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Guennec A, Brelle L, Balnois E, Linossier I, Renard E, Langlois V, Faÿ F, Chen GQ, Simon-Colin C, Vallée-Réhel K. Antifouling properties of amphiphilic poly(3-hydroxyalkanoate): an environmentally-friendly coating. Biofouling 2021; 37:894-910. [PMID: 34579623 DOI: 10.1080/08927014.2021.1981298] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [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: 04/07/2021] [Revised: 09/06/2021] [Accepted: 09/11/2021] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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The development of biofouling is a major problem for marine industries. The conception of antifouling and fouling release coatings, with controlled physical-chemical properties is a promising strategy. Among them, amphiphilic systems, such as those composed of a hydrophobic polydimethylsiloxane matrix and a hydrophilic polyethyleneglycol additive are the most efficient and up to date. Despite their effectiveness, these systems are questioned due to the petrochemical origin of PDMS. The aim of this project was to substitute the PDMS matrix with a biopolymer, poly(3-hydroxybuyrate-co-3-hydroxyvalerate) and to improve its anti-adhesion properties through the elaboration of an amphiphilic system, via the addition of PEG or PHBHHx-b-PEG copolymer. The results, including the physico-chemical properties of PHBHV based coatings and static adhesion tests on a marine bacterium, Bacillus 4J6 and a diatom, Phaeodactylum tricornutum are compared with those of PDMS and PEG-modified PDMS coatings. Real antiadhesion activity was obtained for the PHBHV/PHBHHx-b-PEG system for a promising eco-friendly strategy.
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- A Guennec
- Laboratoire de Biotechnologie et de Chimie Marines, EA 3884, Université Bretagne Sud, Lorient Cedex, France
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- CNRS, ICMPE, UMR 7182, Université Paris Est Créteil, Thiais, France
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- Laboratoire de Biotechnologie et de Chimie Marines, EA 3884, Université de Brest, Quimper, France
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- Laboratoire de Biotechnologie et de Chimie Marines, EA 3884, Université Bretagne Sud, Lorient Cedex, France
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- CNRS, ICMPE, UMR 7182, Université Paris Est Créteil, Thiais, France
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- CNRS, ICMPE, UMR 7182, Université Paris Est Créteil, Thiais, France
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- Laboratoire de Biotechnologie et de Chimie Marines, EA 3884, Université Bretagne Sud, Lorient Cedex, France
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- Center of Synthetic and Systems Biology, School of Life Science, Tsinghua-Peking Center for Life Sciences, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
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- LM2E, CNRS, IFREMER, Université de Brest, Plouzané, France
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- Laboratoire de Biotechnologie et de Chimie Marines, EA 3884, Université Bretagne Sud, Lorient Cedex, France
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Chen GQ, Wei K, Hassanvand A, Freeman BD, Kentish SE. Erratum to 'Single and binary ion sorption equilibria of monovalent and divalent ions in commercial ion exchange membranes' [Water Research 175 (2020) 115681]. Water Res 2021; 196:117110. [PMID: 33838786 DOI: 10.1016/j.watres.2021.117110] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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- G Q Chen
- Department of Chemical Engineering, The University of Melbourne, Victoria 3010, Australia
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- State Key Joint Laboratory of Environment Simulation and Pollution Control, School of Environment, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, P. R. China
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, The University of Melbourne, Victoria 3010, Australia
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- McKetta Department of Chemical Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin, 200 E, Dean Keeton St., Stop C0400, Austin, Texas 78712-1589, United States
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, The University of Melbourne, Victoria 3010, Australia.
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Song YX, Fan SL, Peng A, Shen S, Cheng JF, Chen GQ, Li CB, Jiang C, Li XH, Liu JY. A retrospective analysis reveals a predictor of survival for the patient with paraquat intoxication. Clin Chim Acta 2020; 511:269-277. [PMID: 33148529 DOI: 10.1016/j.cca.2020.10.027] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/15/2020] [Revised: 10/15/2020] [Accepted: 10/16/2020] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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Feasible and accurate predictors are urgently needed to evaluate the survival for patients with paraquat poisoning since the high mortality of paraquat poisoning always resulted in the loss of both life and money. Multiple predictors have been developed to predict prognosis of the patients with PQ poisoning, which however heavily depend on the time of admission to hospitals. Here we reported a feasible and accurate prognosis predictor for patients with paraquat poisoning that is independent of the time of admission to hospitals. Patients with paraquat poisoning were enrolled in this study according to the inclusion and exclusion criteria, which were grouped into survivors and non-survivors based on the 90-days follow-up investigation. The concentration of paraquat in serum and urine, and the baseline clinical parameters associated with the injuries of the liver, kidney, and lung were evaluated to predict the survival of these patients by using receiver operating characteristic curve (ROC) analysis, univariate and multivariate cox regression analyses. A total of 114 patients was included in this study with a survival rate of 54.4%. The median survival days of non-survivors were 6.0 (95%Cl: 4.0-7.8). A new predictor, namely paraquat concentration-associated multiorgan injury index (PCAMII), was established by integrating serum and urine paraquat concentration, serum creatinine, alanine aminotransferase, aspartate transaminase, total and direct bilirubin, at different weighting coefficients, with the accuracy of about 90%. The model to predict the survival probability by PCAMII was established with good fitness (R2 = 0.9325), providing the simulated survival rates comparable to the clinical data. PCAMII, which is independent of hospital admission time, is a feasible and accurate marker to predict the survival rate of patients with PQ poisoning.
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- Ya-Xiang Song
- Division of Nephrology and Rheumatology, Shanghai Tenth People's Hospital, Shanghai 200072, China; Center for Nephrology and Metabolomics, Tongji University School of Medicine, Shanghai, 200072, China
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- Division of Nephrology and Rheumatology, Shanghai Tenth People's Hospital, Shanghai 200072, China; Center for Nephrology and Metabolomics, Tongji University School of Medicine, Shanghai, 200072, China
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- Division of Nephrology and Rheumatology, Shanghai Tenth People's Hospital, Shanghai 200072, China; Center for Nephrology and Metabolomics, Tongji University School of Medicine, Shanghai, 200072, China
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- The School of Life Sciences and Technology, Shanghai Key Laboratory of Signaling and Disease Research, Tongji University, Shanghai 200092, China
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- Division of Nephrology and Rheumatology, Shanghai Tenth People's Hospital, Shanghai 200072, China; Center for Nephrology and Metabolomics, Tongji University School of Medicine, Shanghai, 200072, China
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- Division of Nephrology and Rheumatology, Shanghai Tenth People's Hospital, Shanghai 200072, China; Center for Nephrology and Metabolomics, Tongji University School of Medicine, Shanghai, 200072, China
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- Division of Nephrology and Rheumatology, Shanghai Tenth People's Hospital, Shanghai 200072, China; Center for Nephrology and Metabolomics, Tongji University School of Medicine, Shanghai, 200072, China
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- The School of Life Sciences and Technology, Shanghai Key Laboratory of Signaling and Disease Research, Tongji University, Shanghai 200092, China
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- Division of Nephrology and Rheumatology, Shanghai Tenth People's Hospital, Shanghai 200072, China; Center for Nephrology and Metabolomics, Tongji University School of Medicine, Shanghai, 200072, China.
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- Division of Nephrology and Rheumatology, Shanghai Tenth People's Hospital, Shanghai 200072, China; Center for Nephrology and Metabolomics, Tongji University School of Medicine, Shanghai, 200072, China.
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Heng HY, Ding X, Chen H, Dai XX, Wu YY, Fan GH, Chen GQ, Zeng MS, Shen JK. [The value of 3.0T magnetic resonance -diffusion kurtosis imaging in the differential diagnosis of rectal mucinous adenocarcinoma and common adenocarcinoma]. Zhonghua Yi Xue Za Zhi 2020; 100:2919-2923. [PMID: 32993251 DOI: 10.3760/cma.j.cn112137-20200117-00120] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/05/2022]
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Objective: To investigate the value of 3.0T MRI diffusion kurtosis imaging (DKI) quantitative histogram parameters in the differential diagnosis of rectal mucinous adenocarcinoma (MC) and common adenocarcinoma (AC). Methods: One hundred and ten patients from Department of Radiology, the Second Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University between September 2015 and September 2019 with complete magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and DKI results confirmed by surgery and pathology were retrospectively analyzed, including 16 patients in MC group and 94 patients in AC group. Two physicians outlined the region of interest (ROI) on the DKI image with b=1 000 s/mm(2), and obtained quantitative DKI parameters, including the diffusion coefficient (D value) and kurtosis coefficient (K value) corrected for non-Gaussian distribution. The apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC) values of quantitative parameters of diffusion-weighted imaging (DWI) were obtained through image registration, and histogram analysis was performed to obtain the mean value, 25th percentile, 50th percentile, 75th percentile, skewness and kurtosis of the above parameters, respectively. The difference between the quantitative histogram parameter analysis results of the rectal MC group and the AC group was evaluated, and the main indicators and multivariate comprehensive analysis indicators was screened, and the effectiveness of quantitative histogram parameters related to histopathological classification in the differential diagnosis of rectal MC and AC was evaluated. Results: There was no significant differences in gender, age, lesion location, T stage or N stage between MC group and AC group (all P>0.05). The multivariate binary logistic stepwise regression screening showed that D50th percentile and K25th percentile are statistically significant indicators (B values were 2 966.166 and -4.550, respectively; Wals values were 9.000 and 15.720, respectively; and P values were 0.003 and <0.001, respectively). The combined area under the curve of the two indictors was 0.85, but there was no statistically significant difference in pairwise comparison using DeLong method (P>0.05). The results of histogram analysis of quantitative parameters measured by the two physicians were consistent, and the inter-group correlation coefficient ranged from 0.880 to 0.981. Conclusions: The quantitative parameter histogram analysis of the DKI double-index model is helpful for the differentiation of rectal MC and AC, in which the D50th percentile and K25th percentile have differential diagnosis significance, and are superior to the ADC value of the single-index model.
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- H Y Heng
- Department of Radiology, the Second Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University, Suzhou 215000, China (now works in Department of Radiology, Wuxi 9th People's Hospital (Wuxi Orthopedic Hospital))
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- Department of Radiology, the Second Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University, Suzhou 215000, China
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- Department of Radiology, the Second Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University, Suzhou 215000, China
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- Department of Pathology, the Second Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University, Suzhou 215000, China
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- Department of General Surgery, the Second Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University, Suzhou 215000, China
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- Department of Radiology, the Second Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University, Suzhou 215000, China
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- Department of Radiology, the Second Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University, Suzhou 215000, China
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- Department of Radiology, the Affiliated Zhongshan Hospital of Fudan University, Shanghai 200032, China
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- Department of Radiology, the Second Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University, Suzhou 215000, China
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Chen GQ, Wei K, Hassanvand A, Freeman BD, Kentish SE. Single and binary ion sorption equilibria of monovalent and divalent ions in commercial ion exchange membranes. Water Res 2020; 175:115681. [PMID: 32171098 DOI: 10.1016/j.watres.2020.115681] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.5] [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: 11/15/2019] [Revised: 02/27/2020] [Accepted: 03/01/2020] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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The co-ion and counter-ion sorption of monovalent (Na+, K+, Cl- and NO3-) and divalent ions (Ca2+ and SO42-) in commercial Neosepta ion exchange membranes were systemically studied in both single and binary salt systems. The new generation of Neosepta cation exchange membrane (CSE) showed a significant difference in water uptake and co-ion sorption compared to the earlier generation (CMX). Use of the Manning model confirmed that there were significant differences between these membranes, with the estimated value of the Manning parameter changing from 1.0 ± 0.1 for CMX to 2.8 ± 0.5 for CSE. There were fewer differences between the two Neosepta anion exchange membranes, AMX and ASE. In single salt solutions, potassium sorbed most strongly into the cation exchange membranes, but in binary salt mixtures, calcium dominated due to Donnan exclusion at low concentrations. While these trends were expected, the sorption behaviour in the anion exchange membranes was more complex. The water uptake of both AMX and ASE was shown to be the greatest in Na2SO4 solutions. This strong water uptake was reflected in strong sorption of sulphate ions in a single salt solution. Conversely, in a binary salt mixture with NaCl, sulphate sorption fell significantly at higher concentrations. This was possibly caused by ion pairing within the solution, as well as the strongly hydrophobic nature of styrene in the charged polymer. Water uptake was lowest in NaNO3 solutions, even though sorption of the nitrate ion was comparable to that of chloride in these single salt solutions. In the binary mixture, nitrate was absorbed more strongly than chloride. These results could be due to the low surface charge density of this ion allowing it to bond more strongly with the hydrophobic polymeric backbone at the exclusion of water and other ions.
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- G Q Chen
- Department of Chemical Engineering, The University of Melbourne, Victoria, 3010, Australia
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- State Key Joint Laboratory of Environment Simulation and Pollution Control, School of Environment, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 100084, PR China
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, The University of Melbourne, Victoria, 3010, Australia
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- McKetta Department of Chemical Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin, 200 E, Dean Keeton St., Stop C0400, Austin, TX, 78712-1589, United States
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, The University of Melbourne, Victoria, 3010, Australia.
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Liu RR, Zhu Y, Wu MY, Liu J, Ren R, Cao QL, Shen XH, Chen GQ, Li M. [CT imaging analysis of 33 cases with the 2019 novel coronavirus infection]. Zhonghua Yi Xue Za Zhi 2020; 100:1007-1011. [PMID: 32294858 DOI: 10.3760/cma.j.cn112137-20200203-00182] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/05/2022]
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Objective: To explore the CT imaging features of the 2019 novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) infection in order to summarize the imaging characteristics of the disease and improve the ability of imaging diagnosis and early diagnosis of the disease. Methods: From January 13, 2020 to January 31, 2020, a total of 33 patients with 2019-nCoV infection diagnosed and treated by Suzhou Fifth People's Hospital were analyzed retrospectively, including 20 males and 13 females, with an average age of (50±12) years, ranging from 20 to 70 years old. There were 3 cases of mild type, 27 cases of common type and 3 cases of severe type.There were 2 cases with hypertension, 1 case with postoperative lung,1 case with diabetes, 1 case with chronic bronchitis, and 1 case with bronchiectasis.SPSS25.0 Chi-square test was used to analyze the distribution of lesions in each lung lobe; SPSS25.0 Spearman correlation coefficient was used to analyze the image score and clinical classification. Results: There were 3 cases (9.1%) with normal lung and 30 cases (90.9%) with Novel Coronavirus Pneumonia(COVID-19) of the 2019-nCoV infected patients. In the distribution of COVID-19, 29 cases (87.9%) were involved in bilateral lung and 1 case (3.0%) in unilateral lung. There was no statistically significant difference in the distribution of lesions in each lobe. The correlation coefficient between the degree of lesion distribution and clinical classification was 0.819, and the two were highly correlated.There were 30 cases (90.9%) with subpleural lesions, 17 cases (51.5%) with central lesions. There were many kinds of lesions, 25 cases (75.8%) had ground glass density shadow, 16 cases (48.5%) had consolidation, 12 cases (36.4%) had interstitial change, and 18 cases (54.5%) had interlobular septal thickening. Among the 22 cases, 10 cases had more lesions, 6 cases had no changes and 6 cases had less lesions. Conclusion: Most of the patients with 2019-nCoV infection have pulmonary inflammation.CT manifestations include multiple parts, subpleural area or middle and lateral field of lung, ground glass shadow and consolidation, or coexistence. Some cases have pleural thickening or interlobular septal thickening. CT images can indicate the diagnosis of COVID-19 and provide important basis for early detection and disease monitoring.
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- R R Liu
- Department of Radiology, the Affiliated Infectious Diseases Hospital of Soochow University, the Fifth People's Hospital of Suzhou, Suzhou 215000, China
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- Department of Radiology, the Affiliated Infectious Diseases Hospital of Soochow University, the Fifth People's Hospital of Suzhou, Suzhou 215000, China
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- Department of Radiology, the Affiliated Infectious Diseases Hospital of Soochow University, the Fifth People's Hospital of Suzhou, Suzhou 215000, China
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- Department of Radiology, the Affiliated Infectious Diseases Hospital of Soochow University, the Fifth People's Hospital of Suzhou, Suzhou 215000, China
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- Department of Radiology, the Affiliated Infectious Diseases Hospital of Soochow University, the Fifth People's Hospital of Suzhou, Suzhou 215000, China
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- Department of Radiology, the Affiliated Infectious Diseases Hospital of Soochow University, the Fifth People's Hospital of Suzhou, Suzhou 215000, China
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- Department of Radiology, the Affiliated Infectious Diseases Hospital of Soochow University, the Fifth People's Hospital of Suzhou, Suzhou 215000, China
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- Department of Radiology, the Second Affiliated Hospital, Soochow University, Suzhou 215000, China
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- Department of Radiology, the Affiliated Infectious Diseases Hospital of Soochow University, the Fifth People's Hospital of Suzhou, Suzhou 215000, China
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Wu XD, Guo JL, Li C, Chen GQ, Ji X. Carbon emissions embodied in the global supply chain: Intermediate and final trade imbalances. Sci Total Environ 2020; 707:134670. [PMID: 31865087 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.134670] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/19/2019] [Revised: 09/23/2019] [Accepted: 09/25/2019] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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By differentiating intermediate trade from final trade, this paper combines typical statistics for the world economy in 2012 to explore the transfer of embodied carbon emissions via the global supply chain and the related trade imbalance. The emission transfer embodied in interregional trade is in magnitude around 40% of global direct carbon emissions. The global intermediate trade volume of embodied carbon emissions is estimated to be 2.3 times as much as the final trade volume. While Mainland China obtains a considerable economic trade surplus, its carbon trade deficit is about twice the carbon trade surplus of the United States. Mainland China's final trade deficit is around 1.2 times as much as its intermediate trade deficit of embodied carbon emissions. EU27, the United States, ASEAN and Japan serve as the major contributors to China's intermediate and final trade deficits. For the United States, its intermediate carbon trade surplus is almost equal to its final trade surplus. The United States gains a carbon surplus with most of its trading partners in both intermediate and final trades. A future scenario analysis in terms of carbon emission projection is conducted. While the direct and embodied carbon emissions of the United States and Japan are estimated to change slightly from 2012 to 2040, India's carbon emissions are projected to experience a twofold increase during the period. In the long term, though with ups and downs, the economic globalization will be inevitably moving forward, leading to a highly sliced-up global supply chain and increasingly delicate regional specialization as well as frequent intermediate trade between regions. It is suggested that nations and regions should follow this trend and adapt themselves to the global value chain by carefully assessing their roles in intermediate and final trades in terms of both currency and embodied carbon emissions.
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- X D Wu
- School of Economics, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China; Laboratory of Systems Ecology and Sustainability Science, College of Engineering, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
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- Laboratory of Systems Ecology and Sustainability Science, College of Engineering, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
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- Yenching Academy, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
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- Laboratory of Systems Ecology and Sustainability Science, College of Engineering, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China.
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- School of Economics, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China.
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Chen GQ, Wang QM, Yu M, Cheng YD, Zhang ZC, Wang WS, Qiu Y, Sun LH, Peng K, Yang H. Notch signaling is involved in regulation of LPS-induced macrophage apoptosis through JNK/NF-kB signaling pathway. J BIOL REG HOMEOS AG 2020; 34:04. [PMID: 32048500 DOI: 10.23812/19-283-a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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Notch signaling plays a critical role in the development and function of macrophages. The aim of the present study was to investigate the relationship between Notch signaling pathway and macrophage apoptosis after LPS stimulation. In RAW 264.7 cells, the mRNA expression of Jagged1, Hes1, Hes 5 and GM-CSF, and protein expression of NICD1 and GM-CSF were increased after LPS stimulation. Inhibition of Notch signaling by γ-secretase inhibitor DAPT and the suppression of Notch1 expression using siRNA both significantly prevented LPS induced activation of JNK and NF-kB, and simultaneously the expression of GM-CSF was also down regulated significantly. JNK inhibitor SP600125 was used to block the phosphorylation of JNK signaling, Western blot results showed that the activation of NF-kB was blocked and expression of GM-CSF was down-regulated. Finally, flow cytometry analyses showed that the Notch signaling was involved in the regulation of macrophage apoptosis after LPS stimulation. Our study showed that the Notch signaling pathway was activated and involved in the regulation of macrophage apoptosis after LPS stimulation through JNK/ NF-kB signaling regulated GM-CSF expression.
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- G Q Chen
- Department of General Surgery, Xinqiao Hospital, Army Medical University, Chongqing, China
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- Department of General Surgery, Xinqiao Hospital, Army Medical University, Chongqing, China
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- Department of General Surgery, Xinqiao Hospital, Army Medical University, Chongqing, China
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- Department of General Surgery, Xinqiao Hospital, Army Medical University, Chongqing, China
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- Department of General Surgery, Xinqiao Hospital, Army Medical University, Chongqing, China
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- Department of General Surgery, Xinqiao Hospital, Army Medical University, Chongqing, China
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- Department of General Surgery, Xinqiao Hospital, Army Medical University, Chongqing, China
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- Department of General Surgery, Xinqiao Hospital, Army Medical University, Chongqing, China
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- Department of General Surgery, Xinqiao Hospital, Army Medical University, Chongqing, China
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- Department of General Surgery, Xinqiao Hospital, Army Medical University, Chongqing, China
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Liu J, Li M, Liu RR, Zhu Y, Chen GQ, Li XB, Geng C, Wang JJ, Gao QX, Heng HY. [Establishment of a CT image radiomics-based prediction model for the differential diagnosis of silicosis and tuberculosis nodules]. Zhonghua Lao Dong Wei Sheng Zhi Ye Bing Za Zhi 2019; 37:707-710. [PMID: 31594134 DOI: 10.3760/cma.j.issn.1001-9391.2019.09.019] [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] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/05/2022]
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Objective: To establish a CT image radiomics-based prediction model for the differential diagnosis of silicosis and tuberculosis nodules. Methods: A total of 53 patients with silicosis and 89 patients with tuberculosis who underwent routine CT scans in Suzhou Fifth People's Hospital from January to August, 2018 were enrolled in this study. AK/ITK software was used to segment the images to obtain 139 silicosis lesions and 119 tuberculosis lesions. For each lesion image, 396 features were extracted, and feature dimension reduction was applied to select the most characteristic feature subset. Support vector machine (SVM) , feedforward back propagation neural network (FNN-BP) , and random forest (RF) were implemented using R software (Rstudio V1.1.463) , and the algorithm that achieved the largest area under of the receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve (AUC) was selected as the final prediction model. Results: RF was the best prediction model for the differential diagnosis of silicosis and tuberculosis nodules, with an accuracy of 83.1%, a sensitivity of 0.76, a specificity of 0.9, and an AUC of 0.917 (95% confidence interval: 0.8431-0.9758) . RF had a significantly larger AUC than SVM and FNN-BP (P<0.05) . Conclusion: CT image-based RF prediction model can be used to differentially diagnose silicosis and tuberculosis nodules.
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- J Liu
- The Affiliated Infectious Diseases Hospital of Soochow University, The Fifth People's Hospital of Suzhou, 215000 Suzhou, China
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- The Affiliated Infectious Diseases Hospital of Soochow University, The Fifth People's Hospital of Suzhou, 215000 Suzhou, China
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- The Affiliated Infectious Diseases Hospital of Soochow University, The Fifth People's Hospital of Suzhou, 215000 Suzhou, China
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- The Affiliated Infectious Diseases Hospital of Soochow University, The Fifth People's Hospital of Suzhou, 215000 Suzhou, China
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- The Second Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University, 215000 Suzhou, China
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- GE Healthcare (Shanghai) Co., Ltd, 200000 Shanghai, China
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- Suzhou Institute of Biomedical Engineering and Technology Chinese Academy of Sciences, 215000 Suzhou, China
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- The Second Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University, 215000 Suzhou, China
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- The Second Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University, 215000 Suzhou, China
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- The Second Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University, 215000 Suzhou, China
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Meng LF, Zhang W, Zhang YG, Wang JY, Liao LM, Chen GQ, Ling Q, Zhang P, Wei ZQ, Chen Q. [Sacral neuromodulation preliminary outcomes in male patients with idiopathic dysuria]. Zhonghua Yi Xue Za Zhi 2019; 99:2675-2680. [PMID: 31505718 DOI: 10.3760/cma.j.issn.0376-2491.2019.34.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/25/2022]
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Objective: To assess the effectiveness and safety of sacral neuromodulation (SNM) therapy for men with idiopathic dysuria. Methods: From January 2012 to December 2016, a total of 26 patients treated with SNM therapy from multi-center across the country were retrospectively studied. The age ranged from 19 to 86 years with an average age of 45.2 years. Patients suffered from one or multiple urinary symptoms such as frequency of urination, urgency, urinary retention, etc. All patients had received more than two types of conservative therapy including oral and behavioral therapy, but had poor or no improvement. The voiding diary, urgency score and the quality of life score before implantation, in stageⅠ after implantation and stage Ⅱ after permanent implantation were recorded and compared. Results: A total of 22 patients chose to receive IPG at the end of stageⅠ therapy while 4 patients refused further stage Ⅱ therapy because of dissatisfactory effect. The conversion rate of stage Ⅰ to stage Ⅱ was 84.6% (22/26). The average follow-up time was 19.2 months, ranging from 3 to 63 months. The baseline of residual urine, voiding frequency and average voiding amount and those after stage Ⅰ therapy were [5 (0, 137.5) ] ml vs [0 (0, 40) ] ml, 14.6±6.1 vs 9.1±2.8, [100 (80, 135) ] ml vs [190 (150, 210) ] ml, respectively. The differences were statistically significant(all P<0.05).However, no significant differences were found in urination volume and quality of life (QoL) before and after implantation(P>0.05). During an average follow-up time of 19.2 months after the permanent implantation, over 80% patients had an improvement of residual urine volume by more than 50% after permanent implantation while the improvement was 55.6% after stage Ⅰ therapy, suggesting that the improvement of residual urine volume might be positively correlated with the duration of regulation. No significant differences were found in other parameters between stage Ⅰ and Ⅱ therapy. No adverse events like wound infection and electrode dislocation happened during our study. Conclusions: SNM is an effective and safety procedure for male patients with idiopathic dysuria, with a relatively high transfer rate. The medium-term curative effect is stable. The duration of regulation may be positively correlated with the improvement of residual urine.
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- L F Meng
- Department of Urology, Beijing Hospital, National Center of Gerontology, Beijing 100730, China
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- Department of Urology, Beijing Hospital, National Center of Gerontology, Beijing 100730, China
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- Department of Urology, Beijing Hospital, National Center of Gerontology, Beijing 100730, China
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- Department of Urology, Beijing Hospital, National Center of Gerontology, Beijing 100730, China
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- Department of Urology, China Rehabilitation Research Centre, Rehabilitation School of Capital Medical University, Beijing 100068, China
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- Department of Urology, China Rehabilitation Research Centre, Rehabilitation School of Capital Medical University, Beijing 100068, China
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- Department of Urology, Tongji Hospital, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430030, China
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- Department of Urology, Beijing Chaoyang Hospital, Institute of Urology, Capital Medical University, Beijing 100020, China
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- Department of Urology, the Second Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing 210000, China
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- Department of Urology, the Second Affiliated Hospital of Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an 710014, China
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Wang H, Chen YQ, Zeng XZ, Guo SR, Chen GQ. [Tonsil synovial sarcoma with gastric and other systemic metastases:a case report]. Zhonghua Er Bi Yan Hou Tou Jing Wai Ke Za Zhi 2019; 54:466-468. [PMID: 31262114 DOI: 10.3760/cma.j.issn.1673-0860.2019.06.013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/05/2022]
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- H Wang
- Department of Imaging Diagnosis, Second Affiliated Hospital of Suzhou University, Suzhou 215008, China
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- Department of Ultrasound, Affiliated Hospital of Xuzhou Medical University, Xuzhou 221000, China
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- Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Affiliated Hospital of Xuzhou Medical University, Xuzhou 221000, China
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- Department of Imaging Diagnosis, Second Affiliated Hospital of Suzhou University, Suzhou 215008, China
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- Department of Imaging Diagnosis, Second Affiliated Hospital of Suzhou University, Suzhou 215008, China
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Wu XD, Guo JL, Meng J, Chen GQ. Energy use by globalized economy: Total-consumption-based perspective via multi-region input-output accounting. Sci Total Environ 2019; 662:65-76. [PMID: 30690380 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.01.108] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/24/2018] [Revised: 01/09/2019] [Accepted: 01/10/2019] [Indexed: 05/15/2023]
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Within a single integrated globalized economy featuring robust fluxes of interregional trades, the world economy is like a giant bathtub containing the world inventory of energy use. Based on different norms or ethic percepts, the energy use of the world economy is reallocated to nations and regions via global supply chain using normative accounting schemes. By combining typical statistics for world economy 2012, a new perspective is presented in this study to look into the energy use of regional economies from the side of genuine final consumers. Parallel to the final-demand-based accounting method, a total-consumption-based multi-region input-output accounting method is developed following the norm of consumption being the ultimate end and purpose of all producing activities. From a total-consumption-based perspective, the energy use of the United States economy is shown in magnitude 1.8 times that of mainland China, compared to a ratio of 88% from a territorial-based perspective. The consumer-product-related trade imbalances of major economies in terms of both currency and energy use are analyzed, with major interregional net trade flows illustrated. While the United States and mainland China are respectively revealed as the leading net exporter and net importer of currency, the energy trade deficit of the latter is in magnitude around four times the energy trade surplus of the former. The trade structures by geography and sector are respectively presented for the United States and mainland China as two distinct economies. It is found that around half of the United States' exports of energy use originate from transport and service industries, while nearly 90% of mainland China's exports of energy use come from heavy industry. The findings are supportive for nations to identify their roles in the global supply chain from the perspective of genuine final consumers and adjust the trade patterns for sustained energy use.
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- X D Wu
- School of Economics, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
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- Laboratory of Systems Ecology and Sustainability Science, College of Engineering, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
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- Department of Politics and International Studies, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB3 9DT, UK; Department of Land Economy, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB3 9EP, UK
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- Laboratory of Systems Ecology and Sustainability Science, College of Engineering, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China.
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Chen GQ, Talebi S, Gras SL, Weeks M, Kentish SE. A review of salty waste stream management in the Australian dairy industry. J Environ Manage 2018; 224:406-413. [PMID: 30071452 DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2018.07.056] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [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: 05/14/2018] [Revised: 07/11/2018] [Accepted: 07/15/2018] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
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Saline wastewater is a by-product of cheese manufacturing and whey processing that can have serious environmental and economic consequences. Salty streams originating from dairy processing operations include chromatography wastes, clean-in-place wastewater, acid whey, salty whey and waste generated from whey demineralization processes such as nanofiltration, electrodialysis and ion exchange. With the participation of the major dairy companies in Australia, an industry wide survey was conducted to acquire a comprehensive understanding of the management strategies for these salty waste streams. High salinity waste streams are commonly directed to evaporation ponds. However, environmental impacts from land degradation, odour and dust have prevented the construction of further evaporation ponds in some areas of Australia. The survey results also show that disposal to municipal trade waste is not always effective, as the current levels of some salinity-related parameters are significantly higher than the levels allowed by the local water/environmental authorities. For high salinity streams, salt removal can lead to more substantial savings in trade waste charges compared to wastewater volume reduction. Thus, salt removal and recovery from salty waste streams has become a major focus of the sustainability agenda of the Australian dairy industry.
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- G Q Chen
- The ARC Dairy Innovation Hub, Department of Chemical Engineering, The University of Melbourne, Victoria, 3010, Australia
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- The ARC Dairy Innovation Hub, Department of Chemical Engineering, The University of Melbourne, Victoria, 3010, Australia
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- The ARC Dairy Innovation Hub, Department of Chemical Engineering, The University of Melbourne, Victoria, 3010, Australia; The Bio21 Molecular Science and Biotechnology Institute, The University of Melbourne, Victoria, 3010, Australia
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- Dairy Innovation Australia Ltd., Werribee, VIC, 3030, Australia
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- The ARC Dairy Innovation Hub, Department of Chemical Engineering, The University of Melbourne, Victoria, 3010, Australia.
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Chen B, Han MY, Peng K, Zhou SL, Shao L, Wu XF, Wei WD, Liu SY, Li Z, Li JS, Chen GQ. Global land-water nexus: Agricultural land and freshwater use embodied in worldwide supply chains. Sci Total Environ 2018; 613-614:931-943. [PMID: 28946381 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2017.09.138] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/07/2017] [Revised: 09/13/2017] [Accepted: 09/14/2017] [Indexed: 06/07/2023]
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As agricultural land and freshwater inextricably interrelate and interact with each other, the conventional water and land policy in "silos" should give way to nexus thinking when formulating the land and water management strategies. This study constructs a systems multi-regional input-output (MRIO) model to expound global land-water nexus by simultaneously tracking agricultural land and freshwater use flows along the global supply chains. Furthermore, land productivity and irrigation water requirements of 160 crops in different regions are investigated to reflect the land-water linkage. Results show that developed economies (e.g., USA and Japan) and major large developing economies (e.g., mainland China and India) are the overriding drivers of agricultural land and freshwater use globally. In general, significant net transfers of these two resources are identified from resource-rich and less-developed economies to resource-poor and more-developed economies. For some crops, blue water productivity is inversely related to land productivity, indicating that irrigation water consumption is sometimes at odds with land use. The results could stimulus international cooperation for sustainable land and freshwater management targeting on original suppliers and final consumers along the global supply chains. Moreover, crop-specific land-water linkage could provide insights for trade-off decisions on minimizing the environmental impacts on local land and water resources.
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- Laboratory of Systems Ecology and Sustainability Science, College of Engineering, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
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- Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, PR China
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- Department of New Energy Science and Engineering, School of Energy and Power Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430074, PR China
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- State Key Laboratory of Coal Combustion, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430074, PR China
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- School of Humanities and Economic Management, China University of Geosciences, Beijing 100083, People's Republic of China
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- Economics School, Zhongnan University of Economics and Law, Wuhan 430073, China
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- Business School, University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, Shanghai 200093, China
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- Hebei Provincial Key Laboratory of Heavy Machinery Fluid Power Transmission and Control, Yanshan University, Qinhuangdao 066004, PR China
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- Laboratory of Systems Ecology and Sustainability Science, College of Engineering, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Coal Combustion, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430074, PR China; Department of New Energy Science and Engineering, School of Energy and Power Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430074, PR China.
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- Laboratory of Systems Ecology and Sustainability Science, College of Engineering, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China.
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The solubility of calcium phosphate in concentrated dairy brine streams is important in understanding mineral scaling on equipment, such as membrane modules, evaporators, and heat exchangers, and in brine pond operation. In this study, the solubility of calcium phosphate has been assessed in the presence of up to 300 g/L sodium chloride as well as lactose, organic acids, and anions at 10, 30, and 50 °C. As a neutral molecule, lactose has a marginal but still detectable effect upon calcium solubility. However, additions of sodium chloride up to 100 g/L result in a much greater increase in calcium solubility. Beyond this point, the concentrations of ions in the solution decrease significantly. These changes in calcium solubility can readily be explained through changes in the activity coefficients. There is little difference in calcium phosphate speciation between 10 and 30 °C. However, at 50 °C, the ratio of calcium to phosphate in the solution is lower than at the other temperatures and varies less with ionic strength. While the addition of sodium lactate has less effect upon calcium solubility than sodium citrate, it still has a greater effect than sodium chloride at an equivalent ionic strength. Conversely, when these organic anions are present in the solution in the acid form, the effect of pH dominates and results in much higher solubility and a calcium/phosphate ratio close to one, indicative of dicalcium phosphate dihydrate as the dominant solid phase.
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- Department of Chemical and Process Engineering, University of Surrey Guildford , Surrey GU27XH, United Kingdom
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- School of Applied Science, College of Science, Engineering and Health, RMIT University Melbourne , Melbourne, Victoria 3000, Australia
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Liu Y, Chen GQ, Liu BY, Chen Q, Qian YM, Qin SS, Liu CL, Xu CS. P2X 7 receptor in the hippocampus is involved in gp120-induced cognitive dysfunction. Genet Mol Res 2017; 16:gmr-16-01-gmr.16019356. [PMID: 28128418 DOI: 10.4238/gmr16019356] [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] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/03/2022]
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To investigate the role of the P2X7 receptor in learning and memory dysfunction induced by HIV-1 envelope glycoprotein gp120 (gp120), we established HIV-1-associated dementia (HAD) animal models by intracerebroventricular (ICV) infusion of gp120 in rats. We observed gp120-induced cognitive dysfunction in the radial arm water maze test. Results showed that rats in the gp120 groups had longer escape latencies and more errors compared to those in the control group. For example, the average trial time in the 50-ng/day-gp120 group on day eight (16.57 ± 1.71 s, N = 90) was significantly longer than that of control rats (9.93 ± 0.68 s, N = 90). The relative expression of P2X7 mRNA in the control, 50-, 70-, and 100-ng/day-gp120 groups were 0.43 ± 0.06, 0.48 ± 0.07, 0.83 ± 0.05, and 0.84 ± 0.10, respectively; relative P2X7 protein expression in those groups was 0.63 ± 0.07, 1.08 ± 0.06, 0.90 ± 0.07, and 1.03 ± 0.11, respectively. According to immunohistochemistry analysis, the staining intensity values for P2X7 protein expression in the control, 50-, 70-, and 100-ng/d-gp120 groups were 0.88 ± 0.07, 1.41 ± 0.12, 1.28 ± 0.13, and 1.31 ± 0.10, respectively. The above results showed that the expression of P2X7 increased significantly in the hippocampus of gp120 rats compared to that of the control group. These results suggest that ICV infusion of gp120 can successfully mimic HAD in rats, and P2X7 may be involved in gp120-induced cognitive dysfunction. This could provide a theoretical foundation and potential drug target for research and treatment of ADC.
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- The First Clinical Medical College, Nanchang University, Nanchang, China
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- The First Clinical Medical College, Nanchang University, Nanchang, China
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- The First Clinical Medical College, Nanchang University, Nanchang, China
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- Department of Physiology, Basic Medical College, Nanchang University, Nanchang, China
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- Nursing College, Nanchang University, Nanchang, China
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- Department of Physiology, Basic Medical College, Nanchang University, Nanchang, China
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- Department of Physiology, Basic Medical College, Nanchang University, Nanchang, China
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- Department of Physiology, Basic Medical College, Nanchang University, Nanchang, China
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Chen Q, Hu J, Qin SS, Liu CL, Wu H, Wang JR, Lu XM, Wang J, Chen GQ, Liu Y, Liu BY, Xu CS, Liang SD. Protective effects of naringin against gp120-induced injury mediated by P2X7 receptors in BV2 microglial cells. Genet Mol Res 2016; 15:gmr8649. [PMID: 27323041 DOI: 10.4238/gmr.15028649] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/03/2022]
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This study was aimed at exploring the effects of P2X7 receptors on gp120-induced injury and naringin's protective effects against gp120-induced injury in BV2 microglia. BV2 microglia injury model was established by gp120 treatment and MTS assay was used to verify whether naringin has a cell-protective effect against gp120-induced injury. Changes in P2X7 receptor expression were assayed using RT-PCR, qPCR, and western blot. Results showed that the ODs of the Ctrl, gp120, gp120+naringin, and gp120+BBG groups were 0.91 ± 0.10, 0.71 ± 0.09, 0.83 ± 0.10, and 0.83 ± 0.10, respectively. Compared to the control group, the gp120 group showed a significantly decreased cell survival rate. Cell survival rates of the gp120+naringin group increased significantly compared to those of the gp120 group, while no difference was observed when compared to the gp120+BBG group. The relative P2X7 mRNA expression levels in the Ctrl, gp120, gp120+naringin, and gp120+BBG groups were 0.73 ± 0.06, 1.05 ± 0.06, 0.78 ± 0.05, and 0.81 ± 0.04, respectively. The corresponding P2X7 protein expression levels were 0.46 ± 0.04, 0.79 ± 0.04, 0.38 ± 0.07, and 0.42 ± 0.06. P2X7 mRNA and protein expression in the gp120 group increased significantly compared to those in the control group, and declined in the gp120+naringin group compared to those in the gp120 group. Therefore, P2X7 receptors might be involved in gp120-induced injury in BV2 microglia, and naringin might play a protective role by inhibiting the up-regulated expression of P2X7 receptors.
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- Department of Physiology, Basic Medical College, Nanchang University, Nanchang, China
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- The First Clinical Medical College, Nanchang University, Nanchang, China
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- Department of Physiology, Basic Medical College, Nanchang University, Nanchang, China
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- Department of Physiology, Basic Medical College, Nanchang University, Nanchang, China
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- The Second Clinical Medical College, Nanchang University, Nanchang, China
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- The First Clinical Medical College, Nanchang University, Nanchang, China
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- The First Clinical Medical College, Nanchang University, Nanchang, China
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- The First Clinical Medical College, Nanchang University, Nanchang, China
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- The First Clinical Medical College, Nanchang University, Nanchang, China
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- The First Clinical Medical College, Nanchang University, Nanchang, China
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- The First Clinical Medical College, Nanchang University, Nanchang, China
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- Department of Physiology, Basic Medical College, Nanchang University, Nanchang, China
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- Department of Physiology, Basic Medical College, Nanchang University, Nanchang, China
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Chen L, Chen GQ, Martins C, Porretta K, Shklar O, Greco P, Every H, Xu M, Zhou JX, Brochard L. Respiratory Mechanics in Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome: A Quality Improvement Based Registry Project. Intensive Care Med Exp 2015. [PMCID: PMC4796408 DOI: 10.1186/2197-425x-3-s1-a507] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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Chen GQ, Xu M, Chen XL, Rittayamai N, Kim M, Soliman I, Yang YL, Zhou JX, Brochard L. CAN THEORETICAL VALUES FOR CHEST WALL COMPLIANCE BE USED IN ARDS PATIENTS? Intensive Care Med Exp 2015. [PMCID: PMC4797189 DOI: 10.1186/2197-425x-3-s1-a999] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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The water footprint in terms of the sum of both direct and indirect water cost of wastewater treatment is for the first time accounted in this work. On the basis of the hybrid method as a combination of process analysis and input-output analysis, a detailed water footprint accounting procedure is provided to cover the supply chain of a wastewater treatment plant. A set of indices intending to reveal the efficiency as well as renewability of wastewater treatment systems are devised as parallels of corresponding indicators in net energy analysis for energy supply systems. A case study is carried out for the Beijing Space City wastewater treatment plant as a landmark project. The high WROI (water return on investment) and low WIWP (water investment in water purified) indicate a high efficiency and renewability of the case system, illustrating the fundamental function of wastewater treatment for water reuse. The increasing of the wastewater and sludge treatment rates are revealed in an urgent need to reduce the water footprint of China and to improve the performance of wastewater treatment.
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- Ling Shao
- State Key Laboratory of Turbulence and Complex Systems, College of Engineering, Peking University , Beijing 100871, People's Republic of China
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Meng ZH, Yang YS, Cheng KL, Chen GQ, Wang LP, Li W. A huge malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumor with hepatic metastasis arising from retroperitoneal ganglioneuroma. Oncol Lett 2012; 5:123-126. [PMID: 23255906 DOI: 10.3892/ol.2012.961] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/11/2012] [Accepted: 09/05/2012] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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Ganglioneuromas (GNs) are the rarest and most benign of the neuroblastic tumors. We experienced a case of huge retroperitoneal GN which differentiated into malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumors (MPNST) with hepatic metastasis. The tumor was located in the upper right quarter of the abdomen and pressed the right lobe of the liver, which was initially misdiagnosed as a liver carcinoma. The tumor shared blood supply with the right liver lob and had rich blood supplies from the abdominal aorta, renal artery and hepatic artery. It was also associated with skin pigment and recurrence shortly following resection. Our finding demonstrated that MPNST is a potent invasive malignant tumor and metastasis earlier with very poor prognosis.
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- Departments of Hepatobiliary-Pancreatic Surgery
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OBJECTIVE Thoracic ganglioneuroma is sporadic and rarely reported. Pre-operative misdiagnosis often occurs in clinical practice. To improve diagnostic accuracy and facilitate differential diagnosis, we summarised the CT and MRI findings of thoracic ganglioneuroma. METHODS 22 cases of thoracic ganglioneuroma confirmed by surgery and pathology were retrospectively analysed in terms of CT (16 cases) and MRI data (6 cases). RESULTS Of 22 lesions, 19 occurred in the posterior mediastinum, 2 in the lateral pleura and 1 in the right chest. The CT value of the plain scans ranged from 20 to 40 HU (mean 29.1 HU) in 16 cases. Punctate calcification was noted in four cases. Patchy fat density shadow was found in one case. Arterial-phase CT found nearly no enhancement (6 cases) or slight enhancement (10 cases) with a CT value of 0-12 HU (mean 5.8 HU). In the delayed phase, enhancement was strengthened progressively, and CT value of 10-20 HU (mean 13.6 HU) was achieved after 120 s. T(1) weighted images showed homogeneous hypointense signals in five cases and hypointense signals mixed with patchy hyperintense signal shadow in one case. T(2) weighted images demonstrated heterogeneous hyperintense signals in all six cases, of which the whorled appearance was noted in one case. Gadolinium-diethylenetriaminepentaacetic acid (Gd-DTPA)-enhanced MRI found mildly heterogeneous enhancement in the arterial phase, and progressive mild enhancement in the delayed phase. CONCLUSION Thoracic ganglioneuroma shows hypodensity in plain CT. On CT and MRI, non-enhancement or slight enhancement in artery phase and progressive mild enhancement in delay phase are characteristic manifestations of ganglioneuroma in the thorax.
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- Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, China
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The usage of plastics in packaging and disposable products, and the generation of plastic waste, have been increasing drastically. Broader usage of biodegradable plastics in packaging and disposable products as a solution to environmental problems would heavily depend on further reduction of costs and the discovery of novel biodegradable plastics with improved properties. In the authors' laboratories, various carbohydrates in the growth media, including sucrose, lactic acid, butyric acid, valeric acid, and various combinations of butyric and valeric acids, were utilized as the carbon (c) sources for the production of bioplastics by Alcaligenes eutrophus. As the first step in pursuit of eventual usage of industrial food wastewater as nutrients for microorganisms to synthesize bioplastics, the authors investigated the usage of malt wastes from a beer brewery plant as the C sources for the production of bioplastics by microorganisms. Specific polymer production yield by A. Latus DSM 1124 increased to 70% polymer/cell (g/g) and 32 g/L cell dry wt, using malt wastes as the C source. The results of these experiments indicated that, with the use of different types of food wastes as the C source, different polyhydroxyalkanoate copolymers could be produced with distinct polymer properties.
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- Department of Applied Biology and Chemical Technology, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong.
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Yang L, Jiang Y, Wu SF, Zhou MY, Wu YL, Chen GQ. CCAAT/enhancer-binding protein alpha antagonizes transcriptional activity of hypoxia-inducible factor 1 alpha with direct protein-protein interaction. Carcinogenesis 2007; 29:291-8. [PMID: 18024476 DOI: 10.1093/carcin/bgm262] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Hypoxia-inducible factor 1 (HIF-1), a master heterodimeric transcriptional regulator consisting of HIF-1alpha and HIF-1beta subunits for cellular response to hypoxia, plays an important role in carcinogenesis, while CCAAT/enhancer-binding protein alpha (C/EBPalpha) is proposed to act as a tumor suppressor in C/EBPalpha-expressing tissues. Previously, we reported that ectopically expressed HIF-1alpha protein interacts with and enhances transcriptional activity of C/EBPalpha, which favors leukemic cell differentiation. Here we further showed that such an interaction also occurred in their endogenously expressing state of leukemic U937 cells. Glutathione S-transferase pull-down assay proposed that the protein-protein interaction was direct, and transactivation domains of C/EBPalpha and the basic helix-loop-helix domain of HIF-1alpha were essential for such an interaction. More intriguingly, we provided the first demonstration that C/EBPalpha competed with HIF-1beta for direct binding to HIF-1alpha protein. Correspondingly, C/EBPalpha overexpression significantly inhibited the DNA-binding ability of HIF-1 and expressions of hypoxia-responsive element-driven luciferase and HIF-1-targeted genes vascular endothelial growth factor, glucose transporter-1 and phosphoglycerate kinase 1. In parallel, suppression of C/EBPalpha expression by specific small hairpin RNA increased DNA-binding ability of HIF-1 and expression of these HIF-1-targeted genes in leukemic U937 cells. These results would provide new insights for antitumor potential of C/EBPalpha protein.
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- L Yang
- Institute of Health Science, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences-Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai 200025, China
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Peng ZG, Zhou MY, Huang Y, Qiu JH, Wang LS, Liao SH, Dong S, Chen GQ. Physical and functional interaction of Runt-related protein 1 with hypoxia-inducible factor-1alpha. Oncogene 2007; 27:839-47. [PMID: 17684492 DOI: 10.1038/sj.onc.1210676] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Angiogenesis and hematopoiesis are closely linked and interactive with each other, but few studies were given to identify possible links between angiogenesis-promoting proteins and hematopoiesis-related transcription factors. Here we investigated the potential relationship of oxygen-sensitive alpha-subunit of angiogenesis-related hypoxia-inducible factor-1alpha (HIF-1alpha) with Runt-related protein 1 (Runx1, also known as acute myeloid leukemia-1, AML-1), an important hematopoietic transcription factor. The results demonstrated that Runx1 and HIF-1alpha proteins directly interacted with each other to a degree, in which Runt homology domain of Runx1 was mainly involved. Leukemia-related abnormal Runx1 fusion protein AML1-ETO, which fuses the N-terminal 177 amino acid residues of the Runx1 protein in frame to ETO (eight-twenty-one) protein, also interacted with HIF-1alpha protein with greater ability than Runx1 itself. More intriguingly, Runx1 overexpression inhibited DNA-binding and transcriptional activity of HIF-1 protein with reduced expression of HIF-1-targeted genes such as vascular endothelial growth factor, while silence of Runx1 expression by specific small interfering RNA significantly increased transcriptional activity of HIF-1 protein, suggesting that Runx1 inhibited transcription-dependent function of HIF-1. Vice versa, HIF-1alpha increased DNA-binding ability and transcriptional activity of Runx1 protein. All these data would shed new insight to understanding Runx1 and HIF-1alpha-related hematopoietic cell differentiation and angiogenesis.
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- Z G Peng
- Institute of Health Science, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences of Chinese Academy of Sciences-Shanghai Jiao-Tong University School of Medicine (SJTU-SM, formerly Shanghai Second Medical University), Shanghai, China
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Ao Q, Wang AJ, Chen GQ, Wang SJ, Zuo HC, Zhang XF. Combined transplantation of neural stem cells and olfactory ensheathing cells for the repair of spinal cord injuries. Med Hypotheses 2007; 69:1234-7. [PMID: 17548168 DOI: 10.1016/j.mehy.2007.04.011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/02/2007] [Accepted: 04/03/2007] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Spinal cord repair is a problem that has long puzzled neuroscientists. The failure of the spinal cord to regenerate and undergo reconstruction after spinal cord injury (SCI) can be attributed to secondary axonal demyelination and neuronal death followed by cyst formation and infarction as well as to the nature of the injury environment, which promotes glial scar formation. Cellular replacement and axon guidance are both necessary for SCI repair. Multipotent neural stem cells (NSCs) have the potential to differentiate into both neuronal and glial cells and are, therefore, likely candidates for cell replacement therapy following SCI. However, NSC transplantation alone is not sufficient for spinal cord repair because the majority of the NSCs engrafted into the spinal cord have been shown to differentiate with a phenotype which is restricted to glial lineages, further promoting glial scaring. Olfactory ensheathing cells (OECs) are a unique type of glial cell that occur both peripherally and centrally along the olfactory nerve. The ability of olfactory neurons to grow axons in the mature central nervous system (CNS) milieu has been attributed to the presence of OECs. It has been shown that transplanted OECs are capable of migrating into and through astrocytic scars and thereby facilitating axonal regrowth through an injury barrier. Given the complementary properties of NSCs and OECs, we predict that the co-transplantation of NSCs and OECs into an injured spinal cord would have a synergistic effect, promoting neural regeneration and functional reconstruction. The lost neurocytes would be replaced by NSCs, while the OECs would build "bridges" crossing the glial scaring that conduct axon elongation and promote myelinization simultaneously. Furthermore, the two types of cells could first be seeded into a bioactive scaffold and then the cell seeded construct could be implanted into the defect site. We believe that this type of treatment would lead to improved neural regeneration and functional reconstruction after SCI.
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- Q Ao
- Institute of Neurological Disorders, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100049, PR China.
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Qu XH, Wu Q, Zhang KY, Chen GQ. In vivo studies of poly(3-hydroxybutyrate-co-3-hydroxyhexanoate) based polymers: biodegradation and tissue reactions. Biomaterials 2006; 27:3540-8. [PMID: 16542719 DOI: 10.1016/j.biomaterials.2006.02.015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/16/2006] [Accepted: 02/14/2006] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
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The in vivo tissue reactions and biodegradations of poly(3-hydroxybutyrate-co-3-hydroxyhexanoate) (PHBHHx), poly(lactide) (PLA), poly(3-hydroxybutyrate) (PHB), blends of PHBHHx (X) and poly(ethylene glycol) (PEG) (E) with ratios of 1:1 (E1X1) and 1:5 (E1X5), respectively, were evaluated by subcutaneous implantation in rabbits. Results revealed that the degradation rate increased in the order of PHB < PHBHHx < PLA. During the implantation period, crystallinity of PHBHHx increased from 19% to 22% and then dropped to 14%. Gel permeation chromatography (GPC) displayed increasing polydispersity and typical bimodal distribution from 3 to 6 months. The above results suggested that rapid PHBHHx degradation occurred in amorphous region rather than in crystalline region. While the in vivo hydrolysis of PHB was found to start from a random chain scission both in amorphous and crystalline regions of the polymer matrix, as demonstrated by its hydrolysis process accompanied by a decrease in molecular weight with unimodal distribution and relatively narrow polydispersity. Compared to pure PHBHHx, PHBHHx-PEG blends showed accelerated weight loss of PHBHHx with weak molecular weight reduction. In general, PHBHHx elicited a very mild tissue response during implantation lasting 6 months compared with relative acute immunological reactions observed among PHB and PLA objects, respectively. Pronounced tissue responses were observed in the capsule surrounding E1X1 and E1X5 as characterized by the presence of lymphocytes, eosinophils and vascularization, which might be resulted from the continuous leaching of PEG.
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- Xiang-Hua Qu
- Department of Biological Science and Biotechnology, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
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Lu XY, Wu Q, Chen GQ. Production of poly(3-hydroxybutyrate- co-3-hydroxyhexanoate) with flexible 3-hydroxyhexanoate content in Aeromonas hydrophila CGMCC 0911. Appl Microbiol Biotechnol 2004; 64:41-5. [PMID: 12920488 DOI: 10.1007/s00253-003-1417-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/12/2003] [Revised: 07/03/2003] [Accepted: 07/04/2003] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Aeromonas hydrophila CGMCC 0911 isolated from lake water was found to be able to synthesize a polyhydroxyalkanoate (PHA) copolymer (PHBHHx) consisting of 3-hydroxybutyrate (HB) and 4-6 mol% 3-hydroxyhexanoate (HHx). The wild-type bacterium accumulated 49% PHBHHx containing 6 mol% HHx in terms of cell dry weight (CDW) when grown on lauric acid for 48 h. When A. hydrophila CGMCC 0911 expressed the Acyl-CoA dehydrogenase gene ( yafH) of Escherichia coli, the recombinant strain could accumulate 47% PHBHHx, while the HHx content reached 17.4 mol%. The presence of changing glucose concentration in the culture changed the HHx content both in wild type and recombinant A. hydrophila CGMCC 0911. When 5 g l(-1) glucose was added to a culture containing 5 g l(-1) lauric acid as co-substrate, 45% PHBHHx/CDW consisting of 8.8 mol% HHx was produced by wild-type A. hydrophila CGMCC 0911 compared with only 5% in the absence of glucose. When the recombinant A. hydrophila CGMCC 0911 was grown on a mixed substrate containing lauric acid and 8-10 g l(-1) glucose, the HHx content could be further increased to 35.6 mol%. When the glucose concentration exceeded 10 g l(-1), cell growth, PHA content and mole percentages of HHx in PHBHHx were significantly reduced.
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- X Y Lu
- Dept of Biological Science and Biotechnology, Tsinghua University, 100084 Beijing, China
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Zhao WL, Chen SJ, Shen Y, Xu L, Cai X, Chen GQ, Shen ZX, Chen Z, Wang ZY. Treatment of acute promyelocytic leukemia with arsenic trioxide: clinical and basic studies. Leuk Lymphoma 2001; 42:1265-73. [PMID: 11911407 DOI: 10.3109/10428190109097751] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
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Arsenic trioxide (As2O3) has recently been identified as an effective drug in the treatment of newly diagnosed and relapsed acute promyelocytic leukemia (APL) without cross-resistance to all-trans retinoic acid and achieved complete remission rates of 80-90% according to most reports. With intravenous infusion at a dose of 0.08-0.16 mg/kg daily, a course of 28-42 days is required to induce remission. As2O3 in combination with chemotherapy as postremission therapy results in longer survival than arsenic alone. In vitro, As2O3 exerts dose-dependent dual effect; triggering apoptosis at relatively high concentration (0.5-2.0 micromol/l), which is associated with the disruption of mitochondrial transmembrane potentials, while inducing partial differentiation at low concentration (0.1-0.5 micromol/l), which might be related to retinoic acid signaling pathway. Importantly, at both concentrations, As2O3 can degrade PML (promyelocytic leukemia) -RAR alpha (retinoic acid receptor), an oncoprotein that has a central role in leukemogenesis.
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- W L Zhao
- Shanghai Institute of Hematology, Rui Jin Hospital affiliated to Shanghai Second Medical University, People's Republic of China
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Acute promyelocytic leukemia (APL) is an interesting model in cancer research, because it can respond to the differentiation/apoptosis induction therapy using all-trans retinoic acid (ATRA) and arsenic trioxide (As(2)O(3)). Over the past 5 years, it has been well demonstrated that As(2)O(3) induces a high complete remission (CR) rate in both primary and relapsed APL patients (around 85 to 90%). The side effects are mild to moderate in relapsed patients, while severe hepatic lesions have been found in some primary cases. After CR obtained in relapsed patients, chemotherapy in combination with As(2)O(3) as post-remission therapy has given better survival than those treated with As(2)O(3) alone. The effect of As(2)O(3) has been shown to be related to the expression of APL-specific PML-RARalpha oncoprotein, and there is a synergistic effect between As(2)O(3) and ATRA in an APL mouse model. Cell biology studies have revealed that As(2)O(3) exerts dose-dependent dual effects on APL cells. Apoptosis is evident when cells are treated with 0.5 approximately 2.0 microM of As(2)O(3) while partial differentiation is observed using low concentrations (0.1 approximately 0.5 microM) of the drug. The apoptosis-inducing effect is associated with the collapse of mitochondrial transmembrane potentials in a thiol-dependent manner, whereas the mechanisms underlying APL cell differentiation induced by low dose arsenic remain to be explored. Interestingly, As(2)O(3) over a wide range of concentration (0.1 approximately 2.0 microM) induces degradation of a key leukemogenic protein, PML-RARalpha, as well as the wild-type PML, thus setting up a good example of targeting therapy for human cancers.
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- T D Zhang
- The First Hospital affiliated to Harbin Medical University, 23 You Zheng Road, Nangang District, Harbin, 150001, PR China
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A strain of Bacillus sp. coded JMa5 was isolated from molasses contaminated soil. The strain was able to grow at a temperature as high as 45 degrees C and in 250 g/l molasses although the optimal growth temperature was 35-37 degrees C. Cell density reached 30 g/l 8 h after inoculation in a batch culture with an initial concentration of 210 g/l molasses. Under fed-batch conditions, the cells grew to a dry weight of 70 g/l after 30 h of fermentation. The strain accumulated 25-35%, (w/w) polyhydroxybutyrate (PHB) during fermentation. PHB accumulation was a growth-associated process. Factors that normally promote PHB production include high ratios of carbon to nitrogen, and carbon to phosphorus in growth media. Low dissolved oxygen supply resulted in sporulation, which reduced PHB contents and dry weights of the cells. It seems that sporulation induced by reduced supply of nutrients is the reason that PHB content is generally low in the Bacillus strain.
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- Q Wu
- Department of Biological Sciences and Biotechnology, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
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Large scale production of poly(3-hydroxybutyrate-co-3-hydroxyhexanoate) [P(3HB-co-3HHx)] by Aeromonas hydrophila 4AK4 was examined in a 20,000 l fermentor. Cells were first grown using glucose as a carbon source, and polyhydroxyalkanoate (PHA) biosynthesis was triggered by the addition of lauric acid under conditions of limited nitrogen or phosphorus. When cells first grown in a medium containing 50 g glucose l(-1) were further cultivated after the addition of 50 g lauric acid l(-1) under phosphorus limitation, a final cell concentration, PHA concentration and PHA content of 50 g l(-1), 25 g l(-1), and 50 wt%, respectively, were obtained in 46 h, equivalent to PHA productivity of 0.54 g l(-1)t h(-1). The copolymer produced was found to be a random copolymer, and the 3HHx fraction was 11 mol%.
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- G Q Chen
- Department of Biological Sciences and Biotechnology, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
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Two polyhydroxyalkanoate synthase genes, phaC1 from Pseudomonas pseudoalcaligenes HBQ06 and phaC2 from Pseudomonas nitroreducens 0802, were cloned using a PCR cloning strategy based on the type II pha loci property of Pseudomonas strains. The complete open reading frames (ORFs) of phaC1 (P. nitroreducens HBQ06) and phaC2 (P. nitroreducens 0802) were identified from the PCR products. Using the sequence information, the complete PHA synthase genes were PCR cloned directly from the genomic DNA and expressed in Escherichia coli as confirmed by Fourier transform-infrared spectroscopy and gas chromatography. The differences between PhaC1 and PhaC2 were analyzed and the two proteins were suggested to contain different functions and evolution history.
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- G Zhang
- Department of Biological Sciences and Biotechnology, Tsinghua University, Beijing, PR China
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Jing Y, Wang L, Xia L, Chen GQ, Chen Z, Miller WH, Waxman S. Combined effect of all-trans retinoic acid and arsenic trioxide in acute promyelocytic leukemia cells in vitro and in vivo. Blood 2001; 97:264-9. [PMID: 11133770 DOI: 10.1182/blood.v97.1.264] [Citation(s) in RCA: 168] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/13/2023] Open
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All-trans retinoic acid (tRA) and arsenic trioxide (As(2)O(3)) induce non-cross-resistant complete clinical remission in patients with acute promyelocytic leukemia with t(15;17) translocation and target PML-RARalpha, the leukemogenic protein, by different pathways suggesting a possible therapeutic synergism. To evaluate this possibility, this study examined the effect of As(2)O(3) on tRA-induced differentiation and, conversely, the effect of tRA on As(2)O(3)-induced apoptosis. As(2)O(3) at subapoptotic concentrations (0.5 microM) decreased tRA-induced differentiation in NB4 cells but synergized with atRA to induce differentiation in tRA-resistant NB4 subclones MR-2 and R4 cells as measured by nitroblue tetrazolium reduction and tRA-inducible genes (TTGII, RARbeta, RIG-E). tRA cleaved PML-RARalpha into distinct fragments in NB4 but not in tRA-resistant MR-2 or R4 cells, whereas As(2)O(3) completely degraded PML-RARalpha in all 3 cell lines. As(2)O(3)-induced apoptosis was decreased by tRA pretreatment of NB4 cells but not of R4 cells and was associated with a strong induction of Bfl-1/A1 expression, a Bcl-2 protein family member. Severe combined immunodeficient mice bearing NB4 cells showed an additive survival effect after sequential treatment, but a toxic effect was observed after simultaneous treatment with tRA and As(2)O(3). These data suggest that combined As(2)O(3) and tRA treatment may be more effective than single agents in tRA-resistant patients. Although in vitro data do not always translate to in vivo response, toxicity and potential drug antagonism may be diminished by decreasing the concentration of As(2)O(3) when given at the same time with therapeutic levels of tRA.
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MESH Headings
- Animals
- Antineoplastic Combined Chemotherapy Protocols/therapeutic use
- Apoptosis/drug effects
- Arsenic Trioxide
- Arsenicals/pharmacology
- Blotting, Northern
- Blotting, Western
- Cell Culture Techniques
- Cell Differentiation/drug effects
- Dose-Response Relationship, Drug
- Drug Evaluation, Preclinical
- Drug Resistance
- Female
- Humans
- Leukemia, Experimental/drug therapy
- Leukemia, Experimental/pathology
- Leukemia, Promyelocytic, Acute/drug therapy
- Leukemia, Promyelocytic, Acute/pathology
- Mice
- Mice, SCID
- Neoplasm Proteins/drug effects
- Oncogene Proteins, Fusion/drug effects
- Oxides/pharmacology
- Survival Rate
- Tretinoin/metabolism
- Tretinoin/pharmacology
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- Y Jing
- Department of Medicine, Division of Medical Oncology, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY 10029-6547, USA.
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Arsenic compounds, Including arsenic trioxide (As2O3) and arsenic sulfide (As4S4), have recently been shown to be effective in the treatment of acute promyelocytic leukemia (APL). In vitro, As2O3 exerts a dose-dependent dual effect: it triggers apoptosis at relatively high concentrations (0.5 to 2.0 micromol/L) and induces partial differentiation at low concentrations (0.1 to 0.5 micromol/L). The apoptosis-inducing effect is associated with the collapse of mitochondrial transmembrane potentials in a thiol-dependent manner, whereas the retinoic acid signaling is required for APL cell differentiation. As2O3 over a wide range of concentrations (0.1 to 2.0 micromol/L) Induces degradation of PML-RARalpha as well as the wild-type PML and enhances the acetylation of histone, a process important for the transcriptional activation of genes. In vivo, As2O3 induces a high complete remission (CR) rate in patients with both primary and relapsed APL (around 85% to 90%). Side effects, such as skin reaction, gastrointestinal symptoms, electrocardiographic (EKG) changes, neuropathy, and liver dysfunction, are mild to moderate in relapsed patients, and severe hepatic lesions have been found in some primary cases. After CR obtained in relapsed patients, chemotherapy in combination with As2O3 as postremission therapy has yielded better survival than treatment with As2O3 alone. This is in line with the observation that remission induction with As2O3 is not sufficient in most cases to obtain a molecular remission as Judged by reverse-transcriptase polymerase chain reaction for PML-RARalpha fusion transcripts. The in vivo effect of As2O3 seems to be related to the expression of APL-specific PML-RARalpha oncoprotein, and a synergistic effect between As2O3 and ATRA has been shown in the APL mouse model. Besides As2O3, other arsenic compounds such as As4S4 also show a therapeutic effect in APL. Because the toxic effects of arsenic treatment in primary APL need to be investigated further, we propose use of ATRA as a first-line drug for remission induction in primary APL, whereas As2O3 can be incorporated into multidrug postremission therapy or used as rescue for relapsed APL patients.
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- Z Chen
- Shanghai Institute of Hematology, Rui Jin Hospital, People's Republic of China
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To investigate the mechanism of inhibition of silver ions on microorganisms, two strains of bacteria, namely Gram-negative Escherichia coli (E. coli) and Gram-positive Staphylococcus aureus (S. aureus), were treated with AgNO(3) and studied using combined electron microscopy and X-ray microanalysis. Similar morphological changes occurred in both E. coli and S. aureus cells after Ag(+) treatment. The cytoplasm membrane detached from the cell wall. A remarkable electron-light region appeared in the center of the cells, which contained condensed deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) molecules. There are many small electron-dense granules either surrounding the cell wall or depositing inside the cells. The existence of elements of silver and sulfur in the electron-dense granules and cytoplasm detected by X-ray microanalysis suggested the antibacterial mechanism of silver: DNA lost its replication ability and the protein became inactivated after Ag(+) treatment. The slighter morphological changes of S. aureus compared with E. coli recommended a defense system of S. aureus against the inhibitory effects of Ag(+) ions.
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- Q L Feng
- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
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McKeon TA, Chen GQ, Lin JT. Biochemical aspects of castor oil biosynthesis. Biochem Soc Trans 2000; 28:972-4. [PMID: 11171276] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/18/2023]
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Castor oil is 90% ricinoleate (12-hydroxy-oleate) and has numerous industrial uses. Components of castor bean (Ricinus communis L.) pose serious problems to processors. We are evaluating two complementary approaches to providing a safe source of castor oil.
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- T A McKeon
- Western Regional Research Center, USDA-ARS, Albany, CA 94710, USA.
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Hong K, Chen GQ, Yu PH, Zhang G, Liu Y, Chua H. Effect of C:N molar ratio on monomer composition of polyhydroxyalkanoates produced by Pseudomonas mendocina 0806 and Pseudomonas pseudoalkaligenus YS1. Appl Biochem Biotechnol 2000; 84-86:971-80. [PMID: 10849851 DOI: 10.1385/abab:84-86:1-9:971] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [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: 11/11/2022]
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Polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHAs) are biodegradable polymers produced by bacteria. In this study, the effect of C:N molar ratio on the monomer composition of PHAs was investigated, including medium chain length PHA produced by Pseudomonas mendocina 0806 and PHA blends consisting of monomers of 3-hydroxybutyrate and medium chain length hydroxyalkanoate produced by Pseudomonas pseudoalkaligenus YS1. It was observed that there were some fixed ranges of C:N molar ratio that affect the monomer composition of PHA independently of the substrate. For strain 0806, the ranges were C:N < 20, 20 < C:N < 200, and C:N > 200. The monomer composition was constant among these ranges when using glucose and octanoate as the sole substrate. For strain YS1, the ranges were C:N < 20, 20 < C:N < 45, and C:N > 45. These results are useful for controlling monomer composition in PHA production.
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- K Hong
- Engineering School, South China University of Tropical Agriculture, Danzhou, Hainan, China
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Xi J, Wu Q, Yan Y, Zhang Z, Yu PH, Cheung MK, Zhang R, Chen GQ. Hyperproduction of polyesters consisting of medium-chain-length hydroxyalkanoate monomers by strain Pseudomonas stutzeri 1317. Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek 2000; 78:43-9. [PMID: 11016695 DOI: 10.1023/a:1002714102347] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [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: 11/12/2022]
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Pseudomonas stutzeri strain 1317 was found to grow on various fatty acids, alcohols, diols, as well as glucose and gluconate for the synthesis of polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHA) with various monomer units. The PHA monomer structures were dependent on the type of fatty acids and alcohols, as well as the diols in the culture media. Only even number monomers, such as 3-hydroxyhexanoate (HHx), 3-hydroxyoctanoate (HO) and 3-hydroxydecanoate (HD), were accumulated when even numbered fatty acids, alcohols, glucose and gluconate, as well as diol were used as carbon sources. Odd numbered fatty acids and odd numbered alcohols led to the formation of odd numbered monomers, such as 3-hydroxyvalerate (HV), 3-hydroxyheptanoate (HHp), 3-hydroxynonanoate (HN) and 3-hydroxyundecanoate (HU). The strain tolerated up to 1.5% of ethanol and made 8.3% of PHA when growth was conducted in 1.2% of ethanol. PHA formed up to 77% of cell dry weight when the strain was grown in tridecanoate. PHA synthesis was highly dependent on the nitrogen source. A depletion in nitrogen supply immediately resulted in PHA accumulation in cells grown in the glucose mineral medium.
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- J Xi
- Department of Biological Sciences and Biotechnology, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
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Lin B, Chen GQ, Xiao D, Kolluri SK, Cao X, Su H, Zhang XK. Orphan receptor COUP-TF is required for induction of retinoic acid receptor beta, growth inhibition, and apoptosis by retinoic acid in cancer cells. Mol Cell Biol 2000; 20:957-70. [PMID: 10629053 PMCID: PMC85213 DOI: 10.1128/mcb.20.3.957-970.2000] [Citation(s) in RCA: 88] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/31/2022] Open
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Retinoic acid receptor beta (RARbeta) plays a critical role in mediating the anticancer effects of retinoids. Expression of RARbeta is highly induced by retinoic acid (RA) through a RA response element (betaRARE) that is activated by heterodimers of RARs and retinoid X receptors (RXRs). However, RARbeta induction is often lost in cancer cells despite expression of RARs and RXRs. In this study, we provide evidence that orphan receptor COUP-TF is required for induction of RARbeta expression, growth inhibition, and apoptosis by RA in cancer cells. Expression of COUP-TF correlates with RARbeta induction in a variety of cancer cell lines. In addition, stable expression of COUP-TF in COUP-TF-negative cancer cells restores induction of RARbeta expression, growth inhibition, and apoptosis by RA, whereas inhibition of COUP-TF by expression of COUP-TF antisense RNA represses the RA effects. In a transient transfection assay, COUP-TF strongly induced transcriptional activity of the RARbeta promoter in a RA- and RARalpha-dependent manner. By mutation analysis, we demonstrate that the effect of COUP-TF requires its binding to a DR-8 element present in the RARbeta promoter. The binding of COUP-TF to the DR-8 element synergistically increases the RA-dependent RARalpha transactivation function by enhancing the interaction of RARalpha with its coactivator CREB binding protein. These results demonstrate that COUP-TF, by serving as an accessory protein for RARalpha to induce RARbeta expression, plays a critical role in regulating the anticancer activities of retinoids.
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- B Lin
- Cancer Research Center, The Burnham Institute, La Jolla, California 92037, USA
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Cai X, Shen YL, Zhu Q, Jia PM, Yu Y, Zhou L, Huang Y, Zhang JW, Xiong SM, Chen SJ, Wang ZY, Chen Z, Chen GQ. Arsenic trioxide-induced apoptosis and differentiation are associated respectively with mitochondrial transmembrane potential collapse and retinoic acid signaling pathways in acute promyelocytic leukemia. Leukemia 2000; 14:262-70. [PMID: 10673743 DOI: 10.1038/sj.leu.2401650] [Citation(s) in RCA: 197] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.2] [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: 12/22/2022]
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Recent studies showed that arsenic trioxide (As2O3) could induce apoptosis and partial differentiation of leukemic promyelocytes. Here, we addressed the possible mechanisms underlying these two different effects. 1.0 microM As2O3-induced apoptosis was associated with condensation of the mitochondrial matrix, disruption of mitochondrial transmembrane potentials (DeltaPsim) and activation of caspase-3 in acute promyelocytic leukemia (APL) cells regardless of their sensitivity to all-trans retinoic acid (ATRA). All these effects were inhibited by dithiothreitol (DTT) and enhanced by buthionine sulfoximine (BSO). Furthermore, BSO could also render HL60 and U937 cells, which had the higher cellular catalase activity, sensitive to As2O3-induced apoptosis. Surprisingly, 1.0 microM As2O3 did not induce the DeltaPsim collapse and apoptosis, while 0.1 microM As2O3 induced partial differentiation of fresh BM cells from a de novo APL patient. In this study, we also showed that 0.2 mM DTT did not block low-dose As2O3-induced NB4 cell differentiation, and 0. 10.5 microM As2O3 did not induce differentiation of ATRA-resistant NB4-derived sublines, which were confirmed by cytomorphology, expression of CD11b, CD33 and CD14 as well as NBT reduction. Another interesting finding was that 0.10.5 microM As2O3 could also induce differentiation-related changes in ATRA-sensitive HL60 cells. However, the differentiation-inducing effect could not be seen in ATRA-resistant HL60 sublines with RARalpha mutation. Moreover, low-dose As2O3 and ATRA yielded similar gene expression profiles in APL cells. These results encouraged us to hypothesize that As2O3 induces APL cell differentiation through direct or indirect activation of retinoic acid receptor-related signaling pathway(s), while DeltaPsim collapse is the common mechanism of As2O3-induced apoptosis.
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MESH Headings
- Antineoplastic Agents/pharmacology
- Apoptosis/drug effects
- Arsenic Trioxide
- Arsenicals/pharmacology
- Caspase 3
- Caspases/metabolism
- Cell Differentiation/drug effects
- DNA, Neoplasm/analysis
- Electrophoresis, Agar Gel
- Enzyme Precursors/metabolism
- Flow Cytometry
- Fluorescent Antibody Technique
- Gene Expression Regulation, Neoplastic/drug effects
- HL-60 Cells
- Humans
- Leukemia, Promyelocytic, Acute/drug therapy
- Leukemia, Promyelocytic, Acute/enzymology
- Leukemia, Promyelocytic, Acute/metabolism
- Leukemia, Promyelocytic, Acute/pathology
- Membrane Potentials/drug effects
- Microscopy, Electron
- Mitochondria/drug effects
- Mitochondria/metabolism
- Mutation
- Oxides/pharmacology
- Receptors, Retinoic Acid/genetics
- Retinoic Acid Receptor alpha
- Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction
- Signal Transduction/drug effects
- Tretinoin/metabolism
- Tumor Cells, Cultured
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- X Cai
- Shanghai Institute of Hematology, Rui-Jin Hospital, Shanghai Second Medical University, 197 Rui-Jin Road II, Shanghai, 200025, PR China
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Tian W, Hong K, Chen GQ, Wu Q, Zhang RQ, Huang W. Production of polyesters consisting of medium chain length 3-hydroxyalkanoic acids by Pseudomonas mendocina 0806 from various carbon sources. Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek 2000; 77:31-6. [PMID: 10696875 DOI: 10.1023/a:1002099023046] [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] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022]
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Pseudomonas mendocina strain 0806 was isolated from oil-contaminated soil and found to produce polyesters consisting of medium chain length 3-hydroxyalkanoates (mclPHAs). The monomers of mclPHAs contained even numbers of carbon atoms, such as 3-hydroxyhexanoate (HHx or C6), 3-hydroxyoctanoate (HO or C8), and/or 3-hydroxydecanoate (HD or C10) as major components when grown on many carbon sources unrelated to their monomeric structures, such as glucose, citric acid, and carbon sources related to their monomeric structures, such as myristic acid, octanoate, or oleic acid. On the other hand, PHA containing both even and odd numbers of hydroxyalkanoates (HA) monomers was synthesized when the strain was grown on tridecanoic acid. The molar ratio of carbon to nitrogen (C/N) had a significant effect on PHA composition: the strain produced PHAs containing 97-99% of HD monomer when grown in a glucose ammonium sulfate medium of C/N<20, and 20% HO, and 80% of the HD monomer when growth was conducted in media containing C/N>40. It was demonstrated that the HO/HD ratio in the polymers remained constant in media with a constant C/N ratio, regardless of the glucose concentration. Up to 3.6 g/L cell dry weight containing 45% of PHAs was produced when the strain was grown for 48 h in a medium containing 20 g/L glucose with a C/N ratio of 40.
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- W Tian
- Department of Biological Sciences and Biotechnology, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
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Ion channels are molecular pores that facilitate the passage of ions across cell membranes and participate in a range of biological processes, from excitatory signal transmission in the mammalian nervous system to the modulation of swimming behaviour in the protozoan Paramecium. Two particularly important families of ion channels are ionotropic glutamate receptors (GluRs) and potassium channels. GluRs are permeable to Na+, K+ and Ca2+, are gated by glutamate, and have previously been found only in eukaryotes. In contrast, potassium channels are selective for K+, are gated by a range of stimuli, and are found in both prokaryotes and eukaryotes. Here we report the discovery and functional characterization of GluR0 from Synechocystis PCC 6803, which is the first GluR found in a prokaryote. GluR0 binds glutamate, forms potassium-selective channels and is related in amino-acid sequence to both eukaryotic GluRs and potassium channels. On the basis of amino-acid sequence and functional relationships between GluR0 and eukaryotic GluRs, we propose that a prokaryotic GluR was the precursor to eukaryotic GluRs. GluR0 provides evidence for the missing link between potassium channels and GluRs, and we suggest that their ion channels have a similar architecture, that GluRs are tetramers and that the gating mechanisms of GluRs and potassium channels have some essential features in common.
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- G Q Chen
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, Columbia University, New York, New York 10032, USA
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Chen GQ, Gouaux E. Probing the folding and unfolding of wild-type and mutant forms of bacteriorhodopsin in micellar solutions: evaluation of reversible unfolding conditions. Biochemistry 1999; 38:15380-7. [PMID: 10563824 DOI: 10.1021/bi9909039] [Citation(s) in RCA: 53] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Wild-type and mutant forms of bacteriorhodopsin (sbR) from Halobacterium salinarium, produced by Escherichia coli overexpression of a synthetic gene, were reversibly unfolded in 1, 2-dimyristoyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphocholine (DMPC), 3-[(3-cholamidopropyl)dimethylamino]-2-hydroxyl-1-propane (CHAPSO), and sodium dodecyl sulfate (SDS) mixed micelles. To study the effect on protein stability by substitutions on the hydrophobic surface with polar residues, the unfolding behavior of a G113Q, G116Q mutant [sbR(Q2)] was compared to the wild-type sbR [sbR(WT)]. sbR(Q2) was more sensitive to SDS-induced unfolding than sbR(WT) under equilibrium conditions, and kinetic experiments showed that sbR(Q2) was more sensitive to acid-induced denaturation and thermal unfolding than sbR(WT). Since the mutations in sbR(Q2) were on the detergent-embedded hydrophobic surface of sbR, protein destabilization by these mutations supports the concept that the membrane-embedded segments are important for the stability of sbR. Our experiments provide the basis for studying the thermodynamic stability of sbR by evaluating reversible folding and unfolding conditions in DMPC/CHAPSO/SDS mixed micelles.
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- G Q Chen
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, Columbia University, New York 10032, USA
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Niu C, Yan H, Yu T, Sun HP, Liu JX, Li XS, Wu W, Zhang FQ, Chen Y, Zhou L, Li JM, Zeng XY, Yang RR, Yuan MM, Ren MY, Gu FY, Cao Q, Gu BW, Su XY, Chen GQ, Xiong SM, Zhang TD, Waxman S, Wang ZY, Chen Z, Hu J, Shen ZX, Chen SJ. Studies on treatment of acute promyelocytic leukemia with arsenic trioxide: remission induction, follow-up, and molecular monitoring in 11 newly diagnosed and 47 relapsed acute promyelocytic leukemia patients. Blood 1999; 94:3315-24. [PMID: 10552940] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/14/2023] Open
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Fifty-eight acute promyelocytic leukemia (APL) patients (11 newly diagnosed and 47 relapsed) were studied for arsenic trioxide (As2O3) treatment. Clinical complete remission (CR) was obtained in 8 of 11 (72.7%) newly diagnosed cases. However, As2O3 treatment resulted in hepatic toxicity in 7 cases including 2 deaths, in contrast to the mild liver dysfunction in one third of the relapsed patients. Forty of forty-seven (85.1%) relapsed patients achieved CR. Two of three nonresponders showed clonal evolution at relapse, with disappearance of t(15;17) and PML-RARalpha fusion gene in 1 and shift to a dominant AML-1-ETO population in another, suggesting a correlation between PML-RARalpha expression and therapeutic response. In a follow-up of 33 relapsed cases over 7 to 48 months, the estimated disease-free survival (DFS) rates for 1 and 2 years were 63.6% and 41.6%, respectively, and the actual median DFS was 17 months. Patients with white blood cell (WBC) count below 10 x 10(9)/L at relapse had better survival than those with WBC count over 10 x 10(9)/L (P =.038). The duration of As2O3-induced CR was related to postremission therapy, because there was only 2 of 11 relapses in patients treated with As2O3 combined with chemotherapy, compared with 12 of 18 relapses with As2O3 alone (P =.01). Reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) analysis in both newly diagnosed and relapsed groups showed long-term use of As2O3 could lead to a molecular remission in some patients. We thus recommend that ATRA be used as first choice for remission induction in newly diagnosed APL cases, whereas As2O3 can be either used as a rescue for relapsed cases or included into multidrug consolidation/maintenance clinical trials.
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- C Niu
- Shanghai Institute of Hematology, Department of Hematology/Oncology, Rui Jin Hospital/Samuel Waxman Cancer Research Foundation Joint Center for Cancer Differentiation Therapy Sponsored by Reliance Group Holdings Inc, China
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Waxman S, Jing Y, Chen Z, Chen GQ. RESPONSE: re: apoptosis and growth inhibition in malignant lymphocytes after treatment with arsenic trioxide at clinically achievable concentrations. J Natl Cancer Inst 1999; 91:1691. [PMID: 10511604 DOI: 10.1093/jnci/91.19.1691] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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- S Waxman
- S. Waxman, Y. Jing, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY
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Zhu J, Guo WM, Yao YY, Zhao WL, Pan L, Cai X, Ju B, Sun GL, Wang HL, Chen SJ, Chen GQ, Caen J, Chen Z, Wang ZY. Tissue factors on acute promyelocytic leukemia and endothelial cells are differently regulated by retinoic acid, arsenic trioxide and chemotherapeutic agents. Leukemia 1999; 13:1062-70. [PMID: 10400422 DOI: 10.1038/sj.leu.2401448] [Citation(s) in RCA: 47] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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The aberrant expression of tissue factor (TF) in acute promyelocytic leukemia (APL) cells has been implicated in the pathogenesis of the APL coagulopathy. In this study, we found that in APL patients receiving ATRA or As2O3 treatment, the improvement in hypercoagulobility and hyperfibrinolysis paralleled the correction of plasma fibrinogen level and amelioration of bleeding symptoms. Notably, clinical improvement was also correlated to ATRA/As2O3-induced rapid decrease of membrane procoagulant activity (PCA) and TF contents of APL blasts. Consistent with the in vivo findings, the membrane PCA, TF antigen and its mRNA level within NB4 cells were rapidly down-regulated by 1 microM ATRA or As2O3, while 0.2 microg/ml DNR increased these TF parameters prior to its effect upon apoptosis induction. The down-regulation of TF mRNA by ATRA was partially de novo protein synthesis-dependent and at least partially attributed to a mechanism of destabilizing TF mRNA. On the other hand, in addition to its modulation on mRNA, As2O3 could also induce an accelerated TF protein turnover. These distinct effects were corroborated with the properties of these agents in causing the degradation of PML-RARalpha protein. All three therapeutic agents, however, enhanced the potential of NB4 cells to stimulate the expression of TF and PCA in endothelium. Taken together, our data suggest that the rapid and distinct regulation of TF on APL cells by these therapeutic agents might at least partially contribute to their effects on APL coagulopathy.
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- J Zhu
- Shanghai Institute of Hematology, Rui-Jin Hospital, PR China
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Zhang HQ, Yao HZ, Chen GQ, Sun DF, Zhong WJ, He FY. [Clinical observation of one-visit root canal therapy by microwave instrument]. Shanghai Kou Qiang Yi Xue 1999; 8:84-5. [PMID: 15048276] [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: 04/29/2023]
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OBJECTIVE:To analysis post-treatmental reaction and long-term effect of one-visit root canal therapy by microwave instrument. METHODS:Applying heat effect and the other ones of microwave,the changes of dentine tissue of extracted teeth were observated by SEM examination.48hs and 1 year post-treatmental effect of 47 patients of periapical periodontitis treated by one-visit root canal therapy were observated and compared with the results of 54 cases treated with common method.RESULTS:In the cases of acute and chronic periapical periodontitis microwave applied in root canal therapy can close the openings of dentine,enhance the effects of sterilization and decrease times of treatment.CONCLUSION:Microwave applied in one-visit root canal therapy is competent.
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- H Q Zhang
- Shanghai Nanshi District Dental Clinics,Shanghai 200010,China
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Cheng GX, Zhu XH, Men XQ, Wang L, Huang QH, Jin XL, Xiong SM, Zhu J, Guo WM, Chen JQ, Xu SF, So E, Chan LC, Waxman S, Zelent A, Chen GQ, Dong S, Liu JX, Chen SJ. Distinct leukemia phenotypes in transgenic mice and different corepressor interactions generated by promyelocytic leukemia variant fusion genes PLZF-RARalpha and NPM-RARalpha. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 1999; 96:6318-23. [PMID: 10339585 PMCID: PMC26879 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.96.11.6318] [Citation(s) in RCA: 85] [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: 11/18/2022] Open
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Acute promyelocytic leukemia (APL) is characterized by a specific chromosome translocation involving RARalpha and one of four fusion partners: PML, PLZF, NPM, and NuMA genes. To study the leukemogenic potential of the fusion genes in vivo, we generated transgenic mice with PLZF-RARalpha and NPM-RARalpha. PLZF-RARalpha transgenic animals developed chronic myeloid leukemia-like phenotypes at an early stage of life (within 3 months in five of six mice), whereas three NPM-RARalpha transgenic mice showed a spectrum of phenotypes from typical APL to chronic myeloid leukemia relatively late in life (from 12 to 15 months). In contrast to bone marrow cells from PLZF-RARalpha transgenic mice, those from NPM-RARalpha transgenic mice could be induced to differentiate by all-trans-retinoic acid (ATRA). We also studied RARE binding properties and interactions between nuclear corepressor SMRT and various fusion proteins in response to ATRA. Dissociation of SMRT from different receptors was observed at ATRA concentrations of 0.01 microM, 0.1 microM, and 1.0 microM for RARalpha-RXRalpha, NPM-RARalpha, and PML-RARalpha, respectively, but not observed for PLZF-RARalpha even in the presence of 10 microM ATRA. We also determined the expression of the tissue factor gene in transgenic mice, which was detected only in bone marrow cells of mice expressing the fusion genes. These data clearly establish the leukemogenic role of PLZF-RARalpha and NPM-RARalpha and the importance of fusion receptor/corepressor interactions in the pathogenesis as well as in determining different clinical phenotypes of APL.
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MESH Headings
- Animals
- Antigens, Nuclear
- Bone Marrow Cells/drug effects
- Bone Marrow Cells/pathology
- Cell Cycle Proteins
- Cell Differentiation/drug effects
- Chorionic Gonadotropin/genetics
- DNA-Binding Proteins/genetics
- Growth
- Humans
- Kruppel-Like Transcription Factors
- Leukemia, Promyelocytic, Acute/genetics
- Leukemia, Promyelocytic, Acute/pathology
- Leukemia, Promyelocytic, Acute/physiopathology
- Mice
- Mice, Transgenic
- Nuclear Matrix-Associated Proteins
- Nuclear Proteins/genetics
- Oncogene Proteins, Fusion/genetics
- Phenotype
- Promyelocytic Leukemia Zinc Finger Protein
- Receptors, Retinoic Acid/genetics
- Retinoic Acid Receptor alpha
- Transcription Factors/genetics
- Translocation, Genetic
- Tretinoin/pharmacology
- Zinc Fingers
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- G X Cheng
- Research Center for Transgenic Animals, College of Livestock and Veterinary, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou, People's Republic of China.
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Zhu XH, Shen YL, Jing YK, Cai X, Jia PM, Huang Y, Tang W, Shi GY, Sun YP, Dai J, Wang ZY, Chen SJ, Zhang TD, Waxman S, Chen Z, Chen GQ. Apoptosis and growth inhibition in malignant lymphocytes after treatment with arsenic trioxide at clinically achievable concentrations. J Natl Cancer Inst 1999; 91:772-8. [PMID: 10328107 DOI: 10.1093/jnci/91.9.772] [Citation(s) in RCA: 207] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/29/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND Arsenic trioxide (As2O3) can induce clinical remission in patients with acute promyelocytic leukemia via induction of differentiation and programmed cell death (apoptosis). We investigated the effects of As2O3 on a panel of malignant lymphocytes to determine whether growth-inhibitory and apoptotic effects of As2O3 can be observed in these cells at clinically achievable concentrations. METHODS Eight malignant lymphocytic cell lines and primary cultures of lymphocytic leukemia and lymphoma cells were treated with As2O3, with or without dithiothreitol (DTT) or buthionine sulfoximine (BSO) (an inhibitor of glutathione synthesis). Apoptosis was assessed by cell morphology, flow cytometry, annexin V protein level, and terminal deoxynucleotidyl transferase labeling of DNA fragments. Cellular proliferation was determined by 5-bromo-2'-deoxyuridine incorporation into DNA and flow cytometry and by use of a mitotic arrest assay. Mitochondrial transmembrane potential (delta psi(m)) was measured by means of rhodamine 123 staining and flow cytometry. Protein expression was assessed by western blot analysis or immunofluorescence. RESULTS Therapeutic concentrations of As2O3 (1-2 microM) had dual effects on malignant lymphocytes: 1) inhibition of growth through adenosine triphosphate (ATP) depletion and prolongation of cell cycle time and 2) induction of apoptosis. As2O3-induced apoptosis was preceded by delta psi(m) collapse. DTT antagonized and BSO enhanced As2O3-induced ATP depletion, delta psi(m) collapse, and apoptosis. Caspase-3 activation, usually resulting from delta psi(m) collapse, was not always associated with As2O3-induced apoptosis. As2O3 induced PML (promyelocytic leukemia) protein degradation but did not modulate expression of cell cycle-related proteins, including c-myc, retinoblastoma protein, cyclin-dependent kinase 4, cyclin D1, and p53, or expression of differentiation-related antigens. CONCLUSIONS Substantial growth inhibition and apoptosis without evidence of differentiation were induced in most malignant lymphocytic cells treated with 1-2 microM As2O3. As2O3 may prove useful in the treatment of malignant lymphoproliferative disorders.
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- X H Zhu
- Shanghai Institute of Hematology, Rui-Jin Hospital, Shanghai Second Medical University, People's Republic of China
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