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Oral 4-aminosalicylic acid versus 5-aminosalicylic acid slow release tablets. Double blind, controlled pilot study in the maintenance treatment of Crohn's ileocolitis. (1994)

4-Aminosalicylic acid (4-ASA) has been suggested as an effective treatment for both active and quiescent ulcerative colitis. 5-Aminosalicylic acid (5-ASA) is well accepted for the maintenance treatment of inactive ulcerative colitis. Moreover, recent studies suggest that 5-ASA may also be effective in maintaining remission in Crohn's colitis. As treatment with 4-ASA may result in less side effects, the efficacy of a one year's maintenance treatment with oral 4-ASA (1.5 g/d, slow release tablets, n = 19) and oral 5-ASA (1.5 g/d, slow release tablets, n = 21) was compared in a double blind, randomised trial in patients with quiescent Crohn's ileocolitis. Patients with ileocolonic or colonic involvement were enrolled if in stable remission for more than two months but less than one year. Baseline demography and clinical severity were similar in both groups. Total colonoscopy and ileoscopy were performed at enrollment and at the end of the study. After one year seven of 19 patients receiving 4-ASA (36%) and 8 of 21 receiving 5-ASA (38%) had developed a clinical relapse, as defined by a rise in the Crohn's disease activity index (CDAI) of more than 100 points to values higher than 150. The relapse rates between the 4-ASA and the 5-ASA groups were not statistically different although no comparison with the spontaneous relapse rate in a placebo group could be made. Clinical relapse was accompanied by a statistically significant rise in serum concentrations of soluble interleukin 2 receptor and by an increased percentage of activated peripheral blood T cells. There were no statistical differences between the 4-ASA and the 5-ASA groups regarding the height of rise in CDAI or of soluble interleukin 2 receptor concentrations during relapse, thus showing a similar severity relapsed disease activity. In conclusion, 4-ASA maybe as effective as 5-ASA in the maintenance treatment of quiescent Crohn's disease and there were no differences in the severity of relapse between both treatment groups.
An amino-terminal fragment of apolipoprotein B binds to lipoprotein lipase and may facilitate its binding to endothelial cells (1994)

Lipoprotein lipase (LPL), the principal enzyme which hydrolyzes triglycerides in circulating plasma lipoproteins, functions while bound to the luminal surface of endothelial cells. LPL is a heparin-binding protein and has been assumed to associate with endothelial cell heparan sulfate proteoglycans (HSPG). Recently, using ligand blotting and affinity chromatography we identified a 116-kDa heparin-releasable LPL-binding protein (hrp-116) from endothelial cells which was not a HSPG (Sivaram, P., Klein, M. G., and Goldberg, I. J. (1992) J. Biol. Chem. 267, 16517-16522). This suggested that, like a number of other heparin-binding proteins, LPL binding to cells also involves non-HSPG proteins. Using heparin-agarose affinity chromatography, a 116-kDa LPL-binding protein was purified from endothelial cell extracts. Microsequencing of peptides generated by Lys-C protease digestion revealed complete homology with four different regions in the NH2-terminal part of human apolipoprotein B (apoB). Western blots using anti-apoB monoclonal antibodies (mAb) that recognize the NH2-terminal region of apoB confirmed that a 116-kDa fragment of apoB was present on endothelial cell membranes. Further evidence that LPL associates with the NH2-terminal region of apoB was obtained by showing 1) that an NH2-terminal fragment of apoB obtained from apoB-transfected CHO cells bound LPL on ligand blots and 2) that NH2-terminal fragments of apoB generated by thrombin digestion of low density lipoprotein bind LPL. Evidence that the NH2-terminal region of apoB mediates LPL interaction with endothelial cells was obtained using monoclonal antibodies. mAb3 and mAb19, which recognize epitopes near the NH2 terminus of apoB, inhibited 125I-LPL binding to cells by 60-65%. In contrast, mAb47, which has determinants at the COOH-terminal end of apoB, inhibited LPL binding by only about 10%. The inhibitory effects of mAb3 and mAb19 were abolished following treatment of cells with heparin, which removes the 116-kDa LPL-binding protein. Furthermore, incubation of 125I-LPL in medium containing an NH2-terminal apoB fragment reduced LPL binding to cells. These data suggest that an NH2-terminal fragment of apoB that binds to endothelial surfaces facilitates LPL binding to cells.
Resource allocation for frequency-selective multiple access channels with adaptive QAM modulation (2002)

This paper addresses the problem of resource allocation in a general multiple access scenario. Powers are supposed to be fixed and maximization of the bit rate is put as an objective, with a number of fairness constraints that provide each user with individual bit rates in proportion with their needs. Linear programming algorithms give the solution for the matched filter bound. As soon as the channels are frequency-selective, the use of joint detectors is proposed. An adapted allocation algorithm is given, that implies the update of the joint detector performance for each iteration. A fast update algorithm is also proposed. Results are given for a 5-user powerline access network.
Growth of Bilayer Graphene on Insulating Substrates (2011)

Here we demonstrate a general transfer-free method to directly grow large areas of uniform bilayer graphene on insulating substrates (SiO(2), h-BN, Si(3)N(4), and Al(2)O(3)) from solid carbon sources such as films of poly(2-phenylpropyl)methysiloxane, poly(methyl methacrylate), polystyrene, and poly(acrylonitrile-co-butadiene-co-styrene), the latter leading to N-doped bilayer graphene due to its inherent nitrogen content. Alternatively, the carbon feeds can be prepared from a self-assembled monolayer of butyltriethoxysilane atop a SiO(2) layer. The carbon feedstocks were deposited on the insulating substrates and then caped with a layer of nickel. At 1000 °C, under low pressure and a reducing atmosphere, the carbon source was transformed into a bilayer graphene film on the insulating substrates. The Ni layer was removed by dissolution, affording the bilayer graphene directly on the insulator with no traces of polymer left from a transfer step. The bilayer nature of as-grown samples was demonstrated by I(G)/I(2D) Raman mapping, the statistics of the full-width at half-maximum of the Raman 2D peak, the selected area electron diffraction patterns over a large area, and randomly imaged graphene edges by high-resolution transmission electron microscopy.
Heparan Sulfate Expression Patterns in the Amyloid Deposits of Patients with Alzheimer's and Lewy Body Type Dementia (1993)

Heparan sulfate (HS), along with serum amyloid P component, has been identified in all types of amyloid investigated so far, regardless of the type of amyloid protein deposited. To assess whether unique or specific HS proteoglycans (HSPGs) may be involved in the formation of these lesions, we have investigated the accumulation of several distinct HSPG epitopes in the cerebra of patients with different forms of neurodegenerative disease. A panel composed of several antibodies revealed distinctive patterns of HSPG accumulation. In patients with dementia of the Lewy body type, the burned-out-type plaques and preamyloid-type plaques were strongly stained by both the anti-HS 'chain' and anti-HS 'stub' antibodies, but by none of the available anti-core protein antibodies. In Alzheimer's disease, the preamyloid-type plaques, dense-cored-type plaques, neuritic-type plaques and the neurofibrillary tangles were stained by the anti-'stub' antibody. The anti-'chain' and the anti-core protein antibodies, in contrast, failed to stain the preamyloid-type plaques and burned-out-type plaques, but stained the neuritic-type plaques in these patients. These data suggest differences in the types of HS and HSPG (fragments) that accumulate in amyloid lesions that may hallmark neurodegenerative disorders of different etiologies.
Targeting multiple Her-2 epitopes with monoclonal antibodies results in improved antigrowth activity of a human breast cancer cell line in vitro and in vivo. (2002)

Her-2 (p185(erbB-2)) is a transmembrane tyrosine kinase receptor, which is encoded by the Her-2/neu proto-oncogene. Her-2 is overexpressed on 30% of highly malignant breast cancers. Monoclonal antibodies (MAbs) against Her-2 inhibit the growth of Her-2-overexpressing tumor cells and this occurs by a variety of mechanisms. One such MAb, Herceptin (Trastuzumab), has been approved for human use. We have generated a panel of murine anti-Her-2 MAbs against nine different epitopes on the extracellular domain of Her-2 and have evaluated the antitumor activity of three of these MAbs alone and in combination, both in vitro and in vivo. We found that MAbs (against different epitopes) make a highly effective mixture, which was more effective than the individual MAbs in treating s.c. tumor nodules of BT474 cells in SCID mice. In vitro, the MAb mixture was also more effective than the single MAbs in inducing antibody-dependent cellular cytotoxicity and complement-dependent cytotoxicity, inhibiting cell growth and inducing apoptosis, and inhibiting the secretion of vascular endothelial growth factor. Taken together, these activities might explain the superior performance of the MAb mixture in vivo.
Indigenous Microorganisms in Connate Water of Many Oil Fields: A New Tool in Exploration and Production Techniques (1992)

Abstract A microbiological investigation was carried out on 66 water samples taken from producing wells on 24 oil fields. The fields were all of a different nature and located in different places. Many of the samples contained microorganisms and it has been demonstrated that some of their associations do really originate in the connate water concerned and often contain unknown species. These bacteria differ according to the nature of the geological formations and to the physico-chemical state of the water and the oil found in the various reservoirs. The nutrients which they need and the products of their metabolism thus vary substantially. They have been able to modify the state of oil and gas accumulations quite considerably and may continue to do so. The result is that practical applications can already be established and there are many other potential uses. Some of them concern exploration and, by analogy, can be used to improve the rate of discovery. Others give rise to the reappraisal of certain aspects of reservoir management, in particular that of biodégradation of hydrocarbons and the aquifer regime. Other aspects concern production and the protection of installations, i.e. the fight against biocorrosion and souring.
Mutagenesis of the AC3 open reading frame of African cassava mosaic virus DNA A reduces DNA B replication and ameliorates disease symptoms (1991)

Small insertions were made independently at each of four unique restriction sites on African cassava mosaic virus (ACMV) DNA A to disrupt the three overlapping complementary-sense open reading frames (ORFs) herein designated AC1, AC2 and AC3. The DNA A mutants were assayed for their infectivity by agroinoculation of monomeric constructs to Nicotiana benthamiana plants containing chromosomal insertions of ACMV DNA B. Disruption of the AC3 ORF alone resulted in a delay and amelioration of disease symptoms which correlated with reduced replication of DNA B. Normal replication of DNA A still carrying the AC3 ORF mutation was found in extracts from these plants. No ACMV DNA or symptoms were observed in corresponding inoculations with either the simultaneous disruption of the overlapping AC2 and AC3 ORFs or disruption of the AC1 ORF. Complementation by the inoculation of different mutant pairs produced a delay in disease symptoms followed by repair of mutated sites. A DNA A construct with the virus-sense AV1 (coat protein) ORF deleted was infectious producing typical ACMV disease symptoms. A similar construct with a larger deletion encompassing the complementary-sense AC3 ORF produced symptomless infections. The DNA recovered from plants revealed DNA A of normal size where the position of the deleted ORF was replaced with cloning vector DNA. Significantly reduced DNA B replication was observed for the AC3 deletion construct.
A facile one-pot synthesis of unsymmetrical biaryl-2-carbonitriles by novel reaction of ylidenemalononitriles with dienamines (1990)

ADVERTISEMENT RETURN TO ISSUEPREVArticleNEXTA facile one-pot synthesis of unsymmetrical biaryl-2-carbonitriles by novel reaction of ylidenemalononitriles with dienaminesBir Sain and Jagir S. SandhuCite this: J. Org. Chem. 1990, 55, 8, 2545–2546Publication Date (Print):April 1, 1990Publication History Published online1 May 2002Published inissue 1 April 1990https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/jo00295a057https://doi.org/10.1021/jo00295a057research-articleACS PublicationsRequest reuse permissionsArticle Views314Altmetric-Citations21LEARN 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
Galectin-1 Specifically Modulates TCR Signals to Enhance TCR Apoptosis but Inhibit IL-2 Production and Proliferation (1999)

Galectin-1 is an endogenous lectin expressed by thymic and lymph node stromal cells at sites of Ag presentation and T cell death during normal development. It is known to have immunomodulatory activity in vivo and can induce apoptosis in thymocytes and activated T cells (1-3). Here we demonstrate that galectin-1 stimulation cooperates with TCR engagement to induce apoptosis, but antagonizes TCR-induced IL-2 production and proliferation in a murine T cell hybridoma and freshly isolated mouse thymocytes, respectively. Although CD4+ CD8+ double positive cells are the primary thymic subpopulation susceptible to galectin-1 treatment alone, concomitant CD3 engagement and galectin-1 stimulation broaden susceptible thymocyte subpopulations to include a subset of each CD4- CD8-, CD4+ CD8+, CD4- CD8+, and CD4+ CD8- subpopulations. Furthermore, CD3 engagement cooperates with suboptimal galectin-1 stimulation to enhance cell death in the CD4+ CD8+ subpopulation. Galectin-1 stimulation is shown to synergize with TCR engagement to dramatically and specifically enhance extracellular signal-regulated kinase-2 (ERK-2) activation, though it does not uniformly enhance TCR-induced tyrosine phosphorylation. Unlike TCR-induced IL-2 production, TCR/galectin-1-induced apoptosis is not modulated by the expression of kinase inactive or constitutively activated Lck. These data support a role for galectin-1 as a potent modulator of TCR signals and functions and indicate that individual TCR-induced signals can be independently modulated to specifically affect distinct TCR functions.
Ligand accessibility as means to control cell response to bioactive bilayer membranes (2000)

We report a new method to create a biofunctional surface in which the accessibility of a ligand is used as a means to influence the cell behavior. Supported bioactive bilayer membranes were created by Langmuir-Blodgett (LB) deposition of either a pure poly(ethylene glycol) (PEG) lipid, having PEG head groups of various lengths, or 50 mol % binary mixtures of a PEG lipid and a novel collagen-like peptide amphiphile on a hydrophobic surface. The peptide amphiphile contains a peptide synthetically lipidated by covalent linkage to hydrophobic dialkyl tails. The amphiphile head group lengths were determined using neutron reflectivity. Cell adhesion and spreading assays showed that the cell response to the membranes depends on the length difference between head groups of the membrane components. Cells adhere and spread on mixtures of the peptide amphiphile with the PEG lipids having PEG chains of 120 and 750 molecular weight (MW). In contrast, cells adhered but did not spread on the mixture containing the 2000 MW PEG. Cells did not adhere to any of the pure PEG lipid membranes or to the mixture containing the 5000 MW PEG. Selective masking of a ligand on a surface is one method of controlling the surface bioactivity.
Single-ensemble-based eigen-processing methods for color flow imaging - Part II. The matrix pencil estimator (2008)

Parametric spectral estimators can potentially be used to obtain flow estimates directly from raw slow-time ensembles whose clutter has not been suppressed. We present a new eigen-based parametric flow estimation method called the matrix pencil, whose principles are based on a matrix form under the same name. The presented method models the slow-time signal as a sum of dominant complex sinusoids in the slow-time ensemble, and it computes the principal Doppler frequencies by using a generalized eigen-value problem-formulation and matrix rank reduction principles. Both fixed rank (rank-one, rank-two) and adaptive-rank matrix pencil flow estimators are proposed, and their potential applicability to color flow signal processing is discussed. For the adaptive-rank estimator, the nominal rank was defined as the minimum eigen-structure rank that yields principal frequency estimates with a spread greater than a prescribed bandwidth. In our initial performance evaluation, the fixed-rank matrix pencil estimators were applied to raw color flow data (transmit frequency: 5 MHz; pulse repetition period: 0.175 ms; ensemble size: 14) acquired from a steady flow phantom (70 cm/s at centerline) that was surrounded by rigid-tissue-mimicking material. These fixed-rank estimators produced velocity maps that are well correlated with the theoretical flow profile (correlation coefficient: 0.964 to 0.975). To facilitate further evaluation, the matrix pencil estimators were applied to synthetic slow-time data (transmit frequency: 5 MHz; pulse repetition period: 1.0 ms; ensemble size: 10) modeling flow scenarios without and with tissue motion (up to 1 cm/s). The bias and root-mean-squared error of the estimators were computed as a function of blood-signal-to-noise ratio and blood velocity. The matrix pencil flow estimators showed that they are comparatively less biased than most of the existing frequency-based flow estimators like the lagone autocorrelator.
Anafilaxia com convulsões após angiografia com fluoresceína em paciente ambulatorial (2012)

Fluorescein is associated with minor adverse effects during retinal angiography, and most of these effects are not severe and not related to immunological mechanism. However, on rare occasions, anaphylatoid reaction can occur, and fatalities involving fluorescein have been described. Life threatening complications after intravenous injection of sodium fluorescein require immediate intervention. Trainings for professionals are needed to standardize treatment for this event.
The Graft-Versus-Leukemia Effects of Allogeneic Cell Therapy (1999)

Until recently, the only cure for relapse after allogeneic bone marrow transplantation (BMT) has been a second BMT. Recently, infusions of leukocytes collected from the original transplant donor have been used to induce a direct graft-versus-leukemia (GVL) reaction in patients with relapsed disease. Adoptive immunotherapy with donor leukocyte infusions (DLI) results in complete remission for 60-80% of patients with relapsed chronic-phase CML; therapy is also effective for relapse of diseases other than CML, although response rates are lower. Adoptive immunotherapy induces remissions for the majority of patients with post-transplantation Epstein-Barr virus-related lymphomas and other viral-associated illnesses. The extraordinary success of DLI demonstrates that it is now possible to harness the GVL potential of the human immune system for clinical benefit. The necessary effector cells and target antigens required for GVL reactivity are poorly defined but are the subject of intensive investigation. Future trials will investigate strategies that retain and enhance the GVL effects while limiting toxicity from this therapy, and they may define methods of successful allogeneic adoptive immunotherapy outside the setting of allogeneic BMT.
Persistent sodium current in subicular neurons isolated from patients with temporal lobe epilepsy (2004)

The persistent sodium current is a common target of anti-epileptic drugs and contributes to burst firing. Intrinsically burst firing subicular neurons are involved in the generation and spread of epileptic activity. We measured whole-cell sodium currents in pyramidal neurons isolated from the subiculum resected in drug-resistant epileptic patients and in rats. In half of the cells from both patients and rats, the sodium current inactivated within 500 ms at -30 mV. Others displayed a tetrodotoxin-sensitive slowly or non-inactivating sodium current of up to 53% of the total sodium current amplitude. Compared with the transient sodium current in the same cells, this persistent sodium current activated with normal kinetics but its voltage-dependent activation occurred 7 mV more hyperpolarized. Depolarizing voltage steps that lasted 10 s completely inactivated the persistent sodium current. Its voltage dependence did not differ from that of the transient sodium current but its slope was less steep. The voltage dependence and kinetics of the persistent sodium current in cells from patients were not different from that in subicular cells from rats. The current density and the relative amplitude contribution were 3-4 times greater in neurons from drug-resistant epilepsy patients. The abundant presence of persistent sodium current in half of the subicular neurons could lead to a larger number of neurons with intrinsic burst firing. The extraordinarily large amplitude of the persistent sodium current in this subset of subicular neurons might explain why these patients are susceptible to seizures and hard to treat pharmacologically.
Treatment of nasopharyngeal carcinoma: state of the art and new perspectives (review). (1999)

The role of radiotherapy and the current strategies to improve outcome in nasopharyngeal carcinoma are reviewed. Emphasis is on the factors, which may provide a more accurate selection of patients for more aggressive treatments. Clinical data suggest that local failure and distant metastases are separate events. Thus, strategies to optimize one of them are not expected to impact significantly on the other. Patients with advanced T stage disease, cranial nerve palsy, bulky primary lesions and well differentiated tumors may benefit from more local aggressive treatment. These include higher dose radiotherapy throughout conformal 3D radiotherapy and brachytherapy. Altered fractionation schedules and concomitant chemotherapy may also enhance the results obtained by conventional external beam radiotherapy. Patients with advanced neck disease and/or low neck nodes are candidates for additional systemic treatments as well. The role of technical innovations in radiotherapy delivery and that of altered fractionation schedules are unknown, even if results from phase II studies are promising. Regarding chemotherapy, <first generation trials> have shown some impact of chemotherapy on outcome. However, additional testing is needed in order to improve the therapeutic index and validate its rationale.