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Fano interference in intrasubband Raman scattering of semiconductor superlattices
Fano’s theory is used to study the interaction between a continuum of Raman-active electronic intrasubband transitions and a discrete LO-phonon state in a semiconductor superlattice (SL). An explicit analytica...
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Measurement of corneal astigmatism
Cornea is the most inportant optical surface in the eye dioptric system. Three kinds of methods in measuing corneal astigmeatism wre used. Three hundred and sixty eyes suffered ametropia were selected on a ran...
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Z-ajoene induces tumor cells to die by apoptosis
To unravel the pharmacological actions of garlic, a simple thio-compound, z-ajoene, was purified from the fresh cloves. Three tumor cell lines were subjected to treatment with z-ajoene at different concentrations
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Formation of domain structure of erythrocyte membrane in Wistar rat fed with CeCl3 per os
To explore the possibility of absorption of lanthanides via digestive duct and their effects on the membrane structure and permeability of erythrocytes, the fine structure of erythrocyte membrane from Wistar r...
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Lanthanides’ enhancing absorption of insulin and reduction of blood glucose of rat by pulmonary administration
To explore the possibility of lanthanides as the enhancer of insulin absorption, the promoting effects of lanthanide ions on the absorption of intrapulmonary delivered insulin and reduction of blood glucose we...
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Localization and possible role of membrane type metallo-proteinase and tissue inhibitors of metalloproteinase-1 in early stages of placentation
Human placental tissues from the first and second trimesters of gestation have been investigated using riboprobein situ hybridisation of mRNA sequences coding for membrane type metalloproteinase (MT-1-MMP) and ti...
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Effects of lanthanide ions on hydrolysis of phosphatidylinositol in human erythrocyte membranes
The effects of lanthanides on the hydrolysis of phosphatidylinositol in human erythrocyte membranes were studied.3H-inositol labeling chromatography and HPLC were used to determine inositol 1, 4, 5-triphosphate a...
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Multi-scaling hierarchical structure analysis on the sequence ofE. coli complete genome
We have applied the newly developed hierarchical structure theory for complex systems to analyze the multi-scaling structures of the nucleotide density distribution along a linear DNA sequence from the completeEs...
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Copper ions inactivate S-adenosylhomocysteine hydrolase
S-adenosylhomocysteine (AdoHcy) hydrolase is an enzyme that regulates biomethylation and some other physiological processes. Recombinant AdoHcy hydrolase was overexpressed inE. coli JM109 and purified with ion ex...
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Comparison of intestinal absorption of two insulin-mimic vanadyl complexes using Caco-2 monolayers as model system
Intestinal absorption of two oxovanadium complexes, vanadyl acetylacetonate (VO(acac)2) and bis-(maltolato)-oxovanadium (VO(ma)2), has been compared using Caco-2 monolayers as a model system. The two compounds ar...
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Effects of the rare earth ions on bone resorbing function of rabbit mature osteoclastsin vitro
The effects of rare earth ions on bone resorbing function of osteoclasts were studied by culturing Japanese white rabbit osteoclasts on bone slices. In order to evaluate the activity of osteoclasts, the number...
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Study on shaxi porphyry copper-gold deposit in anhui: gold mineralization and occurrence determination by PIXE
Shaxi porphyry Cu-Au deposit was one of the important discoveries of the exploration in the middle-lower reaches of Yangtze River in China in 1970’s. Gold occurrence in the Shaxi porphyry copper-gold deposit (...
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Analysis of length distribution of short DNA fragments induced by7Li ions using the random-breakage model
Deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) is an important bio-macromolecule. DNA double strand breaks (DSBs) are considered to be the most important initial damage responsible for all biological effects induced by ionizing ...
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Permeation of vanadium(III, IV, V)-dipicolinate complexes across MDCK cell monolayer and comparison with Caco-2 cells
The permeation and cytotoxicity of three insulinmimetic vanadium(III, IV, V)-dipicolinate complexes were studied using the MDCK cell monolayer in comparison with the Caco-2 cells. On MDCK cell monolayer, the a...
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Biodiversity of Early-Middle Ordovician acritarchs and sea level changes in South China
As the primary producers, acritarchs represent the base of the food chain in the Paleozoic marine ecosystem which links with the evolution of acritarchs. Based on high precision quantitative research, much inf...
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Effect of La3+ on osteoblastic differentiation of rat bone marrow stromal cells
In the present work, the effect of La3+ on osteoblastic differentiation of primary rat bone marrow stromal cells (MSCs) as well as the related mechanisms are studied. Differentiation is monitored by detection of ...
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Parallelization and performance tuning of molecular dynamics code with OpenMP
An OpenMP approach was proposed to parallelize the sequential molecular dynamics (MD) code on shared memory machines. When a code is converted from the sequential form to the parallel form, data dependence is ...
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Icariin suppresses bone resorption activity of rabbit osteoclasts in vitro
The effect of icariin on the bone resorption activity of rabbit osteoclasts is assessed in vitro. Osteoclasts were isolated from Japanese white rabbits and cultured on plates with a sterilized bone slice in each ...
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Anisotropic, gradient and metal-like mechanical behaviors of teeth and their implications on tooth functions
The anisotropy and gradient of the elastic modulus and the hardness of teeth were investigated by means of instrumented indentation method. Such properties are attributed to the unique microstructures of teeth...
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Vanadyl ions binding to GroEL (HSP60) and inducing its depolymerization
Several vanadium compounds have been known for the hypoglycemic and anticancer effects. However, the mechanisms of the pharmacological and toxicological effects were not clear. In this work, we investigated th...