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Gopal Lamichhane Prakash Raj Pandeya Ramakanta Lamichhane Su-jin Rhee Hari Prasad Devkota Hyun-Ju Jung 《Molecules (Basel, Switzerland)》2022,27(3)
Background: Ponciri Fructus, a crude drug consisting of the dried immature fruits of Poncirus trifoliata (L.) Raf., is a popular folk medicine used for the treatment of allergy and gastrointestinal disorders in Korea and China. In this study, the anti-adipogenic activity of extracts and isolated compounds were evaluated using 3T3-L1 preadipocytes. Methods: Dried immature fruits were extracted and fractionated into n-hexane, ethyl acetate (EtOAc), n-butanol and water-soluble fractions. The ethanol extract and fractions were tested for anti-adipogenic activity in the 3T3-L1 cell line. The active fractions (n-hexane and EtOAc fractions) were further subjected to chromatographic techniques to isolate and identify active compounds. Furthermore, the isolated compounds were evaluated for their anti-adipogenic activity. Results: Altogether, seven compounds, including two flavonoids, one phytosteroid and four coumarin derivatives, were isolated. Ethanol extract, n-hexane fraction, EtOAc fraction and three isolated compounds (phellopterin, oxypeucedanin and poncirin) showed significant anti-adipogenic activity as observed by reduced lipid deposition in differentiated 3T3-L1 cells. Further, oxypeucedanin downregulated the key adipogenic markers, such as peroxisome proliferator-activated receptors proteins γ (PPAR-γ), sterol response element binding proteins-1 (SREBP-1), CCAAT/enhancer binding proteins-α (C/EBP-α), adipocyte-specific lipid binding proteins (FABP-4), adipocyte fatty acid binding proteins (aP2), lipoprotein lipase (LPL) and leptin. Conclusion: This study indicated that the ethanol extract, hexane fraction and ethyl acetate fraction of P. trifoliata fruits possess strong anti-adipogenic activity, containing the active compounds such as phellopterin, oxypeucedanin and poncirin. Further research is recommended to explore their efficacy and safety in animal and clinical models. 相似文献
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Mortar methods with dual Lagrange multiplier bases provide a flexible, efficient and optimal way to couple different discretization
schemes or nonmatching triangulations. Here, we generalize the concept of dual Lagrange multiplier bases by relaxing the condition
that the trace space of the approximation space at the slave side with zero boundary condition on the interface and the Lagrange
multiplier space have the same dimension. We provide a new theoretical framework within this relaxed setting, which opens
a new and simpler way to construct dual Lagrange multiplier bases for higher order finite element spaces. As examples, we
consider quadratic and cubic tetrahedral elements and quadratic serendipity hexahedral elements. Numerical results illustrate
the performance of our approach.
This work was supported in part by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, SFB 404, C12, the Netherlands Organization for Scientific
Research and by the European Community's Human Potential Programme under contract HPRN-CT-2002-00286. 相似文献
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Bishnu P. Lamichhane 《BIT Numerical Mathematics》2014,54(2):469-484
A new non-conforming finite element method is proposed for the approximation of the biharmonic equation with clamped boundary condition. The new formulation is based on a gradient recovery operator. Optimal a priori error estimates are proved for the proposed approach. The approach is also extended to cover a singularly perturbed problem. 相似文献
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Mario A. Bianchet Ying H. Pan Leighanne A. Brammer Basta Harry Saavedra Evan P. Lloyd Pankaj Kumar Rohini Mattoo Craig A. Townsend Gyanu Lamichhane 《BMC biochemistry》2017,18(1):8
Background
The carbapenem subclass of β-lactams is among the most potent antibiotics available today. Emerging evidence shows that, unlike other subclasses of β-lactams, carbapenems bind to and inhibit non-classical transpeptidases (L,D-transpeptidases) that generate 3 → 3 linkages in bacterial peptidoglycan. The carbapenems biapenem and tebipenem exhibit therapeutically valuable potencies against Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb).Results
Here, we report the X-ray crystal structures of Mtb L,D-transpeptidase-2 (LdtMt2) complexed with biapenem or tebipenem. Despite significant variations in carbapenem sulfur side chains, biapenem and tebipenem ultimately form an identical adduct that docks to the outer cavity of LdtMt2. We propose that this common adduct is an enzyme catalyzed decomposition of the carbapenem adduct by a mechanism similar to S-conjugate elimination by β-lyases.Conclusion
The results presented here demonstrate biapenem and tebipenem bind to the outer cavity of LdtMt2, covalently inactivate the enzyme, and subsequently degrade via an S-conjugate elimination mechanism. We discuss structure based drug design based on the findings and propose that the S-conjugate elimination can be leveraged to design novel agents to deliver and locally release antimicrobial factors to act synergistically with the carbapenem carrier.5.
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TN Ruckmongathan 《Pramana》1999,53(1):199-212
Liquid crystal displays had a humble beginning with wrist watches in the seventies. Continued research and development in
this multi-disciplinary field have resulted in displays with increased size and complexity. After three decades of growth
in performance, LCDs now offer a formidable challenge to the cathode ray tubes (CRT).
A major contribution to the growth of LCD technology has come from the developments in addressing techniques used for driving
matrix LCDs. There are several approaches like passive matrix addressing, active matrix addressing and plasma addressing to
drive a matrix display.
Passive matrix LCD has a simple construction and uses the intrinsic non-linear characteristic of the LCD for driving. Departure
from conventional line by line addressing of a passive matrix has resulted in improved performance of the display. Orthogonal
functions have played a crucial role in the development of passive matrix addressing. Simple orthogonal functions that are
useful for driving a matrix LCD are introduced. The basics of driving several rows simultaneously (multi-line addressing)
are discussed by drawing analogies from multiplexing in communication. The impact of multi-line addressing techniques on the
performance of the passive matrix LCDs in comparison with the conventional technique will be discussed. 相似文献
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MAO Feng SHI YiPeng XUAN LiJun SU WeiDong & WU JieZhi State Key Laboratory for Turbulence Complex Systems College of Engineering Peking University Beijing China University of Tennessee Space Institute Tullahoma TN USA 《中国科学:物理学 力学 天文学(英文版)》2011,(6)
As a continuation of a recent linear analysis by Mao et al.(Acta Mech Sin,2010,26:355),in this paper we propose a general theoretical formulation for the compressing process in complex Newtonian fluid flows,which covers gas dynamics,aeroacoustics,nonlinear thermoviscous acoustics,viscous shock layer,etc.,as its special branches.The principle on which our formulation is based is the maximally natural and dynamic Helmholtz decomposition of the Navier-Stokes equation,along with the kinematic Helmholtz decompos... 相似文献
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Bishnu P. Lamichhane 《Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics》2011,235(17):5188-5197
We propose a stabilized finite element method for the approximation of the biharmonic equation with a clamped boundary condition. The mixed formulation of the biharmonic equation is obtained by introducing the gradient of the solution and a Lagrange multiplier as new unknowns. Working with a pair of bases forming a biorthogonal system, we can easily eliminate the gradient of the solution and the Lagrange multiplier from the saddle point system leading to a positive definite formulation. Using a superconvergence property of a gradient recovery operator, we prove an optimal a priori estimate for the finite element discretization for a class of meshes. 相似文献