Journal of Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering
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2022
·Vol. 12
·期 5
·926-932
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IF 0.144
Guan Xin,Sun Ning
High expression of E74-like factor 3 (ELF3) has been reported in type 1 endometrial cancer (EC). Bioinformatics analysis predicted a positive correlation with ELF3 and mucin 1 (MUC1)/hypoxiainducible factor 1α (HIF-1α), a previously identified cancer-promoting
pathway. This study focused on the MUC1/HIF-1α-involved action mechanism of ELF3 in EC. ELF3 expression in EC cell lines was measured by RT-qPCR and western blot analysis. Following the expression of ELF3 was silent, cell proliferation was examined using CCK-8 and colony formation
assay, cell migration and invasion were observed using wound healing and transwell assays. The effect of ELF1 silencing on MUC1/HIF-1α expression was detected by western blot. Rescue experiments incorporating pcDNA3.1(+)/MUC1 explored the interaction between ELF3 and MUC1/HIF-1α
in EC cell proliferation, migration and invasion. ELF3 was found to be expressed at a high level in EC cell lines, and the silencing of it effectively inhibited EC cell proliferation. Moreover, ELF silencing also inhibited the migration and invasion of EC cells. Consistent with the database
prediction, a positive correlation between ELF3 and MUC1/HIF-1α was observed. More importantly, MUC1 overexpression abated the promotive effect of ELF3 silencing on EC cell proliferation, migration and invasion. ELF3 promotes EC cell proliferation, migration and invasion by regulating
MUC1/HIF-1α pathway. Thus, ELF3 as well as MUC1/HIF-1α pathway may be particle targets in the treatment of EC.
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Bioengineered
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2021
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IF 3.269
Yan Li,Nianling Yao,Yan Gao,Yunping Wang,Lu Bai,Jia Xu,Haixu Wang
Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) is a common endocrine disorder that poses a great threat to women's health. MiR-1224-5p is downregulated in the follicular fluid of patients with PCOS, but its role remains largely unknown. In this study, mice were treated with dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA) to establish an in vivo model of PCOS. We found that enhanced activation of NLRP3 inflammasome was accompanied by downregulation of miR-1224-5p in ovarian tissue of PCOS mice. The effect of miR-1224-5p was further explored in TNF-α-treated human granulosa-like tumor (KGN) cells. Upregulation of miR-1224-5p suppressed TNF-α-induced secretion of DHEA and testosterone. MiR-1224-5p attenuated TNF-α-induced inflammation by inhibiting NLRP3 inflammasome activation, IL-1β synthesis, and nuclear factor kappa B (NF-κB) p65 nuclear translocation. Notably, miR-1224-5p decreased the expression of Forkhead box O 1 (FOXO1) and its downstream gene thioredoxin interaction protein (TXNIP). Luciferase reporter assay confirmed FOXO1 as a target of miR-1224-5p. Upregulation of FOXO1 abolished miR-1224-5p-induced activation of NLRP3 inflammasome, demonstrating that miR-1224-5p might inhibit NLRP3 inflammasome activation through regulating FOXO1. This study provided novel insights into the pathogenesis of PCOS and suggested that miR-1224-5p might be a promising target for treating PCOS.
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Materials Today Bio
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2022
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IF 10.761
Chenghua Song,Jia Zhang,Ruichao Wen,Qingshan Li,Jiaxuan Zhou,Xiaoli liu,Zheng Wu,Yi Lv,Rongqian Wu
Effective systemic treatment for hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) remains urgently needed. Sorafenib is the first FDA-approved systemic treatment for HCC. However, individual HCC patents’ response to sorafenib varies greatly. How to enhance the anti-HCC effect of sorafenib is still a significant challenge. T cell immunoglobulin mucin-3 (Tim-3) is a newly identified immune checkpoint molecule and a promising target for HCC treatment. Herein, we developed a novel pH-triggered drug-eluting nanoparticle ( [email protected] & [email protected] ) for simultaneously delivery of Tim-3 siRNA and sorafenib to HCC in situ . By a single emulsification method, a representative HCC targeted-therapeutic drug sorafenib (SF) was encapsulated into the pH-triggered positive-charged mPEG5K-PAE10K (PP) nanoparticles, followed by condensing of negative-charged Tim-3 siRNA. Then, carboxymethyl chitosan (CMCS), an amphoteric polysaccharide with negative charge in the physiological pH and positive charge in the acidic environment of the tumor, was eventually adsorbed onto the surface of nanoparticles. This co-delivery nanoparticle rapidly and specifically accumulated in the tumor site of the liver and enhanced the targeted, specific and multiple release of siRNA and sorafenib. Enhanced Tim-3 siRNA transfected into tumor cells can not only directly inhibit the growth of tumor cells by knock down the expression Tim-3, but also induce the immune response and enhance the recruitment of cytotoxic T cells to kill tumor cells. The following pH-triggered sorafenib release from [email protected] NPs greatly inhibited the tumor proliferation and angiogenesis, resulting in remarkable tumor growth inhibition in a mouse hepatoma 22 (H22) orthotopic tumor model. Thus, co-delivery of Tim-3 siRNA and sorafenib via this novel pH triggered drug-eluting nanoparticle enhances their anti-tumor efficacy. We expect that such combination treatment strategy will have great potential in future clinical applications.
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JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL AND ENGINEERING DATA
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2022
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IF 3.119
Mengyang Guo,Ye Jiang,Yonghong Li,Yanyu Wei,Hanxi Li
The isobaric vapor–liquid equilibria (VLE) of two binary mixtures (adiponitrile + 2-methylglutaronitrile and adiponitrile + trans-3-pentenenitrile) at 5 and 10 kPa were measured using a modified Rose–Williams still. The thermodynamic consistency of the VLE data was tested by the Wisniak method and the Fredenslund method. The isobaric VLE data were correlated with four activity coefficient models of Margules, van Laar, Wilson, and NRTL, and the parameters of the models were obtained by the ordinary least-squares method. The isobaric VLE data were compared with the original UNIFAC predictive model. Furthermore, the excess Gibbs free energy of studied mixtures was determined. The RMST and RMSy1 were determined to evaluate the regression results. The results show that the Wilson model has a better correlation effect than other models.
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SENSORS AND ACTUATORS B-CHEMICAL
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2017
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IF 5.401
Xiao Wang,Ying Zheng,Lan Xu
An electrochemical strategy for adenine detection was described. In order to generate a 3D net-work composite film, gold nanoparticles (Au NPs) capped with 3-thiophene acetic acid (3-TAA) were used to couple with molecular imprinting technique (MIT). In the presence of the 3-TAA capping Au NPs (Au NPs-T), the electrode-surface-tethered 3-TAAs were polymerized to form a homogeneous conductive material immobilized into the electrode. Through this sensor fabrication, Au NPs-T associating with the Au electrode resulted in enhanced sensitivity and MIT contributed to the specificity.
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JOURNAL OF MEMBRANE SCIENCE
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2020
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IF 7.183
Yazhou Chen,Chen Li,Dezhan Ye,Yunfeng Zhang,Haifeng Bao,Hansong Cheng
Polymer electrolytes with single ion conducting behavior, high ion conductivity and fire-resistant play a vital role in suppressing lithium dendrite growth for high security, stability and high energy density of rechargeable lithium metal batteries (LMBs). Herein, we develop a gel single-ion composite electrolyte (SICE) by incorporating Li 1.5 Al 0.5 Ge 1.5 (PO 4 ) 3 nanoparticles into alternating diblock lithiated bis(benzene sulfonyl)imide polyanion with repeating ether groups. Li 1.5 Al 0.5 Ge 1.5 (PO 4 ) 3 nanoparticles can significantly endow SICE membrane more Li + transportation channels, which offers elevated ionic conductivity (8.3 × 10 −4 S cm −1 ) and Li + transference number (0.93) to promote homogenously Li + deposition in lithium foil for dendrite suppression. As a result, a highly reversible Li plating/stripping in a Li symmetric cell enables to run stably for at least 1600 h at 0.5 mA cm −2 . Furthermore, Li 1.5 Al 0.5 Ge 1.5 (PO 4 ) 3 nanoparticles increases the electrochemical window of SICE up to 4.6 V (vs. Li + /Li), meanwhile enhances the thermal stability and fire-resistance, and promotes fast electrolyte wetting. Accordingly, a single-ion conducting LiFePO 4 /Li cell assembled with optimized SICE membrane endowed a high capacity retention of 92.9% after 800 cycles at 1 C, superior to the commercial LiPF 6 /PP system. This work paves a scalable and deployable way for design of advanced single-ion conducting electrolyte membranes to develop secure and stable LMBs.
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EUROPEAN POLYMER JOURNAL
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2018
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IF 3.741
Teng Xue,Erjun Tang,Xiaofeng Guo,Ruihong Wang,Lei Zhao,Jian Zhou,Shaojie Liu
The ionic liquid 1-(triethylene-tetramine)ethyl-3-methyl chloride ([N 4 MIM]Cl) was first prepared to replace the organic ligand coordinating with CuBr to catalyze atom-transfer radical polymerization (ATRP) in ionic liquid system. [N 4 MIM]Cl was synthesized via the intermediate IL 1-chloroethyl-3-methyl chloride ([CeMIM]Cl) reacting with the aliphatic amine triethylene tetramine (TETA) and [CeMIM]Cl) was obtained by N′-alkylation of N -methylimidazole with 1,2-dichloroethane. This catalyst has been applied to the ATRP of methyl methacrylate (MMA) in the ionic liquid (IL) 1-allyl-3-methylimidazolium chloride ([AMIM]Cl) and presented a perfect catalytic performance. The chemical structures of the ILs obtained were confirmed by FTIR and 1 H NMR. The coordination ability of [N 4 MIM]Cl was assessed by cyclic voltammetry (CV) and its coordination mechanism towards CuBr was discussed. The [N 4 MIM]Cl/CuBr catalyst system showed good controllability in the aforementioned ATRP reaction in [AMIM]Cl. The amount of residual Cu 2+ in the polymer product was determined by atomic absorption spectrometry (AAS) and the result showed that the Cu catalyst was easily separated from the obtained polymer. Thus, the coordinating IL could overcome the shortcomings of traditional organic ligands, such as poor compatibility with IL media resulting in the weakly catalytic performance and inferior separation of the catalyst from the polymer. It implied that the coordinating ionic liquid ([N 4 MIM]Cl) has highly promising application in the ATRP of ionic liquid system.
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ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces
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2020
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IF 8.758
Jie Luo,Jie You,Shuai Tan,Caihong Wang,Yong Wu
Humidified perfluorosulfonic acid polymers with a nanoscopic phase-separated morphology are highly proton-conductive materials for fuel cells, yet morphology tuning of the acidic materials for enhanced conduction remains a challenge. Aqueous acidic lyotropic liquid crystals (LLCs) provide a powerful platform to construct well-defined nanostructures for proton conduction. We report an aqueous LLC formed by 1-tetradecyl-3-methylimidazolium hydrogen sulfate, exhibiting a proton conductivity of 210 mS cm–1 at 25 °C, which surpasses that formed by alkylsulfonic acid, thus demonstrating that a mobile acidic anion is more efficient than constrained sulfonic acid functionality to transport protons in LLCs. For an aqueous solution of 1-alkyl-3-methylimidazolium hydrogen sulfate, a lamellar LLC results in higher conductivity than a micellar solution under the same hydration conditions. The peak power density of the fuel cell fabricated from porous membranes filled with the lamellar LLC is four times as high as that filled with the micellar solution. The work offers an efficient way to construct highly proton-conductive LLC materials for fuel cell application.
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DALTON TRANSACTIONS
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2024
·Vol. 53
·期 28
·11713-11719
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IF 3.5
Haoran Yu,Jian Guo,Jiajia Wang,Ji Zhang,Shan-Tao Zhang
As the two typical basic binary solid solutions of the relaxor-PbTiO3 family, Pb(Mg1/3Nb2/3)O3-PbTiO3 (PMN-PT) has been widely investigated, whereas Pb(Ni1/3Nb2/3)O3-PbTiO3 (PNN-PT) has not. Here, 1.5 mol% Sm-doped (1 − x)Pb(Ni1/3Nb2/3)O3–xPbTiO3, (1 − x)PNN–xPT:0.015Sm with x = 0.33–0.39, ceramics have been prepared and the chemical composition-induced evolution of crystal structure, domain, and electrical properties investigated systematically. With increasing PT content, evolution of the rhombohedral–tetragonal structure was observed. A rhombohedral–tetragonal morphotropic phase boundary occurred around x = 0.36–0.37, which showed a peak piezoelectric property with piezoelectric constant d33 = 531 pC N−1 and planar electromechanical coupling factor kp = 0.37 at room temperature. At the same time, the x = 0.36 composition showed improved ferroelectric behavior with remanent polarization Pr = 13.4 μC cm−2 and coercive field Ec = 3.2 kV cm−1. Interestingly, different from its PMN-PT counterpart, there is no temperature-driven phase transition between room temperature and the Curie temperature for (1 − x)PNN–xPT:0.015Sm. These parameters indicated that the PNN-PT system is worthy of more attention and is a promising platform for further development of high-performance piezo/ferroelectric materials.
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JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL THERMODYNAMICS
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2019
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Jun-Feng Wang,Pan Liang
A pure barium borate of BaB 8 O 11 (OH) 4 ·3H 2 O has been synthesized and characterized by XRD, FT-IR, TGA, and chemical analysis. The molar enthalpies of solution of BaB 8 O 11 (OH) 4 ·3H 2 O in 1 mol dm −3 HCl(aq), and Ba(OH) 2 ·8H 2 O in the mixture solvent of {2.00 cm 3 of 1 mol·dm −3 HCl + H 3 BO 3 (aq)} were measured by microcalorimeter at T = 298.15 K, respectively. With the use of previously determined enthalpy of solution of H 3 BO 3 (s) in 1 mol·dm −3 HCl(aq), and the standard molar enthalpies of formation for Ba(OH) 2 ·8H 2 O(s), H 3 BO 3 (s), and H 2 O(l), the standard molar enthalpy of formation of −(7500.6 ± 6.5) kJ·mol −1 at T = 298.15 K was obtained based on an appropriate thermochemical cycle. Moreover, the molar enthalpy of formation of −6091.7 kJ mol −1 for [B 8 O 11 (OH) 4 ] 2− was estimated by a group contribution method, which was used to predict the Δ f H m o of a series of alkaline-earth metal borates for MB 8 O 11 (OH) 4 (M = Ca, Sr, Ba).
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Chemical Science
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2018
·Vol. 9
·期 21
·4746-4755
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IF 9.063
Congfang Chen,Aiping Wu,Haijing Yan,Yinglu Xiao,Chungui Tian,Honggang Fu
Bi-transition metal carbides (BTMCs) are promising in catalytic fields, but the synthesis of small-sized BTMCs remains a challenge. Here, MoxCoxC (mainly below 20 nm in size) confined in uniform carbon polyhedrons (MoxCoxC@C) was synthesized based on trapping [PMo12O40]3− (PMo12) clusters into pre-synthesized, uniform ZIF-67 (PMo/ZIF-67). The opening of the windows (0.34 nm) of ZIF-67 cages through heating is essential to allow the trapping of PMo12 into the cages. This trapping route provides a new method to successfully combine POMs and MOFs that can not be effectively combined via traditional POMOF-based (simultaneous assembly) routes. It also has advantages in controlling the uniformity and components of the materials. The size matching of PMo12 (1 nm) and the cages (1.16 nm) of ZIF-67 enables effective contact of the Co and Mo sources, thus giving small-sized MoxCoxC protected by carbon via calcination. The optimized catalysts showed good performance for water splitting with a low η10 of 83 mV (295 mV) for the hydrogen (oxygen) evolution reaction, which is superior to those derived from ZIF-67 and precursors from POMOF-based routes. Our results also indicated that the HER activity is determined by the kind of BTMC, and the activity for the OER is relative to the oxygen-containing species formed during the initial OER test.
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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL MACROMOLECULES
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2022
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IF 8.025
Min Wang,Lin Yue,Sobia Niazi,Imran Mahmood Khan,Yin Zhang,Zhouping Wang
The modified natural biopolymers , recognized as environmentally friendly flocculants, are gaining tremendous attention in the field of water treatment. In this study, a novel hybrid flocculant with antibacterial activity , cinnamic acid (CA) conjugated N-(2-hydroxy)-propyl-3-trimethylammonium chitosan chloride (HTCC) derivative (HTCC-CA), was prepared via quaternary ammonium and amide reactions. The characterization, flocculation , and antibacterial activities were carried out to access the structural properties and potential application. The results of UV–vis, FT-TR, and 1 H NMR confirmed the successful synthesis of HTCC-CA1-3 derivatives. XRD and TGA revealed the lower crystallinity and thermal stability of HTCC-CA1-3 derivatives than chitosan (CS). Bacterial flocculation and antibacterial tests indicated the excellent flocculation effect of HTCC-CA1-3 derivatives and showed high antibacterial activity for Escherichia coli suspension. Moreover, the mechanism of action of the derivatives was investigated via zeta potential measurements and scanning electron microscope, which can be summed up as the effective interaction between charges. The results proved that HTCC-CA derivatives are promising agents for wastewater treatment.
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