Recent studies have underscored questions about the balance of risk and benefit of RBC transfusion. A better understanding of the nature and timing of molecular and functional changes in stored RBCs may provide strategies to improve the balance of benefit and risk of RBC transfusion. We analyzed changes occurring during RBC storage focusing on RBC deformability, RBC-dependent vasoregulatory fun...

S-Nitrosothiols are a group of potent, bioactive compounds that form through the reaction of nitric oxide (NO) with thiols in the presence of oxygen. These compounds are naturally occurring in vivo, stabilize NO and potentiate its biological effects. S-Nitrosoglutathione is the most abundant intracellular S-nitrosothiol, and the kinetics for its formation favors de novo synthesis. In this analy...

We perform an oscillation parameter-independent analysis of solar neutrino flux measurements from which we predict the charged-current rate at SNO relative to Standard Solar Model to be R SNO = 0.35 +0.16 −0.09(0.46 +0.13 −0.11) for oscillations to active (sterile) neutrinos. By alternately considering the B flux normalization fixed and free, we find that the flux measured by SuperKamiokande (S...

Small nucleolar RNAs (snoRNAs) and small Cajal body-specific RNAs (scaRNAs) are non-coding RNAs involved in the maturation of other RNA molecules and generally located in the introns of host genes. It is now emerging that altered sno/scaRNAs expression may have a pathological role in cancer. This study elucidates the patterns of sno/scaRNAs expression in multiple myeloma (MM) by profiling purif...

The ski/sno protooncogenes encode nuclear proteins that may act as transcription factors. We examined ski and sno mRNA expression in hemolymphopoietic lineages. The ski protooncogene is expressed in B- and T-lineage cells, mature macrophages, and mast cells. In normal murine marrow-derived progenitors analyzed by single-cell reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR), ski expressi...

Our former study reported that Fe-Sn spinel (Fe3-xSnxO4) was easily formed when SnO2 and Fe3O4 were roasted under CO-CO2 atmosphere at 900-1100 °C. However, the formation procedure is still unclear and there is a lack of theoretical research on the formation mechanism of the Fe-Sn spinel. In this work, the reaction mechanisms between SnO2 and Fe3O4 under CO-CO2 atmosphere were determined using ...

One-dimensional SnO₂- and Li⁺-doped SnO₂ porous nanofibers were easily fabricated via electrospinning and a subsequent calcination procedure for ultrafast humidity sensing. Different Li dopant concentrations were introduced to investigate the dopant's role in sensing performance. The response properties were studied under different relative humidity levels by both statistic and dynamic tests. T...

The novel 3D SnO cabbages self-assembled by nanosheets were successfully synthesized via template-free hydrothermal growth method under facile conditions. The XRD results manifest that the as-prepared SnO is tetragonal phase. The TEM and HRTEM results show that the cabbage nanosheets are polycrystalline structure consisted of considerable single-crystalline nanoparticles. Two typical Raman mode...

06 Transparent conductive oxides (TCOs) are a technologically important class of materials. [ 1 ] Herein we describe a facile, universal, and green ‘one-pot’ approach to produce stable dispersions comprising TCO nanoparticles (NPs) such as SnO 2 , In 2 O 3 , ATO ( ≡ SnO 2 :Sb), ITO ( ≡ In 2 O 3 :Sn), and ZTO ( ≡ SnO 2 :Zn). The synthesis begins by etching the bare metal powder precursors (Sn, I...

We analyze the 1258-day Super-Kamiokande day and night energy spectra with various χ 2 definitions. The best-fit lies in the LMA region at (∆m 2 , tan 2 θ) = (5.01 × 10 −5 eV 2 , 0.60), independently of whether systematic errors are included in the χ 2-definition. We compare the exclusion and allowed regions from the different definitions and choose the most suitable definition to predict the r...