We have isolated a novel inhibitor of erythropoietic differentiation from the plasma of a patient suffering from idiopathic pure red cell aplasia. This differentiation-inhibiting protein (DIP) specifically blocked the differentiation of human burst-forming unit-erythroid (BFU-E), but not colony-forming unit-erythroid (CFU-E) cells. DIP also blocked the maturation of murine BFU-E cells, but not ...

Diisopropylammonium trifluoroacetate ({[Pr2NH2][CF3COO]}; dip tfa; 1) and diisopropylammonium pentafluoropropionate ({[Pr2NH2][C2F5COO]}; dip pfp; 2) have been synthesized and structurally characterized by X-ray diffraction and spectroscopic methods. Both compounds form hydrogen-bonded cyclic dimers (Etter symbol: R4(12)) in the solid state. The asymmetric unit of 1 contains one trifluoroacetat...

In a comparison between a bare diindenoperylene (DIP) film and a DIP film spin-coated with a layer of gold nanoparticles, we have investigated the influence of plasmon resonances in the gold particles on spectroscopic properties of the molecular film. Under off-resonant excitation with a laser at 633 nm, the bare DIP film showed only weak photoluminescence (PL) and Raman signals, but after spin...

Aluminum chalcogenides are mostly encountered in the form of bulk aluminum oxides that are structurally diverse but typically consist of networks with high lattice energy in which the chalcogen atoms bridge the metal centres. This makes their molecular congeners difficult to synthesize because of a pronounced tendency for oligomerization. Here we describe the isolation of the monotopic aluminum...

An angle-dependent reflection coefficient is recovered by seismic migration in the angle domain. We have developed a postmigration technique for computing scattering and dip angle common-image gathers (CIGs) from seismic images, extended by the subsurface offset, based on wave-equation migration methods. Our methodology suggests a system of Radon transform operators by introducing local transfo...

An angle-dependent reflection coefficient is recovered by seismic migration in the angle-domain. We propose a post-migration technique for computing scattering and dip angle common-image gathers (CIGs) from seismic images, extended by the subsurface offset, in relation with wave-equation migration methods. Our methodology suggests a system of Radon transform operators by introducing local trans...