Much effort has been devoted to the discovery of effective biomaterials for nerve regeneration. Here, we reported a novel application of gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) modified with 6-mercaptopurine (6MP) and a neuron-penetrating peptide (RDP) as a neurophic agent to promote proliferation and neurite growth of human neuroblastoma (SH-SY5Y) cells. When the cells were treated with 6MP-AuNPs-RDP conju...

BACKGROUND The reverse distribution pattern (RDP), in which resting perfusion imaging demonstrates a de novo or more marked regional defect than that present in stress images, is observed frequently in patients with a low likelihood of coronary artery disease. METHODS AND RESULTS To determine whether this scan pattern is artifactual and to investigate its causes, we retrospectively evaluated ...

Insults during the fetal period predispose the offspring to systemic cardiovascular disease, but little is known about the pulmonary circulation and the underlying mechanisms. Maternal undernutrition during pregnancy may represent a model to investigate underlying mechanisms, because it is associated with systemic vascular dysfunction in the offspring in animals and humans. In rats, restrictive...

The allelic disorders rapid-onset dystonia-parkinsonism (RDP), alternating hemiplegia of childhood (AHC), and CAPOS/CAOS syndrome (cerebellar ataxia, areflexia, pes cavus, optic atrophy, and sensorineural deafness) are caused by ATP1A3 mutations. Intermediate RDP-AHC phenotypes are emerging. Positional mutations 274, 583, 867, and 923 lead to both RDP and AHC, suggesting different pathomechanis...

In this study, the adsorption isotherms and thermodynamic studies of lithium ions from seawater reverse osmosis (SWRO) desalination brine were investigated. Three adsorbents utilized namely, roasted date pits (RDP), potassium copper, nickel hexacyanoferrate-date (RDP-FC-Cu RDP-FC-Ni). The prepared showed enhanced morphological chemical structures such as high porosity, carbonaceous composition,...

Adequate predictions of rumen-degradable protein (RDP) and rumen-undegradable protein (RUP) supplies are necessary to optimize performance while minimizing losses of excess nitrogen (N). The objectives of this study were to evaluate the original Cornell Net Carbohydrate Protein System (CNCPS) protein fractionation scheme and to develop and evaluate alternatives designed to improve its adequacy ...

Ribosomal Database Project (RDP; http://rdp.cme.msu.edu/) provides the research community with aligned and annotated rRNA gene sequence data, along with tools to allow researchers to analyze their own rRNA gene sequences in the RDP framework. RDP data and tools are utilized in fields as diverse as human health, microbial ecology, environmental microbiology, nucleic acid chemistry, taxonomy and ...

BACKGROUND Currently, the naïve Bayesian classifier provided by the Ribosomal Database Project (RDP) is one of the most widely used tools to classify 16S rRNA sequences, mainly collected from environmental samples. We show that RDP has 97+% assignment accuracy and is fast for 250 bp and longer reads when the read originates from a taxon known to the database. Because most environmental samples ...

BACKGROUND ATP1A3-related disorders include rapid-onset dystonia-parkinsonism (RDP or DYT12), alternating hemiplegia of childhood (AHC), and CAPOS syndrome (Cerebellar ataxia, Areflexia, Pes cavus, Optic atrophy, and Sensorineural hearing loss). CASE REPORT We report two cases with intermediate forms between RDP and AHC. Patient 1 initially presented with the AHC phenotype, but the RDP phenot...