gebhart/patrepeval huggingface dataset:
Antiangiogenesis in haematological malignancies (2008)

Angiogenesis, the growth of new capillary blood vessels, is a central regulator of cancer growth, and a validated target for cancer therapy. The antiangiogenic agents in clinical use target one or more cellular pathways involved in the cascade of vascular growth. In haematological malignancies, angiogenesis occurs within a bone marrow ecosystem comprised of closely apposed malignant cells, endothelial cells, pericytes, fibroblasts, endothelial progenitor cells, dendritic cells, and extracellular matrix. Inhibition of angiogenesis therefore blocks not only the delivery of oxygen and micronutrients to cancer cells, but also disrupts the interdependency of these cellular players and the paracrine effects they exert to maintain the malignant phenotype. Agents such as thalidomide, lenalidomide, bortezomib, and bevacizumab, have demonstrated clinical activity in myeloma, myelodysplastic syndrome, and leukaemias. In leukaemia, vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) is emerging as a compelling biological target for therapy, as well as a potential predictive marker for disease relapse. Initial clinical studies suggest that the anti-VEGF strategies may advance the primary, sequential or adjunctive treatment for leukaemia, and establish the basis for other potential antiangiogenic strategies in haematological malignancies.
Difunctional Monomers Based on Perfluoropropylene Telomers (1994)

ADVERTISEMENT RETURN TO ISSUEPREVArticleNEXTDifunctional Monomers Based on Perfluoropropylene TelomersKurt Baum and Aslam A. MalikCite this: J. Org. Chem. 1994, 59, 22, 6804–6807Publication Date (Print):November 1, 1994Publication History Published online1 May 2002Published inissue 1 November 1994https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/jo00101a048https://doi.org/10.1021/jo00101a048research-articleACS PublicationsRequest reuse permissionsArticle Views189Altmetric-Citations30LEARN ABOUT THESE METRICSArticle Views are the COUNTER-compliant sum of full text article downloads since November 2008 (both PDF and HTML) across all institutions and individuals. These metrics are regularly updated to reflect usage leading up to the last few days.Citations are the number of other articles citing this article, calculated by Crossref and updated daily. Find more information about Crossref citation counts.The Altmetric Attention Score is a quantitative measure of the attention that a research article has received online. Clicking on the donut icon will load a page at altmetric.com with additional details about the score and the social media presence for the given article. Find more information on the Altmetric Attention Score and how the score is calculated. Share Add toView InAdd Full Text with ReferenceAdd Description ExportRISCitationCitation and abstractCitation and referencesMore Options Share onFacebookTwitterWechatLinked InRedditEmail Other access optionsGet e-Alertsclose Get e-Alerts
Cell surface-localized matrix metalloproteinase-9 proteolytically activates TGF-beta and promotes tumor invasion and angiogenesis. (2000)

We have uncovered a novel functional relationship between the hyaluronan receptor CD44, the matrix metalloproteinase-9 (MMP-9) and the multifunctional cytokine TGF-beta in the control of tumor-associated tissue remodeling. CD44 provides a cell surface docking receptor for proteolytically active MMP-9 and we show here that localization of MMP-9 to cell surface is required for its ability to promote tumor invasion and angiogenesis. Our observations also indicate that MMP-9, as well as MMP-2, proteolytically cleaves latent TGF-beta, providing a novel and potentially important mechanism for TGF-beta activation. In addition, we show that MMP-9 localization to the surface of normal keratinocytes is CD44 dependent and can activate latent TGF-beta. These observations suggest that coordinated CD44, MMP-9, and TGF-beta function may provide a physiological mechanism of tissue remodeling that can be adopted by malignant cells to promote tumor growth and invasion.
Distribution of repetitive DNA sequences in eubacteria and application to finerpriting of bacterial enomes (1991)

Dispersed repetitive DNA sequences have been described recently in eubacteria. To assess the distribution and evolutionary conservation of two distinct prokaryotic repetitive elements, consensus oligonucleotides were used in polymerase chain reaction [PCR] amplification and slot blot hybridization experiments with genomic DNA from diverse eubacterial species. Oligonucleotides matching Repetitive Extragenic Palindromic [REP] elements and Enterobacterial Repetitive Intergenic Consensus [ERIC] sequences were synthesized and tested as opposing PCR primers in the amplification of eubacterial genomic DNA. REP and ERIC consensus oligonucleotides produced clearly resolvable bands by agarose gel electrophoresis following PCR amplification. These band patterns provided unambiguous DNA fingerprints of different eubacterial species and strains. Both REP and ERIC probes hybridized preferentially to genomic DNA from Gram-negative enteric bacteria and related species. Widespread distribution of these repetitive DNA elements in the genomes of various microorganisms should enable rapid identification of bacterial species and strains, and be useful for the analysis of prokaryotic genomes.
Treatment of demyelinating and degenerative diseases by electro stimulation of the spinal cord. (1978)

Electrical stimulation was applied to the spinal cord of 75 patients who had demyelinating and degenerative diseases of the central nervous system, and 3 patients who had sustained spinal cord injuries. The electrical energy was delivered to the central nervous system by the percutaneous technique. The amount of electrical energy required to produce the perception of paresthesias was measured in 11 patients. The minimum power necessary was 76.89 muW, the maximum was 868 muW, and the average was 448.8 muW. The patients were evaluated by 4 examiners by means of routine neurologic examination, videotape movies, and measurement of urinary bladder function. Continued improvement in neurological status, which allowed the patient to live a better lifestyle, occurred in 30 of the 61 patients with multiple sclerosis, and 6 of the 10 patients with ataxia. The patient with transverse Myelitis, the patient with primary lateral sclerosis, and 1 patient with olivopontocerebellar atrophy; also noted similar enhancement of neurological function. The patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and spinal cord injuries had no changes of significance. Thirty-two out of 44 patients who were ambulatory had significant improvement, whereas 10 of the 19 patients who were not ambulatory had improvement. There was no evidence that electrical stimulation of the spinal cord, when applied via dorsally placed percutaneous electrodes and when carried only to the perception of a paresthesias, has any adverse effect on neurological function. It is hypothecated that the electrical current alters neurotransmitters to enhance the transmission along nervous and neurochemical pathways. The exact mechanisms are unknown at the present time.
Isolation of Clostridium difficile from the Environment and Contacts of Patients with Antibiotic-Associated Colitis (1981)

Clostridium difficile is the most important cause of antibiotic-associated colitis, but its epidemiology remains unknown. Using a selective medium for the isolation of C. difficile, cultures were obtained from the environment and contacts of hospitalized patients carrying C. difficile in their stools. In areas where carriers had diarrhea, 85 (9.3%) of 910 cultures of floors and other surfaces, especially those subject to fecal contamination, were positive. In areas where there were no known carriers, only 13 (2.6%) of 497 cultures of similar sites were positive (P less than 0.005). C difficile was isolated from hands and stools of asymptomatic hospital personnel, from sewage and soil, and from the home of a patient. Environmental isolates were toxigenic. C. difficile inoculated onto a floor persisted there for five months. Further studies are needed to document how often floor persisted there for five months. Further studies are needed to document how often C. difficile shed by patients with antibiotic-associated colitis is acquired by other persons and whether isolation precautions are capable of limiting the organism's spread.
N-nitroso compounds and tobacco-induced cancers in man. (1991)

Human exposure to N-nitroso compounds in tobacco products is more intense and widespread than from any other known source. This paper presents evidence that two of these N-nitroso compounds, 4-(N-nitrosomethylamino)-1-(3-pyridyl)-1-butanone and N'-nitrosonornicotine are involved in causing cancers of the oral cavity, lung, oesophagus and pancreas in tobacco users. The reduction or elimination of these nitrosamines from tobacco products would probably lead to a decrease in the incidence of these cancers.
High titers of retrovirus (vesicular stomatitis virus) pseudotypes, at last. (1993)

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans the biological, physical, and social sciences.
Metabolic engineering of bacteria for ethanol production (1998)

Technologies are available which will allow the conversion of lignocellulose into fuel ethanol using genetically engineered bacteria. Assembling these into a cost-effective process remains a challenge. Our work has focused primarily on the genetic engineering of enteric bacteria using a portable ethanol production pathway. Genes encoding Zymomonas mobilis pyruvate decarboxylase and alcohol dehydrogenase have been integrated into the chromosome of Escherichia coli B to produce strain KO11 for the fermentation of hemicellulose-derived syrups. This organism can efficiently ferment all hexose and pentose sugars present in the polymers of hemicellulose. Klebsiella oxytoca M5A1 has been genetically engineered in a similar manner to produce strain P2 for ethanol production from cellulose. This organism has the native ability to ferment cellobiose and cellotriose, eliminating the need for one class of cellulase enzymes. The optimal pH for cellulose fermentation with this organism (pH 5.0-5.5) is near that of fungal cellulases. The general approach for the genetic engineering of new biocatalysts has been most successful with enteric bacteria thus far. However, this approach may also prove useful with Gram-positive bacteria which have other important traits for lignocellulose conversion. Many opportunities remain for further improvements in the biomass to ethanol processes. These include the development of enzyme-based systems which eliminate the need for dilute acid hydrolysis or other pretreatments, improvements in existing pretreatments for enzymatic hydrolysis, process improvements to increase the effective use of cellulase and hemicellulase enzymes, improvements in rates of ethanol production, decreased nutrient costs, increases in ethanol concentrations achieved in biomass beers, increased resistance of the biocatalysts to lignocellulosic-derived toxins, etc. To be useful, each of these improvements must result in a decrease in the cost for ethanol production. Copyright 1998 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
A distributed consensus protocol for clock synchronization in wireless sensor network (2007)

This paper describes a novel consensus-based protocol, referred as Average TimeSync (ATS), for synchronizing a wireless sensor. This algorithm is based on a class of popular distributed algorithms known as consensus, agreement, gossip or rendezvous whose main idea is averaging local information. The proposed algorithm has three main features. Firstly, it is fully distributed and therefore robust to node failure and to new node appearance. Secondly, it compensates for clock skew differences among nodes, thus maintaining the network synchronized for longer periods than using simple clock offset compensation. Finally, it is computationally lite as it involves only simple sum/product operations. The algorithm has been implemented and preliminary experimental results are provided.
Ion Pair Complex for Drug Delivery System (2008)

The purpose of this study was to develop a sustained drug delivery system based on a complex of drug and an agent of oppositely charges. In this study, cationic propranolol HCl was used to form complex with anionic sodium lauryl sulfate. Optimum ratio of propanolol and sodium lauryl sulfate that forms a water insoluble complex was investigated by turbidity and free propranolol HCl analysis. It was found that the ratio of propranolol HCl: sodium lauryl sulfate that gave the highest quantity of insoluble complex was 5.5:4.5 mmolar. Results from differential scanning calorimetry and x-ray diffraction analysis indicated the formation of a new substance. In vitro drug release in phosphate buffer pH 6.8 and 0.1 N HCl showed a slower dissolution rate of propranolol HCl-sodium lauryl sulfate complex microparticle than propranolol-sodium lauryl sulfate complex and propranolol HCl powder. Encapsulation of propranolol-sodium lauryl sulfate complex into microparticles gave 35.43±1.61% entrapment while entrapment of propranolol HCl to microparticle was only 2.26±0.19%. In conclusion, the propranolol-sodium lauryl sulfate complex provides promising sustained drug delivery and was feasible to be encapsulated in microparticles for a more sustained drug release effect. However, a long term stability and bioavailability studies need to be further investigated.
[Reactive polyarthritis and painful dermatographism caused by Helicobacter pylori]. (2002)

This paper describes a 36 year-old white woman with six month history of epigastric abdominal pain, reactive arthritis and painful dermographism. Serum antibodies to Helicobacter pylori were identified. All symptoms subsided when she received eradication treatment.
M‐ficolin is expressed on monocytes and is a lectin binding to N‐acetyl‐d‐glucosamine and mediates monocyte adhesion and phagocytosis of Escherichia coli (2000)

Ficolins are a group of multimeric proteins that contain collagen-like and fibrinogen-like (FBG) sequences. Three types of ficolins have been characterized: H-, L- and M-ficolins. Both H- and L-ficolins have demonstrated lectin activities. In the present study, the FBG domain of M-ficolin was expressed and shown to bind to N-acetyl-D-glucosamine. M-ficolin mRNA was expressed in monocytes but not in the more differentiated macrophages and dendritic cells. By flow cytometry, surface biotinylation and immunoprecipitation, we showed that M-ficolin was associated with the surface of promonocytic U937 cells. M-ficolin transiently expressed in COS-7 cells was also clearly detected on the cell surface by immunoprecipitation. By flow cytometry, M-ficolin was detected on peripheral blood monocytes but not on lymphocytes or granulocytes. Immobilized rabbit anti-M-ficolin F(ab')2 mediated U937 cell adhesion, and the antibody also inhibited phagocytosis of Escherichia coli K-12 by U937 cells. Therefore, M-ficolin might act as a phagocytic receptor or adaptor on circulating monocytes for micro-organism recognition and may potentially mediate monocyte adhesion.
Design of therapeutic proteins with enhanced stability (2009)

Therapeutic proteins such as antibodies constitute the most rapidly growing class of pharmaceuticals for use in diverse clinical settings including cancer, chronic inflammatory diseases, kidney transplantation, cardiovascular medicine, and infectious diseases. Unfortunately, they tend to aggregate when stored under the concentrated conditions required in their usage. Aggregation leads to a decrease in antibody activity and could elicit an immunological response. Using full antibody atomistic molecular dynamics simulations, we identify the antibody regions prone to aggregation by using a technology that we developed called spatial aggregation propensity (SAP). SAP identifies the location and size of these aggregation prone regions, and allows us to perform target mutations of those regions to engineer antibodies for stability. We apply this method to therapeutic antibodies and demonstrate the significantly enhanced stability of our mutants compared with the wild type. The technology described here could be used to incorporate developability in a rational way during the screening of antibodies in the discovery phase for several diseases.
Epidemic prediction and control in weighted networks (2008)

Contact networks are often used in epidemiological studies to describe the patterns of interactions within a population. Often, such networks merely indicate which individuals interact, without giving any indication of the strength or intensity of interactions. Here, we use weighted networks, in which every connection has an associated weight, to explore the influence of heterogeneous contact strengths on the effectiveness of control measures. We show that, by using contact weights to evaluate an individual's influence on an epidemic, individual infection risk can be estimated and targeted interventions such as preventative vaccination can be applied effectively. We use a diary study of social mixing behaviour to indicate the patterns of contact weights displayed by a real population in a range of different contexts, including physical interactions; we use these data to show that considerations of link weight can in some cases lead to improved interventions in the case of infections that spread through close contact interactions. However, we also see that simpler measures, such as an individual's total number of social contacts or even just their number of contacts during a single day, can lead to great improvements on random vaccination. We therefore conclude that, for many infections, enhanced social contact data can be simply used to improve disease control but that it is not necessary to have full social mixing information in order to enhance interventions.
MDR‐like ABC transporter AtPGP4 is involved in auxin‐mediated lateral root and root hair development (2005)

Previous data have suggested an involvement of MDR/PGP-like ABC transporters in transport of the plant hormone auxin and, recently, AtPGP1 has been demonstrated to catalyze the primary active export of auxin. Here we show that related isoform AtPGP4 is expressed predominantly during early root development. AtPGP4 loss-of-function plants reveal enhanced lateral root initiation and root hair lengths both known to be under the control of auxin. Further, atpgp4 plants show altered sensitivities toward auxin and the auxin transport inhibitor, NPA. Finally, mutant roots reveal elevated free auxin levels and reduced auxin transport capacities. These results together with yeast growth assays suggest a direct involvement of AtPGP4 in auxin transport processes controlling lateral root and root hair development.
Dual Targeting of Integrin αvβ3 and Matrix Metalloproteinase-2 for Optical Imaging of Tumors and Chemotherapeutic Delivery (2014)

Activatable cell-penetrating peptides (ACPP) provide a general strategy for molecular targeting by exploiting the extracellular protease activities associated with disease. Previous work used a matrix metalloproteinase (MMP-2 and 9)-cleavable sequence in the ACPP to target contrast agents for tumor imaging and fluorescence-guided surgery. To improve specificity and sensitivity for MMP-2, an integrin α(v)β(3)-binding domain, cyclic-RGD, was covalently linked to the ACPP. This co-targeting strategy relies on the interaction of MMP-2 with integrin α(v)β(3), which are known to associate via the hemopexin domain of MMP-2. In U87MG glioblastoma cells in culture, dual targeting greatly improved ACPP uptake compared with either MMP or integrin α(v)β(3) targeting alone. In vivo, dual-targeted ACPP treatment resulted in tumor contrast of 7.8 ± 1.6, a 10-fold higher tumor fluorescence compared with the negative control peptide, and increased probe penetration into the core of MDA-MB-231 tumors. This platform also significantly improved efficacy of the chemotherapeutic monomethylauristatin E (MMAE) in both MDA-MB-231 orthotopic human and syngeneic Py230 murine breast tumors. Treatment with cyclic-RGD-PLGC(Me)AG-MMAE-ACPP resulted in complete tumor regression in one quarter of MDA-MB-231 tumor-bearing mice, compared with no survival in the control groups. This rational mechanism for amplified delivery of imaging and potent chemotherapeutic agents avoids the use of antibodies and may be of considerable generality.
Hepatic Iron Concentration and Total Body Iron Stores in Thalassemia Major (2000)

The hepatic iron concentration is a reliable indicator of total body iron stores in patients with thalassemia major. In patients with transfusion-related iron overload, repeated determinations of the hepatic iron concentration can provide a quantitative means of measuring the long-term iron balance.
Comparison of expression systems in the yeastsSaccharomyces cerevisiae, Hansenula polymorpha, Klyveromyces lactis, Schizosaccharomyces pombe andYarrowia lipolytica. Cloning of two novel promoters fromYarrowia lipolytica (1998)

We have compared expression systems based on autonomously replicating vectors in the yeasts Saccharomyces cerevisiae, Schizosaccharomyces pombe, Kluyveromyces lactis, Hansenula polymorpha and Yarrowia lipolytica in order to identify a more suitable host organism for use in the expression cloning method (Dalbøge and Heldt-Hansen, 1994) in which S. cerevisiae has traditionally been used. The capacity of the expression systems to secrete active forms of six fungal genes encoding the enzymes galactanase, lipase, polygalacturonase, xylanase and two cellulases was examined, as well as glycosylation pattern, plasmid stability and transformation frequency. All of the examined alternative hosts were able to secrete more active enzyme than S. cerevisiae but the relative expression capacity of the individual hosts varied significantly in a gene-dependent manner. One of the most attractive of the alternative host organisms, Y. lipolytica, yielded an increase which ranged from 4.5 times to more than two orders of magnitude. As the initially employed Y. lipolytica XPR2 promoter is unfit in the context of expression cloning, two novel promoter sequences for highly expressed genes present in only one copy on the genome were isolated. Based on sequence homology, the genes were identified as TEF, encoding translation elongation factor-1 alpha and RPS7, encoding ribosomal protein S7. Using the heterologous cellulase II (celII) and xylanase I (xylI) as reporter genes, the effect of the new promoters was measured in qualitative and quantitative assays. Based on the present tests of the new promoters. Y. lipolytica appears as a highly attractive alternative to S. cerevisiae as a host organism for expression cloning.
Millimeter-microwave spectrum of DNA: Six predictions for spectroscopy (1989)

A recently presented model of long-range interatomic interactions in a DNA polymer is compared to an earlier approach. Comparison of the results of both approaches is made to existing experiments. The newer method consistently produces good experimental agreement within the context of a single, physically reasonable parametrization. It is therefore sensible to consider some observable but not yet observed features of the calculation as valid predictions. We offer a dozen or so resonances in the frequency range from ${10}^{10}$ to ${10}^{12}$ Hz as potentially new observable absorption lines.