gebhart/patrepeval huggingface dataset:
Functional analysis of human T cell subsets defined by monoclonal antibodies. IV. Induction of suppressor cells within the OKT4+ population. (1981)

In this report, we explored the functional heterogeneity within the OKT4+ subset of human T cells. Evidence was obtained that although in vitro pokeweed mitogen-activated OKT4+ cells can function as radioresistant helper cells, these activated OKT4+ cells could also exert potent feedback suppression. Despite the induction of suppressor cells after pokeweed mitogen activation, the OKT4+ population maintains its original OKT3+, OKT4+, nd OKT8- surface phenotype. The suppressor cells contained within the activated OKT4+ population were found to be radiosensitive. Importantly, the suppression mediated by activated OKT4+ cells required the presence of radiosensitive cells contained within the resting OKT4+ population. Taken together, these results suggest that the OKT4+ subset of human T cells contains cells that can be activated to differentiate into suppressor cells independent of OKT8+ cells.
CD4+CD25bright Regulatory T Cells Actively Regulate Inflammation in the Joints of Patients with the Remitting Form of Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis (2004)

This study investigates the role of CD4(+)CD25(+) regulatory T cells during the clinical course of juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA). Persistent oligoarticular JIA (pers-OA JIA) is a subtype of JIA with a relatively benign, self-remitting course while extended oligoarticular JIA (ext-OA JIA) is a subtype with a much less favorable prognosis. Our data show that patients with pers-OA JIA display a significantly higher frequency of CD4(+)CD25(bright) T cells with concomitant higher levels of mRNA FoxP3 in the peripheral blood than ext-OA JIA patients. Furthermore, while numbers of synovial fluid (SF) CD4(+)CD25(bright) T cells were equal in both patient groups, pers-OA JIA patients displayed a higher frequency of CD4(+)CD25(int) T cells and therefore of CD4(+)CD25(total) in the SF than ext-OA JIA patients. Analysis of FoxP3 mRNA levels revealed a high expression in SF CD4(+)CD25(bright) T cells of both patient groups and also significant expression of FoxP3 mRNA in the CD4(+)CD25(int) T cell population. The CD4(+)CD25(bright) cells of both patient groups and the CD4(+)CD25(int) cells of pers-OA JIA patients were able to suppress responses of CD25(neg) cells in vitro. A markedly higher expression of CTLA-4, glucocorticoid-induced TNFR, and HLA-DR on SF CD4(+)CD25(bright) T regulatory (Treg) cells compared with their peripheral counterparts suggests that the CD4(+)CD25(+) Treg cells may undergo maturation in the joint. In correlation with this mature phenotype, the SF CD4(+)CD25(bright) T cells showed an increased regulatory capacity in vitro compared with peripheral blood CD4(+)CD25(bright) T cells. These data suggest that CD4(+)CD25(bright) Treg cells play a role in determining the patient's fate toward either a favorable or unfavorable clinical course of disease.
Chiral Diamine Bis(phenolate) TiIV and ZrIV Complexes – Synthesis, Structures and Reactivity (2011)

Abstract Neutral and cationic titanium and zirconium diamine bis(phenolate) complexes supported by chiral ligands L 1 and L 2 are described [L 1 = ( R )‐6,6′‐{1‐(dimethylamino)propan‐2‐ylazanediyl}bis(methylene)‐bis(2,4‐di‐ tert ‐butylphenolate);L 2 = ( S )‐6,6′‐{(1‐ethylpyrrolidin‐2‐yl)methylazanediyl}bis(methylene)‐bis(2,4‐di‐ tert ‐butylphenolate)]. Complexes[TiL(O i Pr) 2 ] [L = L 1 ( 1 ), L 2 ( 2 )], [TiL 2 X(O i Pr)] [X = Cl ( 3 ), CH 2 Ph ( 4 )], [TiL 1 (CH 2 Ph) 2 ] ( 5 ), [ZrLCl 2 ] [L = L 1 ( 6 ), L 2 ( 7 )] and [ZrL(CH 2 Ph) 2 ] [L = L 1 ( 8 ), L 2 ( 9 )] are C 1 ‐symmetric species readily prepared in moderate to high yields. Cationic compounds were obtained from complexes 5 , 8 and 9 through reactions with B(C 6 F 5 ) 3 . The monocationic species reveal the η 2 ‐binding character of the benzyl groups and noncoordinated [B(C 6 F 5 ) 3 (CH 2 Ph)] – . Complexes 5 – 9 were tested in the polymerization of ethylene and propylene upon activation with modified methylaluminoxane (MMAO), B(C 6 F 5 ) 3 or [NHMe 2 Ph] + as cocatalysts. The [ZrL 1 Cl 2 ]/MMAO and [ZrL 1 (CH 2 Ph) 2 ]/B(C 6 F 5 ) 3 systems revealed high activities in the polymerization of propylene (2.1 × 10 3 and 1.5 × 10 3 g pol mmol cat –1 h –1 , respectively), leading to atatic polypropylene, whereas the titanium complexes showed no activity.
High-dose Monoclonal Antibodies Via the Subcutaneous Route: Challenges and Technical solutions, an Industry Perspective (2012)

This review summarizes the various challenges in product development involved in subcutaneous administration of high-dose monoclonal antibodies and attempts to provide an industry perspective of some of the available technologies and potential avenues to overcome these challenges.
Suppression of Clostridium difficile in the Gastrointestinal Tracts of Germfree Mice Inoculated with a Murine Isolate from the Family Lachnospiraceae (2012)

The indigenous microbial community of the gastrointestinal (GI) tract determines susceptibility to Clostridium difficile colonization and disease. Previous studies have demonstrated that antibiotic-treated mice challenged with C. difficile either developed rapidly lethal C. difficile infection or were stably colonized with mild disease. The GI microbial community of animals with mild disease was dominated by members of the bacterial family Lachnospiraceae, while the gut community in moribund animals had a predominance of Escherichia coli. We investigated the roles of murine Lachnospiraceae and E. coli strains in colonization resistance against C. difficile in germfree mice. Murine Lachnospiraceae and E. coli isolates were cultured from wild-type mice. The ability of each of these isolates to interfere with C. difficile colonization was tested by precolonizing germfree mice with these bacteria 4 days prior to experimental C. difficile challenge. Mice precolonized with a murine Lachnospiraceae isolate, but not those colonized with E. coli, had significantly decreased C. difficile colonization, lower intestinal cytotoxin levels and exhibited less severe clinical signs and colonic histopathology. Infection of germfree mice or mice precolonized with E. coli with C. difficile strain VPI 10463 was uniformly fatal by 48 h, but only 20% mortality was seen at 2 days in mice precolonized with the Lachnospiraceae isolate prior to challenge with VPI 10463. These findings confirm that a single component of the GI microbiota, a murine Lachnospiraceae isolate, could partially restore colonization resistance against C. difficile. Further study of the members within the Lachnospiraceae family could lead to a better understanding of mechanisms of colonization resistance against C. difficile and novel therapeutic approaches for the treatment and prevention of C. difficile infection.
Antifungal Therapy Decreases Sensitivity of theAspergillus Galactomannan Enzyme Immunoassay (2005)

These findings have direct implications for preventive strategies, because the diagnostic utility of the antigen assay is compromised during receipt of prophylactic or empirical antifungal therapies.
Synthesis and photovoltaic properties of dithienyl benzotriazole based poly(phenylene vinylene)s (2010)

Abstract Two new alternating copolymers based on dithienyl benzotriazole segment and phenylene vinyl unit were synthesized by Heck cross coupling method. The polymers exhibited broad absorption bands (from 300 nm to 752 nm for P1 , and from 300 nm to 654 nm for P2 ) in the UV‐visible region with optical bandgap ranging between 1.6 and 1.9 eV and proper electronic energy levels measured by cyclic voltammetry. The photovoltaic properties of the polymers as electron donors with 6.6‐phenyl C61‐butyric acid methyl ester as the electron acceptor in a bulk heterojunction structures were reported. Preliminary results showed moderate power conversion efficiency of 0.36% and 0.4%, respectively, under the illumination of AM 1.5, 100 mW/cm 2 with a device structure of ITO/PEDOT : PSS/polymer : PC 60 BM (1 : 3)/Ca/Al. Furthermore, the side chain effect on properties has also been investigated. © 2010 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Appl Polym Sci, 2011
Specificity and Stability in Topology of Protein Networks (2002)

Molecular networks guide the biochemistry of a living cell on multiple levels: Its metabolic and signaling pathways are shaped by the network of interacting proteins, whose production, in turn, is controlled by the genetic regulatory network. To address topological properties of these two networks, we quantified correlations between connectivities of interacting nodes and compared them to a null model of a network, in which all links were randomly rewired. We found that for both interaction and regulatory networks, links between highly connected proteins are systematically suppressed, whereas those between a highly connected and low-connected pairs of proteins are favored. This effect decreases the likelihood of cross talk between different functional modules of the cell and increases the overall robustness of a network by localizing effects of deleterious perturbations.
Cannabinoids in Exhaled Breath following Controlled Administration of Smoked Cannabis (2013)

Breath may offer an alternative matrix for identifying recent driving under the influence of cannabis, but currently sensitivity is limited to a short detection window (0.5-2 h).
Nrf2-deficiency creates a responsive microenvironment for metastasis to the lung (2010)

The Nrf2 transcription factor is crucial for regulating the cellular defense against various carcinogens. However, relationship between host Nrf2 and cancer metastasis remains unexplored. To address this issue, we examined susceptibility of Nrf2-deficient mice to pulmonary cancer metastasis following implantation of the mouse Lewis lung carcinoma (3LL) cell line. Nrf2-deficient mice reproducibly exhibited a higher number of pulmonary metastatic nodules than wild-type mice did. The lung and bone marrow (BM) of cancer-bearing Nrf2-deficient mice contained increased numbers of inflammatory cells, including myeloid-derived suppressor cells (MDSCs), a potent population of immunosuppressive cells. MDSCs can attenuate CD8(+) T-cell immunity through modification of the T-cell receptor complex exploiting reactive oxygen species (ROS). MDSCs of Nrf2-deficient mice retained elevated levels of ROS relative to wild-type mice. BM transplantation experiments revealed functional disturbance in the hematopoietic and immune systems of Nrf2-deficient mice. Wild-type recipient mice with Nrf2-deficient BM cells showed increased levels of lung metastasis after cancer cell inoculation. These mice exhibited high-level accumulation of ROS in MDSCs, which showed very good coincidence to the decrease of splenic CD8(+) T-cells. In contrast, Keap1-knockdown mutant mice harboring high-level Nrf2 expression displayed increased resistance against the cancer cell metastasis to the lung, accompanied by a decrease in ROS in the MDSCs fraction. Our results thus reveal a novel function for Nrf2 in the prevention of cancer metastasis, presumably by its ability to preserve the redox balance in the hematopoietic and immune systems.
Effect of Live Attenuated Vaccines on the Course of Experimental Allergic Encephalomyelitis (1977)

The clinical severity of EAE is enhanced by pre-treatment with distemper, measles and BCG vaccine, measles vaccine gives a more severe onset of disease. Rubella vaccine and TAB leads to mild disease which recurs on re-treatment with the appropriate vaccine. These findings and their possible significance in MS are briefly discussed.
Characterization and Modification of Brain Activity with Deep Brain Stimulation in Patients in a Persistent Vegetative State: Pain‐Related Late Positive Component of Cerebral Evoked Potential (1991)

A series of eight patients in a persistent vegetative state (PVS) were subjected to chronic deep brain stimulation (DBS) for the purpose of promoting recovery from the PVS. The characteristics of the brain activity in these patients were evaluated from the late positive component of the cerebral evoked potential in response to painful stimuli (pain-related P250). While any neurological scoring system for the comatose state includes evaluations of motor reactions to painful stimuli, the pain-related P250 is unique in terms of its ability to assess the cortical responsiveness to painful stimuli directly and quantitatively without involving functions of the motor system. It was found that the pain-related P250 was more or less depressed in patients in a PVS. It was repeatedly demonstrated in four patients, however, that the pain-related P250 could be transiently increased by preceding stimulation of the mesencephalic reticular formation. Furthermore, a persistent increase in the pain-related P250 was produced in these four patients following chronic DBS of the mesencephalic reticular formation or nonspecific thalamic nuclei for more than 6 months, and this was correlated with the clinical improvements. These results imply that responsiveness at the cortical level to pain is depressed in the PVS. It also appears that some fraction of the depression may, however, be functionally produced and potentially reversible.
NO inhalation reduces pulmonary arterial pressure but not hemorrhage in maximally exercising horses (2001)

In horses, the exercise-induced elevation of pulmonary arterial pressure (Ppa) is thought to play a deterministic role in exercise-induced pulmonary hemorrhage (EIPH), and thus treatment designed to lower Ppa might reasonably be expected to reduce EIPH. Five Thoroughbred horses were run on a treadmill to volitional fatigue (incremental step test) under nitric oxide (NO; inhaled 80 ppm) and control (N(2), same flow rate as per NO run) conditions (2 wk between trials; order randomized) to test the hypothesis that NO inhalation would reduce maximal Ppa but that this reduction may not necessarily reduce EIPH. Before each investigation, a microtipped pressure transducer was placed in the pulmonary artery 8 cm past the pulmonic valve to monitor Ppa. EIPH severity was assessed via bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL) 30 min postrun. Exercise time did not differ between the two trials (P > 0.05). NO administration resulted in a small but consistent and significant reduction in peak Ppa (N(2), 102.3 +/- 4.4; NO, 98.6 +/- 4.3 mmHg, P < 0.05). In the face of lowered Ppa, EIPH severity was significantly higher in the NO trial (N(2), 22.4 +/- 6.8; NO, 42.6 +/- 15.4 x 10(6) red blood cells/ml BAL fluid, P < 0.05). These findings support the notion that extremely high Ppa may reflect, in part, an arteriolar vasoconstriction that serves to protect the capillary bed from the extraordinarily high Ppa evoked during maximal exercise in the Thoroughbred horse. Furthermore, these data suggest that exogenous NO treatment during exercise in horses may not only be poor prophylaxis but may actually exacerbate the severity of EIPH.
BIFI: a Taverna plugin for a simplified and user-friendly workflow platform (2014)

The Taverna Workbench is an open source software providing the ability to combine various services within a workflow. Nevertheless, users can supply input data to the workflow via a simple user interface providing only a text area to enter the input in text form. The workflow may contain meta-information in human readable form such as description text for the port and an example value. However, not all workflow ports are documented so well or have all the required information.BIFI uses custom user interface components for ports which give users feedback on the parameter data type or structure to be used for service execution and enables client-side data validations. Moreover, BIFI offers user interfaces that allow users to interactively construct workflow views and share them with the community, thus significantly increasing usability of heterogeneous, distributed service consumption.
Molecular Cloning, Expression, and Characterization of Novel Human SULT1C Sulfotransferases That Catalyze the Sulfonation ofN-Hydroxy-2-acetylaminofluorene (1998)

Upon sulfonation, carcinogenic hydroxyarylamines such as N-hydroxy-2-acetylaminofluorene (N-OH-2AAF) can be further activated to form ultimate carcinogens in vivo. Previous studies have shown that a SULT1C1 sulfotransferase is primarily responsible for the sulfonation of N-OH-2AAF in rat liver. In the present study, two novel human sulfotransferases shown to be members of the SULT1C sulfotransferase subfamily based on sequence analysis have been cloned, expressed, and characterized. Comparisons of the deduced amino acid sequence encoded by the human SULT1C sulfotransferase cDNA 1 reveal 63.7, 61.6, and 85.1% identity to the amino acid sequences of rat SULT1C1 sulfotransferase, mouse SULT1C1 sulfotransferase, and rabbit SULT1C sulfotransferase. In contrast, the deduced amino acid sequence of the human SULT1C sulfotransferase 2 cDNA displays 62.9, 63.1, 63.1, and 62.5% identity to the amino acid sequences of the human SULT1C sulfotransferase 1, rat SULT1C1 sulfotransferase, mouse SULT1C1 sulfotransferase, and rabbit SULT1C sulfotransferase. Recombinant human SULT1C sulfotransferases 1 and 2, expressed in Escherichia coli and purified to near electrophoretic homogeneity, were shown to cross-react with the antiserum against the rat liver SULT1C1 sulfotransferase and exhibited sulfonating activities with N-OH-2AAF as substrate. Tissue-specific expression of these novel human SULT1C sulfotransferases were examined by employing the Northern blotting technique. The results provide a foundation for the investigation into the functional relevance of these new SULT1C sulfotransferases in different human tissues/organs.
Adult insulin- and glucagon-producing cells differentiate from two independent cell lineages (2000)

To analyze cell lineage in the pancreatic islets, we have irreversibly tagged all the progeny of cells through the activity of Cre recombinase. Adult glucagon alpha and insulin beta cells are shown to derive from cells that have never transcribed insulin or glucagon, respectively. Also, the beta-cell progenitors, but not alpha-cell progenitors, transcribe the pancreatic polypeptide (PP) gene. Finally, the homeodomain gene PDX1, which is expressed by adult beta-cells, is also expressed by alpha-cell progenitors. Thus the islet alpha- and beta-cell lineages appear to arise independently during ontogeny, probably from a common precursor.
A theory for the optimal bit allocation between displacement vector field and displaced frame difference (1997)

We address the fundamental problem of optimally splitting a video sequence into two sources of information, the displaced frame difference (DFD) and the displacement vector field (DVF). We first consider the case of a lossless motion-compensated video coder (MCVC), and derive a general dynamic programming (DP) formulation which results in an optimal tradeoff between the DVF and the DFD. We then consider the more important case of a lossy MCVC, and present an algorithm which solves the tradeoff between the rate and the distortion. This algorithm is based on the Lagrange multiplier method and the DP approach introduced for the lossless MCVC. We then present an H.263-based MCVC which uses the proposed optimal bit allocation, and compare its results to H.263. As expected, the proposed coder is superior in the rate-distortion sense. In addition to this, it offers many advantages for a rate control scheme. The presented theory can be applied to build new optimal coders, and to analyze the heuristics employed in existing coders. In fact, whenever one changes an existing coder, the proposed theory can be used to evaluate how the change affects its performance.
Strain-induced birefringence in Si1−xGex optical waveguides (1998)

For the design of Si1−xGex optical waveguide devices, one of the most important material parameters is the refractive index difference, δn, between the alloy layer and the silicon substrate. We have measured δn for pseudomorphic waveguide layers with germanium fractions between 1% and 9% by fitting measured mode profiles to theoretical mode shapes for a wavelength of 1.3 μm. For transverse electric modes, the measured δn varied with composition as δn=(0.34±0.05)x. Transverse magnetic modes were more tightly confined to the waveguide layer and the index was determined to be δn=(0.55±0.05)x. The large difference between the two polarizations results from strain-induced birefringence. Bulk photoelastic theory, using constants appropriate for pure silicon, predicts strain contributions to the index of −0.080x and +0.095x for light polarized parallel and perpendicular, respectively, to the substrate plane, consistent with experimental observations.
Nile red: a selective fluorescent stain for intracellular lipid droplets. (1985)

We report that the dye nile red, 9-diethylamino-5H-benzo[alpha]phenoxazine-5-one, is an excellent vital stain for the detection of intracellular lipid droplets by fluorescence microscopy and flow cytofluorometry. The specificity of the dye for lipid droplets was assessed on cultured aortic smooth muscle cells and on cultured peritoneal macrophages that were incubated with acetylated low density lipoprotein to induce cytoplasmic lipid overloading. Better selectivity for cytoplasmic lipid droplets was obtained when the cells were viewed for yellow-gold fluorescence (excitation, 450-500 nm; emission, greater than 528 nm) rather than red fluorescence (excitation, 515-560 nm; emission, greater than 590 nm). Nile red-stained, lipid droplet-filled macrophages exhibited greater fluorescence intensity than did nile red-stained control macrophages, and the two cell populations could be differentiated and analyzed by flow cytofluorometry. Such analyses could be performed with either yellow-gold or red fluorescence, but when few lipid droplets per cell were present, the yellow-gold fluorescence was more discriminating. Nile red exhibits properties of a near-ideal lysochrome. It is strongly fluorescent, but only in the presence of a hydrophobic environment. The dye is very soluble in the lipids it is intended to show, and it does not interact with any tissue constituent except by solution. Nile red can be applied to cells in an aqueous medium, and it does not dissolve the lipids it is supposed to reveal.
Lymphospecific toxicity in adenosine deaminase deficiency and purine nucleoside phosphorylase deficiency: Possible role of nucleoside kinase(s) (1977)

Inherited deficiencies of the enzymes adenosine deaminase (adenosine aminohydrolase; EC 3.5.4.4) and purine nucleoside phosphorylase (purine-nucleoside:orthophosphate ribosyltransferase; EC 2.4.2.1) preferentially interfere with lymphocyte development while sparing most other organ systems. Previous experiments have shown that through the action of specific kinases, nucleosides can be "trapped" intracellularly in the form of 5'-phosphates. We therefore measured the ability of newborn human tissues to phosphorylate adenosine and deoxyadenosine, the substrate of adenosine deaminase, and also inosine, deoxyinosine, guanosine, and deoxyguanosine, the substrates of purine nucleoside phosphorylase. Substantial activities of adenosine kinase were found in all tissues studied, while guanosine and inosine kinases were detected in none. However, the ability to phosphorylate deoxyadenosine, deoxyinosine, and deoxyguanosine was largely confined to lymphocytes. Adenosine deaminase, but not purine nucleoside phosphorylase, showed a similar lymphoid predominance. Other experiments showed that deoxyadenosine, deoxyinosine, and deoxyguanosine were toxic to human lymphoid cells. The toxicity of deoxyadenosine was reversed by the addition of deoxycytidine, but not uridine, to the culture medium. Based upon these and other experiments, we propose that in adenosine deaminase and purine nucleoside phosphorylase deficiency, toxic deoxyribonucleosides produced by many tissues are selectively trapped in lymphocytes by phosphorylating enzyme(s).