gebhart/patrepeval huggingface dataset:
Gene Therapy May Have Future Role in Cancer Treatment (1987)

WHEN GENE THERAPY becomes clinical reality, one of its first uses may be in treating cancer patients with drug-resistant tumors. John S. Lazo, PhD, associate professor of pharmacology, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Conn, told the Bristol Myers Symposium on Cancer Research that he can foresee using gene therapy to restore sensitivity to chemotherapy in resistant cells; to produce toxic chemicals in resistant tumor cells; and to make normal host cells resistant to chemotherapy so that higher doses of cytotoxic compounds can be used. The trick, of course, is to isolate the genes that can produce proteins to do these things; to get those genes into the proper cells; and to see that the genes are expressed appropriately in vivo. Researchers at several institutions have been investigating gene therapy for genetic disease, and have found that it is indeed possible to transplant a gene into a stem cell
RETRACTED: Activation of protein kinase C by elevation of glucose concentration: proposal for a mechanism in the development of diabetic vascular complications. (1989)

Hyperglycemia is believed to be the major cause of diabetic vascular complications involving both microvessels and arteries as in the retina, renal glomeruli, and aorta. It is unclear by which mechanism hyperglycemia is altering the metabolism and functions of vascular cells, although changes in nonenzymatic protein glycosylation and increases in cellular sorbitol levels have been postulated to be involved. Previously, we have reported that the elevation of extracellular glucose levels with cultured bovine retinal capillary endothelial cells causes an increase in protein kinase C (PKC) activity of the membranous pool with a parallel decrease in the cytosol without alteration of its total activity. Now we demonstrate that the mechanism for the activation of PKC is due to an enhanced de novo synthesis of diacylglycerol as indicated by a 2-fold increase of [14C]diacylglycerol labeling from [14C]glucose. The elevated diacylglycerol de novo synthesis is secondarily due to increased formation of precursors derived from glucose metabolism; this formation is enhanced by hyperglycemia as substantiated by elevated [3H]glucose conversion into water. This effect of hyperglycemia on PKC is also observed in cultured aortic smooth muscle and endothelial cells and the retina and kidney of diabetic rats, but not in the brain. Since PKC in vascular cells has been shown to modulate hormone receptor turnover, neovascularization in vitro, and cell growth, we propose that this mechanism of enhancing the membranous PKC activities by hyperglycemia plays an important role in the development of diabetic vascular complications.
Evaluating Instantaneous Psychological Stress from Emotional Composition of a Facial Expression (2013)

Human psychological stress is a vast and highly complicated topic of study and research. The types and kinds of stress observed in humans vary among researchers. Also, to identify stress, many methods exist. Most of these methods are non-intrusive and are based on self-reporting and questionnaires which reduces the real-time efficacy of the procedure. Intrusive methods are, on the other hand, time consuming and cumbersome. The total problem of non-intrusive psychological stress detection from facial images can be visualized in three incremental stages: instantaneous analysis of subject, historical analysis of subject, and the subject’s environmental analysis. In this paper, we deal with instantaneous analysis of a subject. This means that the stress behavior of a subject is predicted for one moment of time using an image of his/her facial expression. In order to do so, we have conducted two surveys to establish the relationship between emotional compositions of a facial expression with stress and also to establish the relationship of individual emotions with stress. The novelty of the paper is 1) to establish relationships between the seven basic emotions (anger, contempt, disgust, fear, happy, sad, and surprise) and stress, 2) to establish relationship between emotional composition of a facial expression and stress, and 3) to predict a formula for evaluating stress in terms of emotional percentage mixture of a facial expression. In order to achieve the three goals, we use Facial Action Unit (AU) [1] coded image data to predict the emotional mixture of the facial expression in terms of the seven basic emotion percentages. An AU represents one of the many basic muscle movements that make up the facial expression. Then we analyze the survey outcomes to establish the relationship between individual emotions and stress. Finally we correlate the survey outcomes with the emotional mixture data obtained from the facial expression using Hidden Markov Model (HMM) approach to both establish a relationship of emotional composition with stress and to predict a formula for stress in terms of the seven basic emotion percentages jointly.
HCAR and MCAR: The human and mouse cellular receptors for subgroup C adenoviruses and group B coxsackieviruses (1997)

The subgroup C of the adenoviruses (Ad) and the group B coxsackieviruses (CVB) are structurally unrelated viruses that are known to compete for an unidentified cell surface receptor. We now describe the isolation of cDNAs from human and mouse that encode the human CVB and Ad2 and 5 receptor (HCAR) and the mouse CVB Ad2 and 5 receptor (MCAR). Both are 46-kDa glycoproteins whose primary amino acid sequences are highly homologous. Structurally, HCAR and MCAR appear to be transmembrane proteins that contain two extracellular immunoglobulin-like domains and therefore belong to this superfamily. Transfection of either of these cDNA molecules into receptor-negative NIH 3T3 cells conferred susceptibility to CVB infection and permitted the expression of beta-galactosidase from a recombinant Ad5 vector. In addition, HCAR and MCAR mRNAs could be detected on Northern blots of oligo(dT)-selected RNA from receptor-positive HeLa cells and TCMK-1 as well as several tissues of human and mouse origin that are known to be targets for Ad and CVB infections. Finally, Western blots using antibodies that inhibit virus binding to either the human or mouse CVB receptors detected 46-kDa proteins in HCAR- and MCAR-transfected cells, respectively. Taken together, these results confirm that the isolated cDNAs encode the receptors for the subgroup C Ad and CVB.
Phosphorothioate Oligodeoxynucleotides Are Potent Sequence Nonspecific Inhibitors of De Novo Infection by HIV (1989)

Phosphorothioate homo-oligodeoxynucleotides have recently been found to protect ATH-8 cells against the cytopathic effect of de novo infection by HIV. The effect is dose and chain-length dependent, with a maximum effect seen for 21-28-mers. We have now synthesized a series of phosphorothioate oligomers with mixed-based sequences and found that all of them have a dose-dependent cytoprotective effect that is maximal at an oligomer concentration of about 1-2 microM. The least effective sequences contain only A or T, and the most effective sequences have 40% GC content or greater. The results also confirm the length effect, namely that 21-mers are more cytoprotective than 14-mers.
A mutation present in the amino terminus of Sabin 3 poliovirus VP1 protein is attenuating (1992)

The attenuated phenotype of Sabin 3 poliovirus compared with its neurovirulent progenitor strain has been largely accounted for by mutations in the genome at positions 472 and 2034 (G. D. Westrop, K. A. Wareham, D. M. A. Evans, G. Dunn, P. D. Minor, D. I. Magrath, F. Taffs, S. Marsden, M. A. Skinner, G. C. Schild, and J. W. Almond, J. Virol. 63:1338-1344, 1989). By sequencing vaccine virus RNA, we recently identified another Sabin 3-specific mutation at position 2493 (U----C), which predicts an Ile----Thr change at the sixth residue of VP1 (C. Weeks-Levy, J. M. Tatem, S. J. DiMichele, W. Waterfield, A. F. Georgiu, and S. J. Mento, Virology 185:934-937, 1991). Viruses generated by using cDNAs which represent the vaccine sequence (LED3) and a derivative (VR318) possessing a single base change to the wild-type nucleotide (U) at 2493 were used to determine the impact of the 2493 mutation on virus phenotype. The VP1 proteins of LED3 and VR318 viruses were distinguishable by denaturing electrophoretic analysis. LED3 produced smaller plaques in Vero cells than VR318 virus did. Neurovirulence testing of these cDNA-derived viruses in monkeys demonstrated that the 2493 mutation in LED3 virus is attenuating.
Herpes Simplex Keratitis and Dendritic Cells at the Crossroads (2008)

Hamrah, Pedram MD; Pavan-Langston, Deborah MD, FACS; Dana, Reza MD, MSc, MPH Author Information
Rapid Eye Movement Sleep Behavior Disorder and Neurodegenerative Disease (2015)

Treatment of RBD can prevent injury to patients and bed partners. Because RBD is a prodromal syndrome of Parkinson disease (or related disorder), it represents a unique opportunity for developing and testing disease-modifying therapies.
Bacillus subtilis alkaline phosphatases III and IV. Cloning, sequencing, and comparisons of deduced amino acid sequence with Escherichia coli alkaline phosphatase three-dimensional structure. (1991)

Bacillus subtilis has an alkaline phosphatase multigene family. Two members of this gene family, phoAIII and phoAIV, were cloned, taking advantage of in vitro constructed strains containing a plasmid insertion within one or the other of the structural genes. The DNA sequences of the two genes showed approximately 64% identity at the DNA level and 63% identity in the deduced primary amino acid sequences. The phoAIII and phoAIV genes code for predicted proteins of 47,149 and 45,935 Da, respectively. Comparison of the deduced primary amino acid sequence of the mature proteins with other sequenced alkaline phosphatases from Escherichia coli, yeast, and humans shows 25-30% identity. Based on the refined crystal structure of E. coli alkaline phosphatase, it appears that the active site and the core of the structure are retained in both Bacillus alkaline phosphatases. However, both proteins are truncated at the amino terminus compared with other mature alkaline phosphatases, three sizable surface loops of E. coli are deleted, and a minidomain is replaced with a larger domain in the model. Neither Bacillus alkaline phosphatase sequenced contains any cysteine residues, an amino acid implicated in intrachain disulfide bond formation in other alkaline phosphatases.
Discovery of (R)-8-(6-Methyl-4-oxo-1,4,5,6-tetrahydropyrrolo[3,4-b]pyrrol-2-yl)-3-(1-methylcyclopropyl)-2-((1-methylcyclopropyl)amino)quinazolin-4(3H)-one, a Potent and Selective Pim-1/2 Kinase Inhibitor for Hematological Malignancies (2019)

Pim kinases are a family of constitutively active serine/threonine kinases that are partially redundant and regulate multiple pathways important for cell growth and survival. In human disease, high expression of the three Pim isoforms has been implicated in the progression of hematopoietic and solid tumor cancers, which suggests that Pim kinase inhibitors could provide patients with therapeutic benefit. Herein, we describe the structure-guided optimization of a series of quinazolinone-pyrrolodihydropyrrolone analogs leading to the identification of potent pan-Pim inhibitor 28 with improved potency, solubility, and drug-like properties. Compound 28 demonstrated on-target Pim activity in an in vivo pharmacodynamic assay with significant inhibition of BAD phosphorylation in KMS-12-BM multiple myeloma tumors for 16 h postdose. In a 2-week mouse xenograft model, daily dosing of compound 28 resulted in 33% tumor regression at 100 mg/kg.
In vivo biocompatibility and biostability of modified polyurethanes (1997)

Modified segmented polyurethanes were examined for biostability and biocompatibility using an in vivo cage implant system for time intervals of 1, 2, 3, 5, and 10 weeks. Two types of materials were used: polyether polyurethanes and polycarbonate polyurethanes. Two unmodified polyether polyurethanes (PEUU A′ and SPU-PRM), one PDMS endcapped polyether polyurethane (SPU-S), and two polycarbonate polyurethanes (SPU-PCU and SPU-C) were investigated in this study. Techniques used to characterize untreated materials were dynamic water contact angle, stress-strain analysis, and gel permeation chromatography. Cellular response was measured by exudate analysis and by macrophage and foreign body giant cell (FBGC) densities. Material characterization, postimplantation, was done by attenuated total reflectance-Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (ATR-FTIR) in order to quantify biodegradation and scanning electron microscopy (SEM) to qualitatively describe the cellular response and biodegradation. The exudate analysis showed that the acute and chronic inflammatory responses for all materials were similar. Lower FBGC densities and cell coverage on SPU-S were attributed to the hydrophobic surface provided by the PDMS endgroups. The polycarbonate polyurethanes did not show any significant differences in cell coverage or FBGC densities even though the macrophage densities were slightly lower compared to polyether polyurethanes. By 10 weeks, biodegradation in the case of PEUU A′ and SPU-PRM was extensive as compared to SPU-S because the PDMS endcaps of SPU-S provided a shield against the oxygen radicals secreted by macrophages and FBGCs and lowered the rate of biodegradation. In the case of polycarbonate polyurethanes, the oxidative stability of the carbonate linkage lowered the rate of biodegradation tremendously as compared to the polyether polyurethanes (including SPU-S). The minor amount of biodegradation seen in polycarbonate polyurethanes at 10 weeks was attributed to hydrolysis of the carbonate linkage. © 1997 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
연구논문 : 생태계보전협력금 반환사업 사후관리 실태와 개선 방안 (2013)

This study reviews the current conditions of the completed ``Ecosystem Conservation Fund Return Project`` sites to suggest management methods for their conservation and sustainability. For the scope of the study, five microsites of completed return projects in Seoul were selected and their project planning documents were reviewed to help with site surveying and analysis. To increase the accuracy of the site surveying and analysis, and to evaluate the management problems from different perspectives, the site managers were interviewed in-depth. The experts were surveyed as well to develop a realistic and practical improvement method. The survey results helped to categorize the post-management problems, and separate improvement methods were suggested for each category. First, the post-management guidelines are proposed for the ecosystem-based environment/ecosystem environment, user management, and monitoring. These guidelines will increase the expertise and practicality of the management principles. Second, the regulations for the participation of expert management enterprises and the development of separate monitoring or maintenance management ream are suggested. These regulations will improve the participation of experts and consistency of management systems. Third, the post monitoring or maintenance management during the year after the project completion should be set as a separate project to secure budget. Furthermore, policies and/or institutions should be established to set a portion of ecosystem conservation return fund or a grant for post monitoring and maintenance management. Forth, as a way of adaptive management, at least more than three years of post-management should be evaluated under detailed categories and vigorous standard to improve the institutional operation for Ecosystem Conservation Fund Return Projects.
Chitotriosidase gene expression in Kupffer cells from patients with non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (2006)

Human Kupffer cells in NASH patients overproduce chitotriosidase. At the highest levels of production, this enzyme may play a role in increasing the risk for a poor outcome in steatohepatitis.
Theory of Poly(ethylene glycol) in Solution (1997)

The behavior of the poly(ethylene glycol) molecule in aqueous solutions is reviewed, using a comparison of experimental and theoretical means. It is stressed that the understanding of the conformational equilibria for the poly(ethylene glycol) molecule is of large importance both for the description of the phase behavior of poly(ethylene glycol) - water system, as well as for the properties of poly(ethylene glycol) solutions. In particular the influence of additives to the solution is discussed, together with the properties of poly(ethylene glycol) coated surfaces and the use of poly(ethylene glycol) for purifying biochemical compounds.
2-(Arylalkylamino)adenosin-5'-uronamides: a new class of highly selective adenosine A2 receptor ligands (1990)

The synthesis and receptor-binding profiles at adenosine receptor subtypes for a series of 2-(arylalkylamino)-adenosin-5'-uronamides is described. Halogenated 2-phenethylamino analogues such as 3e show greater than 200-fold selectivity for the A2 receptor subtype on the basis of rat brain receptor binding. The general structure-activity relationship of this series of compounds is discussed both in terms of potency at A2 receptors as well as receptor subtype selectivity. It is possible to introduce a hydrophilic carboxyalkyl substituent to this series such as in CGS 21680A (3h) and still retain good potency and selectivity for A2 receptors. In addition, functional data in a perfused working rat heart model shows that these compounds possess full agonist properties at A2 receptors with 3h having a greater than 1500-fold separation between A2 (coronary vasodilatory) and A1 (negative chronotropic) receptor mediated events.
Hybrid solar cells with vertically aligned CdTe nanorods and a conjugated polymer (2005)

Vertically aligned CdTe nanorods were fabricated by electrodeposition and were applied for the active layer of solar cells after being combined with poly(3-octylthiophene) (P3OT), a conjugated polymer. The electrodeposited CdTe showed an n-type behavior with the electric resistivity and the electron density of 2×106Ωcm, 1.3×1010cm−3, respectively. Quantum efficiency curve of the hybrid solar cells exhibited a peak at the same wavelength as the optical absorption for CdTe nanorods. The hybrid solar cells demonstrated a power conversion efficiency of 1.06%, whereas the efficiency was only 0.0006% without the nanorods.
Current Development of Clinical Inhibitors of Poly(ADP-Ribose) Polymerase in Oncology (2007)

Poly(ADP-ribose) polymerase (PARP) is a nuclear enzyme that signals the presence of DNA damage by catalyzing the addition of ADP-ribose units to DNA, histones, and various DNA repair enzymes and by facilitating DNA repair. PARP has been gaining increasing interest as a therapeutic target for many diseases and especially for cancer. Inhibition of PARP potentiates the activity of DNA-damaging agents, such as alkylators, platinums, topoisomerase inhibitors, and radiation in in vitro and in vivo models. In addition, tumors with DNA repair defects, such as those arising from patients with BRCA mutations, may be more sensitive to PARP inhibition. At least five different companies have now initiated oncology clinical trials with PARP inhibitors, ranging in stage from phase 0 to phase 2. This review summarizes the preclinical and clinical data currently available for these agents and some of the challenges facing the clinical development of these agents.
Starlike Polymeric Architectures by Atom Transfer Radical Polymerization:  Templates for the Production of Low Dielectric Constant Thin Films (2000)

The synthesis of novel poly(methyl methacrylate)s with starlike architectures by controlled radical polymerization starting from dendritic 2-, 4-, 6-, and 12-arm multifunctional initiators is described. The more highly functionalized initiators were obtained by coupling a bromo-functionalized bis(hydroxymethyl)propionic acid (bis-MPA) first generation dendron to hydroxyl-functionalized precursors. The controlled free radical character of the atom transfer radical polymerization is supported by the remarkably low polydispersities of the polymers and the close correspondence between the calculated and measured molecular weights. NMR studies on the polymers were consistent with initiation occurring from all initiator arms for the 2-, 4-, and 6-arm derivatives. Initial studies on deuterated polymers derived from 12-arm initiator suggest that in some cases initiation was not quantitative. In addition, starlike random copolymers of methyl methacrylate containing varying amounts of hydroxyethyl methacrylate with slightly higher polydispersities have been synthesized. Preliminary results show that these copolymers can be used to produce nanophase-separated inorganic/organic hybrids by templating vitrification of methylsilsesquioxane (MSSQ) and nanoporous thin films after subsequent thermal degradation of the organic polymer. Transmission electron microscopy confirms a nanoporous morphology of the thin films, and a decrease of the dielectric constant is observed.
Physical Chemistry: with Applications to the Life Sciences (1979)

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Multiple repetitive elements and organization of the lux operons of luminescent terrestrial bacteria (1992)

The complete nucleotide sequences of the luxA to luxE genes, as well as the flanking regions, were determined for the lux operons of two Xenorhabdus luminescens strains isolated from insects and humans. The nucleotide sequences of the corresponding lux genes (luxCDABE) were 85 to 90% identical but completely diverged 350 bp upstream of the first lux gene (luxC) and immediately downstream of the last lux gene (luxE). These results show that the luxG gene found immediately downstream of luxE in luminescent marine bacteria is missing at this location in terrestrial bacteria and raise the possibility that the lux operons are at different positions in the genomes of the X. luminescens strains. Four enteric repetitive intergenic consensus (ERIC) or intergenic repetitive unit (IRU) sequences of 126 bp were identified in the 7.7-kbp DNA fragment from the X.luminescens strain isolated from humans, providing the first example of multiple ERIC structures in the same operon including two ERIC structures at the same site. Only a single ERIC structure between luxB and luxE is present in the 7-kbp lux DNA from insects. Analysis of the genomic DNAs from five X. luminescens strains or isolates by polymerase chain reaction has demonstrated that an ERIC structure is between luxB and luxE in all of the strains, whereas only the strains isolated from humans had an ERIC structure between luxD and luxA. The results indicate that there has been insertion and/or deletion of multiple 126-bp repetitive elements in the lux operons of X.luminescens during evolution.