雄激素非依赖前列腺癌细胞系代谢组学的初步研究

探讨雄激素依赖性前列腺癌LNCaP细胞系向雄激素非依赖性前列腺癌细胞系(LNCaP-AI和LNCaP-AI+F)转变过程的代谢组学变化,寻找前列腺癌发生雄激素耐药的可能发生机制.利用超高效液相色谱-四极杆-飞行时间质谱,在电喷雾电离源在正离子模式下,采用60%(V/V)甲醇-0.85%(w/V)NH4HCO3溶液在-4...     

直接内重整熔融碳酸盐燃料电池中甲烷蒸汽重整催化剂探索性研究

选择甲烷蒸汽重整催化剂用于直接内重整熔融碳酸盐燃料电池(DIR-MCFC)中,并考察了DIR-MCFC的性能,讨论了电池放电量、气体压力、燃料气进料水/碳比(S/C)等因素对该催化剂性能的影响.结果表明,重整催化剂能够满足电池放电需求;放电量大小影响电池内的H2含量,但对CH4含量影响不大;当气体压力为0.36MPa时...     

Synthetic hydrogels as scaffolds for manipulating endothelium cell behaviors

Synthetic hydrogels can be used as scaffolds that not only favor endothelial cells（ECs） proliferation but also manipulate the behaviors and functions of the ECs.In this review paper,the effect of chemical structure,Young’s modulus （E） and zeta potential（ξ） of synthetic hydrogel scaffolds on static cell behaviors,including cell morphology,proliferation, cytoskeleton structure and focal adhesion,and on dynamic cell behaviors,including migration velocity and morphology oscillation,as well as on EC function such as anti-platelet adhesion,are reported.It was found that negatively charged hydrogels,poly（2-acrylamido-2-methylpropanesulfonic sodium）（PNaAMPS） and poly（sodium p-styrene sulphonate） （PNaSS）,can directly promote cell proliferation,with no need of surface modification by any cell-adhesive proteins or peptides at the environment of serum-containing medium.In addition,the Young’s modulus（E） and zeta potential（ξ） of hydrogel scaffolds are quantitatively tuned by copolymer hydrogels,poly（NaAMPS-co-DMAAm） and poly（NaSS-co-DMAAm）, in which the two kinds of negatively charged monomers NaAMPS and NaSS are copolymerized with neutral monomer,N,N-dimethylacrylamide（DMAAm）.It was found that the critical zeta potential of hydrogels manipulating EC morphology,proliferation,and motility isξ_critical= -20.83 mV andξ_critical= -14.0 mV for poly（NaAMPS-co-DMAAm） and poly（NaSS-co-DMAAm）,respectively.The above mentioned EC behaviors well correlate with the adsorption of fibronectin, a kind of cell-adhesive protein,on the hydrogel surfaces.Furthermore,adhered platelets on the EC monolayers cultured on the hydrogel scaffolds obviously decreases with an increase of the Young’s modulus（E） of the hydrogels,especially when E>60 kPa.Glycocalyx assay and gene expression of ECs demonstrate that the anti-platelet adhesion well correlates with the EC-specific glycocalyx.The above investigation suggests that understanding the relationship between physic-chemical properties of synthetic hydrogels and cell responses is essential to design optimal soft and wet scaffolds for tissue engineering.     

用于质子交换膜燃料电池抗CO的Pt-CeO2/C催化剂的制备和表征

采用一步沉淀法,制备了纳米级Pt-CeO2/C电催化剂.透射电镜和X射线衍射表征结果表明,制备的催化剂Pt颗粒均匀分散于碳载体表面,其粒径主要分布于1.5～2.5 nm.将Pt-CeO2/C催化剂制备成质子交换膜燃料电池膜电极,经循环伏安和单电池极化曲线测试发现,Pt-CeO2/C催化剂性能与Pt/C催化剂的相当.一氧...     

Pt-Au/CNT@TiO2作为甲醇燃料电池的高活性阳极催化剂

以TiO2包覆的多壁碳纳米管(CNT@TiO2)为载体,Pt和Au为活性物质,采用沉积紫外光催化还原法制备出高活性的甲醇阳极电催化剂Pt-Au/CNT@TiO2,并采用X射线衍射、透射电镜和X射线光电子能谱对催化剂样品的物化特征进行表征.催化剂的抗毒性能用循环伏安和交流阻抗测试来表征.结果表明,粒径为2～3nm的Pt-...     

Pressure dependence of Curie temperature in a selenazyl radical ferromagnet

The hydrostatic pressure response of T_C of the bisdiselenazolyl radical ferromagnet 1 up to 5 GPa was investigated by AC magnetic susceptibility measurements using a SQUID magnetometer and a miniature diamond anvil cell. It was found that the ambient pressure value of T_C = 17 K could be raised to 21 K at a pressure of 0.9 GPa. The experimental technique is described in detail and the pressure response is compared to that observed in related systems.     

Synthesis, spectroscopic characterization, DFT studies and biological assays of a novel gold(I) complex with 2-mercaptothiazoline

A new gold(I) complex with 2-mercaptothiazoline (MTZ) with the coordination formula [AuCN(C₃H₅NS₂)] was synthesized and characterized by chemical and spectroscopic measurements, DFT studies and biological assays. Infrared (IR) and ¹H, ¹³C and ¹⁵N nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopic measurements indicate coordination of the ligand to gold(I) through the nitrogen atom. Studies based on DFT confirmed nitrogen coordination to gold(I) as a minimum of the potential energy surface with calculations of the hessians showing no imaginary frequencies. Thermal decomposition starts at temperatures near 160 °C, leading to the formation of Au⁰ as the final residue at 1000 °C. The gold(I) complex with 2-mercaptothiazoline (Au-MTZ) is soluble in dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO), and is insoluble in water, methanol, ethanol, acetonitrile and hexane. The antibacterial activities of the Au-MTZ complex were evaluated by an antibiogram assay using the disc diffusion method. The compound showed an effective antibacterial activity against Staphylococcus aureus (Gram-positive) and Escherichia coli and Pseudomonas aeruginosa (Gram-negative) bacterial cells. Biological analysis for evaluation of the cytotoxic effect of the Au-MTZ complex was performed using HeLa cells derived from human cervical adenocarcinoma. The complex presented a potent cytotoxic activity, inducing 85% of cell death at a concentration of 2.0 μmol L⁻¹.     

Multivariate statistical identification of human bladder carcinomas using ambient ionization imaging mass spectrometry

Diagnosis of human bladder cancer in untreated tissue sections is achieved by using imaging data from desorption electrospray ionization mass spectrometry (DESI-MS) combined with multivariate statistical analysis. We use the distinctive DESI-MS glycerophospholipid (GP) mass spectral profiles to visually characterize and formally classify twenty pairs (40 tissue samples) of human cancerous and adjacent normal bladder tissue samples. The individual ion images derived from the acquired profiles correlate with standard histological hematoxylin and eosin (H&E)-stained serial sections. The profiles allow us to classify the disease status of the tissue samples with high accuracy as judged by reference histological data. To achieve this, the data from the twenty pairs were divided into a training set and a validation set. Spectra from the tumor and normal regions of each of the tissue sections in the training set were used for orthogonal projection to latent structures (O-PLS) treated partial least-square discriminate analysis (PLS-DA). This predictive model was then validated by using the validation set and showed a 5% error rate for classification and a misclassification rate of 12%. It was also used to create synthetic images of the tissue sections showing pixel-by-pixel disease classification of the tissue and these data agreed well with the independent classification that uses histological data by a certified pathologist. This represents the first application of multivariate statistical methods for classification by ambient ionization although these methods have been applied previously to other MS imaging methods. The results are encouraging in terms of the development of a method that could be utilized in a clinical setting through visualization and diagnosis of intact tissue.     

Construction and activity of a synthetic basement membrane with active laminin peptides and polysaccharides

Cell-adhesive peptides derived from extracellular matrix (ECM) proteins are potential candidates for incorporating cell-binding activities into materials for tissue engineering. We have identified a number of cell adhesive peptides from laminins, which are major components of basement membrane ECM. Our goal is the development of synthetic basement membranes using the peptides on scaffolds. We review peptide–polysaccharide complexes, which were prepared by conjugation of the peptides to chitosan and alginate, and the biological activities of the resulting matrices. The peptide–polysaccharide matrices can also be used as a biomaterial for cell transplantation. These studies suggest that the peptide–polysaccharide complexes have the potential to mimic the multifunctional basement membrane and may be useful for tissue engineering.