Fully synthetic Mincle-dependent self-adjuvanting cancer vaccines elicit robust humoral and T cell-dependent immune responses and protect mice from tumor development

A new strategy based on a macrophage-inducible C-type lectin (Mincle) agonist was established to construct synthetic cancer vaccines. Using sialyl-Tn (STn) as a model antigen, four conjugates with the Mincle agonist as a built-in adjuvant were designed and synthesized through a facile and efficient method. All conjugates could induce BMDMs to produce inflammatory cytokines in a Mincle-dependent manner and were found to elicit robust humoral and T cell-dependent immune responses alone in mice. The corresponding antibodies could recognize, bind and exhibit complement-dependent cytotoxicity to STn-positive cancer cells, leading to tumor cell lysis. Moreover, all conjugates could effectively inhibit tumor growth and prolong the mice survival time in vivo, with therapeutic effects better than STn-CRM197/Al. Notably, compared to conventional glycoprotein conjugate vaccines, these fully synthetic conjugate vaccines do not cause “epitope suppression.” Mincle ligands thus hold great potential as a platform for the development of new vaccine carriers with self-adjuvanting properties for cancer treatment. Preliminary structure–activity relationship analysis shows that a vaccine containing one STn antigen carried by vizantin exhibits the best efficacy, providing support for further optimization and additional investigation into Mincle agonists as the carrier of self-adjuvanting cancer vaccines.

A new strategy based on a Macrophage-inducible C-type lectin (Mincle) agonist was established to construct synthetic cancer vaccines.     

DMFC中甲醇渗透的电化学研究

设计并建立甲醇渗透测试体系和模拟直接甲醇燃料电池(DMFC)运行体系,分别考察静态条件下H-cell中甲醇的渗透和运行条件下甲醇渗透对OCV的影响.循环伏安和计时电流法测试表明:随着渗透时间的延长,阴极侧的甲醇浓度增加;甲醇浓度增加,氧化峰电流增大,峰电位正移,氢在电极表面的吸脱附受到抑制,同时甲醇的正向氧化电流曲线出现肩峰.模拟DMFC实验测试结果表明:OCV先逐渐上升,接着发生突降,大约1.5 h后趋于稳定.     

Photo-fabrication of surface relief gratings on polymer films

Surface relief gratings were optically produced on a number of azobenzene-based polymer films. The surface grating formation was investigated by monitoring the diffraction efficiency and using atomic force microscopy. The effect of the structure of the chromophores on surface modulation was investigated. The surface deformation process depended on the polarization state of the writing beams. The localized variations of the light intensity and alteration of the resulting electric field polarization were essential writing conditions to the formation of the surface relief gratings. The surface pattern from straight edge diffraction established that the surface profile of the recorded gratings is proportional to negative gradient of the intensity pattern incident on the polymer film.     

低温翅片管换热器的传热试验研究

为了研究翅片管换热器在低温工况下的传热性能,进行了翅片管汽化器的气化试验。采用低温热电偶连续测量翅片管汽化器8个不同位置的温度,得到8条温度曲线。分析曲线表明气化过程可归结为非稳态与稳态两个阶段,并经历液相、汽液两相及气相三个传热区。试验结果为同类换热器的分段设计提供了依据。     

吹扫捕集-气相色谱-质谱法测定海洋沉积物中挥发性有机物

采用吹扫捕集-气相色谱-质谱（P＆T-GC-MS）法测定了海洋沉积物中挥发性有机物（VOCs）的含量,优化了吹扫条件。54种VOCs在4-40μg/L范围内具有良好的线性关系,浓度测量的相对标准偏差为2．67％。14．2％,VOCs的样品加标回收率多在87．0％-127％之间,栓出限为0．07-1、87μg/kg（干重）之间。该方法亦可应用于土壤中VOCs的测定。     

水体中挥发性有机污染物的应急监测

建立了以吹扫捕集-气相色谱-质谱法为主的挥发性有机物(VOCs)应急监测方法。采用内标法对环境水体中的VOCs含量进行检测,54种VOCs的回收率为93.7%~136%,相对标准偏差为2.67%~14.2%,检出限为0.07~1.87μg/L。同时应用相对响应因子(RRF)快速定量数据库对水样中VOCs的含量进行估算,通过与内标法测量值比对,验证了数据库用于水体污染事故中VOCs应急监测的可行性。     

Assessment of ultrasound pulsation loops for measurement of local pulse wave velocity of carotid artery

Flow-area (QA) method and ln(diameter)-velocity (ln(D)U) methods based on si-multaneous measurements of velocity (U) and arterial diameter (D) using ultrasound ...     

Incompressible multiphase flow and encapsulation simulations using the moment‐of‐fluid method

A moment‐of‐fluid method is presented for computing solutions to incompressible multiphase flows in which the number of materials can be greater than two. In this work, the multimaterial moment‐of‐fluid interface representation technique is applied to simulating surface tension effects at points where three materials meet. The advection terms are solved using a directionally split cell integrated semi‐Lagrangian algorithm, and the projection method is used to evaluate the pressure gradient force term. The underlying computational grid is a dynamic block‐structured adaptive grid. The new method is applied to multiphase problems illustrating contact‐line dynamics, triple junctions, and encapsulation in order to demonstrate its capabilities. Examples are given in two‐dimensional, three‐dimensional axisymmetric (R–Z), and three‐dimensional (X–Y–Z) coordinate systems. Copyright © 2015 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.