Since the catalytic activity of most nanozymes is still far lower than the corresponding natural enzymes,there is urgent need to discover novel highly efficient enzyme-like materials.In this work,Co_(3)V_(2)O_(8)with ...Since the catalytic activity of most nanozymes is still far lower than the corresponding natural enzymes,there is urgent need to discover novel highly efficient enzyme-like materials.In this work,Co_(3)V_(2)O_(8)with hollow hexagonal prismatic pencil structures were prepared as novel artificial enzyme mimics.They were then decorated by photo-depositing Ag nanoparticles(Ag NPs)on the surface to further improve its catalytic activities.The Ag NPs decorated Co_(3)V_(2)O_(8)(ACVPs)showed both excellent oxidase-and peroxidase-like catalytic activities.They can oxidize the colorless 3,3’,5,5’-tetramethylbenzidine rapidly to induce a blue change.The enhanced enzyme mimetic activities can be attributed to the surface plasma resonance(SPR)effect of Ag NPs as well as the synergistic catalytic effect between Ag NPs and Co_(3)V_(2)O_(8),accelerating electron transfer and promoting the catalytic process.ACVPs were applied in constructing a colorimetric sensor,validating the occurrence of the Fenton reaction,and disinfection,presenting favorable catalytic performance.The enzyme-like catalytic mechanism was studied,indicating the chief role of⋅O_(2)-radicals in the catalytic process.This work not only discovers a novel functional material with double enzyme mimetic activity but also provides a new insight into exploiting artificial enzyme mimics with highly efficient catalytic ability.展开更多
Glucagon-like peptide 1(GLP-1)is secreted from enteroendocrine L cells in response to nutrient ingestion and exhibits insulinotropic properties by stimulating specific G protein-linked receptors(GLP-1Rs)on pancrea...Glucagon-like peptide 1(GLP-1)is secreted from enteroendocrine L cells in response to nutrient ingestion and exhibits insulinotropic properties by stimulating specific G protein-linked receptors(GLP-1Rs)on pancreaticβcells.Several GLP-1 mimetics,such as exenatide(exendin-4(Ex-4)),liraglutide,and lixisenatide,have been developed and approved as treatments for patients with type 2 diabetes.These peptides show bioactiv-ities almost identical to those of GLP- 1 and have a substantially longer plasma half-life than GLP-1 because of their resistance to dipeptidyl peptidase-4, a GLP-1 degrading enzyme.展开更多
For a long time, fermented dairy products have been consumed for human’s nutrition and health. Recently, consumption of whole dairy products, such as full fat yoghurt, has declined due to the awareness of probable ha...For a long time, fermented dairy products have been consumed for human’s nutrition and health. Recently, consumption of whole dairy products, such as full fat yoghurt, has declined due to the awareness of probable harmful effects of fat on consumers’ health, resulting change of market interest in favor of low or non fat dairy products. It is a challenge for food scientists to produce a suitable fat substitute providing the functionality of the missing fat. The present investigation was carried out to examine the effect of 0 to 50% renneted skim milk (RSM) as a fat mimetic upon the physico-chemical, physical, rheological and sensory characteristics of nonfat yoghurt in comparison to control samples (full fat and skim yoghurt). By increasing RSM content, the chemical characteristics (titratable acidity, pH as well as the content of fat and total protein) of yoghurts did not alter except decrease of total solid in sample with 50% RSM. The yoghurts with more content of RSM exhibited higher b*and a* values, while the highest L* value, viscosity, water holding capacity (WHC), firmness and lowest syneresis were found in sample containing 30% RSM. It seems that new interaction in gel network of yoghurts containing RSM, exhibited greater ability to bind water than control skim yoghurt. In addition, probably new bridges between milk proteins (interacting partially hydrolyzed casein with casein) can increase the number of bounds between protein particles leading to lower syneresis. However, excessive RSM content (higher than 30%) did not increase the L* value, viscosity and WHC of samples probably because of too much aggregation of casein. Sensory results revealed that sample containing 30% RSM was exactly alike to full fat yoghurt in terms of overall sensory attributes. New formulation of palatable skim yoghurt was developed using 3% RSM successfully.展开更多
The dimeric dipeptide mimetics of the brain derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) loops 1 and 4 and nerve growth factor (NGF) loop 4 were designed and synthesized at the Zakusov Research Institute of Pharmacology. There ...The dimeric dipeptide mimetics of the brain derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) loops 1 and 4 and nerve growth factor (NGF) loop 4 were designed and synthesized at the Zakusov Research Institute of Pharmacology. There are respectively bis-(N-monosuccinyl-L-methionyl-L-serine) heptamethylenediamide(GSB-214), bis-(N-monosuccinyl-L-seryl-L-lysine) hexamethylenediamide (GSB-106) and bis-(N-monosuccinyl-L-glutamyl-L-lysine) hexamethylenediamide (GK-2). All of the ob-tained compounds activated a corresponding specific NGF or BDNF tyrosine kinase receptor (TrkA or TrkB), but had different postreceptor signaling patterns. GSB-106 activated the ERK and AKT, whereas GSB-214 and GK-2 only activated the AKT kinase. Here we report a comparative analysis of neuroprotective activity of these dipeptides in a model of ischemic stroke induced by transient middle cerebral artery occlusion (MCAO). The all three dimeric dipeptides showed a statistically significant decrease of infarct volumes with the treatment beginning 4 hour after surgery. In the experiment with BDNF mimetics, GSB-106 reduced this volume by 66% and GSB-214 by 26%. NGF GK-2 reduced the cerebral infarct volume by 45%. Thus, BDNF mimetic, which activated both the ERK and AKT, and NGF mimetic, which selectively activated PI3K/AKT, showed high neuroprotective efficacy. In addition, we studied neuroprotective effects of GK-2 at the beginning of the treatment 6, 8 and 24 hours after reperfusion. The neuroprotective effect of GK-2 persisted in all these conditions. The effectiveness of GK-2 at a delayed start of administration suggests that the dipeptide has neuroregenerative properties. The results obtained suggest a potential role for the dimeric dipeptide NGF and BDNF mimetics as therapeutic agents useful in the treatment of a stroke.展开更多
In the past two decades,with the increase of smoking population,more and more people are suffering from small cell lung cancer(SCLC).Besides,it is difficult to find an effective way to cure SCLC,since patience can eas...In the past two decades,with the increase of smoking population,more and more people are suffering from small cell lung cancer(SCLC).Besides,it is difficult to find an effective way to cure SCLC,since patience can easily develop drug resistance.On the other hand,with the development of science and technology,people began to study the anti-cancer strategy to increase apoptosis,such as inhibiting the overexpression of survival factors.In these survival factors,BCL-2 family has attracted a lot of attention.BH3-only protein is a member of BCL-2 family and it can directly inhibit the expression of BCL-2 protein,thereby prompting apoptosis.Since the BH3-only protein itself is difficult to become a clinical drug,to find alternatives BH3-only protein-BH3 mimetics is particularly important.Plus,more and more researchers have paid attention on the natural BH3 mimetic since it has less side-effect than artificial BH3 mimetics.To find possible BH3 mimetics,we made a primary screening with this pharma.cophore on a small molecular compounds library via Discovery Studio software.And then MTS assay were introduced to verify the activity of compounds.After that,we use Western Blot and Co-IP meth.ods to test the effect of BH3 mimetics.And finally use CDOCKER to predict the further mechanism on autophagy and apoptosis.In our studies,we found 3 possible BH3 mimetics compounds from 170,000 natural small molecular compounds via pharmacophore-based virtual screening.Furthermore,we dem.onstrated AD23,one of the 3 possible natural BH3 mimetics,induced autophagy and apoptosis simulta.neously in dose-time dependence in SCLC cell line.Finally,we use Molecular Docking to predict the further mechanism on autophagy and apoptosis.We believe our works would provide evidences and clues for the structural optimizing and further study of new drugs in the future.展开更多
Several important PDE systems,like magnetohydrodynamics and computational electrodynamics,are known to support involutions where the divergence of a vector field evolves in divergence-free or divergence constraint-pre...Several important PDE systems,like magnetohydrodynamics and computational electrodynamics,are known to support involutions where the divergence of a vector field evolves in divergence-free or divergence constraint-preserving fashion.Recently,new classes of PDE systems have emerged for hyperelasticity,compressible multiphase flows,so-called firstorder reductions of the Einstein field equations,or a novel first-order hyperbolic reformulation of Schrödinger’s equation,to name a few,where the involution in the PDE supports curl-free or curl constraint-preserving evolution of a vector field.We study the problem of curl constraint-preserving reconstruction as it pertains to the design of mimetic finite volume(FV)WENO-like schemes for PDEs that support a curl-preserving involution.(Some insights into discontinuous Galerkin(DG)schemes are also drawn,though that is not the prime focus of this paper.)This is done for two-and three-dimensional structured mesh problems where we deliver closed form expressions for the reconstruction.The importance of multidimensional Riemann solvers in facilitating the design of such schemes is also documented.In two dimensions,a von Neumann analysis of structure-preserving WENOlike schemes that mimetically satisfy the curl constraints,is also presented.It shows the tremendous value of higher order WENO-like schemes in minimizing dissipation and dispersion for this class of problems.Numerical results are also presented to show that the edge-centered curl-preserving(ECCP)schemes meet their design accuracy.This paper is the first paper that invents non-linearly hybridized curl-preserving reconstruction and integrates it with higher order Godunov philosophy.By its very design,this paper is,therefore,intended to be forward-looking and to set the stage for future work on curl involution-constrained PDEs.展开更多
A mimetic finite difference scheme for the transient heat equation under Robin’s conditions is presented. The scheme uses second order gradient and divergence mimetic operators, on a staggered grid, to approximate th...A mimetic finite difference scheme for the transient heat equation under Robin’s conditions is presented. The scheme uses second order gradient and divergence mimetic operators, on a staggered grid, to approximate the space derivatives. The temporal derivative is replaced by a first order backward difference approximation to obtain an implicit formulation. The resulting scheme contains nonstandard finite difference stencils. An original convergence analysis by the matrix’s method shows that the proposed scheme is unconditionally stable. A comparative study against standard finite difference schemes, based on central difference or first order one side approximations, reveals the advantages of our scheme without being its implementation more expensive or difficult to achieve.展开更多
背景:除了铁络合作用外,去铁胺还被认为是一种有效的低氧模拟剂及缺氧诱导因子1α稳定剂,近年的基础及临床研究中去铁胺也表现出良好的骨再生效应。去铁胺溶液或负载去铁胺的生物支架被局部应用于骨组织工程中,其对骨再生的促进涉及多...背景:除了铁络合作用外,去铁胺还被认为是一种有效的低氧模拟剂及缺氧诱导因子1α稳定剂,近年的基础及临床研究中去铁胺也表现出良好的骨再生效应。去铁胺溶液或负载去铁胺的生物支架被局部应用于骨组织工程中,其对骨再生的促进涉及多种功能特性及分子机制,但尚未完全明确,且其在骨再生中的研究进展缺乏有效总结。目的:对去铁胺应用于骨再生的功能特性、优缺点及其在基础研究及临床实践中的进展进行综述,以期为后续相关研究提供参考及策略。方法:以“deferoxamine OR desferrioxamine OR desferal OR DFO”“bone tissue engineering OR bone regeneration OR bone remodeling OR bone repair OR bone healing OR osteogenesis”“angiogenesis OR vascularized bone regeneration OR angiogenic-osteogenic coupling”为英文检索词检索PubMed数据库,以“去铁胺”“骨组织工程,骨再生,骨重建,骨修复,骨愈合”“成血管,血管化成骨,成骨-成血管偶联”为中文检索词检索万方和中国知网数据库,最终纳入88篇文献进行综述。结果与结论:①去铁胺能招募干细胞并调节干细胞功能,激活相关信号通路提高细胞的低氧适应能力,发挥抗炎抗氧化特性改善局部炎性环境,并通过偶联成骨-成血管及抑制骨吸收来促进骨再生。②相较于传统骨组织工程中加载的生长因子或多肽,去铁胺作为小分子药物具有独特的优势,同时也存在毒性反应及应用局限,因此优化载药形式及剂量是必要的。③去铁胺独特的成血管-成骨偶联能力,在不同类型的骨损伤如骨折、骨坏死、牵张成骨、骨移植、口腔相关成骨及骨缺损中,因对骨愈合过程中血管生成的加强而更能适应和解决复杂多变的临床情况及个体差异下造成的骨修复困难;但同时也需要对去铁胺的应用方式及安全剂量加以对比和优化,利于其应用范围的扩大及临床价值的提升。展开更多
Diabetes mellitus is one of the common metabolic disorders acquiring around 2.8%of the world's population and is anticipated to cross 5.4%by the year 2025.Since long back herbal medicines have been the highly este...Diabetes mellitus is one of the common metabolic disorders acquiring around 2.8%of the world's population and is anticipated to cross 5.4%by the year 2025.Since long back herbal medicines have been the highly esteemed source of medicine therefore,they have become a growing part of modern,high-tech medicine.In view of the above aspects the present review provides profiles of plants(65 species) with hypoglycaemic properties,available through literature source from various database with proper categorization according to the parts used,mode of reduction in blood glucose(insulinomimetic or insulin secretagugues activity) and active phyloconsliluents having insulin mimetics activity.From the review it was suggested that,plant showing hypoglycemic potential mainly belongs to the family Leguminoseae,Lamiaceae,Liliaceae,Cucurbitaceae, Asteraceae,Moraceae,Rosaceae and Araliaceae.The most active plants are Allium sativum. Gymnema sylvestre,Citrullus colocynthis,Trigonella foenum greacum,Momordica charantia and Ficuts bengalensis.The review describes some new bioactive drugs and isolated compounds from plants such as roseoside,epigallocatechin gallate,beta-pyrazol-1-ylalanine,cinchonain Ib,leucocyandin 3-O-beta-d-galactosyl cellobioside,leucopelargonidin-3- O-alpha-L rhamuoside,glycyrrhetinic acid,dehydrotrametenolic acid,strictinin,isostrictinin,pedunculagin, epicatechin and christinin-A showing significant insulinomimetic and antidiabetic activity with more efficacy than conventional hypoglycaemic agents.Thus,from the review majorly,the antidiabetic activity of medicinal plants is attributed to the presence of polyphenols,flavonoida, terpenoids,coumarins and other constituents which show reduction in blood glucose levels.The review also discusses the management aspect of diabetes mellitus using these plants and their active principles.展开更多
In this study, Mn(Ⅱ) as a mimetic enzyme of horseradish peroxidase (HRP) was applied to the determination of hydrogen peroxide (H2O2). The method introduced in this paper is based on Mn(Ⅱ)’s catalytic effect on t...In this study, Mn(Ⅱ) as a mimetic enzyme of horseradish peroxidase (HRP) was applied to the determination of hydrogen peroxide (H2O2). The method introduced in this paper is based on Mn(Ⅱ)’s catalytic effect on the oxidation of 4-aminoantipyrine(4-AAP) with modified Trinder’s reagent N-ethyl-N-(2-hydroxy-3-sulfopropyl)-3, 5-dimethoxyaniline(DAOS) by H2O2. By coupling this mimetic catalytic reaction with the catalytic reaction of glucose oxidase (GOD), glucose can be detected. Under optimum conditions, the calibration graphs for the determination of H2O2 and glucose are in the range of 1.0×10-3?1.0×10-1 mol/L and 1.0×10-3?14×10-3 mol/L respectively. The detection limit is 5.9×10-4 mol/L for H2O2 and is 9.2×10-4 mol/L for glucose. The feasibility of Mn ( II ) as a HRP mimetic enzyme in practical clinical analysis has been proven in the determination of glucose in human serum. So far, Mn ( II ) is the simplest and the most inexpensive mimetic enzyme.展开更多
基金supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China(52208272,41706080 and 51702328)the Basic Scientific Fund for National Public Research Institutes of China(2020S02 and 2019Y03)+3 种基金the Basic Frontier Science Research Program of Chinese Academy of Sciences(ZDBS-LY-DQC025)the Young Elite Scientists Sponsorship Program by CAST(No.YESS20210201)the Strategic Leading Science&Technology Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences(XDA13040403)the Key Research and Development Program of Shandong Province(Major Scientific and Technological Innovation Project)(2019JZZY020711).
文摘Since the catalytic activity of most nanozymes is still far lower than the corresponding natural enzymes,there is urgent need to discover novel highly efficient enzyme-like materials.In this work,Co_(3)V_(2)O_(8)with hollow hexagonal prismatic pencil structures were prepared as novel artificial enzyme mimics.They were then decorated by photo-depositing Ag nanoparticles(Ag NPs)on the surface to further improve its catalytic activities.The Ag NPs decorated Co_(3)V_(2)O_(8)(ACVPs)showed both excellent oxidase-and peroxidase-like catalytic activities.They can oxidize the colorless 3,3’,5,5’-tetramethylbenzidine rapidly to induce a blue change.The enhanced enzyme mimetic activities can be attributed to the surface plasma resonance(SPR)effect of Ag NPs as well as the synergistic catalytic effect between Ag NPs and Co_(3)V_(2)O_(8),accelerating electron transfer and promoting the catalytic process.ACVPs were applied in constructing a colorimetric sensor,validating the occurrence of the Fenton reaction,and disinfection,presenting favorable catalytic performance.The enzyme-like catalytic mechanism was studied,indicating the chief role of⋅O_(2)-radicals in the catalytic process.This work not only discovers a novel functional material with double enzyme mimetic activity but also provides a new insight into exploiting artificial enzyme mimics with highly efficient catalytic ability.
基金supported by a Grant-in-aid for Scientific Research from the Ministry of EducationScience+3 种基金Sports and Culture of Japan(grant number:25430056)the fund from Nukada Institute for Medical and Biological ResearchChibaJapan
文摘Glucagon-like peptide 1(GLP-1)is secreted from enteroendocrine L cells in response to nutrient ingestion and exhibits insulinotropic properties by stimulating specific G protein-linked receptors(GLP-1Rs)on pancreaticβcells.Several GLP-1 mimetics,such as exenatide(exendin-4(Ex-4)),liraglutide,and lixisenatide,have been developed and approved as treatments for patients with type 2 diabetes.These peptides show bioactiv-ities almost identical to those of GLP- 1 and have a substantially longer plasma half-life than GLP-1 because of their resistance to dipeptidyl peptidase-4, a GLP-1 degrading enzyme.
文摘For a long time, fermented dairy products have been consumed for human’s nutrition and health. Recently, consumption of whole dairy products, such as full fat yoghurt, has declined due to the awareness of probable harmful effects of fat on consumers’ health, resulting change of market interest in favor of low or non fat dairy products. It is a challenge for food scientists to produce a suitable fat substitute providing the functionality of the missing fat. The present investigation was carried out to examine the effect of 0 to 50% renneted skim milk (RSM) as a fat mimetic upon the physico-chemical, physical, rheological and sensory characteristics of nonfat yoghurt in comparison to control samples (full fat and skim yoghurt). By increasing RSM content, the chemical characteristics (titratable acidity, pH as well as the content of fat and total protein) of yoghurts did not alter except decrease of total solid in sample with 50% RSM. The yoghurts with more content of RSM exhibited higher b*and a* values, while the highest L* value, viscosity, water holding capacity (WHC), firmness and lowest syneresis were found in sample containing 30% RSM. It seems that new interaction in gel network of yoghurts containing RSM, exhibited greater ability to bind water than control skim yoghurt. In addition, probably new bridges between milk proteins (interacting partially hydrolyzed casein with casein) can increase the number of bounds between protein particles leading to lower syneresis. However, excessive RSM content (higher than 30%) did not increase the L* value, viscosity and WHC of samples probably because of too much aggregation of casein. Sensory results revealed that sample containing 30% RSM was exactly alike to full fat yoghurt in terms of overall sensory attributes. New formulation of palatable skim yoghurt was developed using 3% RSM successfully.
文摘The dimeric dipeptide mimetics of the brain derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) loops 1 and 4 and nerve growth factor (NGF) loop 4 were designed and synthesized at the Zakusov Research Institute of Pharmacology. There are respectively bis-(N-monosuccinyl-L-methionyl-L-serine) heptamethylenediamide(GSB-214), bis-(N-monosuccinyl-L-seryl-L-lysine) hexamethylenediamide (GSB-106) and bis-(N-monosuccinyl-L-glutamyl-L-lysine) hexamethylenediamide (GK-2). All of the ob-tained compounds activated a corresponding specific NGF or BDNF tyrosine kinase receptor (TrkA or TrkB), but had different postreceptor signaling patterns. GSB-106 activated the ERK and AKT, whereas GSB-214 and GK-2 only activated the AKT kinase. Here we report a comparative analysis of neuroprotective activity of these dipeptides in a model of ischemic stroke induced by transient middle cerebral artery occlusion (MCAO). The all three dimeric dipeptides showed a statistically significant decrease of infarct volumes with the treatment beginning 4 hour after surgery. In the experiment with BDNF mimetics, GSB-106 reduced this volume by 66% and GSB-214 by 26%. NGF GK-2 reduced the cerebral infarct volume by 45%. Thus, BDNF mimetic, which activated both the ERK and AKT, and NGF mimetic, which selectively activated PI3K/AKT, showed high neuroprotective efficacy. In addition, we studied neuroprotective effects of GK-2 at the beginning of the treatment 6, 8 and 24 hours after reperfusion. The neuroprotective effect of GK-2 persisted in all these conditions. The effectiveness of GK-2 at a delayed start of administration suggests that the dipeptide has neuroregenerative properties. The results obtained suggest a potential role for the dimeric dipeptide NGF and BDNF mimetics as therapeutic agents useful in the treatment of a stroke.
基金supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China(8147323581673453+3 种基金91129727816734868127004981373405)
文摘In the past two decades,with the increase of smoking population,more and more people are suffering from small cell lung cancer(SCLC).Besides,it is difficult to find an effective way to cure SCLC,since patience can easily develop drug resistance.On the other hand,with the development of science and technology,people began to study the anti-cancer strategy to increase apoptosis,such as inhibiting the overexpression of survival factors.In these survival factors,BCL-2 family has attracted a lot of attention.BH3-only protein is a member of BCL-2 family and it can directly inhibit the expression of BCL-2 protein,thereby prompting apoptosis.Since the BH3-only protein itself is difficult to become a clinical drug,to find alternatives BH3-only protein-BH3 mimetics is particularly important.Plus,more and more researchers have paid attention on the natural BH3 mimetic since it has less side-effect than artificial BH3 mimetics.To find possible BH3 mimetics,we made a primary screening with this pharma.cophore on a small molecular compounds library via Discovery Studio software.And then MTS assay were introduced to verify the activity of compounds.After that,we use Western Blot and Co-IP meth.ods to test the effect of BH3 mimetics.And finally use CDOCKER to predict the further mechanism on autophagy and apoptosis.In our studies,we found 3 possible BH3 mimetics compounds from 170,000 natural small molecular compounds via pharmacophore-based virtual screening.Furthermore,we dem.onstrated AD23,one of the 3 possible natural BH3 mimetics,induced autophagy and apoptosis simulta.neously in dose-time dependence in SCLC cell line.Finally,we use Molecular Docking to predict the further mechanism on autophagy and apoptosis.We believe our works would provide evidences and clues for the structural optimizing and further study of new drugs in the future.
基金Dinshaw S.Balsara acknowledges support via NSF grants NSF-19-04774,NSFAST-2009776 and NASA-2020-1241Michael Dumbser acknowledges the financial support received from the Italian Ministry of Education,University and Research(MIUR)in the frame of the Departments of Excellence Initiative 2018-2022 attributed to DICAM of the University of Trento(grant L.232/2016)and in the frame of the PRIN 2017 project Innovative numerical methods for evolutionary partial differential equations and applications.
文摘Several important PDE systems,like magnetohydrodynamics and computational electrodynamics,are known to support involutions where the divergence of a vector field evolves in divergence-free or divergence constraint-preserving fashion.Recently,new classes of PDE systems have emerged for hyperelasticity,compressible multiphase flows,so-called firstorder reductions of the Einstein field equations,or a novel first-order hyperbolic reformulation of Schrödinger’s equation,to name a few,where the involution in the PDE supports curl-free or curl constraint-preserving evolution of a vector field.We study the problem of curl constraint-preserving reconstruction as it pertains to the design of mimetic finite volume(FV)WENO-like schemes for PDEs that support a curl-preserving involution.(Some insights into discontinuous Galerkin(DG)schemes are also drawn,though that is not the prime focus of this paper.)This is done for two-and three-dimensional structured mesh problems where we deliver closed form expressions for the reconstruction.The importance of multidimensional Riemann solvers in facilitating the design of such schemes is also documented.In two dimensions,a von Neumann analysis of structure-preserving WENOlike schemes that mimetically satisfy the curl constraints,is also presented.It shows the tremendous value of higher order WENO-like schemes in minimizing dissipation and dispersion for this class of problems.Numerical results are also presented to show that the edge-centered curl-preserving(ECCP)schemes meet their design accuracy.This paper is the first paper that invents non-linearly hybridized curl-preserving reconstruction and integrates it with higher order Godunov philosophy.By its very design,this paper is,therefore,intended to be forward-looking and to set the stage for future work on curl involution-constrained PDEs.
文摘A mimetic finite difference scheme for the transient heat equation under Robin’s conditions is presented. The scheme uses second order gradient and divergence mimetic operators, on a staggered grid, to approximate the space derivatives. The temporal derivative is replaced by a first order backward difference approximation to obtain an implicit formulation. The resulting scheme contains nonstandard finite difference stencils. An original convergence analysis by the matrix’s method shows that the proposed scheme is unconditionally stable. A comparative study against standard finite difference schemes, based on central difference or first order one side approximations, reveals the advantages of our scheme without being its implementation more expensive or difficult to achieve.
文摘背景:除了铁络合作用外,去铁胺还被认为是一种有效的低氧模拟剂及缺氧诱导因子1α稳定剂,近年的基础及临床研究中去铁胺也表现出良好的骨再生效应。去铁胺溶液或负载去铁胺的生物支架被局部应用于骨组织工程中,其对骨再生的促进涉及多种功能特性及分子机制,但尚未完全明确,且其在骨再生中的研究进展缺乏有效总结。目的:对去铁胺应用于骨再生的功能特性、优缺点及其在基础研究及临床实践中的进展进行综述,以期为后续相关研究提供参考及策略。方法:以“deferoxamine OR desferrioxamine OR desferal OR DFO”“bone tissue engineering OR bone regeneration OR bone remodeling OR bone repair OR bone healing OR osteogenesis”“angiogenesis OR vascularized bone regeneration OR angiogenic-osteogenic coupling”为英文检索词检索PubMed数据库,以“去铁胺”“骨组织工程,骨再生,骨重建,骨修复,骨愈合”“成血管,血管化成骨,成骨-成血管偶联”为中文检索词检索万方和中国知网数据库,最终纳入88篇文献进行综述。结果与结论:①去铁胺能招募干细胞并调节干细胞功能,激活相关信号通路提高细胞的低氧适应能力,发挥抗炎抗氧化特性改善局部炎性环境,并通过偶联成骨-成血管及抑制骨吸收来促进骨再生。②相较于传统骨组织工程中加载的生长因子或多肽,去铁胺作为小分子药物具有独特的优势,同时也存在毒性反应及应用局限,因此优化载药形式及剂量是必要的。③去铁胺独特的成血管-成骨偶联能力,在不同类型的骨损伤如骨折、骨坏死、牵张成骨、骨移植、口腔相关成骨及骨缺损中,因对骨愈合过程中血管生成的加强而更能适应和解决复杂多变的临床情况及个体差异下造成的骨修复困难;但同时也需要对去铁胺的应用方式及安全剂量加以对比和优化,利于其应用范围的扩大及临床价值的提升。
基金financially supported by University Grants Commission,New Delhi
文摘Diabetes mellitus is one of the common metabolic disorders acquiring around 2.8%of the world's population and is anticipated to cross 5.4%by the year 2025.Since long back herbal medicines have been the highly esteemed source of medicine therefore,they have become a growing part of modern,high-tech medicine.In view of the above aspects the present review provides profiles of plants(65 species) with hypoglycaemic properties,available through literature source from various database with proper categorization according to the parts used,mode of reduction in blood glucose(insulinomimetic or insulin secretagugues activity) and active phyloconsliluents having insulin mimetics activity.From the review it was suggested that,plant showing hypoglycemic potential mainly belongs to the family Leguminoseae,Lamiaceae,Liliaceae,Cucurbitaceae, Asteraceae,Moraceae,Rosaceae and Araliaceae.The most active plants are Allium sativum. Gymnema sylvestre,Citrullus colocynthis,Trigonella foenum greacum,Momordica charantia and Ficuts bengalensis.The review describes some new bioactive drugs and isolated compounds from plants such as roseoside,epigallocatechin gallate,beta-pyrazol-1-ylalanine,cinchonain Ib,leucocyandin 3-O-beta-d-galactosyl cellobioside,leucopelargonidin-3- O-alpha-L rhamuoside,glycyrrhetinic acid,dehydrotrametenolic acid,strictinin,isostrictinin,pedunculagin, epicatechin and christinin-A showing significant insulinomimetic and antidiabetic activity with more efficacy than conventional hypoglycaemic agents.Thus,from the review majorly,the antidiabetic activity of medicinal plants is attributed to the presence of polyphenols,flavonoida, terpenoids,coumarins and other constituents which show reduction in blood glucose levels.The review also discusses the management aspect of diabetes mellitus using these plants and their active principles.
文摘In this study, Mn(Ⅱ) as a mimetic enzyme of horseradish peroxidase (HRP) was applied to the determination of hydrogen peroxide (H2O2). The method introduced in this paper is based on Mn(Ⅱ)’s catalytic effect on the oxidation of 4-aminoantipyrine(4-AAP) with modified Trinder’s reagent N-ethyl-N-(2-hydroxy-3-sulfopropyl)-3, 5-dimethoxyaniline(DAOS) by H2O2. By coupling this mimetic catalytic reaction with the catalytic reaction of glucose oxidase (GOD), glucose can be detected. Under optimum conditions, the calibration graphs for the determination of H2O2 and glucose are in the range of 1.0×10-3?1.0×10-1 mol/L and 1.0×10-3?14×10-3 mol/L respectively. The detection limit is 5.9×10-4 mol/L for H2O2 and is 9.2×10-4 mol/L for glucose. The feasibility of Mn ( II ) as a HRP mimetic enzyme in practical clinical analysis has been proven in the determination of glucose in human serum. So far, Mn ( II ) is the simplest and the most inexpensive mimetic enzyme.