Wheat gliadin nanoparticles were prepared by antisolvent precipitation, and gum arabic (GA) was added to improve the stability of the nanoparticles. Effect of pH, gliadin/GA ratio and gliadin concentration on the glia...
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Wheat gliadin nanoparticles were prepared by antisolvent precipitation, and gum arabic (GA) was added to improve the stability of the nanoparticles. Effect of pH, gliadin/GA ratio and gliadin concentration on the gliadin-GA particles were studied by turbidimetric measurement. Spinodal lines for the GA-gliadin-solvent system were built under different pH. The influences of gliadin/GA ratio and their concentrations were represented in the diagram, thus the conditions for preparing stable composite were defined. The stability of GA-coated gliadin nanoparticles (Gliadin/GA = 1:3) was further studied compared with un-coated gliadin particles. GA-coated nanoparticles had a relatively good stability at pH 4.0-7.0 and remained a relatively low particle size with the elevated ionic strengths. They also had good thermal stability at 80 degrees C. Moreover, the interactions between gliadin particles and GA under different pH were further investigated. Hydrogen bonding was found to be the predominant force at pH 5.0, while hydrophobic force took charge of the formation of complex at pH 7.0. The findings are of great importance for extending the current knowledge about gliadin nanoparticles coupled with polysaccharides, thus providing valuable information for the development of gliadin-polysaccharide nanoparticles as potential nano-delivery systems. (C) 2018 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
With the dense deployment of small cell networks, low-cost backhaul schemes for small cell base stations (SBSs) have attracted great attentions. Self-backhaul using cellular communication technology is considered as a...
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With the dense deployment of small cell networks, low-cost backhaul schemes for small cell base stations (SBSs) have attracted great attentions. Self-backhaul using cellular communication technology is considered as a promising solution. Although some excellent works have been done on self-backhaul in small cell networks, most of them do not consider the recent advances of full-duplex (FD) and massive multiple-input and multiple-output (MIMO) technologies. In this paper, we propose a self-backhaul scheme for small cell networks by combining FD and massive MIMO technologies. In our proposed scheme, the macro base station (MBS) is equipped with massive MIMO antennas, and the SBSs have the FD communication ability. By treating the SBSs as special macro users, we can achieve the simultaneous transmissions of the access link of users and the backhaul link of SBSs in the same frequency. Furthermore, considering the existence of inter-tier and intra-tier interference, we formulate the power allocation problem of the MBS and SBSs as an optimization problem. Because the formulated power allocation problem is a non-convex problem, we transform the original problem into a difference of convex program by successive convex approximation method and variable transformation, and then solve it using a constrained concave convex procedure based iterative algorithm. Finally, extensive simulations are conducted with different system configurations to verify the effectiveness of the proposed scheme.
Angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 (ACE2) is considered as an endogenous negative regulator of renin-angiotensin system (RAS), exerting multiple cardiovascular protective roles. Whether mechanical stretch modulates ACE2 ...
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Angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 (ACE2) is considered as an endogenous negative regulator of renin-angiotensin system (RAS), exerting multiple cardiovascular protective roles. Whether mechanical stretch modulates ACE2 expression remains unknown. The present study aimed at investigating whether ACE2 is involved in physiological stretch (10% elongation, 1 Hz) mediated cellular functions and the underlying mechanism. Cultured human aortic smooth muscle cells (HASMCs) were exposed to 10% stretch for indicated time, and real-time PCR and Western blot analysis showed 10% stretch increased ACE2 expression and activity significantly compared with static conditions and increased Ang-(1-7) level, but decreased Ang II level;Brdu incorporation assay and Scratch test showed that ACE2 was involved in the inhibition of HASMCs proliferation and migration by 10% stretch;the Dual-Luciferase Reporter Assay demonstrated that 10% increased ACE2 promoter activity, but had no effect on ACE2 mRNA stability;kinase inhibition study and Electrophoretic mobility shift assay (EMSA) showed that JNK1/2 and PKC beta II pathway, as well as their downstream transcription factors, AP-1 and NF-kappa B, were involved in 10% stretch induced ACE2 expression. In conclusion, our study indicates ACE2 is a mechanosensitive gene, and may represent a potential therapeutic target for mechanical forces related vascular diseases.
Based on the theory of one-way wave propagation in a 1-D viscoelastic medium, we propose an inversion method to estimate the Q-factor and velocity using the Gauss-Newton method. To speed up the computation, we derive ...
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Aim: This study aims to evaluate the genetic and population structure of Vibrio parahaemolyticus in the major coastal regions of china. Materials & methods: Multilocus sequence typing was performed. Results: Inser...
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Aim: This study aims to evaluate the genetic and population structure of Vibrio parahaemolyticus in the major coastal regions of china. Materials & methods: Multilocus sequence typing was performed. Results: Insertion of large sequence into recA happened in nearly 30 strains, which were untypeable by multilocus sequence typing. A collection of 307V. parahaemolyticus isolates were typed into 160 sequence types, including 117 novel ones. eBURST analysis revealed five clonal complexes, 11 doublets, and 108 singletons. The 160 sequence types formed two main lineages in the phylogenetic analysis. Conclusion:V. parahaemolyticus along the Chinese coastal regions exhibits high levels of genetic diversity and has undergone significant purifying selection and frequent recombination. A deeper understanding of V. parahaemolyticus genetic diversity could be obtained at the level of genome sequences.
Total twenty-five 7-formyl-naphthyridyl-urea derivatives were designed, synthesized and evaluated for their inhibition of FGFR4 kinase and antitumor activity. The pharmacological data indicated that most of the tested...
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Total twenty-five 7-formyl-naphthyridyl-urea derivatives were designed, synthesized and evaluated for their inhibition of FGFR4 kinase and antitumor activity. The pharmacological data indicated that most of the tested compounds showed high selectivity towards FGFR4 kinase and could significantly inhibit FGFR4 and the tumor cells lines with the high expression of FGFR4. In particular, compounds 6f, 6g, 6h, 6l, 6m and 6s showed a good performance in pharmacokinetic tests. When tested in mice, the representative compound 6f was found to have good pharmacokinetic parameters, low toxicity, and better tumor inhibiting activity in vivo.
To understand more clearly about true characteristics of walnut protein, dehulled walnut kernels were used to prepare proteins, thus influences of polyphenols on proteins were minimized. Based on solubility, glutelin ...
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To understand more clearly about true characteristics of walnut protein, dehulled walnut kernels were used to prepare proteins, thus influences of polyphenols on proteins were minimized. Based on solubility, glutelin was found to be the predominant walnut protein (67.64% of total walnut proteins), meanwhile albumin and globulin accounted for 32.29%. SDS-PAGE and two-dimensional electrophoresis results showed that polypeptide profiles for albumin, globulin and glutelin exhibited significant differences. Walnut protein contained major polypeptides of MWs 30-35 kDa (pI 5.5-7.5) and 17-22 kDa (pI 9.0-10.0), along with minor polypeptides of MWs 50-73 kDa (pI 6.0-7.5) and 11-13 kDa (pI about 6.3). Disulfide bonds-linked polypeptides in walnut protein were determined with diagonal electrophoresis, and intermolecular disulfide bonds among polypeptides with MWs 30-34 kDa and 17-22 kDa were dominant. Further analysis by MALDI-TOF/TOF-MS showed that main components of walnut proteins were vicilin and legumin-like proteins. Through high-speed shearing (15,000 rpm) treatment at 60 degrees C for 5 min, walnut protein solubility were greatly increased from 24.33% to 62.81% at pH 8.0 and from 50.93% to 76.65% at pH 9.0. high-speed shearing treatment, especially at basic pH, could be a better way to improve protein solubility, with decreased particle sizes and more globulin and glutelin solubilized.
A silver catalyzed domino reaction of N-cyanamide alkenes and 1,3-dicarbonyls including 1,3-diketones and ethyl acetoacetate has been developed for the facile synthesis of quinazolinones. In the presence of AgNO3/K2S2...
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A silver catalyzed domino reaction of N-cyanamide alkenes and 1,3-dicarbonyls including 1,3-diketones and ethyl acetoacetate has been developed for the facile synthesis of quinazolinones. In the presence of AgNO3/K2S2O8, the diketones could be converted to radicals and coupled with N-cyanamide alkenes to undergo a cyclization cascade for accessing quinazolinones. This method features mild reaction conditions, readily available starting materials, and valuable synthetic utility. Moreover, the products could be further transformed into various heterocycles.
Photon-limited imaging has significant application under extreme environments, in which the photon efficiency is an important parameter. In this paper, we investigate the photon efficiency of computational ghost imagi...
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Photon-limited imaging has significant application under extreme environments, in which the photon efficiency is an important parameter. In this paper, we investigate the photon efficiency of computational ghost imaging with single-photon detection. By exploiting the Poisson statistical characteristics of single-photon counting, the relationships between the photon efficiency and the signal-to-noise ratio of the retrieved image are theoretically obtained, and both are closely related to the distribution characteristics of target and spatial modulation in the ghost imaging framework. To verify the availability of the built theoretical model for the photon efficiency, a specific computational ghost imaging with a binary object and the first-photon imaging algorithm is rigorously demonstrated in theory and in experiment. Our investigation paves the way for optimization of photon-limited ghost imaging. (C) 2018 Optical Society of America
With one single photon camera (SPC), imaging under ultra weak-lighting conditions may have wide-ranging applications ranging from remote sensing to night vision, but it may seriously suffer from the problem of under-s...
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With one single photon camera (SPC), imaging under ultra weak-lighting conditions may have wide-ranging applications ranging from remote sensing to night vision, but it may seriously suffer from the problem of under-sampled inherent in SPC detection. Some approaches have been proposed to solve the under-sampled problem by detecting the objects many times to generate high-resolution images and performing noise reduction to suppress the Poission noise inherent in low-flux operation. To address the under-sampled problem more effectively, a new approach is developed in this paper to reconstruct high-resolution images with lower-noise by seamlessly integrating low-light-level imaging with deep learning. In our new approach, all the objects are detected only once by SPC, where a deep network is learned to reduce noise and reconstruct high-resolution images from the detected noisy under-sampled images. In order to demonstrate our proposal is feasible, we first select a special category to verify by experiment, which are human faces. Such deep network is able to recover high-resolution and lower-noise face images from new noisy under-sampled face images and the resolution can achieve 4x up-scaling factor. Our experimental results have demonstrated that our proposed method can generate high-quality images from only similar to 0.2 detected signal photon per pixel. (C) 2018 Optical Society of America under the terms of the OSA Open Access Publishing Agreement
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