Here the regulatory role of CO during stomatal movement in Vicia faba L. was surveyed. Results indicated that, like hydrogen peroxide (H(2)O(2)), CO donor Hematin induced stomatal closure in dose- and time-dependent manners. These responses were also proven by the addition of gaseous CO aqueous solution with different concentrations, showing the first time that CO and H(2)O(2) exhibit the simil...

OBJECTIVE Articular cartilage is separated from subchondral bone by the tidemark and a calcified cartilage zone. Advancement of the calcified region and tidemark duplication are both hallmarks of osteoarthritis (OA). Currently the mechanisms controlling post-natal articular cartilage mineralization are poorly understood. The objective of this study is to test the hypothesis that cellular commun...

AIM   Activated hepatic stellate cells (HSC) play a critical role in liver fibrosis. Suppressing abnormal function of HSC or reversion from activated to quiescent form is a hopeful treatment for liver cirrhosis. The interaction between platelets and HSC remains unknown although platelets go through hepatic sinusoids surrounded by HSC. This study aimed at clarifying the hypothesis that platelets...

Compiling Bayesian networks (BNs) is one of the hot topics in the area of probabilistic modeling and processing. In this paper, we propose a new method of compiling BNs into multi-linear functions (MLFs) based on Zero-suppressed BDDs (ZBDDs), which are the graph-based representation of combinatorial item sets. Our method is different from the original approach of Darwiche et. al which encodes B...

Electrocatalysts with high efficiency are crucial for improving the storage capacity and electrochemical stability of lithium–oxygen batteries (LOBs). In this work, through a facile hydrothermal method, cobalt–nitrogen-doped carbon nanocubes (Co–N/C), calcination products zeolitic imidazolate framework (ZIF–67) encapsulated by ultrathin C–MoS2 nanosheets to obtain Co–N/[email protected]–MoS2 co...

We investigate the structural, electronic and magnetic properties of transition metal (including Mn, Fe, Co, Ni, Cu, Rh Pd) adsorbed on SbAs monolayer by using density functional theory. found that an induced moment is observed for Co atoms, while in case Cu Ni it suppressed local distortions. Our calculations show can induce total spin 4.86μB, 3.51μB, 1.99μB 0.90μB, respectively. The origin ma...

In this work, biomass torrefaction was combined with coal co-combustion to illustrate the differences in performance and mechanisms of migration transformation nitrogen over entire course thermal treatments. XPS analysis illustrated that CO2 suppressed conversion pyrrole-N (N-5) quaternary-N (N-Q), whereas trend for an O2 atmosphere moved opposite direction. During co-combustion, impact on NO e...