... of interface engineeringin PSCs The objective of my PhD research work and thesis outline will be presented at the end of this chapter 1 Introduction 1.1 A brief overview of polymersolarcells ... enhancement in PCE upon insertion of TiOx optical spacer in thin film organic solar cells[ 36] Figure 1.6 Schematics shows the light intensity distribution in a polymersolar cell without and with ... ITO 1.2.2 Integer charge transfer model In order to select suitable interfacial materials for the interface engineering, understanding the energy level alignment at the interface of interest is...
... educated in science andengineering exert disruptive effects decades later? At the time of this writing, petroleum -engineering graduates are becoming a hot commodity, commanding the top-paying engineering ... a discontinuity “Emerging” means rising up, coming into sight, and becoming apparent, important, or prominent Something that is emerging can be just coming into existence, or beginning to become ... public, and the scientific andengineering communities The Council is administered jointly by both Academies and the Institute of Medicine Dr Ralph J Cicerone and Dr Charles M Vest are chair and...
... geotechnical engineering, geological engineering, hydrological engineering, as well as Earth-related parts of petroleum engineeringand mining engineering Many different types of problems and projects, ... geological engineering, hydrological engineering, and Earth-related parts of petroleum engineeringand mining engineering The rapid expansion of nanotechnology, biotechnology, and information technology ... geoengineering in the emerging field of geoengineering for Earth systems in an attempt to manage and sustain a habitable and beneficial environment on Earth The goal of geoengineering research and...
... new insights into the role of pyruvate in tumor cells during hypoxia We show here that tumor HepG2 cells are inclined to maintain extracellular pyruvate at a constant level (0.4 mm) Hypoxia inhibits ... cellsin a culture medium containing [13C3]pyruvate, under normoxia and hypoxia, for h Fig Effect of pyruvate on glutathione content during hypoxia ⁄ reoxygenation in HepG2 cellsCells were incubated ... ability to maintain redox status [17], intervening in the DNA repair system [18–20] and restoring antioxidant capacities [21–26] This adaptive response, beneficial in the case of normal cellsand tissues,...
... 30 and then fixed, permeabilized and stained for F-actin with rhodamine-conjugated phalloidin The effects of toxin B and latrunculin B on the actin filaments was examined by preincubating the cells ... compound that induces actin polymerization by increasing actin nucleation and stabilizing actin filaments and swinholide A, a drug that sequesters G-actin as dimers [28] As shown in Fig 6A, cells treated ... data are in line with previous observations indicating that physiological activators of the p38 and PtdIns 3-kinase pathways including thrombin, dexamethasone, angiotensin II and prostaglandins stimulate...
... prominent in early and late endosomes [37] Our results suggest that in U937 cells cathepsins H and X concentrate in different vesicles from those containing cathepsins B, C, F, K and L, and that ... Cystatin F in U937 cells lower inhibition constants for cathepsins S and H was due mainly to the low kass values Colocalization of cystatin F and potential target enzymes in U937 cells Using confocal ... [s)1] 10)6 ã kass [M)1ặs)1] Cathepsin F Cathepsin K Cathepsin V Cathepsin S Cathepsin H Cathepsin C Cathepsin X Papain Cathepsin La Legumainb Cathepsin Ba Papaina 0.17 0.05 0.35 0.15 0.30 0.15...
... inhibition occurs remains obscure Recently, curcumin has been found to bind to purified tubulin, to inhibit tubulin polymerization in vitro and to depolymerize microtubules in HeLa and MCF-7 cells ... with vinblastine in inhibiting MCF-7 cell proliferation Curcumin affected the localization of the kinesin protein Eg5 Because curcumin produced monopolar spindles in MCF-7 cells, we examined the ... MCF-7 cells were incubated either separately with curcumin, paclitaxel and vinblastine or in combination with curcumin and vinblastine or paclitaxel for one cell cycle The combination index was...
... target proteins in vivo The attachment of SUMO may result in diverse effects on the substrate protein, including cellular and subnuclear localization [20,21], changes in stability [22] and transcriptional ... that lysine 173 and 289 are involved in the SUMO-1 modification incellsand that lysine 289 is the major target for SUMO-1 conjugation Multiple SUMO conjugation is associated with the targeting of ... synthesized in vitro and incubated with recombinant SUMO-1 protein, E1 (SAE1 ⁄ SAE2) and E2 (UBC9) enzymes Upon separation of the reaction products by SDS ⁄ PAGE, a slowermigrating band at approximately...
... chemopreventive agents, including resveratrol [26,27], brassinin [28,29], and deguelin [30,31] Resveratrol is present in grapes, red wine and peanuts, brassinin is from Chinese cabbage, and deguelin is from ... apoptosis in SW480 human colon cancer cells To investigate the effects of IxoA on apoptosis, we 5720 used acridine orange ⁄ ethidium bromide staining and DAPI staining and found a marked increase in ... select in vitro bioassays, including induction of quinone reductase with Hepa 1c1c7 cellsand inhibition of transformation with JB6 cells [23,32] After in vitro bioassays, the mouse mammary gland...
... difficult or labor intensive (such as resin transfer molding) in terms of resin infusion A more attractive way of producing effective, 3D laminates and reducing the impact weakness and delamination is ... classical fluorosilicone homopolymer After crosslinking (using a peroxide) of a copolymer containing about 30 wt % of the perfluorocyclobutane-containing repeating unit, the crosslinked network displayed ... main mechanism underpinning nanocomposite formation is that the monomer or polymer are able to intercalate into and react within (if the intercalant is monomeric) the interlayer galleries Polymer...
... Polubarinova-Kochina contribution and its inuence in natural sciences and industry in [195]) We denote by (t) the bounded simply connected domain in the phase z-plane occupied by the uid at instant ... Galin [88] and Polubarinova-Kochina [199], [200] rst proposed a complex variable method by introducing the Riemann mapping from an auxiliary parametric plane () onto the phase domain in the 16 INTRODUCTION ... analytic in D except for at most one pole and f (1 ) = f (2 ) whenever = in D Univalence in D implies univalence in every subdomain in D A univalent map is a conformal homeomorphism The starting point...
... Materials and methods Cellsand chemicals Human hepatoma Huh7 cells were grown in DMEM containing 10% FBS, 1× penicillin, streptomycin, fungizone, 10mM L-glutamine, and 1× non-essential amino acids ... shown in Figure 6B, in the absence of ethanol, IFN-α inhibited HCV protein in a dose dependent fashion, and this coincided with a dose-dependent increase in total Stat1 protein, a known ISG When cells ... signaling and increased HCV replication in the presence of IFN Inhibition of Jak-Stat signaling may involve ethanol perturbation of IFN-α induced changes in membrane fluidity, inhibition of IFN binding...
... Materials and methods Cellsand chemicals Human hepatoma Huh7 cells were grown in DMEM containing 10% FBS, 1× penicillin, streptomycin, fungizone, 10mM L-glutamine, and 1× non-essential amino acids ... shown in Figure 6B, in the absence of ethanol, IFN-α inhibited HCV protein in a dose dependent fashion, and this coincided with a dose-dependent increase in total Stat1 protein, a known ISG When cells ... signaling and increased HCV replication in the presence of IFN Inhibition of Jak-Stat signaling may involve ethanol perturbation of IFN-α induced changes in membrane fluidity, inhibition of IFN binding...
... 18 19 20 21 Kinetic energy (eV) Binding energy (eV) 22 -1 (b) Figure UPS spectra in the low kinetic and low binding energy regions (a) UPS spectra in the low kinetic energy region from ECHD/Al ... characteristics were determined by using a solar simulator (Luzchem, LZC-SSR, Keithley 2400 SourceMeter, Kiethley Instruments Inc., Cleveland, OH, USA) under standard conditions of air mass and 100 mW/cm ... compound (ECHD) that has one hafnium and two cyclopentadienyl ligands coordinated in a sandwich structure was used as a cathode interfacial layer in OSCs In this study, we demonstrated that ECHD...
... IEEE Engineeringin Medicine and Biology Society, Sponsor EMB-S Liaison to IEEE Press, Metin Akay GENOMICS AND PROTEOMICS ENGINEERINGIN MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY Edited by Metin Akay IEEE Engineering ... students and postdoctoral fellows in computer science and mathematics who are interested in doing research in biology and bioengineering since the book provides exceptional insights into the ... Electrical and Computer Engineering, Purdue School of Engineeringand Technology, IUPUI, Indianapolis, Indiana Kevin W Boyack, Computation, Computers, Information and Mathematics, Sandia National...
... processes including adenosine triphosphate (ATP) production, intracellular pH regulation and neuronal-glial interactions [25] Many neurodegenerative diseases, including Parkinson's and Alzheimer's ... assessed by FACS in untreated cells (grey line) andincells exposed to cysteamine-QDs for 24 hours (black line) Dotted line shows background staining of untreated cells with isotype-matched control ... analyses Cells treated with cysteamine-QDs, NAC-conjugated and NAC-capped QDs show marked differences in QD uptake In particular, cysteamine-QD-treated cells show an evident shift in fluorescence intensity...
... blood cellsand pieces of tissue containing insufficient fat cells to float Fat and nonfat cells were isolated by incubating 1.0 g of cut adipose tissue in ml of incubation medium containing 1.3 ... cells Interestingly over the 48 h incubation there was a marked increase in 11b HSD-1 gene expression in nonfat but not in fat cells [Figure 4] The increases in IL-8 release and mRNA in non-fat cells ... The initial ratios of IL-8 and HIF1a in nonfat cells to fat cells was 9.2 and 4.6-× while that of 11b HSD1 was 0.25 indicating that there is 4-fold more 11b HSD1 in fat cells than in nonfat cells...
... episomal and integrated HIV-1 cDNA in infected cotton rat cellsIn order to detect the presence of HIV-1 episomal cDNA in infected cotton rat cells, total genomic DNA was isolated from HIV-1 MN-infected ... collaborators[19] detected viral cDNA in spleen and brain of all the infected animals months post-infection, showed increase in mortality (17%), and found morphological changes incells of the CNS We have ... (ng) used as input for each PCR reaction HIV and β-actin panels indicate the fragments amplified in each panel (B), DNA preparations from infected (HIV) and uninfected (mock) CCRT K4 cells were...
... episomal and integrated HIV-1 cDNA in infected cotton rat cellsIn order to detect the presence of HIV-1 episomal cDNA in infected cotton rat cells, total genomic DNA was isolated from HIV-1 MN-infected ... collaborators[19] detected viral cDNA in spleen and brain of all the infected animals months post-infection, showed increase in mortality (17%), and found morphological changes incells of the CNS We have ... (ng) used as input for each PCR reaction HIV and β-actin panels indicate the fragments amplified in each panel (B), DNA preparations from infected (HIV) and uninfected (mock) CCRT K4 cells were...