Effect of blue light radiation on curcumin-induced cell death of breast cancer cells

In the present study, we have successfully set up a novel blue light source with the power density of 9 mW/cm² and the wavelength of 435.8 nm and then the novel light source was used to investigate the effect of light radiation on curcumin-induced cell death. The cytotoxicity was investigated 24 h after the treatment of curcumin and blue light radiation together using MTT reduction assay. Nuclear chromatin was observed using a fluorescent microscopy with Hoechst33258 staining. The results showed blue light radiation could significantly enhance the cytotoxicity of curcumin on the MCF-7 cells and apoptosis induction. These findings demonstrated that blue light radiation could enhance curcumin-induced cell death of breast cancer cells, suggesting light radiation may be an efficient enhancer of curcumin in the management of breast cancer.     

Lipids of sulfate-reducing bacteria and sulfur-oxidizing bacteria found in the Dongsheng uranium deposit

U-bearing sandstones from the Dongsheng deposit in Ordos Basin contain abundant C15-C18 fatty acids. The fatty acids may have been derived from modern and ancient organisms including organisms from the intervals of U mineralization. A certain amount of i15:0, a15:0, a17:0 fatty acids coexist with small amounts of i17:1ω7c and 10me16:0, characteristic biomarkers of Desulfovibrio and Desulfobacter sp., respectively. This indicates the existence of sulfate-reducing bacteria (SRB) in the sandstones. The presence of sulfur-oxidizing bacteria (SOB), such as Beggiatoa and Thioploca, is indicated by significant amounts of 16:1ω7c and 18:1ω7c fatty acids. The existence of the SRB in the deposit, as inferred from the fatty acids, is consistent with results from fossilized microorganisms and isotopic compositions of ore-stage pyrite. This suggests that the environment may have been favorable for the SRB to grow since ore formation (9.8-22 Ma). The bacteria may have degraded hydrocarbons directly, or indirectly utilized hydrocarbons degraded by oxic microbes in the deposits. This process may have produced 12C-rich calcite and prominent baseline humps of unresolved complex mixtures (UCM), and 25-demethylated hopanes and tricyclic terpanes. The existence of sulfur-oxidizing bacteria and sulfate-reducing bacteria in the deposit may have resulted in bacterial sulfate reduction to sulfide, re-oxidization of the sulfide to sulfate and subsequent reduction of the sulfate to sulfide. This assertion is supported by ore-stage pyrite with δ34S values as low as-39.2‰, and the lightest sulfate (about 11‰) measured during the Phanerozoic, a difference of more than 46‰.     

中兴煤矿3211工作面调整通风系统设计方案

概述了3211综采工作面调整设计方案,阐述了施工技术要求,介绍了3211第6联巷和第7联巷施工永久密闭的安全技术措施以及3211综采工作面调整系统后的通风布置及各用风点布置情况。     

Microstructure and magnetic properties of Co(Cr)/Ti(Cr)/ZnO films prepared by laser ablation on Si substrates

High-quality Co(Cr)(50–66 nm)/Ti(Cr)(25–30 nm)/ZnO(165–225 nm) films were grown on Si substrates by the pulsed-laser deposition technique at 450–500°C. The microstructure of the films and their magnetic properties were investigated by X-ray diffraction, transmission electron microscopy and a vibrating sample magnetometer. It was found that the Co(Cr)/Ti(Cr)/ZnO thin films had a highly preferential c-axis direction normal to the surface of the substrate, and the ZnO sublayer had columnar structures in the growth direction. The interface of the multi-layer films is smooth without interface reaction. The as-produced films had in-plane easy magnetization. It indicates that the enhancements of the magnetic properties of the films are mainly ascribed to the grain structure and multi-domain state of the Co-alloy layer, which can be controlled by the ZnO sublayer.     

Surface Tension Effect on Harmonics of Rayleigh-Taylor Instability

Using the method of the parameter expansion up to the third order, explicitly investigates surface tension effect on harmonics at weakly nonlinear stage in Rayleigh-Taylor instability (RTI) for arbitrary Atwood numbers and compares the results with those of classical RTI within the framework of the third-order weakly nonlinear theory. It is found that surface tension strongly reduces the linear growth rate of time, resulting in mild growth of the amplitude of the fundamental mode, and changes amplitudes of the second and third harmonics, as is expressed as a tension factor coupling in amplitudes of the harmonics. On the one hand, surface tension can either decrease or increase the space amplitude; on the other hand, surface tension can also change their phases for some conditions which are explicitly determined.     

超级电容器RuO_2·nH_2O电极材料的热处理工艺

以RuCl_3·3H_2O水溶液为电沉积液,采用直流一示差脉冲组合电沉积技术制备超级电容器用钽基RuO_2·nH_2O薄膜阴极材料.借助扫描电镜、X射线衍射仪和电化学分析仪,研究RuO_2·nH_2O薄膜的微观形貌、物相结构、循环伏安和充放电性能.实验结果表明:RuCl_3H_2O先驱体经热处理后转变成RuO_2·nH_2O薄膜,呈不定形结构时能获得较大的比电容;随着热处理温度的升高,薄膜材料的附着力提高,RuO_2·nH_2O薄膜由不定形结构向晶体结构转变,随之薄膜的比电容下降;在300℃热处理的RuO_2·nH_2O薄膜电极材料,其比电容为466 F/g,薄膜与钽基体的附着力为11.3 MPa,薄膜的单位面积质量为2.5 mg/cm~2,1 000次充放电循环后比电容为循环前的93.1%.     

乡镇图书馆可持续发展初探

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