gebhart/patrepeval huggingface dataset:
Osteochondral repair in the rabbit model utilizing bilayered, degradable oligo(poly(ethylene glycol) fumarate) hydrogel scaffolds (2005)

In this study, hydrogel scaffolds, based on the polymer oligo(poly(ethylene glycol) fumarate) (OPF), were implanted into osteochondral defects in the rabbit model. Scaffolds consisted of two layers-a bottom, bone forming layer and a top, cartilage forming layer. Three scaffold formulations were implanted to assess how material composition and transforming growth factor-beta1 (TGF-beta1) loading affected osteochondral repair. Critical histological evaluation and scoring of the quantity and quality of tissue in the chondral and subchondral regions of defects was performed at 4 and 14 weeks. At both time points, no evidence of prolonged inflammation was observed, and healthy tissue was seen to infiltrate the defect area. The quality of this tissue improved over time with hyaline cartilage filling the chondral region and a mixture of trabecular and compact bone filling the subchondral region at 14 weeks. A promising degree of Safranin O staining and chondrocyte organization was observed in the newly formed surface tissue, while the underlying subchondral bone was completely integrated with the surrounding bone at 14 weeks. Material composition within the bottom, bone-forming layer did not appear to affect the rate of scaffold degradation or tissue filling. However, no bone upgrowth into the chondral region was observed with any scaffold formulation. TGF-beta1 loading in the top layer of scaffolds appeared to exert some therapeutic affect on tissue quality, but further studies are necessary for scaffold optimization. Yet, the excellent tissue filling and integration resulting from osteochondral implantation of these OPF-based scaffolds demonstrates their potential in cartilage repair strategies.
The Cost of Hematopoietic Stem-Cell Transplantation in the United States. (2017)

Allogeneic HSCT was more expensive than autologous HSCT, regardless of the regimen used. Myeloablative conditioning regimens led to higher overall costs than nonmyeloablative/reduced-intensity regimens in the allogeneic HSCT cohort, indicating a greater cost burden associated with inpatient services for higher-intensity preparative conditioning regimens. Pediatric patients had higher costs than adult patients. Future research should involve validating the algorithm for identifying conditioning regimens using clinical data.
A Method to Estimate Land Cover Changes by using CBERS2-CCD Data and GIS Data (2008)

Land cover change has largely resulted in deforestation, biodiversity loss, global warming and reduction of environmental services, so many countries and organizations establish land cover data through multiform methods. Despite its importance, accurate statistics on land cover change data is not available in most countries, the detection and monitoring of land cover dynamics is highly desirable. With increasing frequency, remotely sensed data sets have been used to classify global land cover. The objective of this paper is to construct an operational system to update land cover dataset based on CBERS-02B image and outdated land cover data.
CALCIUM EXPLOSIONS AS TRIGGERS OF DEVELOPMENT (1980)

A few years ago, Gilkey et al. showed that the development of medaka fish eggs begins with a free calcium explosion within the cytoplasm. This paper summarizes those findings; provides an interim report on the effects of injecting calcium and hydrogen ion buffers into medaka eggs; reviews recent evidence of similar calcium increases in other activating eggs, as well as sperm and oocytes (Table 1); and attempts to put these explosions in a broader context (Figures 1 and 4).
Effect of ADAM28 on Carcinoma Cell Metastasis by Cleavage of von Willebrand Factor (2012)

ADAM28 cleaves and inactivates proapoptotic VWF in carcinoma cells and enhances lung metastasis probably by promoting carcinoma cell survival within the blood vessels.
Structure-Function Elucidation of a New α-Conotoxin, Lo1a, from Conus longurionis (2014)

α-Conotoxins are peptide toxins found in the venom of marine cone snails and potent antagonists of various subtypes of nicotinic acetylcholine receptors (nAChRs). nAChRs are cholinergic receptors forming ligand-gated ion channels in the plasma membranes of certain neurons and the neuromuscular junction. Because nAChRs have an important role in regulating transmitter release, cell excitability, and neuronal integration, nAChR dysfunctions have been implicated in a variety of severe pathologies such as epilepsy, myasthenic syndromes, schizophrenia, Parkinson disease, and Alzheimer disease. To expand the knowledge concerning cone snail toxins, we examined the venom of Conus longurionis. We isolated an 18-amino acid peptide named α-conotoxin Lo1a, which is active on nAChRs. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first characterization of a conotoxin from this species. The peptide was characterized by electrophysiological screening against several types of cloned nAChRs expressed in Xenopus laevis oocytes. The three-dimensional solution structure of the α-conotoxin Lo1a was determined by NMR spectroscopy. Lo1a, a member of the α4/7 family, blocks the response to acetylcholine in oocytes expressing α7 nAChRs with an IC50 of 3.24 ± 0.7 μM. Furthermore, Lo1a shows a high selectivity for neuronal versus muscle subtype nAChRs. Because Lo1a has an unusual C terminus, we designed two mutants, Lo1a-ΔD and Lo1a-RRR, to investigate the influence of the C-terminal residue. Lo1a-ΔD has a C-terminal Asp deletion, whereas in Lo1a-RRR, a triple-Arg tail replaces the Asp. They blocked the neuronal nAChR α7 with a lower IC50 value, but remarkably, both adopted affinity for the muscle subtype α1β1δε.
Degradation of benzo[a]pyrene by halophilic bacterial strain Staphylococcus haemoliticus strain 10SBZ1A (2021)

The exploitation of petroleum oil generates a considerable amount of "produced water or petroleum waste effluent (PWE)" that is contaminated with polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), including Benzo[a]pyrene (BaP). PWE is characterised by its high salinity, which can be as high as 30% NaCl, thus the exploitation of biodegradation to remove PAHs necessitates the use of active halophilic microbes. The strain 10SBZ1A was isolated from oil contaminated soils, by enrichment experiment in medium containing 10% NaCl (w/v). Homology analyses of 16S rRNA sequences identified 10SBZ1A as a Staphylococcus haemoliticus species, based on 99.99% homology (NCBI, accession number GI: MN388897). The strain could grow in the presence of 4-200 μmol l-1 of BaP as the sole source of carbon, with a doubling time of 17-42 h. This strain optimum conditions for growth were 37 oC, 10% NaCl (w/v) and pH 7, and under these conditions, it degraded BaP at a rate of 0.8 μmol l-1 per day. The strain 10SBZ1A actively degraded PAHs of lower molecular weights than that of BaP, including pyrene, phenanthrene, anthracene. This strain was also capable of removing 80% of BaP in the context of soil spiked with BaP (10 μmol l-1 in 100 g of soil) within 30 days. Finally, a metabolic pathway of BaP was proposed, based on the identified metabolites using liquid chromatography-high resolution tandem mass spectrometry. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first report of a halophilic BaP degrading bacterial strain at salinity > 5% NaCl.
Surface modification of PMDA-oxydianiline polyimide. Surface structure-adhesion relationship (1990)

ADVERTISEMENT RETURN TO ISSUEPREVArticleSurface modification of PMDA-oxydianiline polyimide. Surface structure-adhesion relationshipKang Wook Lee, Steven P. Kowalczyk, and Jane M. ShawCite this: Macromolecules 1990, 23, 7, 2097–2100Publication Date (Print):April 1, 1990Publication History Published online1 May 2002Published inissue 1 April 1990https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ma00209a038https://doi.org/10.1021/ma00209a038research-articleACS PublicationsRequest reuse permissionsArticle Views1254Altmetric-Citations89LEARN 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
Core-shell Fe<sub>3</sub>O<sub>4</sub>@SiO<sub>2</sub>nanoparticles synthesized with well-dispersed hydrophilic Fe<sub>3</sub>O<sub>4</sub>seeds (2010)

Silica coated magnetite (Fe3O4@SiO2) core-shell nanoparticles (NPs) with controlled silica shell thicknesses were prepared by a modified Stöber method using 20 nm hydrophilic Fe3O4 NPs as seeds. The core-shell NPs were characterized by X-ray diffraction (XRD), transmission electron microscopy (TEM), high-resolution TEM (HRTEM), selected area electron diffraction (SAED), and UV-Vis adsorption spectra (UV-Vis). The results imply that NPs consist of a crystalline magnetite core and an amorphous silica shell. The silica shell thickness can be controlled from 12.5 nm to 45 nm by varying the experimental parameters. The reaction time, the ratio of TEOS/Fe3O4, and the concentration of hydrophilic Fe3O4 seeds were found to be very influential in the control of silica shell thickness. These well-dispersed core-shell Fe3O4@SiO2 NPs show superparamagnetic properties at room temperature.
IFN-γ Arms Human Dendritic Cells to Perform Multiple Effector Functions (2008)

Dendritic cells (DCs) are central players in immunity and are used in immune-adoptive vaccine protocols in humans. IFN-gamma, mandatory in Th-1 polarization and endowed with regulatory properties, is currently used to condition monocyte-derived DCs (MDDC) in cancer therapy and in clinical trials to treat chronic infectious diseases. We therefore performed a wide analysis of IFN-gamma signaling consequences on MDDC multiple effector functions. IFN-gamma itself induced IL-27p28 expression and survival but did not promote relevant CCR7-driven migration or activated Th-1 cell recruitment capacity in MDDC. Administered in association with classical maturation stimuli such as CD40 or TLR-4 stimulation, IFN-gamma up-regulated IL-27 and IL-12 production, CCR7-driven migration, and activated Th-1 cell recruitment, whereas it decreased IL-10 production and STAT3 phosphorylation. CD38 signaling, which orchestrates migration, survival, and Th-1 polarizing ability of mature MDDC, was involved in IFN-gamma-mediated effects. Thus, IFN-gamma is a modulator of multiple DC effector functions that can be helpful in MDDC-based vaccination protocols. These data also help understand the dual role exerted by this cytokine as both an inducer and a regulator of inflammation and immune response.
The inflammatory state provokes sexual dimorphism in left ventricular and electrocardiographic effects of chronic cyclosporine in rats (2017)

Although cardiotoxicity has been recognized as an adverse effect of cyclosporine A (CSA), no information exists regarding sex specificity of CSA cardiotoxicity. We tested the hypothesis that left ventricular (LV) and electrocardiographic (ECG) effects of CSA and related inflammatory/histopathological derangements are sex related. CSA reduced the LV slope of end-systolic pressure volume relationship and increased isovolumic relaxation constant. These effects were more pronounced in male compared to female rats, suggesting LV systolic and diastolic dysfunction. ECG recordings showed elevated ST segments and increased QTc and T peak trend intervals in CSA-treated male rats, markers of LV ischemia and arrhythmogenesis. In female rats, CSA delayed AV conduction, as reflected by prolonged PR interval. Other sex-related effects for CSA included (i) increased blood cholesterol, and reduced rates of rise and fall in LV pressure and nuclear factor kappa B and angiotensin receptors type 1 expressions in male rats, and (ii) increased LV adiponectin in females. Histopatholgically, CSA caused vascular congestion, blood extravasation, and pyknotic or even absent nuclei in both sexes. In conclusion, rats exhibit sex-independent susceptibility to negative LV and histopathological influences of CSA. These effects become more intensified in male rats, perhaps on account of aggravated ischemic and inflammatory milieus.
Success of an Agent-Assisted System that Reduces Email Overload (2018)

RADAR is a large multi-agent system with a mixed-initiative user interface designed to help office workers cope with email overload. RADAR agents observe experts performing tasks and then assist other users who are performing similar tasks. The Email Classifier learns to identify tasks contained within emails and then inspects new emails for similar tasks, which are presented in a novel task-management user interface. The Multi-task Coordination Assistant learns a model of the order in which experts perform tasks and then presents subsequent users with a suggested schedule for performing their tasks. A large evaluation of RADAR demonstrated that novice users confronted with an email overload test performed significantly better (a 37% better overall score with a factor of four fewer errors) when assisted by both agents. Additionally, in a post-test survey users perceived the test to be significantly more difficult when they did not receive assistance from both agents, indicating a preference for the AI-based assistance. We also observed a wide variation among users in the amount of agent advice that they followed.
Discovery of Significant Usage Patterns from Clusters of Clickstream Data (2005)

Discovery of usage patterns from Web data is one of the primary purposes for Web Usage Mining. In this paper, a variation of “user preferred navigational trail ” called Significant Usage Pattern (SUP) is proposed. SUPs are patterns that are extracted from clustered abstracted clickstream data, with a higher normalized probability of occurrence and may begin/end with specific Web page(s). The novelty of our approach is in the application of clustering to data abstraction based on a new twophase abstraction technique. In order to generate SUPs, first, the Needleman-Wunsch global alignment algorithm is applied to the sub-abstracted sessionized clickstream data to compute the similarities between each pair of sessions. Based on pair-wise alignment results, a similarity matrix is constructed and then sessions are grouped into clusters according to their similarities. Web sessions are abstracted again using a concept-based abstraction approach and then a first order Markov model is built for each cluster of sessions. The specific navigation paths, i.e. SUPs, with a normalized product of probability along the path above a certain threshold and beginning/ending with specific states are generated from each cluster based on its corresponding Markov model. Experiments conducted using Web log data provided by J.C.Penney show that different clusters of Web sessions may generate very different SUPs.
Screening for Fabry Disease in Patients with Chronic Kidney Disease (2007)

Clinicians need to be aware that screening using plasma will fail to detect some patients with Fabry disease.
Detection of changes in articular cartilage proteoglycan by <i>T</i><sub>1ρ</sub> magnetic resonance imaging (2004)

The purpose of this work is to demonstrate the feasibility of T(1rho)-weighted magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to quantitatively measure changes in proteoglycan content in cartilage. The T(1rho) MRI technique was implemented in an in vivo porcine animal model with rapidly induced cytokine-mediated cartilage degeneration. Six pigs were given an intra-articular injection of recombinant porcine interleukin-1beta (IL-1beta) into the knee joint before imaging to induce changes in cartilage via matrix metalloproteinase (MMP) induction. The induction of MMPs by IL-1 was used since it has been extensively studied in many systems and is known to create conditions that mimic in part characteristics similar to those of osteoarthritis. The contralateral knee joint was given a saline injection to serve as an internal control. T(1rho)-weighted MRI was performed on a 4 T whole-body clinical scanner employing a 2D fast spin-echo-based T(1rho) imaging sequence. T(1rho) relaxation parameter maps were computed from the T(1rho)-weighted image series. The average T(1rho) relaxation rate, R(1rho) (1/T(1rho)) of the IL-1beta-treated patellae was measured to be on average 25% lower than that of saline-injected patellae indicating a loss of proteoglycan. There was an average reduction of 49% in fixed charge density, measured via sodium MRI, of the IL-1beta-treated patellae relative to control corroborating the loss of proteoglycan. The effects of IL-1beta, primarily loss of PG, were confirmed by histological and immunochemical findings. The results from this study demonstrate that R(1rho) is able to track proteoglycan content in vivo.
Restoration of T cell-specific V(D)J recombination in DNA-PKcs(-/-) mice by ionizing radiation: The effects on survival, development, and tumorigenesis. (2002)

DNA-dependent protein kinase (DNA-PK) is a DNA-activated nuclear serine/threonine protein kinase. DNA-PK consists of a heterodimeric Ku subunit (composed of a 70 and 86 kD subunit) which binds DNA ends and targets the catalytic subunit DNA-PKcs to DNA strand breaks. DNA-PK plays a major role in the repair of double-strand breaks (DSB) induced in DNA after exposure to ionizing radiation. To better understand the nature of DNA repair defect associated with DNA-PKcs deficiency, we have established DNA-PKcs(-/-) mouse embryo fibroblast cell lines and DNA-PKcs(-/-) null mice, and investigated the response of these mutant cells and mice to DNA damage. DNA-PKcs(-/-) cells are hypersensitive to gamma-irradiation, as evidenced by their low survival as assayed by colony formation efficiencies. Consistent with the radiation hypersensitive phenotype of the cell lines, DNA-PKcs(-/-) mice also display an extreme radiosensitivity, characterized by enhanced mortality after gamma-irradiation. Treatment of newborn DNA-PKcs(-/-) mice with sublethal doses of ionizing radiation restores T cell receptor (TCR) beta recombination and T cell maturation. However, radiation does not restore B cell development. All these mice eventually developed thymic lymphoma. These observations suggest an interrelationship between DSB repair, V(D)J recombination and lymphomagenesis, and provide an in vivo model to elucidate the critical pathways between the regulation of DNA DSB repair, V(D)J recombination, and the molecular mechanism of lymphoid neoplasia.
Weakly Supervised Video Summarization by Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning (2019)

Conventional video summarization approaches based on reinforcement learning have the problem that the reward can only be received after the whole summary is generated. Such kind of reward is sparse and it makes reinforcement learning hard to converge. Another problem is that labelling each shot is tedious and costly, which usually prohibits the construction of large-scale datasets. To solve these problems, we propose a weakly supervised hierarchical reinforcement learning framework, which decomposes the whole task into several subtasks to enhance the summarization quality. This framework consists of a manager network and a worker network. For each subtask, the manager is trained to set a subgoal only by a task-level binary label, which requires much fewer labels than conventional approaches. With the guide of the subgoal, the worker predicts the importance scores for video shots in the subtask by policy gradient according to both global reward and innovative defined sub-rewards to overcome the sparse problem. Experiments on two benchmark datasets show that our proposal has achieved the best performance, even better than supervised approaches.
Gentamicin-Loaded Borate Bioactive Glass Eradicates Osteomyelitis Due to Escherichia coli in a Rabbit Model (2013)

The treatment of osteomyelitis induced by Gram-negative bacilli is rarely reported in the literature. This study established a rabbit tibia model of osteomyelitis induced by the Gram-negative bacillus Escherichia coli. Using this model, pellets composed of a chitosan-bonded mixture of borate bioactive glass and gentamicin were evaluated in vitro and in vivo for the treatment of osteomyelitis induced by Escherichia coli. Our results showed that the pellets in phosphate-buffered saline released gentamicin continuously over 26 days. Without the simultaneous use of a systemic antibiotic, the implantation of the gentamicin-loaded pellets into the osteomyelitis region of the tibia resulted in the eradication of 81.82% of infections, as determined by microbiological, histological and radiographic evaluation, and supported the ingrowth of new bone into the tibia defects after 6 weeks of implantation. The results indicate that the gentamicin-loaded borate bioactive glass implant, combining sustained drug release with the ability to support new bone formation, could provide a method for treating osteomyelitis induced by Gram-negative bacilli.
Adenovirus early region 1B 58,000-dalton tumor antigen is physically associated with an early region 4 25,000-dalton protein in productively infected cells (1984)

In soluble protein extracts obtained from adenovirus productively infected cells, monoclonal antibodies directed against the early region 1B 58,000-dalton (E1B-58K) protein immunoprecipitated, in addition to this protein, a polypeptide of 25,000 molecular weight. An analysis of tryptic peptides derived from this 25K protein demonstrated that it was unrelated to the E1B-58K protein. The tryptic peptide maps of the 25K protein produced in adenovirus 5 (Ad5)-infected HeLa cells and BHK cells were identical, whereas Ad3-infected HeLa cells produced a different 25K protein. The viral origin of this 25K protein was confirmed by an amino acid sequence determination of five methionine residues in two Ad2 tryptic peptides derived from the 25K protein. The positions of these methionine residues in the 25K protein were compared with the nucleotide sequence of Ad2 and uniquely mapped the gene for this protein to early region 4, subregion 6 of the viral genome. A mutant of Ad5 was obtained (Ad5 dl342) which failed to produce detectable levels of the E1B-58K protein. In HeLa cells infected with this mutant, monoclonal antibodies directed against the E1B-58K protein failed to detect the associated 25K protein. In 293 cells infected with Ad5 dl342, which contain an E1B-58K protein encoded by the integrated adenovirus genome, the mutant produced an E4-25K protein which associated with the E1B-58K protein derived from the integrated genome. Extracts of labeled Ad5 dl342-infected HeLa cells (E1B-58K-) were mixed in vitro with extracts of unlabeled Ad5 wild type-infected HeLa cells or 293 cells (E1B-58K+). When the mixed extracts were incubated with the E1B-58K monoclonal antibody, a labeled E4-25K protein was coimmunoprecipitated. When extracts of Ad5 dl342-infected HeLa cells and uninfected HeLa cells (both E1B-58K-) were mixed, the E1B-58K monoclonal antibody failed to immunoselect the E4-25K protein. These data provide evidence that the E1B-58K antigen is physically associated with an E4-25K protein in productively infected cells. This is the same E1B-58K protein that was previously shown to be associated with the cellular p53 antigen in adenovirus-transformed cells.