibition of HIV-1 integrase activity.
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- N Jing
- Department of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas 77030, USA.
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Loss of heterozygosity (LOH) of chromosome arm 3p has been commonly observed in carcinomas of various tissues, including those of nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC). To determine the frequency and extent of allelic loss in NPC, we investigated 16 loci on chromosome bands 3p21-26 in 24 tumor tissues by microsatellite analysis. LOH on 3p21-26 was found in 16 of 24 (66.7%) tumors. The highest frequency of allelic loss was found in two adjacent loci, D3S1620 (11/22, 50%) and D3S1560 (9/18, 50%). Eight cases showed LOH in one contiguous region and 5 cases in more than one region. Samples 1, 3, 4, 7, 8, 10, 16, 17, 18, 19, and 22 had a contiguous stretch of allelic loss between D3S1297 and D3S1597. The smallest common LOH/deletion region seems likely to lie between D3S1297 (3p26.3-26.2) and D3S1560 (3p25.3). The allelic loss map defined here will facilitate finer mapping of putative tumor suppressor gene loci and positional cloning of such genes, which may play a role in carcinogenesis of NPC.
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- L Deng
- Cancer Research Institute and Xiang-Ya Hospital, Hunan Medical University, China.
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