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Chen B, Wood A, Pathak A, Mathai J, Bok S, Zheng H, Hamm S, Basuray S, Grant S, Gangopadhyay K, Cornish PV, Gangopadhyay S. Plasmonic gratings with nano-protrusions made by glancing angle deposition for single-molecule super-resolution imaging. Nanoscale 2016; 8:12189-201. [PMID: 27250765 DOI: 10.1039/c5nr09165a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [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] [Indexed: 05/24/2023]
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Super-resolution imaging has been advantageous in studying biological and chemical systems, but the required equipment and platforms are expensive and unable to observe single-molecules at the high (μM) fluorophore concentrations required to study protein interaction and enzymatic activity. Here, a plasmonic platform was designed that utilized an inexpensively fabricated plasmonic grating in combination with a scalable glancing angle deposition (GLAD) technique using physical vapor deposition. The GLAD creates an abundance of plasmonic nano-protrusion probes that combine the surface plasmon resonance (SPR) from the periodic gratings with the localized SPR of these nano-protrusions. The resulting platform enables simultaneous imaging of a large area without point-by-point scanning or bulk averaging for the detection of single Cyanine-5 molecules in dye concentrations ranging from 50 pM to 10 μM using epifluorescence microscopy. Combining the near-field plasmonic nano-protrusion probes and super-resolution technique using localization microscopy, we demonstrate the ability to resolve grain sizes down to 65 nm. This plasmonic GLAD grating is a cost-effective super-resolution imaging substrate with potential applications in high-speed biomedical imaging over a wide range of fluorescent concentrations.
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- B Chen
- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, 139 and 141A Engineering Building West, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO 65211, USA.
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- Department of Bioengineering, 139 and 141A Engineering Building West, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO 65211, USA
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- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, 139 and 141A Engineering Building West, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO 65211, USA.
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- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, 139 and 141A Engineering Building West, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO 65211, USA.
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- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, 139 and 141A Engineering Building West, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO 65211, USA.
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- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, 139 and 141A Engineering Building West, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO 65211, USA.
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- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, 139 and 141A Engineering Building West, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO 65211, USA.
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- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, 139 and 141A Engineering Building West, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO 65211, USA.
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- Department of Bioengineering, 139 and 141A Engineering Building West, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO 65211, USA
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- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, 139 and 141A Engineering Building West, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO 65211, USA.
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- Department of Biochemistry, 117 Schweitzer Hall, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO 65211, USA.
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- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, 139 and 141A Engineering Building West, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO 65211, USA.
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Song C, Hong B, Bok S, Lee C, Kim Y, Jeon S, Wu H, Lee Y, Cheon G, Paeng J, Ahn G, Kim H. PV-0427: Real-time tumour oxygenation changes following a single high dose radiotherapy in mouse lung cancers. Radiother Oncol 2016. [DOI: 10.1016/s0167-8140(16)31676-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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Kim K, Song S, Kim Y, Jeon S, Bok S, Hong B, Lee C, Ahn G, Kim H. Establishing a Mouse Model for Radiation Induced Esophagitis. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 2015. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2015.07.505] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/22/2022]
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Wood AJ, Chen B, Pathan S, Bok S, Mathai CJ, Gangopadhyay K, Grant SA, Gangopadhyay S. Influence of silver grain size, roughness, and profile on the extraordinary fluorescence enhancement capabilities of grating coupled surface plasmon resonance. RSC Adv 2015. [DOI: 10.1039/c5ra17228d] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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Silver gratings with different metal film properties and structures were examined to determine their effect on metal enhanced fluorescence.
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- A. J. Wood
- Department of Bioengineering
- University of Missouri
- Columbia
- USA
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- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
- University of Missouri
- Columbia
- USA
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- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
- University of Missouri
- Columbia
- USA
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- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
- University of Missouri
- Columbia
- USA
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- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
- University of Missouri
- Columbia
- USA
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- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
- University of Missouri
- Columbia
- USA
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- Department of Bioengineering
- University of Missouri
- Columbia
- USA
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- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
- University of Missouri
- Columbia
- USA
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Trenkmann I, Bok S, Korampally V, Gangopadhyay S, Graaf H, von Borczyskowski C. Counting Single Rhodamine 6G Dye Molecules in Organosilicate Nanoparticles. Chem Phys 2012; 406:41-46. [PMID: 23280055 DOI: 10.1016/j.chemphys.2012.02.014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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Rhodamine 6G (R6G) dye molecules have been embedded into organosilicate nanoparticles to improve thermal and chemical stability of these marker molecules. We demonstrate that the well-established method of optical single-particle microscopy can be used to determine the number of dye molecules per nanoparticle in such hybrid materials. Analysing the fluorescence intensity of R6G in single nanoparticles, we obtain an average number of 1.3 - 1.7 dye molecules per nanoparticle as compared to 1 R6G per particle obtained from ensemble experiments. The blinking behaviour of embedded R6G can be described by a power law with an exponent α(on/off) = - 1.7. Ensemble measurements complete the optical characterization of the nanoparticles, which reveals no pronounced R6G aggregate formation.
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- I Trenkmann
- Institute of Physics, Chemnitz University of Technology, Reichenhainer Str. 70, D-09126 Chemnitz, Germany
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BACKGROUND AND AIMS Caregivers or relatives of mental patients often show increased levels of psychological distress. This study investigated whether this is also the case for caregivers of patients with borderline personality disorder. METHODS The Symptom Check List (SCL-90) was administered to 64 Dutch volunteers, who were either biologically related (parents or siblings) or biologically unrelated caregivers (partners or friends) of patients with borderline personality disorder. RESULTS The group of caregivers as a whole scored higher on all symptom dimensions of the SCL-90 than the general population. When controlling for caregiver sex and age, as well as for patient sex, there were no significant differences between the biologically related and unrelated caregiver groups on any dimension. CONCLUSIONS The results are in line with findings concerning distress in caregivers of patients suffering from personality disorders in general, posttraumatic stress disorder or schizophrenia. The mechanism behind the increased levels of distress in our sample is not clear, however. Either exposure to the problematic behaviour of the patient, selective mating or a combination of both might have been responsible for the effect.
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- J G M Scheirs
- Tilburg University, Faculty of Social Sciences, Department of Psychology and Health, The Netherlands.
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Bok S. At the juncture of theory and practice. Remarks on receiving the Henry Knowles Beecher Award. Hastings Cent Rep 1996; 26:5-8. [PMID: 8736667] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/01/2023]
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I want to argue for two propositions. First, I suggest that what some researchers may take to be a simple trade-off between minor violations of the truth for the sake of access to far greater truths represents a profound miscalculation with far-reaching and cumulative reverberations. Second, I submit that today's research environment, as demanding, competitive, and sometimes bewildering as it is, offers genuine scope for what Murdoch calls truth-seeking, for imaging and questioning, and for relating to facts through both truth and truthfulness; but that, in so doing, it presents hard choices with respect to methods, and, in turn, to personal integrity--not only in particular research projects but also with respect to that fragile research environment in its own right.
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- S Bok
- Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies, Cambridge, MA, USA
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Bok S. Voluntary euthanasia: private and public imperatives. Hastings Cent Rep 1994; 24:19-20. [PMID: 8088997] [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: 01/28/2023]
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- S Bok
- Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass
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What should patients know about the degree to which their physicians may be impaired—unable, in the words of the American Medical Association (A.M.A.), “to practice medicine with reasonable skill and safety to patients by reason of physical or mental illness, including alcoholism and drug dependence”? What patients do in fact find out about such matters as alcohol or other drug abuse by, say, the surgeon or the anesthesiologist in charge of their care is another matter altogether; most patients learn about such impairment the hard way. But what should they know beforehand, if at all possible?
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- S Bok
- Institute of History and Theory of Medicine, Wilhelms-Universitat, Munster, Germany
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Bok S. Informed consent in tests of patient reliability. JAMA 1992; 267:1118-9. [PMID: 1735930] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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Using thin-layer chromatography, celite column chromatography and recrystallization methods, articular (AR) and growth plate (GP) cartilage tissues and cells from prepubertal rabbits were shown to convert testosterone (T) into at least three main metabolites: dihydrotestosterone (DHT), delta 4-androstenedione and androstanediols. In tissue incubation experiments the amount of each newly formed metabolite per mg of tissue was always greater in AR than in GP cartilage. After a 24 h incubation with AR or GP cartilage tissues, T was mainly converted to DHT and delta 4-androstenedione in approximately equal amounts. The amount of androstanediol metabolites formed was much lower. In a time-course experiment, the conversion of T to DHT and delta 4-androstenedione was shown to increase in a linear fashion, while the conversion to androstanediols was more variable. Using cultured AR cartilage cell incubations, similar results were obtained. In addition, DHT was shown to be the sole metabolite which accumulated in the cellular pool during the first 3 h incubation, as well as during the 24 h incubation when maximum cellular uptake of radioactivity was observed. At this time, the intracellular amount of unmetabolized [3H]T (88 pmoles/100 micrograms DNA) was similar to the amount of [3H]DHT (70 pmoles/100 micrograms DNA) accumulated in the chondrocytes. For both delta 4-androstenedione and androstanediols, 99% of radioactivity was extracted from the incubation medium.
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Bok S. The limits of confidentiality. Hastings Cent Rep 1983; 13:24-31. [PMID: 6841063] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/22/2023]
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Bok S. Lying to children. Hastings Cent Rep 1978; 8:10-3. [PMID: 669928] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/23/2022]
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Bok S. Research, casual or planned? Hastings Cent Rep 1975; 5:25-6. [PMID: 1150414] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/25/2022]
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Bok S, Lappe M. Options in dealing with the threat of hemophilia. Hastings Cent Rep 1974; 4:8-9. [PMID: 4414935] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/10/2023]
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