Sweet Cherries as Anti-Cancer Agents: From Bioactive Compounds to Function

Sweet cherries (Prunus avium L.) are among the most appreciated fruits worldwide because of their organoleptic properties and nutritional value. The accurate phytochemical composition and nutritional value of sweet cherries depends on the climatic region, cultivar, and bioaccessibility and bioavailability of specific compounds. Nevertheless, sweet cherry extracts are highly enriched in several phenolic compounds with relevant bioactivity. Over the years, technological advances in chemical analysis and fields as varied as proteomics, genomics and bioinformatics, have allowed the detailed characterization of the sweet cherry bioactive phytonutrients and their biological function. In this context, the effect of sweet cherries on suppressing important events in the carcinogenic process, such as oxidative stress and inflammation, was widely documented. Interestingly, results from our research group and others have widened the action of sweet cherries to many hallmarks of cancer, namely metabolic reprogramming. The present review discusses the anticarcinogenic potential of sweet cherries by addressing their phytochemical composition, the bioaccessibility and bioavailability of specific bioactive compounds, and the existing knowledge concerning the effects against oxidative stress, chronic inflammation, deregulated cell proliferation and apoptosis, invasion and metastization, and metabolic alterations. Globally, this review highlights the prospective use of sweet cherries as a dietary supplement or in cancer treatment.     

Quantification of Intracellular Thiols by HPLC-Fluorescence Detection

Biothiols, such as cysteine and glutathione, play important roles in various intracellular reactions represented by the redox equilibrium against oxidative stress. In this study, a method for intracellular thiol quantification using HPLC-fluorescence detection was developed. Thiols were derivatized with a thiol-specific fluorescence derivatization reagent, viz. ammonium 7-fluoro-2,1,3-benzoxadiazole-4-sulfonate (SBD-F), followed by reversed-phase separation on an InertSustain AQ-C18 column. Six different SBD-thiols (homocysteine, cysteine, cysteinylglycine, γ-glutamylcysteine, glutathione, and N-acetylcysteine as an internal standard) were separated within 30 min using a citric buffer (pH 3.0)/MeOH mobile phase. The calibration curves of all the SBD-thiols had strong linearity (R² > 0.999). Using this developed method, the thiol concentrations of human chronic myelogenous leukemia K562 cell samples were found to be 5.5–153 pmol/1 × 10⁶ cells. The time-dependent effect of a thiol scavenger, viz. N-ethyl maleimide, on intracellular thiol concentrations was also quantified. This method is useful for elucidating the role of intracellular sulfur metabolism.     

Activity Guided Isolation of Phenolic Compositions from Anneslea fragrans Wall. and Their Cytoprotective Effect against Hydrogen Peroxide Induced Oxidative Stress in HepG2 Cells

Anneslea fragrans Wall., commonly known as “Pangpo Tea”, is traditionally used as a folk medicine and healthy tea for the treatment of liver and intestine diseases. The aim of this study was to purify the antioxidative and cytoprotective polyphenols from A. fragrans leaves. After fractionation with polar and nonpolar organic solvents, the fractions of aqueous ethanol extract were evaluated for their total phenolic (TPC) and flavonoid contents (TFC) and antioxidant activities (DPPH, ABTS, and FRAP assays). The n-butanol fraction (BF) showed the highest TPC and TFC with the strongest antioxidant activity. The bio-guided chromatography of BF led to the purification of six flavonoids (1–6) and one benzoquinolethanoid (7). The structures of these compounds were determined by NMR and MS techniques. Compound 6 had the strongest antioxidant capacity, which was followed by 5 and 2. The protective effect of the isolated compounds on hydrogen peroxide (H₂O₂)-induced oxidative stress in HepG2 cells revealed that the compounds 5 and 6 exhibited better protective effects by inhibiting ROS productions, having no significant difference with vitamin C (p > 0.05), whereas 6 showed the best anti-apoptosis activity. The results suggest that A. fragrans could serve as a valuable antioxidant phytochemical source for developing functional food and health nutraceutical products.     

An Electrocardiogram Signal Classification Algorithm Based on Improved Deep Residual Shrinkage Networks北大核心CSCD

心电信号分类是医疗保健领域的重要研究内容.针对大多数方法不能很好地降低样本数量少的类别漏诊率,以及降低预处理操作的复杂性问题,提出了一种基于改进深度残差收缩网络(IDRSN)的心电信号分类算法(即DRSL算法).首先,使用合成少数类过采样技术(SMOTE)扩充数量少的类别样本,从而解决了类不平衡问题;其次,利用改进深度残差收缩网络提取空间特征,其残差模块可以避免网络层加深造成的过拟合,压缩激励和软阈值化子网络可以提取重要局部特征并自动去除噪声;然后,通过长短期记忆网络(LSTM)提取时间特征;最后,利用全连接网络输出分类结果.在MIT-BIH心律失常数据集上的实验结果表明,该算法的分类性能优于IDRSN、DRSN、GAN+2DCNN、CNN+LSTM_ATTENTION、SE-CNN-LSTM分类算法.     

非线性工作状态压电换能器匹配技术

针对压电换能器在大功率下存在复杂非线性而导致匹配参数难以优化的问题,以大功率超声金属焊接为例,通过采集测试焊接过程换能器两端电压的幅值与频率,建立换能器反谐振电阻与驱动电压有效值、频率之间的数学模型;提出基于反谐振电阻模型的最优功率匹配方法,推导了匹配电感电容的计算公式。最后实验验证了数学模型的准确性,且当换能器输入功率在最优功率附近时,匹配网络电能传输效率最高。     

阵列式压电振子超声复合喷丸强化*

为了进一步改善超声喷丸强化质量,提升工件表面残余应力和显微硬度的均匀性,对压电振子阵列型超声喷丸强化加工系统进行了改进,提出了在强化加工过程中辅助工件往复运动的方法。对改进后的压电振子阵列型超声喷丸强化加工原理进行了阐述,分析了激振片的振动特性并进行了结构尺寸优化,应用Abaqus对工件往复运动下超声喷丸强化过程进行了仿真研究,分析了在不同的工件往复运动频率下,工件表面残余应力分布情况。实验测试了在不同喷丸强化时间及工件往复运动频率下超声喷丸强化加工质量,探究了喷丸时间和工件往复运动频率对工件表面显微硬度的影响。结果表明：在压电振子阵列型超声喷丸强化过程中辅助工件往返运动,可以有效提高工件表面残余应力和显微硬度分布的均匀性,工件表面强化质量得到提升。     

隐式Newmark法分析波动问题精度的探讨

本文研究了用平均加速度的Newmark积分格式求解一维平面弹性波动问题的精度。由于平均加速度的Newmark积分格式没有振幅衰减、不产生数值阻尼,因此采用此法分析波动问题会产生较强的高频振荡,尤其是加速度的计算值误差甚大。本文对防护工程中常见的平台型荷载和升压三角形荷载作用下的波动问题,应用有限元分析的实例表明:采用有数值阻尼的Newmark积分格式是改进有限元求解波动问题的一个有效方法,可以大大地提高应力和加速度求解精度。文中推荐的有数值阻尼Newmark积分格式的积分参数(=0.9,=0.49)可供工程中土与结构动力分析时参考使用。     

Interaction of elastic waves with a periodic array of collinear inplane cracks

A boundary integral equation method is applied to the study of the interaction of plane elastic waves with a periodic array of collinear inplane cracks. Numerical results are presented for the dynamic stress intensity factors. The effects of the wave type, wave frequency, wave incidence angle, and crack spacing on the dynamic stress intensity factors are analyzed in detail. The project supported by the Committee of Science and Technology of Shanghai and Tongji University     

T300/648迭层板接头挤压疲劳损伤参数的选择与测定

本文对碳纤维增强复合材料迭层板(C.F.R.P)接头在不同环境条件下的挤压疲劳损伤扩展进行了实验研究.并根据“剩余强度,剩余刚度”理论和“疲劳模量”概念,讨论了接头的刚度下降和强度变化.由此提出了“损伤参数”D的定义和测量方法;并对损伤试件,进行了X射线检测分析,验证了累积损伤的扩展.