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Georg J. Furtmüller Byoungchol Oh Johanna Grahammer Cheng-Hung Lin Robert Sucher Madeline L. Fryer Giorgio Raimondi W.P. Andrew Lee Gerald Brandacher 《Journal of visualized experiments : JoVE》2016,(108)
In vivo animal model systems, and in particular mouse models, have evolved into powerful and versatile scientific tools indispensable to basic and translational research in the field of transplantation medicine. A vast array of reagents is available exclusively in this setting, including mono- and polyclonal antibodies for both diagnostic and interventional applications. In addition, a vast number of genotyped, inbred, transgenic, and knock out strains allow detailed investigation of the individual contributions of humoral and cellular components to the complex interplay of an immune response and make the mouse the gold standard for immunological research. Vascularized Composite Allotransplantation (VCA) delineates a novel field of transplantation using allografts to replace "like with like" in patients suffering traumatic or congenital tissue loss. This surgical methodological protocol shows the use of a non-suture cuff technique for super-microvascular anastomosis in an orthotopic mouse hind limb transplantation model. The model specifically allows for comparison between established paradigms in solid organ transplantation with a novel form of transplants consisting of various different tissue components. Uniquely, this model allows for the transplantation of a viable vascularized bone marrow compartment and niche that have the potential to exert a beneficial effect on the balance of immune acceptance and rejection. This technique provides a tool to investigate alloantigen recognition and allograft rejection and acceptance, as well as enables the pursuit of functional nerve regeneration studies to further advance this novel field of transplantation. 相似文献
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Chan ST Chuang CH Yeh CL Liao JW Liu KL Tseng MJ Yeh SL 《The Journal of nutritional biochemistry》2012,23(2):179-185
In vitro studies have shown that quercetin modulates the effects of β-carotene induced by stimulants. Whether these reactions happen in vivo, however, is unclear. Thus, we investigated whether quercetin supplementation suppresses the harmful effects of benzo[a]pyrene (BaP) alone or combined with β-carotene in the lungs of Mongolian gerbils. The gerbils were given quercetin (100 mg/kg body wt, 3 times/week), β-carotene (10 mg/kg body wt, 3 times/week), and BaP (8 mmol, 2 times/week) alone or in combination by gavage for 6 months. β-Carotene supplementation enhanced the pro-inflammatory effects of BaP in the lungs of gerbils. In contrast, quercetin supplementation significantly decreased the infiltration of inflammatory cells as well as the levels of TNF-α and IL-1β in the bronchoalveolar lavage fluid and plasma of gerbils exposed to BaP or BaP+β-carotene (P<.05). Such effects of quercetin supplementation were accompanied by a down-regulation of the expression of phospho-c-Jun and phospho-JNK induced by BaP or BaP+β-carotene in the lungs of gerbils. Furthermore, in the ex vivo study, we found that quercetin-metabolite-enriched plasma (QP) obtained from gerbils acted like a JNK inhibitor to significantly suppress the secretion of pro-inflammatory cytokines induced by BaP or BaP+β-carotene in A549 cells (P<.05). QP also suppressed the activation of the JNK pathway in the A549 cells. These results suggest that supplemental quercetin suppress the pro-inflammatory effect of β-carotene induced by BaP in vivo and ex vivo. The regulation of the JNK pathway by the metabolites of quercetin contributes, at least in part, to such effects of quercetin in vivo. 相似文献
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A thorough study for the synthesis of 1-deazauridine is described. 3-Bromo-2,6-dimethoxy-5-(β- d -ribofuranosyl)pyridine, a synthetic precursor for 1-deazauridine, was prepared in seven steps from 2,6-dimethoxypyridine and d-ribose via the ribonolactone approach. Subsequent demethylation was unsuccessful but led to presumable anomerization and isomerization. The effort concluded that the synthesis of 1-deazauridine remained unachieved. 相似文献
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Shih-Hsin Chang Petrus Tang Cheng-Hung Lai Ming-Ling Kuo Lian-Chen Wang 《Memórias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz》2013,108(6):699-706
Angiostrongylus cantonensis is an important causative agent of
eosinophilic meningitis and eosinophilic meningoencephalitis in humans.
MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are small non-coding RNAs that participate in a wide range of
biological processes. This study employed a deep-sequencing approach to study
miRNAs from young adults of A. cantonensis. Based on 16,880,456
high-quality reads, 252 conserved mature miRNAs including 10 antisense miRNAs
that belonging to 90 families, together with 10 antisense miRNAs were identified
and characterised. Among these sequences, 53 miRNAs from 25 families displayed
50 or more reads. The conserved miRNA families were divided into four groups
according to their phylogenetic distribution and a total of nine families
without any members showing homology to other nematodes or adult worms were
identified. Stem-loop real-time polymerase chain reaction analysis of
aca-miR-1-1 and aca-miR-71-1 demonstrated that their level of expression
increased dramatically from infective larvae to young adults and then decreased
in adult worms, with the male worms exhibiting significantly higher levels of
expression than female worms. These findings provide information related to the
regulation of gene expression during the growth, development and pathogenesis of
young adults of A. cantonensis. 相似文献
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Shang-Hung Chang Chun-Chi Chen Ming-Jer Hsieh Chao-Yung Wang Cheng-Hung Lee I-Chang Hsieh 《PloS one》2013,8(1)
Background
Long lesions have been associated with adverse outcomes in percutaneous coronary interventions with bare metal stents (BMS). However, the exact impact of lesion length on the short- and long-term outcomes of drug-eluting stent (DES) implantations is not as clear.Methods and Results
This study compared the impact of lesion length on angiographic and clinical outcomes of BMS and DES in a single-center prospective registry. Lesion length was divided into tertiles. The primary endpoints were angiographically defined binary in-stent restenosis (ISR) rate and major adverse cardiac event (MACE). Of the 4,312 de novo lesions in 3,447 consecutive patients in the CAPTAIN registry, 2,791 lesions (of 2,246 patients) received BMS, and the remaining 1,521 lesions (of 1,201 patients) received DES. The mean follow-up duration was 4.5 years. The longer the lesion, the higher the ISR rate (14%, 18%, and 29%, p<0.001) and the lower the MACE-free survivals (p = 0.007) in the BMS group. However, lesion length showed no such correlation with ISR rates (4.7%, 3.3%, and 7.8%, p = 0.67) or MACE-free survivals (p = 0.19) in the DES group.Conclusions
In our single-center prospective registry, lesion length defined in tertiles has no impact on the short-term (ISR) or long-term (MACE) outcomes of patients implanted with DES. In contrast, longer lesion correlates with higher ISR and MACE rates in BMS group. 相似文献9.
The molecular machines in biological cells are made of proteins, DNAs and other classes of molecules. The structures of these molecules are characteristically "soft", highly flexible, and yet their interactions with other molecules or ions are specific and selective. This chapter discusses a prevalent form, the catalytic wheel, or the energy transducer of cells, examines its mechanism of action, and extracts from it a set of simple but general rules for understanding the energetics of the biomolecular devices. These rules should also benefit design of manmade nanometer scale machines such as rotary motors or track-guided linear transporters. We will focus on an electric work that, by matching system dynamics and then enhancing the conformational fluctuation of one or several driver proteins, converts stochastic input of energy into rotation or locomotion of a receptor protein. The spatial (or barrier) and temporal symmetry breakings required for selected driver/receptor combinations are examined. This electric ratchet consists of a core engine that follows the Markovian dynamic, alleviates difficulties encountered in rigid mechanical model, and tailors to the soft-matter characteristics of the biomolecules. 相似文献
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