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Synthesis, structure and electrochemical behaviour of cobalt(II) complexes with 2,6-bis(benzimidazol-2′-yl) pyridine
The complexes Co(BBP)Cl2, Co(BBP)2SO4·H2O, Co(BBP)2(NO3)2·H2O, Co(BBP)2(ClO4)2 and Co(BBP−H)2· 2H2O, where BBP is 2,6-bis(benzimidazol-2′-yl) pyridine, were prepared and characterized by elemental analysis, elect...
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Expression of Human Intestinal mRNA Transcripts during Development: Analysis by a Semiquantitative RNA Polymerase Chain Reaction Method
ABSTRACT: To study the relative expression of lactase, sucrase-isomaltase, dipeptidyl peptidase IV, and the Na + -dependent glucose transporter mRNA transcripts in small samples of human tissue, we have developed...
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A family of mammalian Na+-dependent L-ascorbic acid transporters
Vitamin C (L-ascorbic acid) is essential for many enzymatic reactions, in which it serves to maintain prosthetic metal ions in their reduced forms (for example, Fe2+, Cu+)1,2, and for scavenging free radicals in ...
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Light Absorption Properties of Anthraquinone Dyes and Guest-Host Liquid Crystal Displays
The light absorption properties of anthraquinone dye in different hosts are compared in order to demonstrate the influence of the dye-liquid crystal interactions on dye order parameter. Surprisingly, the anthr...
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Corrosion protection of mild steel by zirconia sol-gel coatings
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Terahertz all-optical modulation in a silicon–polymer hybrid system
Although gigahertz-scale free-carrier modulators have been demonstrated in silicon, intensity modulators operating at terahertz speeds have not been reported because of silicon’s weak ultrafast nonlinearity. W...
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A New Method of Morphological Associative Memories
The morphological associative memories (MAM) have many attractive advantages. However, they can not give a guarantee that morphological hetero-associative memories are perfect, even if input patterns are perfe...
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Effect of genetic polymorphisms of CYP3A5 and MDR1 on cyclosporine concentration during the early stage after renal transplantation in Chinese patients co-treated with diltiazem
The aim of this study was to assess the influence of the cytochrome (CYP450)3A5 and multidrug resistance (MDR1) gene polymorphisms on cyclosporine A (CsA) trough concentration during the early stage after renal t...
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A Dominant Mutation in ARL2 Causes Impaired Adventitious Root Development in Rice
Adventitious roots are vital for water and nutrient assimilation by cereal crops because they comprise the bulk of the fibrous root system. We isolated and analyzed a rice mutant, adventitious rootless 2 (arl2...
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A Method to Improve Performance of Heteroassociative Morphological Memories
General speaking, the heteroassociative morphological memory (HMM) is incomplete, namely, it cannot give a guarantee of perfect recall memory, even though without any input noises. The paper focuses on the pro...
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Enterovirus 71 (EV71) is a major agent of hand, foot and mouth disease in children, but no vaccine or antiviral therapy is available. Structural analysis of the mature virus and natural empty particles reveals...
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Activation of AMP-activated protein kinase α2 by nicotine instigates formation of abdominal aortic aneurysms in mice in vivo
Cigarette smoking raises the risk for cardiovascular disease, including the risk for abdominal aortic aneurysm. Shuangxi Wang et al. now show that nicotine itself is a causal factor in promoting abdominal aortic ...
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A kind of PAPR reduction method based on pruning WPM and PTS technology
Wavelet packet multicarrier system gains widespread concern because of its better resistance performance to Inter-Symbol Interference (ISI) and Inter-Carrier Interference (ICI), as well as the higher spectrum ...
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Open AccessPicornavirus uncoating intermediate captured in atomic detail
It remains largely mysterious how the genomes of non-enveloped eukaryotic viruses are transferred across a membrane into the host cell. Picornaviruses are simple models for such viruses, and initiate this unco...
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Structure analysis of the extracellular domain reveals disulfide bond forming-protein properties of Mycobacterium tuberculosis Rv2969c
Disulfide bond-forming (Dsb) protein is a bacterial periplasmic protein that is essential for the correct folding and disulfide bond formation of secreted or cell wallassociated proteins. DsbA introduces disul...
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An open conformation determined by a structural switch for 2A protease from coxsackievirus A16
Coxsackievirus A16 belongs to the family Picornaviridae, and is a major agent of hand-foot-and-mouth disease that infects mostly children, and to date no vaccines or antiviral therapies are available. 2A protease...
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More-powerful virus inhibitors from structure-based analysis of HEV71 capsid-binding molecules
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Angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) 2 and its product angiotensin 1–7 are thought to have effects that counteract the adverse actions of other, better-known re...
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Open AccessMolecular mechanism of SCARB2-mediated attachment and uncoating of EV71
Unlike the well-established picture for the entry of enveloped viruses, the mechanism of cellular entry of non-enveloped eukaryotic viruses remains largely mysterious. Picornaviruses are representative models ...
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Open AccessAssociation between mobile phone use and inattention in 7102 Chinese adolescents: a population-based cross-sectional study
The dramatic growth of mobile phone (MP) use among young people has increased interest in its possible health hazards in this age group. The aim of this cross-sectional study was to investigate the association...
