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Forskolin Enhances Antitumor Effect of Oncolytic Measles Virus by Promoting Rab27a Dependent Vesicular Transport System
The measles vaccine virus strain (MV-Edm) serves as a potential platform for the development of effective oncolytic vectors. Nevertheless, despite promising pre-clinical data, our comprehension of the factors ...
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The activity of Zn precursors determines the cation exchange reaction kinetics with Ag2S: Zn-doped Ag2S or Ag2S@ZnS QDs
Cation exchange (CE) has been emerged as a promising post-synthesis strategy of colloidal nanocrystals. However, it is unclear how the cation precursor affects the CE process and the final colloidal nanocrysta...
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Chirally assembled plasmonic metamolecules from intrinsically chiral nanoparticles
Significant chiroptical responses could be generated by chiral coupling of achiral plasmonic nanoparticles, or originated from intrinsically chiral plasmonic nanoparticles. Here we create dimeric plasmonic met...
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AgAuSe quantum dots with absolute photoluminescence quantum yield of 87.2%: The effect of cap** ligand chain length
Surface ligands of colloidal quantum dots (QDs) have a profound influence on their surface states, which has been verified in the studies of the effect of ligand head groups on the photoluminescence (PL) prope...
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Towards active self-assembly through DNA nanotechnology
Self-assembly, which is ubiquitous in living systems, also stimulates countless synthetic molecular self-assembling systems. Most synthetic self-assemblies are realized by passive processes, going from high-en...
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All-in-one theranostic nanoplatform with controlled drug release and activated MRI tracking functions for synergistic NIR-II hyperthermia-chemotherapy of tumors
Real-time tracking drug release behavior is fundamentally important for avoiding adverse effects or unsuccessful treatment in personalize medical treatment. However, the development of a non-invasive drug repo...
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Glutathione-capped quantum dots for plasma membrane labeling and membrane potential imaging
The plasma membrane of cells is a crucial biological membrane that involved in a variety of cellular processes including cell signaling transduction through membrane electrical activity. Recently, monitoring m...
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Organic Gallium Treatment Improves Osteoporotic Fracture Healing Through Affecting the OPG/RANKL Ratio and Expression of Serum Inflammatory Cytokines in Ovariectomized Rats
This study aimed to investigate the impact of organic gallium (OG) on osteoporotic fracture healing in ovariectomized female Sprague-Dawley rats, as well as study the mechanisms of OG on osteoporotic fracture ...
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Nanowires and Nanoparticle Chains Inside Tubular Viral Templates
One-dimensional (1D) inorganic nanomaterials, especially with magnetic and optical properties, are key components in material synthesis for applications in nanoelectronics, catalysis, and sensing. To achieve t...
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Gram-scale synthesis of nanotherapeutic agents for CT/T1-weighted MRI bimodal imaging guided photothermal therapy
Theranostic nanomedicine, which uses both imaging and therapeutic components for simultaneous disease diagnosis and treatment, is expected to improve patient treatment safety and outcomes by offering a more pe...
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1.82 wt.% Pt/N, P co-doped carbon overwhelms 20 wt.% Pt/C as a high-efficiency electrocatalyst for hydrogen evolution reaction
Cost-effective electrocatalysts for the hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) play a key role in the field of renewable energy. Although tremendous efforts have been devoted to the search of alternative materials,...
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Controlled synthesis of porous spinel cobalt manganese oxides as efficient oxygen reduction reaction electrocatalysts
In this article, we report a facile precursor pyrolysis method to prepare porous spinel-type cobalt manganese oxides (Co x Mn3-x O4) with controll...
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Real-time in vivo visualization of tumor therapy by a near-infrared-II Ag2S quantum dot-based theranostic nanoplatform
Real-time and objective feedback of therapeutic efficacies would be of great value for tumor treatment. Here, we report a smart Ag2S QD-based theranostic nanoplatform (DOX@PEG-Ag2S) obtained by loading the anti-c...
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MoSe2 porous microspheres comprising monolayer flakes with high electrocatalytic activity
A facile colloidal route to synthesize MoSe2 porous microspheres with diameters of 400–600 nm made up of MoSe2 monolayer flakes (∼0.7 nm in thickness) is reported. The solvents trioctylamine (TOA) and oleylamine ...
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Systemic Treatment with Vanadium Absorbed by Coprinus comatus Promotes Femoral Fracture Healing in Streptozotocin-Diabetic Rats
The purpose of this study was to analyze the impact of vanadium absorbed by Coprinus comatus (VACC) on fracture healing in streptozotocin-diabetic rats. Forty-five male Wistar rats used were divided into three gr...
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Inhibitory effect of Lactobacillus acidophilus on Helicobacter hepaticus in vitro
Helicobacter hepaticus and Helicobacter pylori both belong to Helicobacter species. Strains of Lactobacillus acidophilus, including L4 and L6, have shown significant inhibitory effects on H. pylo...
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Self-Assembled DNA-Inorganic Nanoparticle Structures
In this chaper, we decribe the structures of DNA-based assembly of inorganic nanoparticle in one, two, and three dimensions. Smart DNA linker, DNA motifs, and DNA origami were introduced to assembled nanoparti...
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Comparison of Effects of Vanadium Absorbed by Coprinus comatus with Those of Inorganic Vanadium on Bone in Streptozotocin-Diabetic Rats
The purpose of this study was to compare the effect of vanadium absorbed by Coprinus comatus (VACC) with inorganic vanadium (vanadium nitrate, IV) in preventing diabetes-related osteopenia in streptozotocin-diabe...
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Open AccessOne-pot polymerase chain reaction with gold nanoparticles for rapid and ultrasensitive DNA detection
We report a novel method for rapid, colorimetric detection of a specific deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) sequence by carrying out a polymerase chain reaction in the presence of gold nanoparticles functionalized wi...
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A New Format of Single Chain Tri-specific Antibody with Diminished Molecular Size Efficiently Induces Ovarian Tumor Cell Killing
A combination of bi-specific antibodies (BsAb), anti-tumor×anti-CD3 and anti-tumor×anti-CD28, is effective in vitro and in vivo, whereas production of two kinds of bi-specific antibodies is labor intensive and ad...