Identification,Characterization and Antihypertensive Effect In Vivo of a Novel ACE-Inhibitory Heptapeptide from Defatted Areca Nut Kernel Globulin Hydrolysates

The areca (Areca catechu L.) nut kernel (ANK) is a good potential protein source for its high protein content of 9.89–14.62 g/100 g and a high yield of around 300,000 tons per year in China. However, utilization of the areca nut kernel is limited. To expand the usage of ANK in pharmaceutical or foods industries, areca nut kernel globulin was extracted and angiotensin-I converting enzyme (ACE) inhibition peptides were prepared and identified using gel chromatography, reversed phase HPLC separation, UPLC-ESI-MS/MS analysis and in silico screening. Finally, a novel ACE-inhibitory heptapeptide (Ala–Pro–Lys–Ile–Glu–Glu–Val) was identified and chemically synthesized. The combination pattern between APKIEEV and ACE, and the inhibition kinetics, antihypertensive effect and endothlein-1 inhibition activity of APKIEEV were studied. The results of the molecular docking demonstrated that APKIEEV could bind to four active sites (not the key active sites) of ACE via short hydrogen bonds and demonstrated high ACE-inhibitory activity (IC₅₀: 550.41 μmol/L). Moreover, APKIEEV exhibited a significantly lowering effect on both the systolic blood pressure and diastolic blood pressure of spontaneously hypertensive rats, and had considerable suppression ability on intracellular endothelin-1. These results highlight the potential usage of APKIEEV as ingredients of antihypertensive drugs or functional foods.     

A macroscopic model for an intermediate state between type‐I and type‐II superconductivity

A vectorial nonlocal and nonlinear parabolic problem on a bounded domain for an intermediate state between type‐I and type‐II superconductivity is proposed. The domain is for instance a multiband superconductor that combines the characteristics of both types. The nonlocal term is represented by a (space) convolution with a singular kernel arising in Eringen's model. The nonlinearity is coming from the power law relation by Rhyner. The well‐posedness of the problem is discussed under low regularity assumptions and the error estimate for a semi‐implicit time‐discrete scheme based on backward Euler approximation is established. In the proofs, the monotonicity methods and the Minty–Browder argument are used. © 2015 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Numer Methods Partial Differential Eq 31: 1551–1567, 2015     

A local parallel superconvergence method for the incompressible flow by coarsening projection

In this article, we investigate a local parallel superconvergence method by coarsening projection for the incompressible Stokes flow. The method is a combination of the local superconvergence technique and the given framework of local parallel method. For the smooth subdomains, the local superconvergence method is applied in a higher order finite dimensional space corresponding to an appropriate coarse mesh on interior domain. Moreover, a useful and flexible local parallel method is designed to obtain the local parallel superconvergence results of presented method, which offset theoretical limitation of the model without the smoothness of the exact solution and a priori regularity of the underlying problem over the whole domain. © 2014 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Numer Methods Partial Differential Eq 31: 1209–1223, 2015     

Numerical solution of one‐dimensional Burgers' equation

In this article, an iterative method for the approximate solution of a class of Burgers' equation is obtained in reproducing kernel space . It is proved the approximation converges uniformly to the exact solution u(x, t) for any initial function under trivial conditions, the derivatives of are also convergent to the derivatives of u(x, t), and the approximate solution is the best approximation under the system © 2014 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Numer Methods Partial Differential Eq 31: 1251–1264, 2015     

一个二进小波变换像空间的再生核函数

1 引言 小波分析是结合泛函分析、应用数学、逼近论、调和分析、广义函数论等数学知识的结晶,具有深刻的理论意义和广泛的应用范围,被称为”数学显微镜”.基于其多分辨分析的特点以及在时、频两域都具有表征信号局部特征的功能,应用它可以解决许多Fourier变换不能解决的难题,为工程应用提供了一种新的、更有效的分析工具[1],由...     

Cross-Correlated Motions in Azidolysozyme

The changes in the local and global dynamics of azide-labelled lysozyme compared with that of the wild type protein are quantitatively assessed for all alanine residues along the polypeptide chain. Although attaching -N3 to alanine residues has been considered to be a minimally invasive change in the protein it is found that depending on the location of the alanine residue, the local and global changes in the dynamics differ. For Ala92, the change in the cross-correlated motions are minimal, whereas attaching -N3 to Ala90 leads to pronounced differences in the local and global correlations as quantified by the cross-correlation coefficients of the Cα atoms. We also demonstrate that the spectral region of the asymmetric azide stretch distinguishes between alanine attachment sites, whereas changes in the low frequency, far-infrared region are less characteristic.     

三维动态裂纹问题的超奇异积分方程法

基于弹性材料的动态基本方程,结合广义Betti-Rayleigh互易等式与时域下的边界积分方程,推导得到时域下的超奇异积分方程组。引入Laplace域下的动态基本解,将经过主部分析的积分核函数分解为静态和动态部分,其中动态积分核不具有奇异性。在裂纹前沿附近单元,采用与理论分析一致的平方根位移模型。结合Lubich时间卷积实现拉氏变换,采用配置点法计算超奇异积分,获得问题的数值解。并针对椭圆裂纹算例编写Fortran程序,得到冲击荷载作用下张开型裂纹的动态应力强度因子变化规律,数值结果稳定且收敛速度快。     

镉的人体健康效应

综述了镉暴露对人体健康的危害、人体对镉的需要量和居民膳食日摄入量、镉暴露生物标记物及危险性评估。过量镉暴露可引起肾、肺、肝、骨和生殖效应以及癌症。在中国和其他国家进行的最新研究表明，生活在镉污染区的一般人群可发生以骨矿密度降低和骨折发生率增加为特征的骨效应；出现肾小管功能异常的镉累积量比骨效应剂量更低，也比从前估计的临界剂量更低。附4图11表25篇参考文献。     

均匀化理论及其在生物力学中的应用

在线弹性理论的范围内,简要介绍了新近发展起来的均匀化理论（ｈｏｍｏｇｅｎｉｚａｔｉｏｎｔｈｅｏｒｙ）,并引入了误差分析方面的一些研究成果．由于均匀化理论可以详尽地考虑材料的微观结构,在生命器官组织的细观力学研究中会起到推动作用．作为应用实例,本文介绍了均匀化理论在密质骨力学性能的数值模拟中的应用．