The prognosis for patients with bile duct cancer (BDC) remains poor. Although BDC cells are essentially radioresistant, recent reports have suggested that radiation therapy, in addition to its palliative role in the management of BDC, may improve patient survival. A better understanding of the mechanisms that lead to cellular radioresistance may assist in the development of more effective BDC t...

The BDC 2.5 T cell clone is specific for pancreatic beta-cell antigen presented by I-Ag7, and greatly accelerates diabetes when injected into 10-21-d-old nonobese diabetic (NOD) mice. The BDC 2.5 T cell receptor (TCR) has been solubilized as a TCR-IgG1 chimeric protein. All NOD mice immunized against BDC 2.5 TCR-IgG1 produced antibodies recognizing TCR C alpha/C beta epitopes that were inaccess...

We determined the heterogeneous mesoscale spatial apportionment of functional groups in a series of multivariate metal-organic frameworks (MTV-MOF-5) containing BDC (1,4-benzenedicarboxylate) linkers with different functional groups--B (BDC-NH2), E (BDC-NO2), F [(BDC-(CH3)2], H [BDC-(OC3H5)2], and I [BDC-(OC7H7)2]--using solid-state nuclear magnetic resonance measurements combined with molecula...

In this manuscript, we have developed an efficient spraying method to successfully fabricate a series of flower-like coordination polymers (CP) microparticles, including Co/BDC (1,4-benzenedicarboxylate) metal organic frameworks (MOF) and infinite coordination polymers (ICP) microparticles, as well as Ni-Co/BDC MOF and Zn/DOBDC (2,5-dioxido-1,4-benzenedicarboxylate) MOF. The spraying method has...

A new all-atom first-principles force field (FF) is constructed for the bimetallic, four-bladed zinc paddlewheel (ZPW) motif. Zinc-ligand interactions are described via Morse functions and the angular geometry at the metal centers is modeled with a pure ligand-ligand repulsion term. The ZPW-FF is principally based on 15 DFT-optimized model systems of general formula ZnPR.nL, where ZnP is the ba...

By adopting a ligand-based solid solution approach, the sulphonic acid functional group can be successfully incorporated into a porous coordination polymer with UiO-66 structure type. Zr(6)O(4)(OH)(4)(BDC-SO(3)H)(1.1)(BDC)(4.9) possesses enhanced heat of adsorption for carbon dioxide and acetone compared to Zr(6)O(4)(OH)(4)(BDC)(6).

Bellini's duct carcinoma (BDC) is a rare and aggressive variant of renal cell carcinoma that possesses an extremely poor prognosis. The greater the grade or stage of disease, the poorer the prognosis tends to be. This study presents two cases of BDC; one case of low grade BDC and one case of high grade BDC in a 47-year-old male and 74-year-old female, respectively. The 47-year-old male patient ...

Much interest has been expressed in recent years regarding various features common to dentitions with palatally displaced canines (PDC), particularly in relation to delayed dental development and reduced tooth size. The aims of the present study were to determine whether dentitions with buccally displaced canines (BDC) have features in common, which may be specific for the condition, when compa...

The title compound, [CdNa2(C8H4O4)2(C3H7NO)(H2O)2] n or [CdNa2(1,3-bdc)2(DMF)(H2O)2] n , is a new CdII-NaI heterobimetallic coordination polymer. The asymmetric unit consists of one CdII atom, two NaI atoms, two 1,3-bdc ligands, two coordinated water mol-ecules and one coordinated DMF mol-ecule. The CdII atom exhibits a seven-coordinate geometry, while the NaI atoms can be considered to be pent...

Three new Ni(BDC)/2,2'-bipy compounds, Ni2(BDC)(HBDC)2(2,2'-bipy)2 (2), Ni3(BDC)3(2,2'-bipy)2 (3), and Ni(BDC)(2,2-bipy)2.2H2O (5), in addition to the previously reported Ni(BDC)(2,2'-bipy).0.75H2BDC (1) and Ni(BDC)(2,2'-bipy)(H2O) (4) [BDC = 1,4-benzenedicarboxylate; 2,2'-bipy = 2,2'-bipyridine], have been synthesized by hydrothermal reactions. A systematic investigation of the effect of the r...