Abstract Zeolitic imidazolate framework‐67 (ZIF67) or copper(II)‐benzene‐1,3,5‐tricarboxylate (CuBTC)‐based chitosan fibers grown in situ on can be used the development of effective air filters. In this context, herein, metal–organic frameworks (ZIF67 CuBTC) are (denoted as C‐ZIF67 C‐CuBTC), and NO gas adsorption performance, particular matter filtration efficiency, antibacterial properties fab...

Organic anion (OA) transport mediates accumulation of the zwitterionic nephrotoxic cysteine S-conjugates S-dichlorovinylcysteine (DCVC) and S-chlorotrifluoroethylcysteine (CTFC) in the rabbit renal proximal tubule (RPT). Although these cysteine conjugates are nephrotoxic to the human RPT, neither the role of OA transport nor the specific OA transport pathway(s) involved in cysteine conjugate ac...

Biliary tract cancer (BTC) is often difficult to diagnose definitively, even through histological examination. MicroRNAs (miRNAs) regulate a variety of physiological processes. In recent years, it has been suggested that profiles for circulating miRNAs, as well as those for tissue miRNAs, have the potential to be used as diagnostic biomarkers for cancer. The aim of this study was to confirm the...

BACKGROUND A meta-analysis was conducted to summarize the evidence from prospective cohort and case-control studies regarding the association between coffee intake and biliary tract cancer (BTC) and liver cancer risk. METHODS Eligible studies were identified by searches of PubMed and EMBASE databases from the earliest available online indexing year to March 2017. The dose-response relationshi...

This paper investigates the performance of an image compression algorithm tailored to compress gray-scale facial photographs. The proposed technique treats blocks in the head region differently and adapts itself to the local nature of the face region. The proposed technique first locates the head-shoulder region and then locally processes block in the head region and encode active blocks contai...

The present study was conducted to establish a method to induce differentiation of bone marrow (MB)-derived mesenchymal cells into insulin-producing cells. When mouse BM-derived mesenchymal cells were cultured for 60 days in medium containing 10% fetal calf serum and 25 mM glucose, they expressed insulin. Addition of activin A and betacellulin (BTC) accelerated differentiation, and immunoreacti...

A Metal-Organic Framework (MOF), iron-benzenetricarboxylate (Fe(BTC)), has been studied for the adsorptive removal of azo-dye Orange II from aqueous solutions, where the effect of various parameters was tested and isotherm and kinetic models were suggested. The adsorption capacities of Fe(BTC) were much higher than those of an activated carbon. The experimental data can be best described by the...