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Tamam L, Menahem T, Mastai Y, Sloutskin E, Yefet S, Deutsch M. Langmuir films of chiral molecules on mercury. LANGMUIR : THE ACS JOURNAL OF SURFACES AND COLLOIDS 2009; 25:5111-5119. [PMID: 19256463 DOI: 10.1021/la804109h] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/27/2023]
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Homo- and heterochiral Langmuir films of a chiral derivative of stearic acid are studied in situ on the surface of liquid mercury as a function of surface coverage by surface tensiometry and surface-specific synchrotron X-ray diffraction and reflectivity. A transition from a phase of surface-parallel molecules to a phase of standing-up molecules is found. The former shows no surface-parallel long-range order. The standing-up phase of both homochiral and heterochiral compositions exhibit long-range order. However, the former has an oblique unit cell with parallel molecular planes, and the later has a centered rectangular unit cell with a herringbone molecular packing. For both cases, the standing-up molecules are tilted by 44 degrees from the surface normal and pack at a density of 19.5 A(2)/molecule in the plane normal to the molecular long axis. Important differences are found, and discussed, between this behavior and that of a Langmuir film of the nonchiral stearic acid on mercury.
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Arpesella C, Back HO, Balata M, Bellini G, Benziger J, Bonetti S, Brigatti A, Caccianiga B, Cadonati L, Calaprice F, Carraro C, Cecchet G, Chavarria A, Chen M, Dalnoki-Veress F, D'Angelo D, de Bari A, de Bellefon A, de Kerret H, Derbin A, Deutsch M, di Credico A, di Pietro G, Eisenstein R, Elisei F, Etenko A, Fernholz R, Fomenko K, Ford R, Franco D, Freudiger B, Galbiati C, Gatti F, Gazzana S, Giammarchi M, Giugni D, Goeger-Neff M, Goldbrunner T, Goretti A, Grieb C, Hagner C, Hampel W, Harding E, Hardy S, Hartman FX, Hertrich T, Heusser G, Ianni A, Ianni A, Joyce M, Kiko J, Kirsten T, Kobychev V, Korga G, Korschinek G, Kryn D, Lagomarsino V, Lamarche P, Laubenstein M, Lendvai C, Leung M, Lewke T, Litvinovich E, Loer B, Lombardi P, Ludhova L, Machulin I, Malvezzi S, Manecki S, Maneira J, Maneschg W, Manno I, Manuzio D, Manuzio G, Martemianov A, Masetti F, Mazzucato U, McCarty K, McKinsey D, Meindl Q, Meroni E, Miramonti L, Misiaszek M, Montanari D, Monzani ME, Muratova V, Musico P, Neder H, Nelson A, Niedermeier L, Oberauer L, Obolensky M, Orsini M, Ortica F, Pallavicini M, Papp L, Parmeggiano S, Perasso L, Pocar A, Raghavan RS, Ranucci G, Rau W, Razeto A, Resconi E, Risso P, Romani A, Rountree D, Sabelnikov A, Saldanha R, Salvo C, Schimizzi D, Schönert S, Shutt T, Simgen H, Skorokhvatov M, Smirnov O, Sonnenschein A, Sotnikov A, Sukhotin S, Suvorov Y, Tartaglia R, Testera G, Vignaud D, Vitale S, Vogelaar RB, von Feilitzsch F, von Hentig R, von Hentig T, Wojcik M, Wurm M, Zaimidoroga O, Zavatarelli S, Zuzel G. Direct measurement of the 7Be solar neutrino flux with 192 days of borexino data. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2008; 101:091302. [PMID: 18851600 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.101.091302] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/09/2008] [Indexed: 05/26/2023]
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We report the direct measurement of the 7Be solar neutrino signal rate performed with the Borexino detector at the Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso. The interaction rate of the 0.862 MeV 7Be neutrinos is 49+/-3stat+/-4syst counts/(day.100 ton). The hypothesis of no oscillation for 7Be solar neutrinos is inconsistent with our measurement at the 4sigma C.L. Our result is the first direct measurement of the survival probability for solar nu(e) in the transition region between matter-enhanced and vacuum-driven oscillations. The measurement improves the experimental determination of the flux of 7Be, pp, and CNO solar nu(e), and the limit on the effective neutrino magnetic moment using solar neutrinos.
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Huotari S, Hämäläinen K, Diamant R, Sharon R, Kao CC, Deutsch M. Intrashell electron-interaction-mediated photoformation of hollow atoms near threshold. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2008; 101:043001. [PMID: 18764322 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.101.043001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/26/2007] [Indexed: 05/26/2023]
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Double photoionization (DPI) of an atom by a single photon is a direct consequence of electron-electron interactions within the atom. We have measured the evolution of the K-shell DPI from threshold up in transition metals by high-resolution x-ray emission spectroscopy of the Kh alpha hypersatellites, photoexcited by monochromatized synchrotron radiation. The measured evolution of the single-to-double photoionization cross-section ratio with excitation energy was found to be universal. Theoretical fits suggest that near threshold DPI is predominantly a semiclassical knockout effect, rather than the purely quantum-mechanical shake-off observed at the infinite photon energy limit.
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Li X, Ding C, Yang Y, Smith R, Deutsch M, Beriwal S, Heron D, Huq M. SU-GG-J-26: An Accuracy Improvement of Ultrasound-CT Modality for Ultrasound Guided Prostate IMRT Planning. Med Phys 2008. [DOI: 10.1118/1.2961583] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022] Open
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Sloutskin E, Huber P, Wolff M, Ocko BM, Madsen A, Sprung M, Schön V, Baumert J, Deutsch M. Dynamics and critical damping of capillary waves in an ionic liquid. PHYSICAL REVIEW. E, STATISTICAL, NONLINEAR, AND SOFT MATTER PHYSICS 2008; 77:060601. [PMID: 18643206 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.77.060601] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/20/2007] [Revised: 05/02/2008] [Indexed: 05/26/2023]
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The dynamics of thermal capillary waves (CWs) on an ionic liquid's surface are studied at the transition from propagating to overdamped CWs by x-ray photon correlation spectroscopy. The analysis considers both homodyne and heterodyne contributions, and yields excellent full line-shape experiment-theory agreement for the structure factor. The CWs' Brillouin scattering becomes extinct at a critical temperature Tc JK approximately 10 K above Tc LL , the propagating modes' hydrodynamic limit, in agreement with linear response theory. Surprisingly, the same power law applies at both Tc. The results rule out the presence of a suggested surface dipole layer.
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Ding C, Li X, Yang Y, Smith R, Deutsch M, Beriwal S, Heron D, Huq M. SU-DD-A3-06: The Impact of Probe Angle and Tissue Elastic Module in Ultrasound-Guided Prostate IMRT. Med Phys 2008. [DOI: 10.1118/1.2961367] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022] Open
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Deutsch M, Vassilopoulos D, Sevastos N, Papadimitriou A, Vasiliou K, Archimandritis AJ. Severe rhabdomyolysis with hypoglycemia in an adult patient with carnitine palmitoyltransferase II deficiency. Eur J Intern Med 2008; 19:289-91. [PMID: 18471680 DOI: 10.1016/j.ejim.2007.04.025] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/05/2007] [Revised: 03/19/2007] [Accepted: 04/19/2007] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Carnitine palmitoyltransferase II (CPT2) deficiency is an inherited disorder associated with rhabdomyolysis. The adult form of CPT2 deficiency is usually "benign", characterized by episodes of rhabdomyolysis without extramuscular manifestations and with a good outcome, while the infantile type characteristically presents with severe metabolic symptoms such as hypoketotic hypoglycemia. We present here a case of severe rhabdomyolysis with acute renal failure and hypoglycemia in an adult patient with CPT2 deficiency.
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Herman S, Zurgil N, Langevitz P, Ehrenfeld M, Deutsch M. Methotrexate selectively modulates TH1/TH2 balance in active rheumatoid arthritis patients. Clin Exp Rheumatol 2008; 26:317-323. [PMID: 18565255] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/26/2023]
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OBJECTIVE The mechanism by which low dose methotrexate (MTX, the gold standard treatment for rheumatoid arthritis) exerts its anti-inflammatory effect in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) patients is still debated. Lately, the MTX immunosuppressive effect has been related to apoptosis, especially in active RA patients, with ROS involvement. METHODS In the present research we investigated MTX oxidative effect and its ability to modulate immune balance in active versus non-active RA patients. RESULTS Our results show that MTX induces IL-10 secretion (a TH2 cytokine) and significantly reduces TH1 profile in Peripheral Mononuclear Cells (PMNC) derived from active RA patients (n=28). Additionally, we found that MTX modulates the immune status towards TH2 dominance by decreasing the IL-12R and the CXCR3 receptors typical for the TH1 population. Moreover, MTX was found to inhibit the production of nitric oxide (NO) in these patients, a phenomenon that might contribute to MTX action toward cytokine homeostasis. A significant correlation was found between MTX IL-10 induction and NO inhibition in active RA patients. CONCLUSION Our data suggest that, in active RA patients, apoptosis induction by MTX may be primarily due to IL-10 production via modulation of oxidative stress, which may restore the critically important immune balance. These findings may contribute to determining which group of RA patients may better respond to MTX therapy.
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The main goal of therapy in hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection is to achieve a sustained virological response currently defined as undetectable HCV-RNA in peripheral blood determined with the most sensitive polymerase chain reaction technique 24 weeks after the end of treatment. This goal is practically equivalent with eradication of HCV infection and cure of the underlying HCV-induced liver disease. The current standard in hepatitis C treatment consists in combination regimens of pegylated interferon-alpha (Peg-INF-alpha) with Ribavirin (RBV). Such treatment schemes are quite successful in patients with HCV genotypes 2 and 3 infections achieving HCV eradication rates of 75-90%. However, they are much less effective in patients with genotypes 1 and 4 infections with eradication rates ranging between 45% and 52%. Moreover, they have several, and sometimes severe, adverse effects and contraindications, further limiting their efficacy and applicability in an appreciable number of patients with chronic HCV-induced liver disease. Therefore, the need for improvement of existing therapies and for development of new effective, safe and tolerable drugs is a matter of great clinical relevance and importance. In this article, recent improvements in the current standard of therapy with IFN-alpha and RBV in various subsets of patients with chronic hepatitis C and in the clinical development of new emerging drugs, particularly small molecules, will be reviewed and commented. The article is divided in two main parts: (i) improvements in the standard combination therapies and schemes of approved Peg-INF-alpha with RBV and expectations from new interferons, interferon inducers and alternatives to RBV; (ii) new drugs for HCV in clinical development focusing mostly on specific inhibitors of HCV and less so on other drugs including immune therapies.
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Blokh D, Zurgil N, Stambler I, Afrimzon E, Shafran Y, Korech E, Sandbank J, Deutsch M. An information-theoretical model for breast cancer detection. Methods Inf Med 2008; 47:322-327. [PMID: 18690365] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/26/2023]
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OBJECTIVES Formal diagnostic modeling is an important line of modern biological and medical research. The construction of a formal diagnostic model consists of two stages: first, the estimation of correlation between model parameters and the disease under consideration; and second, the construction of a diagnostic decision rule using these correlation estimates. A serious drawback of current diagnostic models is the absence of a unified mathematical methodological approach to implementing these two stages. The absence of a unified approach makes the theoretical/biomedical substantiation of diagnostic rules difficult and reduces the efficacy of actual diagnostic model application. METHODS The present study constructs a formal model for breast cancer detection. The diagnostic model is based on information theory. Normalized mutual information is chosen as the measure of relevance between parameters and the patterns studied. The "nearest neighbor" rule is utilized for diagnosis, while the distance between elements is the weighted Hamming distance. The model concomitantly employs cellular fluorescence polarization as the quantitative input parameter and cell receptor expression as qualitative parameters. RESULTS Twenty-four healthy individuals and 34 patients (not including the subjects analyzed for the model construction) were tested by the model. Twenty-three healthy subjects and 34 patients were correctly diagnosed. CONCLUSIONS The proposed diagnostic model is an open one, i.e. it can accommodate new additional parameters, which may increase its effectiveness.
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Li X, Ding C, Yang Y, Smith R, Deutsch M, Beriwal S, Heron D, Huq M. An Investigation of the Accuracy of Ultrasound-CT Modality for Ultrasound Guided Prostate IMRT Planning. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 2007. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2007.07.2039] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/22/2022]
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Sloutskin E, Sapir Z, Bain CD, Lei Q, Wilkinson KM, Tamam L, Deutsch M, Ocko BM. Wetting, mixing, and phase transitions in Langmuir-Gibbs films. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2007; 99:136102. [PMID: 17930612 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.99.136102] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/03/2007] [Indexed: 05/25/2023]
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Millimolar bulk concentrations of the surfactant cetyltrimethylammonium bromide (CTAB) induce spreading of alkanes, H(CH(2))(n)H (denoted C(n)) 12< or =n< or =21, on the water surface, which is not otherwise wet by these alkanes. The novel Langmuir-Gibbs film (LGF) formed is a liquidlike monolayer comprising both alkanes and CTAB tails. Upon cooling, an ordering transition occurs, yielding a hexagonally packed, quasi-2D crystal. For 11< or =n< or =17 this surface-frozen LGF is a crystalline monolayer. For 18< or =n< or =21 the LGF is a bilayer with a crystalline, pure-alkane, upper monolayer, and a liquidlike lower monolayer. The phase diagram and film structure were determined by x-ray, ellipsometry, and surface tension measurements. A thermodynamic theory accounts quantitatively for the observations.
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Kraack H, Tamam L, Sloutskin E, Deutsch M, Ocko BM. Alkyl-thiol Langmuir films on the surface of liquid mercury. LANGMUIR : THE ACS JOURNAL OF SURFACES AND COLLOIDS 2007; 23:7571-82. [PMID: 17539663 DOI: 10.1021/la0701430] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/15/2023]
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The coverage dependent phase behavior of monolayers of alkyl thiols (CH3(CH2)(n-1)SH, denoted as CnSH) on mercury was studied for chain lengths 9 <or= n <or= 22, using surface tensiometry and surface-specific X-ray scattering methods. At low coverage, a disordered single layer of surface-parallel molecules is found for all n. At high coverage, a monolayer of standing-up molecules is formed, exhibiting well-ordered phases, the structure of which is n- and coverage-dependent. The molecular chains pack in a centered rectangular unit cell, with an approximately 27 degrees tilt from the surface normal toward nearest neighbors. The strong sulfur-mercury bond induces a noncentered unit cell for the headgroups, incorporating one mercury atom per two thiol molecules. The small but significant differences in structure of these films on gold and on mercury are discussed and assigned to the different structure of the subphase: long-range-ordered crystal for gold and short-range-ordered liquid for mercury.
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Chen A, Hasegawa K, Podolskiy VA, Deutsch M. Metamaterial coatings for broadband asymmetric mirrors. OPTICS LETTERS 2007; 32:1770-2. [PMID: 17603564 DOI: 10.1364/ol.32.001770] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/16/2023]
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We report the design and fabrication of nanostructured metal-dielectric mirrors with high reflectance asymmetries in the visible spectral range. Applying dispersion engineering principles to model a broadband and large reflectance asymmetry, we obtain a dielectric function for this metamaterial, closely resembling the effective permittivity of disordered metal-dielectric nanocomposites. Coatings realized by using disordered nanocrystalline silver films on glass substrates confirm the theoretical predictions, exhibiting symmetric transmittance, accompanied by large broadband reflectance asymmetries.
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Sloutskin E, Baumert J, Ocko BM, Kuzmenko I, Checco A, Tamam L, Ofer E, Gog T, Gang O, Deutsch M. The surface structure of concentrated aqueous salt solutions. J Chem Phys 2007; 126:054704. [PMID: 17302495 DOI: 10.1063/1.2431361] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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The surface-normal electron density profile rhos(z) of concentrated aqueous salt solutions of RbBr, CsCl, LiBr, RbCl, and SrCl2 was determined by x-ray reflectivity (XR). For all but RbBr and SrCl2 rhos(z) increases monotonically with depth z from rhos(z)=0 in the vapor (z<0) to rhos(z)=rhob of the bulk (z>0) over a width of a few angstroms. The width is commensurate with the expected interface broadening by thermally excited capillary waves. Anomalous (resonant) XR of RbBr reveals a depletion at the surface of Br- ions to a depth of approximately 10 A. For SrCl2, the observed rhos(z)>rhob may imply a similar surface depletion of Cl- ions to a depth of a few angstorms. However, as the deviations of the XRs of RbBr and SrCl2 from those of the other solutions are small, the evidence for a different ion composition in the surface and the bulk is not strongly conclusive. Overall, these results contrast earlier theoretical and simulational results and nonstructural measurements, where significant surface layering of alternate, oppositely charged, ions is concluded.
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Sloutskin E, Lynden-Bell RM, Balasubramanian S, Deutsch M. The surface structure of ionic liquids: Comparing simulations with x-ray measurements. J Chem Phys 2006; 125:174715. [PMID: 17100469 DOI: 10.1063/1.2361289] [Citation(s) in RCA: 64] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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The surface-normal electron density profile of an ionic liquid, [bmim][PF6], derived from x-ray reflectivity measurements, is compared with two independent molecular-dynamics simulations. It is shown that a meaningful comparison requires a detailed accounting for both thermal and nonthermal surface roughening effects. The former is due to thermally excited capillary waves, and the latter is due to the molecular zero-point motion and form. These quantities influence very significantly, but differently, the simulated and measured density profiles. Stripping off these effects from both types of profiles yields the intrinsic structure factor of the surface. The simulated intrinsic structure factors are found to deviate considerably from the measured one. The introduction of additional ad hoc surface roughness to the simulated profiles greatly reduces the deviation, however, no physical origin for this effect can be identified. The method employed in this study should prove useful for simulation-experiment comparisons of other liquid surfaces, provided they obey capillary-wave theory, as do almost all liquid surfaces studied to date by x-ray reflectivity.
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Diamant R, Huotari S, Hämäläinen K, Sharon R, Kao C, Deutsch M. The evolution of inner-shell multielectronic X-ray spectra from threshold to saturation for low- to high-Z atoms. Radiat Phys Chem Oxf Engl 1993 2006. [DOI: 10.1016/j.radphyschem.2006.05.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Ofer E, Sloutskin E, Tamam L, Ocko BM, Deutsch M. Surface freezing in binary alkane-alcohol mixtures. PHYSICAL REVIEW. E, STATISTICAL, NONLINEAR, AND SOFT MATTER PHYSICS 2006; 74:021602. [PMID: 17025441 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.74.021602] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/12/2006] [Indexed: 05/12/2023]
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Surface freezing was detected and studied in mixtures of alcohol and alkane molecules, using surface tensiometry and surface-specific x-ray scattering methods. Considering that surface freezing in pure alkanes forms an ordered monolayer and in alcohols it forms an ordered bilayer, the length mismatch repulsion was minimized by varying the carbon number of the alkane component around 2n, where n is the carbon number of the alcohol molecule. A solutionlike behavior was found for all mixtures, where the ideal liquid mixture phase-separates upon freezing both in the bulk and the surface. The solid exhibits a herringbone crystalline phase below an alkane mole fraction phi(t) approximately 0.8 and a rotator phase above it. The surface frozen film below phi(t) is an alkane monolayer exhibiting a next-nearest neighbor molecular tilt of a composition-dependent magnitude. Above phi(t), no diffraction peaks were observed. This could be explained by the intrinsically shorter-range order of the rotator phase and a possible proliferation of defects.
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Hauptner A, Krücken R, Greubel C, Hable V, Dollinger G, Drexler GA, Deutsch M, Löwe R, Friedl AA, Dietzel S, Strickfaden H, Cremer T. DNA-repair protein distribution along the tracks of energetic ions. RADIATION PROTECTION DOSIMETRY 2006; 122:147-9. [PMID: 17132661 DOI: 10.1093/rpd/ncl420] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/12/2023]
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A simple model of homogenous chromatin distribution in HeLa-cell nuclei suggests that the track of an energetic ion hits 30 nm chromatin fibers with a mean distance of 0.55 mum. To test this assumption, living HeLa-cells were irradiated at the irradiation setup of the ion microprobe SNAKE using the ion beams provided by the Munich 14 MV tandem accelerator. After irradiation, the distribution of 53BP1 protein foci was studied by immunofluorescence. The observed 53BP1 distribution along the tracks of 29 MeV (7)Li ions and 24 MeV (12)C ions differed significantly from the expectations resulting from the simple chromatin model, suggesting that the biological track structure is determined by cell nuclear architecture with higher order organisation of chromatin.
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Agarwal A, Beriwal S, Heron D, Falk J, Johnson R, Mogus B, Kim H, Gerszten K, Deutsch M. Accelerated Partial Breast Irradiation: Single Institutional Experience of 100 Patients Using MammoSite Brachytherapy. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 2005. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2005.07.017] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Deutsch M, Bhatnagar A, Heron D, Shogan J, LaLonde R, Huq M, Sontag M, Yue J, Ross G, Andrade R, Beriwal S, Quinn A. Analysis of Acute Toxicity for Patients with Breast Cancer Treated with Intensity Modulated Radiation Therapy (IMRT). Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 2005. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2005.07.320] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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Herman S, Zurgil N, Deutsch M. Low dose methotrexate induces apoptosis with reactive oxygen species involvement in T lymphocytic cell lines to a greater extent than in monocytic lines. Inflamm Res 2005; 54:273-80. [PMID: 16134056 DOI: 10.1007/s00011-005-1355-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 122] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/25/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND The mechanism by which low dose methotrexate (MTX) exerts its anti-inflammatory and immunosuppressive effect in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) patients is still debated. Recently it has been related to the induction of apoptosis. OBJECTIVE We investigated the degree of apoptotic induction by MTX in lymphocytic (Jurkat T, EL4 T, and Raji B) and monocytic cell lines (U937 and THP1) and its relation to reactive oxygen species (ROS) generation, as a possible mechanism underlying the apoptotic events. METHODS All cell types were incubated with a range of MTX concentrations (0.001, 0.01, 0.1, 1, and 10 muM) for up to 24 h. Cytotoxicity was assessed by Trypan Blue exclusion and MTT test; cell size and granularity by forward and side scatters (FSC, SSC). Apoptosis was measured by Annexin V test and FDA polarization; and mitochondrial ROS generation by DHR123 probe and by NAC inhibition. RESULTS MTX significantly reduced cell viability and proliferation in all cell lines, being most effective in the Jurkat T lymphocytic line. The MTX cytotoxicity (at the optimal concentrations corresponding to low dose MTX therapy) was attributed to apoptosis, as suggested by morphological changes (shrinkage, increased granularity) and confirmed by Annexin V binding and FDA hyperpolarization. The apoptotic induction and the ROS generation (statistically correlated to apoptosis) were most pronounced in the Jurkat and EL4 T cell lines, and were partially inhibited by the antioxidant N-acetyl L-cysteine (NAC). CONCLUSION According to the present observations, MTX may most likely induce apoptosis through oxidative stress. The high susceptibility of T cell lines to MTX induced apoptosis may account for the beneficial effect of MTX treatment in rheumatoid arthritis, which is characterized by hyperproliferation of T cells.
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Huber P, Soprunyuk VP, Embs JP, Wagner C, Deutsch M, Kumar S. Faraday instability in a surface-frozen liquid. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2005; 94:184504. [PMID: 15904375 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.94.184504] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/25/2004] [Indexed: 05/02/2023]
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Faraday surface instability measurements of the critical acceleration, a(c), and wave number, k(c), for standing surface waves on a tetracosanol (C24H50) melt exhibit abrupt changes at T(s)=54 degrees C, approximately 4 degrees C above the bulk freezing temperature. The measured variations of a(c) and k(c) vs temperature and driving frequency are accounted for quantitatively by a hydrodynamic model, revealing a change from a free-slip surface flow, generic for a free liquid surface (T>T(s)), to a surface-pinned, no-slip flow, characteristic of a flow near a wetted solid wall (T<T(s)). The change at T(s) is traced to the onset of surface freezing, where the steep velocity gradient in the surface-pinned flow significantly increases the viscous dissipation near the surface.
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Afek A, Zurgil N, Bar-Dayan Y, Polak-Charcon S, Goldberg I, Deutsch M, Kopolovich J, Keren G, Harats D, George J. Overexpression of 15-lipoxygenase in the vascular endothelium is associated with increased thymic apoptosis in LDL receptor-deficient mice. Pathobiology 2005; 71:261-6. [PMID: 15459485 DOI: 10.1159/000080060] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/06/2003] [Accepted: 04/08/2004] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND 15-Lipoxygenase (15-LO) is a nonheme iron-containing enzyme that catalyzes the peroxidation of fatty acids. Herein, we studied the effect of 15-LO overexpression in the vascular endothelium on thymocyte apoptosis by evaluating thymuses from low-density lipoprotein receptor-deficient (LDL-RD) mice and LDL-RD/15-LO mice. Thymuses were evaluated by immunohistochemistry and by TUNEL whereas in vitro studies were carried out by employing freshly isolated thymocytes from the respective mice and evaluation of apoptosis by propidium iodide and annexin V cytometry. METHODS AND RESULTS The apoptotic index in LDL-RD/15-LO mice was significantly higher than in the LDL-RD mice. In the thymic medulla the difference was smaller, although still significant. Freshly isolated thymus cells from LDL-RD/15-LO mice exhibited a higher rate of spontaneous cell death than controls. Incubation of thymus cells in the presence of the cell-permeable caspase-3 inhibitor DEVD-CMK resulted in a decrease in the frequency of apoptotic cells in LDL-RD/15-LO thymocytes, whereas no effect was evident in control thymocytes. The antioxidant N-acetylcysteine causes the increase in apoptosis in both groups. CONCLUSION LDL-RD/15-LO mice exhibit increased thymocyte apoptosis both in vivo and in vitro. These findings may suggest a role for 15-LO in the natural selection of thymocytes.
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Ocko BM, Kraack H, Pershan PS, Sloutskin E, Tamam L, Deutsch M. Crystalline phases of alkyl-thiol monolayers on liquid mercury. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2005; 94:017802. [PMID: 15698133 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.94.017802] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/07/2004] [Indexed: 05/24/2023]
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The structure of octadecanethiol monolyers on liquid Hg surfaces, measured with subangstrom resolution, evolves with increasing coverage from a laterally disordered phase of surface-parallel molecules to ordered rotator phases of surface-normal molecules. For the latter, an abrupt transition is found at 19 A(2)/molecule from a rectangular packing of molecules tilted by 27 degrees in the nearest-neighbor direction to a hexagonal unit cell of untilted molecules. The unit cell of the tilted phase is centered for the chains and noncentered for the headgroups. The thiol headgroups associate in pairs with a single Hg atom, and the bonds form long-range orientational order. The different order of thiols on Au(111) and on Hg highlights the subphase's role in determining the overlayer's structure.
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