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Detection and prevention of Phenylketonuria (PKU) is becoming more and more important. However, the current methods are either imprecise or time-consuming. We propose a biosensor system based on phenylalanine ammonia-lyase (PAL) immobilized on an ammonia electrode to measure blood phenylalanine for PKU prevention. The biosensor exhibits good linearity from 10-5000 muM and the response time is only...
This paper reported the identification and mechanism of dynamic mass redistribution in living cells mediated by epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) activation using resonant waveguide grating (RWG) biosensors. In response to epidermal growth factor (EGF) stimulation, human epidermoid carcinoma A431 cells gave rise to a dynamic response due to dynamic mass redistribution (DMR) in the cells. The...
The aim of the present study was to determine the possible mechanism by which rutin causes vasodilatation in isolated thoracic aorta rings from the rat. The effects of rutin on rings preconstricted with phenylephrine, with or without endothelium, were determined using an organ bath technique. The mechanism was explored by measuring the effects of the nitric oxide synthase inhibitor L-N(G)-nitroarginine...
Several recent studies have established a correlation between tight glucose control and decreased perioperative morbidity and mortality in surgical and critically ill patients. We hypothesize that a progressive increase in delay in implementing insulin infusion rate changes would result in a progressively longer time to target glucose level and a progressive decrease in the percentage of time spent...
Phosphorylation is one of the most important post-translational modifications for eukaryotic proteins. Experimental identification of protein kinases' (PKs) substrates with their phosphorylation sites is time-consuming and often restricted by the availability of enzymatic reactions. Phosphorylation sites prediction with their specific kinase from machine learning approaches based on their primary...
In this experiment, the bone marrow stroma cells (BMSCs) were harvested and then cultured in "neural stem cells (NSCs) medium" which was modulated by our lab with R R. of China patent number as ZL 02134314.4 in vitro. The proliferation of NSCs was confirmed by formation of cell's clones and scan electron microscopy test. The identifications of NSCs, neurons-like cells and glial-like cells...
We investigate the effects of magnetic field on expression of Bax, Bcl-2 and Caspase-3 of SNU (human low differentiated gastric adenocarcinoma cell line) in this article. SNU cells were randomly divided into control groups and four treatment groups, the treatment groups were respectively irradiated by 50 Hz homogeneous ferromagnetic field (0.097 T) 5 min, 30 min, 60 min and 120 min. SNU cells were...
A pocket blood sugar apparatus tested by enzyme electrode, which was designed using carbon and silver plasma as conducting materials. Both the work and reference electrodes are applied to the parts of enzyme electrode. The glucose oxidase is taken as the medium of blood sugar measuring. And the range of measuring glucose is about 50mg/dL - 500mgl/dL. It has better linear for the results and fit coefficient...
The carbon nanotube modified biosensors for respectively monitoring uric acid (UA) and total cholesterol in blood were studied. The transducers were based on two screen-printed carbon electrodes, a carbon working electrode and a reference electrode. For UA sensors, uricase was immobilized on the surface of electrodes together with potassium ferrocyanide as electron transfer mediator. For cholesterol...
Realgar, one of mineral drugs in Chinese traditional medicines has attracted an increasing attention because of its prominent anti-tumor effect. However, new challenges for improving its bioavailability has to be faced. Our previous studies have demonstrated that realgar nanoparticles may provide a less toxic agent for anti-neoplasia by suppressing angiogenesis. In the present study, we improved milling...
The response of the metabolic network of human red blood cell is investigated using the E-Cell simulation system when pyruvate kinase (PK) is deficient. The results that several downstream metabolites of the glycolysis pathway accumulate are in a good agreement with experimental data reported in literatures. This accumulation results in the reaction that phosphoglycerate kinase (PGK) catalyzes reversing...
The risk for cardiovascular disease is significantly high in diabetes mellitus. Experimental evidence suggests that oxidative stress plays a dominant role in the pathogenesis of diabetes mellitus. Carvedilol, a non-selective beta-adrenoceptor and selective alpha1-adrenoceptor blocker, also has antioxidant and free radical scavenger properties. In the present study the effect of carvedilol on the antioxidative...
DNA base damage results from a combination of endogenous sources, (normal metabolism, increased metabolism due to obesity, stress from diseases such as arthritis and diabetes, and ischemia) and the environment (ingested toxins, ionizing radiation, etc.). If unrepaired DNA base damage can lead to diminished cell function, and potentially diseases and eventually mutations that lead to cancer. Sophisticated...
In our earlier work we have proposed that protein activation is electromagnetic in its nature. This prediction is based on the resonant recognition model (RRM) where proteins are analyzed using digital signal processing (DSP) methods applied to the distribution of free electron energies along the protein sequence. This postulate is investigated here by applying the electromagnetic radiation to example...
Cryopreservation of human embryonic stem cells is an important and unsolved problem. A computer-controlled programmable cooler is used in the preservation of ES cells. Several effects have been experimentally studied, which include the cooling rate, the seeding temperature , the terminative temperature before the sample is plunged into liquid nitrogen. It is found that the constitution of cryoprotective...
Electrochemical sensors enables extremely sensitive measurement of chemical compound. The measurement and evaluation of enzyme kinetics using electrochemical sensors is presented. The method is implemented in electronic unit OFBio. Theoretical principles are experimentally verified on enzymes glucose oxidase and acetylcholine esterase
HIV-I integrase (IN) plays a crucial role in the retroviral life cycle. The peptides derived from the helix of IN were reported to have the potency of inhibition. We designed a series of peptides based on interface helices alpha1 and alpha5 with the aim of increasing their inhibitory activity. The helix-forming tendency and the affinity with IN were essential for interfacial peptide inhibitors. The...
The conversion of genomic sequences into digital genomic signals offers the possibility to use signal processing methods for the analysis of genomic information. The study of genomic signals reveals local and global features of chromosomes that would be difficult to identify by using only the symbolic representation used in genomic data bases. The paper presents a study of the HIV protease (PR) and...
This paper aims at investigating a new method for the detection of DNA with catalytic beacons based on peroxidase-oxidase (PO) oscillation and analytic pulse perturbation technique. Two DNAzymes were constructed by the binding of specific DNA sequence with hemin or by the hybridization of target DNA with the catalytic beacon. Both DNAzymes possessed peroxidase-like activity and perturb the PO oscillator...
The aim of the present study was to investigate the role of mitochondrial nitric oxide synthase (mtNOS) in the septic shock and analyze its relationship to ventricular contractility. Two models of septic shock [lipopolysaccharide (LPS)-induced and cecal ligation and puncture (CLP)-induced] were used. There was a significant depression of ventricular contractile parameters recorded in the late stage...
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