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Byron W, Harrington H, Taylor RJ, DeGraw W, Buzinsky N, Dodson B, Fertl M, García A, Garvey G, Graner B, Guigue M, Hayen L, Huyan X, Khaw KS, Knutsen K, McClain D, Melconian D, Müller P, Novitski E, Oblath NS, Robertson RGH, Rybka G, Savard G, Smith E, Stancil DD, Sternberg M, Storm DW, Swanson HE, Tedeschi JR, VanDevender BA, Wietfeldt FE, Young AR, Zhu X. First Observation of Cyclotron Radiation from MeV-Scale e^{±} following Nuclear β Decay. Phys Rev Lett 2023; 131:082502. [PMID: 37683153 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.131.082502] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/02/2022] [Revised: 05/03/2023] [Accepted: 07/12/2023] [Indexed: 09/10/2023]
Abstract
We present an apparatus for detection of cyclotron radiation yielding a frequency-based β^{±} kinetic energy determination in the 5 keV to 2.1 MeV range, characteristic of nuclear β decays. The cyclotron frequency of the radiating β particles in a magnetic field is used to determine the β energy precisely. Our work establishes the foundation to apply the cyclotron radiation emission spectroscopy (CRES) technique, developed by the Project 8 Collaboration, far beyond the 18-keV tritium endpoint region. We report initial measurements of β^{-}'s from ^{6}He and β^{+}'s from ^{19}Ne decays to demonstrate the broadband response of our detection system and assess potential systematic uncertainties for β spectroscopy over the full (MeV) energy range. To our knowledge, this is the first direct observation of cyclotron radiation from individual highly relativistic β's in a waveguide. This work establishes the application of CRES to a variety of nuclei, opening its reach to searches for new physics beyond the TeV scale via precision β-decay measurements.
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- W Byron
- Department of Physics, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195, USA
- Center for Nuclear Physics and Astrophysics, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195, USA
- Center for Nuclear Physics and Astrophysics, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195, USA
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- Physics Department, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina 27695, USA
- The Triangle Universities Nuclear Laboratory, Durham, North Carolina 27708, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195, USA
- Center for Nuclear Physics and Astrophysics, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195, USA
- Center for Nuclear Physics and Astrophysics, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195, USA
- Center for Nuclear Physics and Astrophysics, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195, USA
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- Institute for Physics, Johannes-Gutenberg University Mainz, 55128 Mainz, Germany
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- Department of Physics, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195, USA
- Center for Nuclear Physics and Astrophysics, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195, USA
- Center for Nuclear Physics and Astrophysics, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195, USA
- Center for Nuclear Physics and Astrophysics, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195, USA
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- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington 99352, USA
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- Physics Department, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina 27695, USA
- The Triangle Universities Nuclear Laboratory, Durham, North Carolina 27708, USA
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- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington 99352, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195, USA
- Center for Nuclear Physics and Astrophysics, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195, USA
- Center for Nuclear Physics and Astrophysics, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843, USA
- Cyclotron Institute, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843, USA
- Cyclotron Institute, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843, USA
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- Physics Division, Argonne National Laboratory, 9700 South Cass Avenue, Argonne, Illinois 60439, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195, USA
- Center for Nuclear Physics and Astrophysics, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195, USA
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- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington 99352, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195, USA
- Center for Nuclear Physics and Astrophysics, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195, USA
- Center for Nuclear Physics and Astrophysics, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195, USA
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- Physics Division, Argonne National Laboratory, 9700 South Cass Avenue, Argonne, Illinois 60439, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195, USA
- Center for Nuclear Physics and Astrophysics, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195, USA
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- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina 27695, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195, USA
- Center for Nuclear Physics and Astrophysics, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195, USA
- Center for Nuclear Physics and Astrophysics, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195, USA
- Center for Nuclear Physics and Astrophysics, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195, USA
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- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington 99352, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195, USA
- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington 99352, USA
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- Department of Physics and Engineering Physics, Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana 70118, USA
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- Physics Department, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina 27695, USA
- The Triangle Universities Nuclear Laboratory, Durham, North Carolina 27708, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195, USA
- Center for Nuclear Physics and Astrophysics, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195, USA
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Hourahine B, Aradi B, Blum V, Bonafé F, Buccheri A, Camacho C, Cevallos C, Deshaye MY, Dumitrică T, Dominguez A, Ehlert S, Elstner M, van der Heide T, Hermann J, Irle S, Jakowski J, Kranz JJ, Köhler C, Kowalczyk T, Kubař T, Lee IS, Lutsker V, Maurer RJ, Min SK, Mitchell I, Negre C, Niehaus TA, Niklasson AMN, Page AJ, Pecchia A, Penazzi G, Persson MP, Řezáč J, Sánchez CG, Sternberg M, Stöhr M, Stuckenberg F, Tkatchenko A, Yu VWZ, Frauenheim T. Erratum: “DFTB+, a software package for efficient approximate density functional theory based atomistic simulations” [J. Chem. Phys. 152, 124101 (2020)]. J Chem Phys 2022; 157:039901. [DOI: 10.1063/5.0103026] [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] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
Affiliation(s)
- B. Hourahine
- SUPA, Department of Physics, The University of Strathclyde, Glasgow G4 0NG, United Kingdom
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- Bremen Center for Computational Materials Science, University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina 27708, USA
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- Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter, Hamburg, Germany
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- School of Chemistry, University of Bristol, Cantock’s Close, Bristol BS8 1TS, United Kingdom
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- School of Chemistry, University of Costa Rica, San José 11501-2060, Costa Rica
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- School of Chemistry, University of Costa Rica, San José 11501-2060, Costa Rica
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- Department of Chemistry and Advanced Materials Science and Engineering Center, Western Washington University, Bellingham, Washington 98225, USA
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA
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- Bremen Center for Computational Materials Science, University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany
- Computational Science Research Center (CSRC) Beijing and Computational Science Applied Research (CSAR) Institute Shenzhen, Shenzhen, China
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- Institute of Physical Chemistry, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany
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- Bremen Center for Computational Materials Science, University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany
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- Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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- Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, USA
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- Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, USA
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- Institute of Physical Chemistry, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany
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- Bremen Center for Computational Materials Science, University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany
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- Department of Chemistry and Advanced Materials Science and Engineering Center, Western Washington University, Bellingham, Washington 98225, USA
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- Institute of Physical Chemistry, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany
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- Department of Chemistry, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology, Ulsan, South Korea
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- Institut I–Theoretische Physik, University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Warwick, Gibbet Hill Road, Coventry CV4 7AL, United Kingdom
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- Department of Chemistry, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology, Ulsan, South Korea
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- Center for Multidimensional Carbon Materials, Institute of Basic Science, Ulsan, South Korea
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- Theoretical Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545, USA
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- Université de Lyon, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, CNRS, Institut Lumière Matière, F-69622 Villeurbanne, France
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- Theoretical Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545, USA
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- School of Environmental and Life Sciences, University of Newcastle, Callaghan, Australia
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- CNR-ISMN, Via Salaria km 29,600, 00014 Monterotondo, Rome
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- Bremen Center for Computational Materials Science, University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany
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- Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry AS CR, Prague, Czech Republic
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- Instituto Interdisciplinario de Ciencias Básicas, Universidad Nacional de Cuyo, CONICET, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Mendoza, Argentina
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- Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, Illinois 60439, USA
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- Department of Physics and Materials Science, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg City, Luxembourg
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- Bremen Center for Computational Materials Science, University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany
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- Department of Physics and Materials Science, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg City, Luxembourg
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina 27708, USA
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- Bremen Center for Computational Materials Science, University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany
- Computational Science Research Center (CSRC) Beijing and Computational Science Applied Research (CSAR) Institute Shenzhen, Shenzhen, China
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Hourahine B, Aradi B, Blum V, Bonafé F, Buccheri A, Camacho C, Cevallos C, Deshaye MY, Dumitrică T, Dominguez A, Ehlert S, Elstner M, van der Heide T, Hermann J, Irle S, Kranz JJ, Köhler C, Kowalczyk T, Kubař T, Lee IS, Lutsker V, Maurer RJ, Min SK, Mitchell I, Negre C, Niehaus TA, Niklasson AMN, Page AJ, Pecchia A, Penazzi G, Persson MP, Řezáč J, Sánchez CG, Sternberg M, Stöhr M, Stuckenberg F, Tkatchenko A, Yu VWZ, Frauenheim T. DFTB+, a software package for efficient approximate density functional theory based atomistic simulations. J Chem Phys 2020; 152:124101. [PMID: 32241125 DOI: 10.1063/1.5143190] [Citation(s) in RCA: 350] [Impact Index Per Article: 87.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/07/2023] Open
Abstract
DFTB+ is a versatile community developed open source software package offering fast and efficient methods for carrying out atomistic quantum mechanical simulations. By implementing various methods approximating density functional theory (DFT), such as the density functional based tight binding (DFTB) and the extended tight binding method, it enables simulations of large systems and long timescales with reasonable accuracy while being considerably faster for typical simulations than the respective ab initio methods. Based on the DFTB framework, it additionally offers approximated versions of various DFT extensions including hybrid functionals, time dependent formalism for treating excited systems, electron transport using non-equilibrium Green's functions, and many more. DFTB+ can be used as a user-friendly standalone application in addition to being embedded into other software packages as a library or acting as a calculation-server accessed by socket communication. We give an overview of the recently developed capabilities of the DFTB+ code, demonstrating with a few use case examples, discuss the strengths and weaknesses of the various features, and also discuss on-going developments and possible future perspectives.
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- B Hourahine
- SUPA, Department of Physics, The University of Strathclyde, Glasgow G4 0NG, United Kingdom
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- Bremen Center for Computational Materials Science, University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina 27708, USA
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- Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter, Hamburg, Germany
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- School of Chemistry, University of Bristol, Cantock's Close, Bristol BS8 1TS, United Kingdom
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- School of Chemistry, University of Costa Rica, San José 11501-2060, Costa Rica
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- School of Chemistry, University of Costa Rica, San José 11501-2060, Costa Rica
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- Department of Chemistry and Advanced Materials Science and Engineering Center, Western Washington University, Bellingham, Washington 98225, USA
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA
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- Bremen Center for Computational Materials Science, University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany
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- University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany
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- Institute of Physical Chemistry, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany
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- Bremen Center for Computational Materials Science, University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany
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- Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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- Computational Sciences and Engineering Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, USA
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- Institute of Physical Chemistry, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany
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- Bremen Center for Computational Materials Science, University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany
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- Department of Chemistry and Advanced Materials Science and Engineering Center, Western Washington University, Bellingham, Washington 98225, USA
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- Institute of Physical Chemistry, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany
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- Department of Chemistry, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology, Ulsan, South Korea
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- Institut I - Theoretische Physik, University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Warwick, Gibbet Hill Road, Coventry CV4 7AL, United Kingdom
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- Department of Chemistry, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology, Ulsan, South Korea
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- Center for Multidimensional Carbon Materials, Institute for Basic Science (IBS), Ulsan 44919, South Korea
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- Theoretical Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545, USA
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- Université de Lyon, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, CNRS, Institut Lumière Matière, F-69622 Villeurbanne, France
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- Theoretical Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545, USA
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- School of Environmental and Life Sciences, University of Newcastle, Callaghan, Australia
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- CNR-ISMN, Via Salaria km 29.300, 00015 Monterotondo Stazione, Rome, Italy
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- Bremen Center for Computational Materials Science, University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany
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- Dassault Systemes, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry AS CR, Prague, Czech Republic
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- Instituto Interdisciplinario de Ciencias Básicas, Universidad Nacional de Cuyo, CONICET, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Mendoza, Argentina
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- Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, Illinois 60439, USA
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- Department of Physics and Materials Science, University of Luxembourg, L-1511 Luxembourg City, Luxembourg
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- Bremen Center for Computational Materials Science, University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany
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- Department of Physics and Materials Science, University of Luxembourg, L-1511 Luxembourg City, Luxembourg
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina 27708, USA
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- Bremen Center for Computational Materials Science, University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany
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Grigorova-Borsos AM, Bara L, Aberer E, Grochulski A, André J, Mozère G, Peyroux J, Sternberg M. Aging and Diabetes Increase the Aggregating Potency of Rat Skin Collagen Towards Normal Platelets. Thromb Haemost 2018. [DOI: 10.1055/s-0038-1647638] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/28/2022]
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SummaryAcid-soluble collagen samples were prepared from individual skins of 24 month old rats (n = 8), 2 month old young controls (n = 8) and from 6 month old streptozotocin-diabetic rats (n = 5) and their age-matched controls (n = 10). Less collagen was obtained by acid extraction and salt precipitations from skins of diabetic and aged rats than from those of their respective controls. The collagen preparations from diabetic and aged rats showed an increased ratio of beta/alpha components. The rate of “in vitro” fibrillogenesis was less for collagen from diabetic rats than from controls. It was not modified for collagens from aged rats. The aggregating potency towards normal human platelets was markedly increased for collagens from aged and diabetic rats: reduced latency time (p <0.01) and increased velocity (p <0.01) were observed for collagens from aged rats when compared with young rats (16.5 μg/ml). Increased velocity (p <0.01) was also observed for collagens from diabetic rats (8.25, 11 and 16.5 μg/ ml), without modification of latency time.
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- A M Grigorova-Borsos
- The Groupe de Recherches sur la Biochimie et la Pharmacologie des Vaisseaux et du Rein, Département de Biochimie, Faculté de M6decine Broussais, Hôtel-Dieu, Paris, France
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- The Laboratoire Central d’Hématologie (Prof. M. Samama), Hôtel-Dieu, Paris, France
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- The Groupe de Recherches sur la Biochimie et la Pharmacologie des Vaisseaux et du Rein, Département de Biochimie, Faculté de M6decine Broussais, Hôtel-Dieu, Paris, France
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- The Groupe de Recherches sur la Biochimie et la Pharmacologie des Vaisseaux et du Rein, Département de Biochimie, Faculté de M6decine Broussais, Hôtel-Dieu, Paris, France
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- The Groupe de Recherches sur la Biochimie et la Pharmacologie des Vaisseaux et du Rein, Département de Biochimie, Faculté de M6decine Broussais, Hôtel-Dieu, Paris, France
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- The Groupe de Recherches sur la Biochimie et la Pharmacologie des Vaisseaux et du Rein, Département de Biochimie, Faculté de M6decine Broussais, Hôtel-Dieu, Paris, France
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- The Groupe de Recherches sur la Biochimie et la Pharmacologie des Vaisseaux et du Rein, Département de Biochimie, Faculté de M6decine Broussais, Hôtel-Dieu, Paris, France
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- The Groupe de Recherches sur la Biochimie et la Pharmacologie des Vaisseaux et du Rein, Département de Biochimie, Faculté de M6decine Broussais, Hôtel-Dieu, Paris, France
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Urios P, Kassab I, Grigorova-Borsos AM, Guillot R, Jacolot P, Tessier F, Peyroux J, Sternberg M. A flavonoid fraction purified from Rutaceae aurantiae (Daflon(R)) inhibiting AGE formation, reduces urinary albumin clearance and corrects hypoalbuminemia in normotensive and hypertensive diabetic rats. Diabetes Res Clin Pract 2014; 105:373-81. [PMID: 24956965 DOI: 10.1016/j.diabres.2014.04.029] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/24/2014] [Accepted: 04/27/2014] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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AIM Advanced glycation endproducts (AGEs) have been shown to contribute to alteration of glomerular permselectivity to proteins in diabetes. Oxidative stress is required for AGE formation. Therefore we studied the effect of an antioxidant micronized purified flavonoid fraction (MPFF, Daflon(R) 500 mg), on urinary albumin clearance in diabetic rats. METHODS Hyperglycaemia was induced by streptozotocin 55 mg/kg IM at days 0 and 7 in normotensive Wistar rats (NWR, diabetes duration 5 months) or hypertensive Wistar Kyoto rats (SHR, diabetes duration 2 months). MPFF was administered at 300 mg/kg/day, from day -2 until sacrifice. RESULTS After 5 months of diabetes in NWR, MPFF reduced albumin clearance from 729±92 to 392±60 nl/min/kg, p<0.01, and restored albuminemia from 20.4±0.9 to 24.0±1 g/l, p<0.05; albumin fractional clearance was significantly diminished in the flavonoid-treated diabetic rats (0.360±0.037‰ versus 1.335±0.430‰ in the diabetic controls, p<0.001); MPFF did not significantly modify blood glucose and plasma fructosamine levels. After 2 months of diabetes in SHR, MPFF reduced albumin clearance from 243±121 to 101±47 nl/min/kg, p<0.05, and restored albuminemia from 21.1±1.6 to 26.7±2.2 g/l (p<0.05); MPFF also decreased plasma fluorescence characteristic of AGEs (p<0.02). Besides hesperetin, a main metabolite of MPFF recovered in plasma, inhibited in vitro the formation of the crosslinking AGE pentosidine in collagen incubated with high glucose (p<0.001). CONCLUSION Our results confirm the role of glycoxidative stress in diabetic nephropathy. MPFF might be useful as complementary treatment for preventing diabetic microangiopathy.
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- P Urios
- Equipe de Recherche sur la Biochimie et la Pharmacologie des Vaisseaux et du Rein", Laboratoire de Pharmacologie, Faculté de Pharmacie, Université de Paris V & VI, France; Laboratoire de Biochimie, Hôpital Bichat, Paris, France
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- Equipe de Recherche sur la Biochimie et la Pharmacologie des Vaisseaux et du Rein", Laboratoire de Pharmacologie, Faculté de Pharmacie, Université de Paris V & VI, France
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- Equipe de Recherche sur la Biochimie et la Pharmacologie des Vaisseaux et du Rein", Laboratoire de Pharmacologie, Faculté de Pharmacie, Université de Paris V & VI, France; Laboratoire de Biochimie, Hôpital Ambroise-Paré, Boulogne, France
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- Equipe de Recherche sur la Biochimie et la Pharmacologie des Vaisseaux et du Rein", Laboratoire de Pharmacologie, Faculté de Pharmacie, Université de Paris V & VI, France
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- Institut Polytechnique LaSalle-Beauvais, Unité de recherche EGEAL, Beauvais, France
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- Institut Polytechnique LaSalle-Beauvais, Unité de recherche EGEAL, Beauvais, France
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- Equipe de Recherche sur la Biochimie et la Pharmacologie des Vaisseaux et du Rein", Laboratoire de Pharmacologie, Faculté de Pharmacie, Université de Paris V & VI, France
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- Equipe de Recherche sur la Biochimie et la Pharmacologie des Vaisseaux et du Rein", Laboratoire de Pharmacologie, Faculté de Pharmacie, Université de Paris V & VI, France; Laboratoire d'Hormonologie, Hôpital Saint-Vincent-de-Paul, Paris, France.
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Adam BW, Hall EM, Sternberg M, Lim TH, Flores SR, O'Brien S, Simms D, Li LX, De Jesus VR, Hannon WH. The stability of markers in dried-blood spots for recommended newborn screening disorders in the United States. Clin Biochem 2011; 44:1445-50. [PMID: 21963384 PMCID: PMC4557772 DOI: 10.1016/j.clinbiochem.2011.09.010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 65] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/29/2011] [Revised: 09/12/2011] [Accepted: 09/13/2011] [Indexed: 11/15/2022]
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OBJECTIVE We aimed to measure separately the contributions of heat and humidity to changes in levels of 34 markers of inborn disorders in dried-blood-spot (DBS) samples. DESIGN AND METHODS We stored paired sets of DBSs at 37°C for predetermined intervals in low-humidity and high-humidity environments. Marker levels of all samples in each complete sample set were measured in a single analytic run. RESULTS During the 30 ± 5 day studies, galactose-1-phosphate uridyltransferase and biotinidase lost almost 65% of initial activities in low-humidity storage; most of the degradation in 27 other markers was attributable to adverse effects of high-humidity storage; seven markers in DBSs stored at high humidity lost more than 90% of initial levels by the end of the study and 4 of the 7 lost more than 50% of initial levels within the first week of storage. CONCLUSIONS Minimizing both humidity and temperature in DBS transportation and storage environments is essential to maintaining sample integrity.
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- B W Adam
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 4770 Buford Highway NE, Atlanta, GA 30341, USA.
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Bakillah A, Guillot R, Urios P, Grigorova-Borsos AM, Sternberg M. Stimulating effect of growth hormone on type IV collagen production by endothelial cells cultured in normal and high glucose. Amino Acids 2011; 43:697-707. [PMID: 22002796 DOI: 10.1007/s00726-011-1118-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/20/2011] [Accepted: 10/01/2011] [Indexed: 10/17/2022]
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Collagen IV accumulation is characteristic of diabetic angiopathy. To test the possible contribution of GH, we studied its effects on collagen IV production by human umbilical vein endothelial cells at 5.5 and 16.7 mmol/l glucose. GH (100 ng/ml) markedly increased collagen IV level in the culture supernatant and in the insoluble extracellular matrix and cell fraction at both glucose concentrations. This stimulating effect of GH was additional to that of high glucose. It was more pronounced on collagen IV than on total protein synthesis. GH increased free latent gelatinase activity slightly at normal and markedly at high glucose. Using GF109203X, a PKC inhibitor, we observed that high glucose, but not GH, activated PKC. These two factors stimulating collagen IV production appear to work through different pathways, favoring an additivity of their effects. This supports the contribution of high plasma GH in diabetic vascular basement membrane thickening.
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- A Bakillah
- Equipe de Recherches sur la Biochimie et la Pharmacologie des Vaisseaux et du Rein, Protéines Modifiées, Protéases et Physiopathologie de l'Endothélium Vasculaire, Laboratoire de Pharmacologie, Faculté de Pharmacie, 4 avenue de l'Observatoire, 75006 Paris, France
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We investigated acute human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection among men enrolled in a genital ulcer treatment trial in South Africa. HIV-negative participants were tested at baseline by HIV RNA polymerase chain reaction and followed up after 1 month to measure HIV seroconversion. There were 228 HIV-negative men at baseline; 10 were positive for HIV RNA, and 8 seroconverted to HIV at day 28. The prevalence of acute HIV among HIV-negative men at baseline was 18 (7.9%) of 228 men (95% confidence interval [CI], 4.4-11.4) and 18 (2.9%) of 615 men (95% CI, 1.6-4.3) in the overall study population. These data highlight the importance of genital ulcer patients in HIV transmission. Trial Registration. ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00164424 .
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- G Paz Bailey
- Del Valle University of Guatemala and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Collaboration, Guatemala City, Guatemala.
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Hadgu A, Sternberg M. Reproducibility and specificity concerns associated with nucleic acid amplification tests for detecting Chlamydia trachomatis. Eur J Clin Microbiol Infect Dis 2008; 28:9-15. [DOI: 10.1007/s10096-008-0586-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/16/2008] [Accepted: 06/16/2008] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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Aboling S, Sternberg M, Perevolotsky A, Kigel J. Effects of cattle grazing timing and intensity on soil seed banks and regeneration strategies in a Mediterranean grassland. COMMUNITY ECOL 2008. [DOI: 10.1556/comec.9.2008.s.14] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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Horner D, Redfern P, Sternberg M, Zapol P, Curtiss L. Increased reactivity of single wall carbon nanotubes at carbon ad-dimer defect sites. Chem Phys Lett 2007. [DOI: 10.1016/j.cplett.2007.10.079] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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Sutton M, Sternberg M, Koumans EH, McQuillan G, Berman S, Markowitz L. The Prevalence of Trichomonas vaginalis Infection among Reproductive-Age Women in the United States, 2001-2004. Clin Infect Dis 2007; 45:1319-26. [DOI: 10.1086/522532] [Citation(s) in RCA: 351] [Impact Index Per Article: 20.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/09/2007] [Accepted: 07/21/2007] [Indexed: 11/03/2022] Open
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Henkin Z, Landau S, Ungar E, Perevolotsky A, Yehuda Y, Sternberg M. Effect of timing and intensity of grazing on the
herbage quality of a Mediterranean rangeland. J Anim Feed Sci 2007. [DOI: 10.22358/jafs/74517/2007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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Urios P, Grigorova-Borsos AM, Sternberg M. Aspirin inhibits the formation of pentosidine, a cross-linking advanced glycation end product, in collagen. Diabetes Res Clin Pract 2007; 77:337-40. [PMID: 17383766 DOI: 10.1016/j.diabres.2006.12.024] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/07/2006] [Revised: 11/11/2006] [Accepted: 12/05/2006] [Indexed: 12/16/2022]
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Aspirin showed an inhibitory effect on the formation of pentosidine, a cross-linking advanced glycation endproduct, in collagen incubated with glucose in vitro. IC(50) was evaluated at 10mmol/l. Aspirin might act by metallic ion chelating (as did EDTA and DTPA) and by oxygen radical scavenging. Since aspirin was reported to inhibit retinopathy in diabetic dogs, it could act partly by inhibiting advanced glycation endproduct accumulation in long-lived proteins like collagens.
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Cristol JP, Seronie-Vivien S, Sternberg M, Cavalier E, Blanchecotte F, Hanser AM, Pieroni L, Galteau MM, Monge M, Boutten A, Desch G, Ait Djafer Z, Carlier MC, Barguil Y, Terrier N, Guerber F, Souberbielle JC, Delmas Y, Delanaye P, Panescu V, Rossert J, Fouqueray B, Houillier P, Froissart M, Lefebvre HP, Canaud B, Halimi JM. [Biology of renal functions and renal insufficiency]. Ann Biol Clin (Paris) 2006; 64:608-11. [PMID: 17256243] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/13/2023]
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- J-P Cristol
- Laboratoire de Biochimie, Hôpital Lapeyronnie, Montpellier.
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Although boron has been known for many years to be a successful dopant in bulk diamond, efficient doping of nanocrystalline diamond with boron is still being developed. In general, the location, configuration, and bonding structure of boron in nanodiamond is still unknown, including the fundamental question of whether it is located within grains or grain boundaries of thin films and whether it is within the core or at the surface of nanoparticles. Presented here are density functional tight-binding simulations examining the configuration, potential energy surface, and electronic charge of substitutional boron in various types of nanocrystalline diamond. The results predict that boron is likely to be positioned at the surface of isolated particles and at the grain boundary of thin-film samples.
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- A S Barnard
- Department of Materials, University of Oxford, Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3PH, United Kingdom.
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AGE inhibitors may act by various mechanisms at different steps of advanced glycation endproduct (AGE) formation (depending on oxidative stress and/or carbonyl stress) and AGE-mediated damage: trapping of reactive dicarbonyl species; antioxidant activity by transition metal chelation; other antioxidant activity including free radical scavenging; AGE cross-link breaking; AGE receptor (RAGE) blocking; RAGE signaling blocking; glycemia reduction by anti-diabetic therapy; aldose reductase inhibition; shunting of trioses-P towards the pentose-P pathway by transketolase activation. Most of the inhibitors have several sites of action. Practically one can distinguish drugs specifically developed as AGE inhibitors or AGE breakers; RAGE and receptor signaling blockers; other therapeutic compounds which were found subsequently to possess also AGE inhibitor activity, including dietary antioxidants. Encouraging results obtained in studies of various AGE inhibitors, conducted in vitro and in diabetic animals, are summarized in this review. However most of the clinical trials have been more or less disappointing, in part because of side effects; the long-term therapeutic interest of the most recently developed AGE inhibitors or breakers remains to be demonstrated in diabetes.
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- J Peyroux
- Equipe de recherche Protéines Modifiées, Protéases et Physiopathologie de l'Endothélium Vasculaire, laboratoire de pharmacologie, faculté de pharmacie, université Paris-V, Paris, France
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Redfern PC, Zapol P, Sternberg M, Adiga SP, Zygmunt SA, Curtiss LA. Quantum Chemical Study of Mechanisms for Oxidative Dehydrogenation of Propane on Vanadium Oxide. J Phys Chem B 2006; 110:8363-71. [PMID: 16623521 DOI: 10.1021/jp056228w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 50] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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We have carried out a hybrid density functional study of mechanisms for oxidative dehydrogenation of propane on the (010) surface of V2O5. The surface was modeled using both vanadium oxide clusters and a periodic slab. We have investigated a Mars-van Krevelen mechanism that involves stepwise adsorption of the propane at an oxygen site followed by desorption of a water molecule and propene, and subsequent adsorption of an oxygen molecule to complete the catalytic cycle. The potential energy surface is found to have large barriers, which are lowered somewhat when the possibility of a triplet state is considered. The barriers for propane adsorption and propene elimination are 45-60 kcal/mol. The highest energy on the potential energy surface at the B3LYP/6-31G* level of theory is about 80 kcal/mol above the energy of the reactants and corresponds to formation of an oxygen vacancy after water elimination. Subsequent addition of an oxygen molecule to fill the vacancy is predicted to be energetically downhill. The reactions of propane at a bridging oxygen site and at a vanadyl site have similar energetics. The key results of the cluster calculations are confirmed by periodic calculations. Factors that may lower the barriers on the potential energy surface, including the interaction of vanadium oxide clusters with a support material and a concerted reaction with O2, are discussed.
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- P C Redfern
- Materials Science and Chemistry Divisions, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois 60439, USA
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Trevitt R, Sternberg M, Calic M. Expanding the donor pool--we need more living donors. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2006; 31:185-90. [PMID: 16551022 DOI: 10.1111/j.1755-6686.2005.tb00426.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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This paper describes some of the issues currently influencing thoughts and practice in expanding the use of living kidney donors. One of the challenges facing kidney transplantation is the increasing number of patients with Established Renal Failure (ERF) waiting for a kidney, and the ethical concerns raised as a result of meeting these challenges by the use of living donors. Nephrology professionals play an important role in the education of patients and potential living kidney donors and should be familiar with current issues related to this field.
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- R Trevitt
- Renal Transplant Clinic, Royal London Hospital, UK.
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Sternberg M, Curtiss LA, Gruen DM, Kedziora G, Horner DA, Redfern PC, Zapol P. Carbon ad-dimer defects in carbon nanotubes. Phys Rev Lett 2006; 96:075506. [PMID: 16606108 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.96.075506] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/30/2005] [Indexed: 05/08/2023]
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The adsorption of carbon dimers on carbon nanotubes leads to a rich spectrum of structures and electronic structure modifications. Barriers for the formation of carbon dimer induced defects are calculated and found to be considerably lower than those for the Stone-Wales defect. The electronic states introduced by the ad-dimers depend on defect structure and tube type and size. Multiple carbon ad-dimers provide a route to structural engineering of patterned tubes that may be of interest for nanoelectronics.
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- M Sternberg
- Materials Science and Chemistry Divisions, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois 60439, USA
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The inclusion of dopants (such as nitrogen) in diamond nanoparticles is expected to be important for use in future nanodevices, such as qubits for quantum computing. Although most commercial diamond nanoparticles contain a small fraction of nitrogen, it is still unclear whether it is located within the core or at the surface of the nanoparticle. Presented here are density functional tight binding simulations examining the configuration, potential energy surface, and electronic charge of substitutional nitrogen in nanodiamond and bucky-diamond particles. The results predict that nitrogen is likely to be positioned at the surface of both hydrogenated nanodiamond and (dehydrogenated) bucky-diamond, and that the coordination of the dopants within the particles is dependent upon the surface structure.
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- A S Barnard
- Center for Nanoscale Materials and Materials Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory, 9700 South Cass Ave, Argonne, IL 60439, USA.
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Urios P, Grigorova-Borsos AM, Sternberg M. Unexpected elevation of pentosidine formation in collagen incubated with glucose by low concentrations of the AGE-inhibitor aminoguanidine. Diabetologia 2004; 47:959-61. [PMID: 15170500 DOI: 10.1007/s00125-004-1399-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/02/2004] [Accepted: 02/21/2004] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Séronie-Vivien S, Galteau MM, Carlier MC, Hadj-Aissa A, Hanser AM, Hym B, Marchal A, Michotey O, Pouteil-Noble C, Sternberg M, Perret-Liaudet A. [Improving the interlaboratory variation for creatinine serum assay]. Ann Biol Clin (Paris) 2004; 62:165-75. [PMID: 15047468] [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: 04/29/2023]
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PURPOSE To assess inter-assay variation and accuracy of blood creatinine measurements as well as the effect of the standardization of the calibration procedures on inter-assay variation. METHODS Inter-assay variation and accuracy were assessed using 30 frozen human sera and 3 certified reference materials, which were analysed by 17 creatinine assays (colorimetric: 12, enzymatic: 4, HPLC: 1). Usual calibration procedure was compared with two common calibration procedures using either a reference material (404.1 micromol/L), or secondary sera calibrators (69, 115 et 180 micromol/L). RESULTS Most of the commercially available methods display inaccuracy, > 10% for creatininemia < 150 micromol/L in most cases. For this concentration range, the mean creatininemia was statistically significantly different as a function of the assay used (p < 0.001). Enzymatic assays produced lower results than colorimetric ones for low creatinine levels but higher results for high creatinine levels. Assays being calibrated according to the manufacturer's recommendations, the median dispersion factor was 14% for the 20 samples between 45 and 150 micromol/L, and 8% for the 10 samples between 250 and 350 micromol/L. The calibration procedure modified inter-assay variation significantly (p < 0.001) but we gained little advantage from both common calibration procedures. A significant decrease of inter-assay variation occurred within each technical group (colorimetric or enzymatic) when a common calibration was performed using calibrators which concentration(s) was(were) close to the concentrations to be measured. CONCLUSIONS Inter-assay variation is too high to allow prediction of glomerular filtration rate (GFR) or creatinine clearance from serum creatinine level. Our results highlight the interest of a calibration procedure using several concentrations with at least one between 90 and 150 micromol/L. The marketing of such a calibrator should be considered in order to decrease inter-assay variation in the range of creatinine levels which defines a mild chronic renal failure. Such an approach will certainly reduce inter-assay variation only within each technical group but could allow to include technical group as a co-variable in the algorithms developed for predicting GFR or creatinine clearance. A global transferability will certainly need the correlation of all types of creatinine assays versus a definitive method, whom definition remains uncertain.
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- S Séronie-Vivien
- Département de biologie clinique, Institut Claudius Regaud, (CRLCC Midi-Pyrénées), Toulouse.
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BACKGROUND Adolescents are the population at highest risk for acquiring sexually transmitted diseases (STDs). Previous research has suggested that mental health problems, including depression and low self-esteem, may play an important role in the development and maintenance of sexual risk behaviors. METHODS National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health data from baseline interviews of 7th-12th graders reporting sexual intercourse in the preceding year were analyzed. Using logistic regression, associations of depressive symptoms, self-esteem, and substance use with condom nonuse at last sexual intercourse and with ever having had an STD were explored separately for each gender. RESULTS Among boys (N = 3,192), depressive symptoms were associated with an increased risk of condom nonuse at last sexual intercourse. The association between depressive symptoms and STD appeared to be mediated by alcohol and marijuana use. For girls (N = 3,391), depressive symptoms were associated with a history of STD, but not with condom nonuse. Self-esteem was not significant in any model that included depressive symptoms. CONCLUSIONS Adolescents with depressive symptoms are at risk for not using a condom and for having an STD. Further research is needed to elucidate the relationship among depression, substance use, and sexual risk to optimize STD prevention strategies for adolescents.
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- L A Shrier
- Division of Adolescent/Young Adult Medicine, Department of Medicine, Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA.
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OBJECTIVES Substantial biologic and epidemiologic data indicate the importance of syphilis as a potential cofactor for sexual transmission of HIV infection, but few detailed data exist on the geographic covariation of these two important sexually transmitted infections. DESIGN HIV prevalence in childbearing women and primary and secondary (P&S) syphilis data from 29 states were examined to explore the importance of the epidemiology of syphilis as a factor in facilitating HIV transmission. METHOD The spatial relationship between P&S syphilis and HIV infection in the health districts of 29 states was analyzed and adjusted for demographic and socioeconomic factors such as racial composition, income, housing, education levels, and access to medical services using the 1990 US census, and geographic location. RESULTS In 29 states and the District of Colombia, 448 health districts, representing more than 75% of the US population, reported HIV prevalence rates for mothers' district of residence. The HIV seroprevalence ranged from 0 to 1258/10 000 in these health districts. The incidence of P&S syphilis from 1984-1994 in these districts ranged from 0 to 87/100 000. The P&S syphilis incidence was positively associated with the prevalence of HIV infection among childbearing women (P < 0.0001). CONCLUSIONS Syphilis that persists in communities in the United States appears to represent a 'sentinel public health event' reflecting risk for sexual HIV transmission. These findings, along with other biologic and epidemiologic information, reinforce the importance of syphilis as an indicator for targeting HIV prevention efforts generally, as well as syphilis control as a specific HIV-prevention strategy.
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- E H Koumans
- Division of STD Prevention, Centers for Disease Control, Atlanta, Georgia 30333, USA
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Fischer D, Barret C, Bryson K, Elofsson A, Godzik A, Jones D, Karplus KJ, Kelley LA, MacCallum RM, Pawowski K, Rost B, Rychlewski L, Sternberg M. CAFASP-1: critical assessment of fully automated structure prediction methods. Proteins 1999; Suppl 3:209-17. [PMID: 10526371 DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1097-0134(1999)37:3+<209::aid-prot27>3.3.co;2-p] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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The results of the first Critical Assessment of Fully Automated Structure Prediction (CAFASP-1) are presented. The objective was to evaluate the success rates of fully automatic web servers for fold recognition which are available to the community. This study was based on the targets used in the third meeting on the Critical Assessment of Techniques for Protein Structure Prediction (CASP-3). However, unlike CASP-3, the study was not a blind trial, as it was held after the structures of the targets were known. The aim was to assess the performance of methods without the user intervention that several groups used in their CASP-3 submissions. Although it is clear that "human plus machine" predictions are superior to automated ones, this CAFASP-1 experiment is extremely valuable for users of our methods; it provides an indication of the performance of the methods alone, and not of the "human plus machine" performance assessed in CASP. This information may aid users in choosing which programs they wish to use and in evaluating the reliability of the programs when applied to their specific prediction targets. In addition, evaluation of fully automated methods is particularly important to assess their applicability at genomic scales. For each target, groups submitted the top-ranking folds generated from their servers. In CAFASP-1 we concentrated on fold-recognition web servers only and evaluated only recognition of the correct fold, and not, as in CASP-3, alignment accuracy. Although some performance differences appeared within each of the four target categories used here, overall, no single server has proved markedly superior to the others. The results showed that current fully automated fold recognition servers can often identify remote similarities when pairwise sequence search methods fail. Nevertheless, in only a few cases outside the family-level targets has the score of the top-ranking fold been significant enough to allow for a confident fully automated prediction. Because the goals, rules, and procedures of CAFASP-1 were different from those used at CASP-3, the results reported here are not comparable with those reported in CASP-3. Nevertheless, it is clear that current automated fold recognition methods can not yet compete with "human-expert plus machine" predictions. Finally, CAFASP-1 has been useful in identifying the requirements for a future blind trial of automated served-based protein structure prediction.
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- D Fischer
- Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Ben Gurion University, Beer-Sheva, Israel.
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Blank S, Sternberg M, Neylans LL, Rubin SR, Weisfuse IB, St Louis ME. Incident syphilis among women with multiple admissions to jail in New York City. J Infect Dis 1999; 180:1159-63. [PMID: 10479143 DOI: 10.1086/315038] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [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: 11/03/2022] Open
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Although early syphilis morbidity in New York City (NYC) has declined to a record low, syphilis seroreactivity among women jailed in NYC is approximately 25%. By use of a retrospective cohort-type analysis of longitudinal serologic and treatment data collected at the time of each incarceration, the incidence of syphilis infection among 3579 susceptible women jailed multiple times in NYC between 23 March 1993 and 10 April 1997 was estimated. Syphilis incidence densities were estimated by use of continuous, time-homogeneous Markov models. There was a total of 289 incident infections. The overall incidence density was 6.5 infections per 100 woman-years (95% confidence interval, 5.7-7.2), which exceeds the 1997 early syphilis rate among women in NYC by>1000-fold. The persisting high incidence of syphilis in this population underscores the importance of aggressive syphilis control in correctional settings, even in the face of declining local early syphilis rates.
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- S Blank
- Bureau of STD Control, New York City Department of Health, New York, NY 10013, USA.
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Sutton MY, Sternberg M, Nsuami M, Behets F, Nelson AM, St Louis ME. Trichomoniasis in pregnant human immunodeficiency virus-infected and human immunodeficiency virus-uninfected congolese women: prevalence, risk factors, and association with low birth weight. Am J Obstet Gynecol 1999; 181:656-62. [PMID: 10486480 DOI: 10.1016/s0002-9378(99)70509-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [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] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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OBJECTIVE We sought to assess the prevalence of and risk factors for vaginal trichomoniasis in human immunodeficiency virus-infected and human immunodeficiency virus-uninfected pregnant Congolese women and its relationship to pregnancy outcomes. STUDY DESIGN We performed a nested case-control study of 215 infected and 206 uninfected mothers who responded to questionnaires, underwent sexually transmitted disease testing (including culture for trichomoniasis shortly after delivery), and underwent assessment of infant outcomes. Maternal variables and birth outcomes were assessed according to presence or absence of trichomoniasis and human immunodeficiency virus. RESULTS Trichomoniasis was present in 18.6% of human immunodeficiency virus-positive and 10.2% of human immunodeficiency virus-negative women, respectively (odds ratio, 2.0; 95% confidence interval, 1.1-3.6), and was significantly associated with low birth weight (odds ratio, 2.4; 95% confidence interval, 1.2-4.5). In multivariate analyses trichomoniasis remained associated with low birth weight, and adjustments were made for other risk factors associated with low birth weight. CONCLUSION These findings suggest an association between trichomoniasis and low birth weight independent of human immunodeficiency virus infection and other risk factors. Further studies are needed to assess the impact of antenatal screening and treatment for trichomoniasis on pregnancy outcomes.
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- M Y Sutton
- Division of STD Prevention, National Center for HIV, Centers for Disease Control, Atlanta, GA 30333, USA
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Urios P, Grigorova-Borsos AM, Mozère G, Nakib S, Dauchy F, Peyroux J, Sternberg M. Cyclic guanosylmonophosphate urinary excretion in parasympathicomimetic or parasympatholytic syndromes induced by reserpine or diphemanil-methylsulfate. Life Sci 1999; 64:113-23. [PMID: 10069489 DOI: 10.1016/s0024-3205(98)00541-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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Parasympathetic hyperactivity is found in some infants presenting faint episodes and could be responsible of certain Sudden Infant Death Syndrome cases. Therefore it was interesting to look for a noninvasive biochemical indicator of parasympathetic activity. A parasympaticomimetic syndrome associated with muscarinic receptor stimulation, which has been followed during 48 h, was obtained in the awake rat by reserpine injection (6.25 mg/kg at T0 and T24h), and a model of prolonged parasympatholytic syndrome, by administration of diphemanil-methylsulfate (DPMS), a muscarinic receptor inhibitor, in drinking water (mean daily dosis: 150 mg/kg). Significant bradycardia and tachycardia were respectively observed. In the reserpine-treated rats we found significantly increased cyclic guanosylmonophosphate (cGMP) urinary excretion between T24h and T48h, when compared with vehicle-treated controls (+87% in one experiment, +135% in the other, when expressed in pmol/microg creatinine); norepinephrine urinary excretion between T24h and T48h was decreased (-44%); the increase in cGMP urinary excretion was not significantly modified by the NO-synthase inhibitor, L-nitroarginine-methyl-ester. In the DPMS-treated rats, we observed a significantly decreased cGMP (-20%) and increased norepinephrine urinary excretion (+61%). Thus cGMP excretion varied in opposite directions in the reserpine- and DPMS-treated rats. The link between these modifications in cGMP excretion and muscarinic receptor stimulation or blockade has still to be fully demonstrated. Urinary cGMP excretion could be tested as screening parameter in infants at risk of faint episodes associated with bradycardia.
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- Equipe de Recherches sur la Biochimie et la Pharmacologie des Vaisseaux et du Rein, Faculté de Médecine, Université de Paris V & VI, France
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Guillot R, Ogneva V, Hadjiisky P, Kassab JP, Andre J, Mozère G, Peyroux J, Sternberg M. Effect of long-term treatment with a purified micronized flavonoid fraction on pancreatic mononuclear cell infiltration in diabetic BB rats. Pancreas 1998; 17:301-8. [PMID: 9788546 DOI: 10.1097/00006676-199810000-00013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/10/2022]
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Bio Breeding (BB) rats develop a genetically determined insulin-dependent diabetes, because of the early destruction of pancreatic beta cells of Langerhans islets, massively infiltrated by inflammatory mononuclear cells. S 5682, registered as Daflon, 500 mg, is a purified micronized flavonoid fraction (90% diosmin, 10% hesperidin), which has been shown to possess antiinflammatory properties, including anti-free radical activity, effects on vascular permeability, venous tone, and perivenous inflammation. We studied the effect of S 5682 on the course of pancreatic insulitis in diabetic BB rats. All the diabetic BB rats were hyperglycemic, with an increase of plasma levels of fructosamine, alpha-1 acid glycoprotein, and fibrinogen, and a dramatic decrease of C-peptide level. These parameters were not modified by S 5682. Pancreas histologic studies showed that in S 5682-treated diabetic BB rats, lymphocytic infiltration of Langerhans islets was less important and frequent than in untreated diabetic BB rats. By quantitative analysis, a highly significant difference was observed for insulitis, as well as perivasculitis, between S 5682-treated and untreated diabetic BB rats. This inhibitory effect of S 5682 on pancreatic mononuclear cell infiltration may be useful for a complementary treatment to decrease the development of insulitis in human insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus.
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- R Guillot
- Equipe de Recherche sur la Biochimie et la Pharmacologie des Vaisseaux et du Rein, Faculté de Médecine, Broussais-Hôtel-Dieu, Université de Paris V, France
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OBJECTIVE To compare employment outcomes after spinal cord injury (SCI) as a function of several important participant characteristics. DESIGN Field study survey of the employment history of two large samples of people with SCI. Outcomes were compared as a function of multiple participant characteristics. SETTING A large rehabilitation hospital in the Southeast, with the collaboration of two Midwestern hospitals. PARTICIPANTS One thousand thirty-two individuals with SCI, 597 from the Southeast and 435 from the Midwest. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES The Life Situation Questionnaire-revised (LSQ-R), a self-report measure, was used to identify biographic status and to document employment history. RESULTS On the average, currently employed participants were Caucasian, were younger when injured, had paraplegia, and had completed more years of education. Geographic differences in employment rates disappeared when controlled for multiple factors, including years of education. However, even after controlling for years of education, Caucasian participants were 2.8 times more likely than minority participants to be working at the time of the study. CONCLUSIONS Rehabilitation professionals need to find creative means to identify and neutralize barriers to employment among individuals from minority groups and to identify meaningful avocations for individuals who are injured when they are near retirement.
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OBJECTIVE To identify the relative risk of mortality after spinal cord injury (SCI) as a function of level of psychosocial, vocational, and medical adjustment. DESIGN A prospective design was used: data on life adjustment was obtained at one time (1985), with subsequent survival status ascertained 11 years later (1996). Logistic regression was used to identify the relative risk of mortality given the level of adjustment on a number of predictor variables. SETTING All participants were selected from outpatient files of a Midwestern university hospital. PARTICIPANTS A total of 345 participants with SCI completed study materials in 1985 (a 78% response rate), 330 of whom could be definitively classified in 1996 as either survivor or deceased. Of these 330 participants, 84% were alive in 1996 (n = 278) and the other 16% were deceased (n = 52). MAIN OUTCOME MEASUREMENTS The Life Situation Questionnaire (LSQ) was used to measure nine primary predictors related to life adjustment after SCI, including employment status and eight predictor scales: Medical Instability, Adjustment, General Satisfaction, Emotional Distress, Dependency, and Poor Health. The LSQ was also used to generate data on 34 individual items that were used in exploratory predictive analyses. RESULTS All but one of the 8 primary adjustment predictors from 1985 significantly predicted 1996 mortality status. Dependency and low overall satisfaction were among the most significant predictors of mortality. CONCLUSIONS Overall quality of life is important to the longevity of people with SCI, and comprehensive rehabilitation programs are needed to promote a level of life adjustment that maximizes longevity after SCI.
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- J S Krause
- Crawford Research Institute, Shepherd Center, Atlanta, GA 30309, USA
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Bakillah A, Grigorova-Borsos AM, Guillot R, Urios P, Sternberg M. Effect of an aldose reductase inhibitor on type IV collagen production by human endothelial cells cultured in high glucose. Diabetologia 1996; 39:641-8. [PMID: 8781759 DOI: 10.1007/bf00418535] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/02/2023]
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Diabetic microangiopathy is characterized by a thickening of capillary basement membranes associated with type IV collagen accumulation. An increase in type IV collagen content of the aortic wall is also observed in macroangiopathy. In order to analyse the importance of the polyol pathway in the development of the collagen metabolism alterations seen in diabetic angiopathy and their prevention by aldose reductase inhibitors, we have studied the effects of sorbinil on the high glucose-induced stimulation of type IV collagen biosynthesis in human umbilical vein endothelial cells. Primary cultures were exposed to high glucose (16.7 mmol/l), with and without 0.11 mmol/l sorbinil, for 3 or 6 days after beginning of confluence. We measured the soluble type IV collagen secreted into the culture medium and the insoluble type IV collagen accumulated in the extracellular matrix and cells, by ELISA. We also studied [14C]proline incorporation into the newly synthesized collagenous and total proteins in the culture supernatant and in the extracellular matrix and cell fraction. High glucose decreased the number of cells and increased the amount of type IV collagen in the culture supernatant and in the extracellular matrix and cell fraction. It also increased proline incorporation into the newly synthesized collagenous and total proteins in the culture supernatant and in the extracellular matrix and cell fraction. Sorbinil corrected all these high glucose-induced alterations. The corrective effects of sorbinil on the proliferation and on type IV collagen metabolism of endothelial cells cultured in high glucose may be attributed to prevention of polyol pathway dysregulation.
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- A Bakillah
- Equipe de Recherches sur la Biochimie et la Pharmacologie des Vaisseaux et du Rein, Faculté de Médecine Broussais-Hôtel-Dieu, U.F.R. Biomédicale des Saints-Pères, Université de Paris V & VI, Paris
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Köhler T, Sternberg M, Porezag D, Frauenheim T. Surface Properties of Diamond (111): 1 × 1, 2 × 1, and 2 × 2 Reconstructions. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 1996. [DOI: 10.1002/pssa.2211540108] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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Strynadka NC, Eisenstein M, Katchalski-Katzir E, Shoichet BK, Kuntz ID, Abagyan R, Totrov M, Janin J, Cherfils J, Zimmerman F, Olson A, Duncan B, Rao M, Jackson R, Sternberg M, James MN. Molecular docking programs successfully predict the binding of a beta-lactamase inhibitory protein to TEM-1 beta-lactamase. Nat Struct Biol 1996; 3:233-9. [PMID: 8605624 DOI: 10.1038/nsb0396-233] [Citation(s) in RCA: 116] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/31/2023]
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Crystallization of the 1:1 molecular complex between the beta-lactamase TEM-1 and the beta-lactamase inhibitory protein BLIP has provided an opportunity to put a stringent test on current protein-docking algorithms. Prior to the successful determination of the structure of the complex, nine laboratory groups were given the refined atomic coordinates of each of the native molecules. Other than the fact that BLIP is an effective inhibitor of a number of beta-lactamase enzymes (KI for TEM-1 approximately 100 pM) no other biochemical or structural data were available to assist the practitioners in their molecular docking. In addition, it was not known whether the molecules underwent conformational changes upon association or whether the inhibition was competitive or non-competitive. All six of the groups that accepted the challenge correctly predicted the general mode of association of BLIP and TEM-1.
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- N C Strynadka
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
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Widany J, Frauenheim T, Köhler T, Sternberg M, Porezag D, Jungnickel G, Seifert G. Density-functional-based construction of transferable nonorthogonal tight-binding potentials for B, N, BN, BH, and NH. Phys Rev B Condens Matter 1996; 53:4443-4452. [PMID: 9983998 DOI: 10.1103/physrevb.53.4443] [Citation(s) in RCA: 43] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 04/12/2023]
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Grigorova-Borsos AM, Bakillah A, Urios P, Leblond V, Guillot R, Sternberg M. Production of type IV collagen and 72-kDa gelatinase by human endothelial cells cultured in high glucose. Effects of a protein kinase C inhibitor, GF 109203X. Biochem Cell Biol 1996; 74:659-67. [PMID: 9018373 DOI: 10.1139/o96-071] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/03/2023] Open
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Since diabetic microangiopathy and macroangiopathy are characterized by type IV collagen accumulation in vascular basement membranes, it was of interest to study type IV collagen production and type IV collagenase secretion by endothelial cells (EC) cultured in high glucose and to evaluate the role of protein kinase C (PKC) activation in the alterations induced by high glucose. Primary cultures of human umbilical vein EC were exposed to high glucose concentration for 3 days at the beginning of confluence. The number of EC decreased with glucose concentration from 5 to 50 mM. At 16.7 mM glucose concentration, the amount of type IV collagen, determined by a two-step ELISA, increased in the culture supernatant and in the insoluble fraction associated with the extracellular matrix and cells; proline incorporation was more markedly elevated in the collagenous than in the total proteins of the culture supernatant and of the extracellular matrix and cell extracts. Gelatin zymography of the culture supernatant showed that EC mainly produce a 72-kDa gelatinase known to degrade type IV collagen. At 16.7 mM glucose concentration, total gelatinase activity per millilitre of culture supernatant was reduced and the 72-kDa gelatinase activity measured on the zymogram scan was lowered. When EC were exposed to 16.7 mM glucose, the specific PKC inhibitor GF 109203X corrected the increases in type IV collagen concentration and in proline incorporation into the collagenous or total proteins present in he culture supernatant or in the extract of the insoluble fraction, including the extracellular matrix and cells. Our results show that soluble and insoluble type IV collagen accumulation by EC cultured at high glucose concentration is not only associated with increased synthesis of the collagenous and total proteins but also with decreased total 72-kDa gelatinase activity in the extracellular fluid. The observed effects of GF 109203X are in favor of the involvement of PKC activation in the type IV collagen accumulation.
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- A M Grigorova-Borsos
- Equipe de Recherches sur la Biochimie et la Pharmacologie des Vaisseaux et du Rein, Faculté de Médecine Broussais-Hôtel-Dieu, Université de Paris V & VI, France
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Skokov S, Weiner B, Frenklach M, Frauenheim T, Sternberg M. Dimer-row pattern formation in diamond (100) growth. Phys Rev B Condens Matter 1995; 52:5426-5432. [PMID: 9981734 DOI: 10.1103/physrevb.52.5426] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 04/12/2023]
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Kassab JP, Guillot R, Andre J, Claperon N, Bellon G, Feldmann G, Peyroux J, Sternberg M. Renal and microvascular effects of an aldose reductase inhibitor in experimental diabetes. Biochemical, functional and ultrastructural studies. Biochem Pharmacol 1994; 48:1003-8. [PMID: 8093087 DOI: 10.1016/0006-2952(94)90371-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/28/2023]
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Aldose reductase inhibitors, and particularly sorbinil, have been reported to prevent glomerular basement membrane thickening (GBMT) and albuminuria development in diabetic rats, but contradictory observations have been published. The aim of this study was to answer the following questions (i) is the corrective effect of sorbinil on GBMT, if confirmed, associated with an effect on collagen metabolism alterations? (ii) Is it associated with an effect on microvascular functional alterations? We therefore studied the influence of sorbinil on glucosyl-galactosyl-hydroxylysyl-glucohydrolase activity (GGHG; EC 3.2.1.107 which is involved in the catabolism of collagen disaccharide units), 3- and 4-hydroxyproline content and GBMT by ultrastructural morphometry in the kidney cortex of streptozotocin-diabetic rats after 5 months of disease. In parallel, the effects on albumin renal clearance and another functional alteration, the microvascular response to norepinephrine, were evaluated. We confirmed a corrective effect of sorbinil on both renal albumin clearance and GBMT. In the diabetic rats, sorbinil diminished the 3-hydroxyproline (but not the 4-hydroxyproline) content, whether expressed per mg protein or per total kidney cortex relative to body weight. Sorbinil reduced GGHG activity measured in the dialysed 10,000 g supernatant whether expressed per mg protein or per total kidney cortex; this activity has been shown to be increased in diabetes. Sorbinil also corrected the microvascular response to norepinephrine which is altered in diabetes.
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- J P Kassab
- Equipe de Recherches sur la Biochimie et la Pharmacologie des Vaisseaux et du Rein, Faculté de Médecine, Paris, France
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Guillot R, Kassab JP, Ogneva V, André J, Durussel JJ, Hadjiisky P, Peyroux J, Sternberg M. Relation between pancreatic islet cellular infiltration and plasma fibrinogen or alpha 1-acid glycoprotein levels in spontaneously and streptozotocin-diabetic rats: an increase in these protein levels is not necessary for inducing microcirculatory erythrocyte velocity alteration. Pancreas 1994; 9:336-43. [PMID: 8022756 DOI: 10.1097/00006676-199405000-00009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/28/2023]
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Plasma levels of fibrinogen, alpha 1-acid glycoprotein (AG) and albumin, pancreatic insulitis quantitative scores, and erythrocyte velocity in the mesoappendix microvessels were measured in BB diabetic (BBD) and streptozotocin-diabetic rats (WSTZ) in order to answer the following questions: (a) Does hyperfibrinogenemia or increase in AG plasma level occur in BBD and WSTZ rats, and if so, are these alterations secondary to the hyperglycemia or to an inflammatory process such as insulitis? (b) Is there a decrease in microcirculatory flow in the BBD and WSTZ rats, and if so, is it secondary to the hyperfibrinogenemia and/or the hyperglycemia? Insulitis was present in the BBD rats after 5 weeks of disease (with a score of 2.9 +/- 0.1 vs. 1.4 +/- 0.6 in the normoglycemic controls), but absent in WSTZ rats after 5 months of disease (1.2 +/- 0.06 vs. 1.1 +/- 0.06). Increase in fibrinogen and AG plasma levels was observed in the BBD rats only and appears linked to the insulitis. The major acute phase protein AG level is increased in BBD rats already on the first day of appearance of glycosuria. In the WSTZ rats, without insulitis, chronic hyperglycemia alone did not induce an increase in fibrinogen and AG plasma levels. A decreased microcirculatory erythrocyte velocity has been found in both BBD and WSTZ rats. Thus an increase in fibrinogen or AG plasma levels is not necessary for inducing a decrease in erythrocyte velocity. Hyperglycemia is probably the main factor responsible for the decrease in microcirculatory flow in the BBD and WSTZ rats.
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- R Guillot
- Equipe de Recherche sur la Biochimie et la Pharmacologie des Vaisseaux et du Rein, France
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Lubec B, Sternberg M, Mallinger R, Radner W, Vycudilik W, Häusler J, Lubec G. Cis 3 hydroxyproline reduces glomerular basement membrane thickness and collagen type IV synthesis in diabetic rats. Amino Acids 1993; 4:249-54. [DOI: 10.1007/bf00805826] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/03/1991] [Accepted: 01/01/1992] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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Aronson MK, Cox D, Guastadisegni P, Frazier C, Sherlock L, Grower R, Barbera A, Sternberg M, Breed J, Koren MJ. Dementia and the nursing home: association with care needs. J Am Geriatr Soc 1992; 40:27-33. [PMID: 1727844 DOI: 10.1111/j.1532-5415.1992.tb01825.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [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: 12/28/2022]
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OBJECTIVE To determine whether RUG reimbursement categories accurately predict requirements for care in nursing homes. DESIGN Prospective descriptive study of residents in lower reimbursement categories according to RUG. SETTING Three nursing homes in New York City. PARTICIPANTS Convenience sample of 173 residents who agreed to participate, not significantly different from 201 who did not agree to participate. MAIN MEASURES Chart review; assessment of residents' cognitive and functional abilities; nursing assistants' ratings of residents' functional abilities, behavioral problems, the amount of effort required in care; and time-motion studies of staff-resident interactions. RESULTS Both the residents' RUG classification (P less than 0.01) and the level of ADL independence (P less than 0.001) had significant impacts on the staff effort required in their care, with more dependent residents requiring greater effort. The residents' level of cognitive impairment also had a significant impact on the staff effort, with the severely impaired requiring greater effort (P less than 0.05). The time-motion analysis indicated that residents within the same RUG category differed in the number of staff-resident interactions based on their level of cognitive impairment. CONCLUSIONS Cognitive impairment is a significant morbidity (or co-morbidity) in determining the quantity of staff effort required by the resident, and behavioral interventions are an important care component. There is marked heterogeneity within lower (RUG) reimbursement categories which translates into strikingly different care requirements.
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- Jewish Guild for the Blind, Yonkers, NY 10701
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Rat kidney sialidase levels have been reported to be markedly altered in pathological states such as diabetes. This was associated with a modification of sialic acid levels. Therefore, it was interesting to study the variations of kidney sialidase and sialyltransferase activities and sialic acid content according to sex and age. This was carried out from birth to 210 days of age. The substrates used were sialyl alpha(2-3)[3H]-lactitol for sialidase activity, asialofetuin and [14C]-CMPNeu5Ac for sialyltransferase activity. In males sialidase activity increased until 32 days then slightly declined. In females, the activity increased and leveled off at 135 days of age. Higher sialidase activity was observed in females than in males from 56 days of age. Gonadectomy had no effect on this activity. In both sexes, sialyltransferase activity decreased markedly with age. This activity was higher in females than in males, whereas sialic acid levels varied only moderately with age and were slightly higher in females.
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- L Cohen-Forterre
- Equipe de Recherche sur la Biochimie et de Pharmacologie des Vaisseaux et du Rein
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Cohen-Forterre L, Andre J, Mozere G, Peyroux J, Sternberg M. Kidney sialidase and sialyltransferase activities in spontaneously and experimentally diabetic rats. Influence of insulin and sorbinil treatments. Biochem Pharmacol 1990; 40:507-13. [PMID: 2200408 DOI: 10.1016/0006-2952(90)90549-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [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: 12/30/2022]
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Kidney cortex sialic acid level, sialidase and sialyltransferase activities have been measured in spontaneously diabetic BB rats and in streptozotocin-diabetic rats (STZ). In untreated diabetic BB rats, at the onset of the disease, sialidase specific activity was found to be increased by 21% when compared with diabetes-resistant BB controls (P less than 0.05) whereas sialyltransferase activity was not significantly modified and bound sialic acid concentration was diminished (P less than 0.05). In diabetic BB rats submitted to a minimal insulin therapy, during 3 months of disease, sialidase activity and sialic acid concentration were similar to those of Wistar age-matched controls. In STZ-diabetic Wistar rats, sialidase specific activity was increased by 76% after 5 months of disease when compared to age-matched Wistar controls (P less than 0.01); in contrast, specific sialyltransferase activity was decreased by 21% (P less than 0.05); these enzymatic alterations were associated with a decrease in bound sialic acid concentration (P less than 0.01); 1 month's insulin therapy, started 4 months after onset of the disease, normalized sialidase activity but had no effect on sialyltransferase activity and sialic acid concentration; treatment with sorbinil prevented cataract development but had no effect on sialidase activity whereas it emphasized the decrease in sialyltransferase activity and sialic acid concentration. The disturbances in the enzyme activities concerned with sialoglycoconjugate metabolism observed in experimental and spontaneous diabetes may be responsible for the decreased bound sialic acid content observed in the rat kidney cortex.
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- L Cohen-Forterre
- Laboratoire de Biochimie et de Pharmacologie des Vaisseaux et du Rein, Faculté de Médecine Broussais-Hôtel-Dieu, Paris, France
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Falcy C, Rattner A, Farjanel J, Borsos AM, Gilson N, Christeff N, Dupeyron JP, Peyroux J, Sternberg M. Modification of enzyme activities concerned with collagen metabolism in the heart of spontaneously hypertensive and aortic-constricted rats. Jpn Heart J 1989; 30:65-76. [PMID: 2524611 DOI: 10.1536/ihj.30.65] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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The activities of three enzymes concerned with collagen metabolism 4-prolyl hydroxylase, UDP-glucose: collagen glucosyltransferase and glucosyl-galactosyl-hydroxylysine glucohydrolase and 4-hydroxyproline content have been studied in the cardiac ventricles of spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHR) during prehypertensive, hypertensive and sustained hypertensive stages (respectively 4.5, 12 and 19 weeks of age). They were compared with values observed in age-matched normotensive Wistar Kyoto rats (WKY). The same studies have been performed in parallel on aortic-constricted rats (ACR) 8 days after suprarenal constriction of the abdominal aorta. The most striking finding was a significant increase in cardiac prolyl hydroxylase specific activity in the ACR but not in the SHR. No variation in 4-hydroxyproline concentration was found in the hearts of ACR. In contrast, a decrease in 4-hydroxyproline concentration was found in the hearts of SHR at 19 weeks. Cardiac glucosyltransferase specific activity was significantly elevated only in the SHR at 12 weeks. No variation in glucohydrolase specific activity was detected in the hearts of either SHR or ACR. The cardiac enzyme activities all decreased with age. These data show that the alterations in cardiac collagen metabolism are different in SHR and ACR. The patterns of the alterations found in the heart mirror those observed in the aorta in both models under the same experimental conditions.
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- C Falcy
- Equipe de Recherches sur la Biochimie et la Pharmacologie des Vaisseaux et du Rein, UER Biomédicale des Saints-Pères et UER MAMT, Université Paris V, France
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Grigorova-Borsos AM, Bara L, Aberer E, Grochulski A, André J, Mozère G, Peyroux J, Sternberg M. Aging and diabetes increase the aggregating potency of rat skin collagen towards normal platelets. Thromb Haemost 1988; 60:75-8. [PMID: 3187948] [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: 01/04/2023]
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Acid-soluble collagen samples were prepared from individual skins of 24 month old rats (n = 8), 2 month old young controls (n = 8) and from 6 month old streptozotocin-diabetic rats (n = 5) and their age-matched controls (n = 10). Less collagen was obtained by acid extraction and salt precipitations from skins of diabetic and aged rats than from those of their respective controls. The collagen preparations from diabetic and aged rats showed an increased ratio of beta/alpha components. The rate of "in vitro" fibrillogenesis was less for collagen from diabetic rats than from controls. It was not modified for collagens from aged rats. The aggregating potency towards normal human platelets was markedly increased for collagens from aged and diabetic rats: reduced latency time (p less than 0.01) and increased velocity (p less than 0.01) were observed for collagens from aged rats when compared with young rats (16.5 micrograms/ml). Increased velocity (p less than 0.01) was also observed for collagens from diabetic rats (8.25, 11 and 16.5 micrograms/ml), without modification of latency time.
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- A M Grigorova-Borsos
- Groupe de Recherches sur la Biochimie et la Pharmacologie des Vaisseaux et du Rein, France
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Cohen-Forterre L, Grigorova-Borsos AM, Falcy C, Mansour G, Mozere G, Peyroux J, Sternberg M. Alteration in sialidase and other glycosidase activities in the kidney of spontaneously hypertensive rats: persistence after preventive treatment with hydralazine. Can J Physiol Pharmacol 1988; 66:884-8. [PMID: 3214799 DOI: 10.1139/y88-144] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/04/2023]
Abstract
Because kidney microangiopathy with capillary basement membrane thickening has been reported in spontaneous hypertension, we have studied the activities of three lysosomal glycosidases able to degrade the carbohydrate moieties of basement membrane constituents in the kidney cortex of 12-week-old spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHR) and age-matched normotensive Wistar Kyoto rats (WKY). These activities were also determined in SHR and WKY treated from 6 to 12 weeks of age with hydralazine (mean dose, 18 mg/kg per day in drinking water). Sialidase specific activity on sialyl-alpha 2-3-[3H]lactitol was markedly decreased in the kidney of untreated SHR, 40% activity remaining relative to that found in untreated age-matched WKY (p less than 0.001). beta-Galactosidase specific activity on p-nitrophenyl-beta-D-galactoside was also decreased, 86% activity remaining relative to that found in untreated WKY (p less than 0.001). Glucosyl-galactosyl-hydroxylysyl glucohydrolase specific activity on glucosyl-galactosyl-hydroxylysine was equally diminished, 74% activity remaining relative to that found in untreated age-matched WKY (p less than 0.001). In contrast, the activities of two control glycosidases inactive on the carbohydrate moieties of basement membrane constituents, alpha-glucosidase assayed with p-nitrophenyl-alpha-D-glucoside as substrate and beta-glucosidase assayed with p-nitrophenyl-beta-D-glucoside as substrate, were significantly increased. All the alterations in enzyme activities observed in the kidney of SHR were also present in the long-term treated normotensive SHR. No effect of the hydralazine treatment on the three enzyme activities investigated could be demonstrated in the WKY. Thus the alterations observed in the kidneys of SHR appear to be independent of blood pressure level.
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Potashnik G, Insler V, Meizner I, Sternberg M. Frequency, sequence, and side of ovulation in women menstruating normally. Br Med J (Clin Res Ed) 1987; 294:219. [PMID: 3101816 PMCID: PMC1245229 DOI: 10.1136/bmj.294.6566.219] [Citation(s) in RCA: 65] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/04/2023]
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