37 Result(s)
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Detection of the Primo Vessels in the Rodent Thoracic Lymphatic Ducts
Since Hippocrates described the anatomy of the blood and the lymphatic systems for the first time at BC400, these two vascular systems have been believed to be the only circulatory systems existing and operati...
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Synthesis of Hemagglutinin-Binding Trisaccharides
Influenza or the flu, caused by RNA influenza viruses, is an infectious disease that affects birds and mammals, including millions of people each year. It causes severe respiratory illness and is sometimes fat...
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Differential Radiation Sensitivities of Arabidopsis Plants at Various Developmental Stages
Arabidopsis plants were exposed to γ-rays of 200 Gy at one vegetative and three reproductive stages such as 23, 30, 36, and 43 days after sowing the seeds (DAS). The plants irradiated at certain re...
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Using Efficient RBF Network to Identify Interface Residues Based on PSSM Profiles and Biochemical Properties
Protein-protein interactions play a very important role in many biological processes, for example, information transfer along signaling pathways, and enzyme catalysis. Recently, scientists tried to predict the...
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Effect of Doxycycline-Regulated Calnexin and Calreticulin Expression on Specific Thrombopoietin Productivity of Recombinant CHO Cells
In an attempt to increase the specific TPO productivity (qTPO) of rCHO cells (CHO-TPO), the effect of expression level of calnexin (CNX) and calreticulin (CRT) on qTPO was investigated. To regulate the CNX and CR...
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Construction of Recombinant Escherichia coli Strains for Production of Poly-(3-hydroxybutyrate-co-3-hydroxyvalerate)
Plastic wastes constitute a worldwide environmental problem, and the demand for biodegradable plastics has become high. One of the most impor tant characteristics of microbial polyesters is that they are therm...
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Production of Biodiesel Fuel by Transesterification of Rapeseed Oil
Fatty acid methyl esters (FAMEs) show large potential applications as diesel substitutes, also known as biodiesel fuel. Biodiesel fuel as renewable energy is an alternative that can reduce energy dependence on...
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Effect of Doxycycline-Regulated Chaperone Expression on Recombinant Protein Productivity in CHO Cells
Human thrombopoietin (hTPO) is a potential therapeutic glycoprotein for the amelioration of thrombocytopenia associated with chemotherapy, irradiation and bone marrow transplantation. Posttranslational modific...
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Fabrications and Applications of Micro Hemocytometer for Early Detection of Cancer
There are a lot of clinical studies about the relations between the erythrocyte deformability and the local blood flow mediated diseases like cancer. [1,2] Normally they have used the hemorheological technique...
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Chip Based Single-Column TITP (Transient Isotachophoresis) Separator
In this paper, we described transient isotachophoresis (TITP) in a highly saline solution on a polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) chip. The ITP focusing and subsequent electrophoretic separation using a dichlorofluor...
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Microchip Eletrophoresis Integrated with Nanofluidic Sample Handling
We described a novel nanoliter-sample injection method in the microchip electrophoresis. A 10-nL mixture of fluorescein and dichlorofluorescein (DCF) is metered, injected, and separated in a microfabricated fl...
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Micro Peptide Array Synthesis on a Chip
Recent developments in microfabrication processes and surface modification chemistry and micro detection methods have driven new waves of advanced technologies in the field of biochips of protein or peptide ar...
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Diagnosis of Hepatitis C Virus (HCV) Through Affinity Chromatography using Photolabile Magnetic Beads Linked RNA Aptamer on a Chip
HCV RNA replicase was captured using RNA aptamer in nanofluidic reactor for the bead affinity chromatography. Especially, aptamer was modified on photolabile linker introduced magnetic bead. Eluted protein fro...
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A Novel Contactless Impedance Detector With Shallow Insulation Gap
Particularly contactless type impedance detection, oscillometric form, is a very interesting method to detect ions or cells with a long-term stability, m this paper, the contactless impedance detector consists...
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Experimental Verification of A Bi-Directional Driving System for Microfluids
A bi-directional microfluidic driving system was developed experimentally in this work. The bi-directional driving module combines two individual components for suction and exclusion. The individual components...
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Practical Valves and Pumps for Large-Scale Integration into Microfluidic Analysis Devices
Pneumatically-actuated elastomer membrane valves and pumps for practical large-scale integration into glass μTAS devices are fabricated and characterized. The valves and pumps reliably manipulate nanoliter-sca...
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Removal of Sodium Ion and Chiral Analysis Using Crown Ether as a Chiral Selector in Microchip Electrophoresis
Two-dimensional microchip electrophoresis device was designed to avoid the undesirable effect of sodium ions in the chiral analysis of amine compounds using crown ether as a chiral selector. And the successful...
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A Divergence in the Biosynthetic Pathway and a New Role for Vitamin B6
Studies on resistance of the fungus Cercospora nicotianae to singlet oxygen generating photosensitizers revealed new insights into the biological role of vitamin B6. Heterologous expression of a gene originally i...
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Mechanistic Considerations of the Inhibition of Carcinogenesis by Tea
Many laboratory studies have demonstrated the inhibition of tumorigenesis in animal models by various tea preparations. This report discusses the inhibition of tumorigenesis in the mouse lung, forestomach, and...
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Tea as Antioxidant in Prevention of Lung Cancer
Epidemiological observations indicate that Japanese male smokers are at a lower risk of the smoking-related lung cancer than male smokers in the United States. Dietary factors may contribute to the difference....
