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Lactoferrin (LF) plays critical roles in various physiological processes. However, its protective effects on small intestinal epithelial cells remain poorly understood. This study aimed to investigate its protective effects and underlying mechanisms in vitro on lipopolysaccharide (LPS)-challenged intestinal porcine epithelial cells (IPEC-J2 cells). The IPEC-J2 cells were treated with or without LPS and LF for 24 h and analyzed using various assays. The results indicated that the LPS treatment induced the secretion of pro-inflammatory cytokines [interleukin (IL)-1β, IL-8, and TNF-α], increased cell permeability, and enhanced reactive oxygen species (ROS) production. The LF treatment decreased the secretion and gene expression of IL-1β and downregulated the phosphorylation levels of NF-κB, IκB, P38, and ERK1/2 in LPS-challenged cells. Moreover, the LF treatment decreased cell permeability, enhanced the expression of claudin-1 protein, and inhibited the expression of the myosin light-chain kinase (MLCK) protein in LPS-challenged cells. It also reduced the ROS and MDA production as well as upregulated the GSH-Px activity and the expression of nuclear factor erythroid 2-related factor 2 (Nrf2) protein. Taken together, these results suggested that LF alleviated the LPS-induced cellular inflammation through the attenuation of nuclear factor kappa B (NF-κB)/mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) pathways, maintaining cellular barrier integrity and mitigating oxidative stress.As a worldwide epidemic, overweight and obesity have long been an issue of great interest in a wide range of health areas, and the whole grain diet has been proven to be an effective and healthy manner to prevent them. Recent developments in the field of microRNAs (miRNAs) have led to a renewed interest in lipid metabolism, however, whether a whole grain diet regulates lipid metabolism through miRNAs is still unknown. Hence, our current study was carried out to explore the changes of miRNAs in mice with the treatment of whole grain diets (the brown rice group, BR and whole wheat group, WW) and to screen out miRNAs that can serve as a biomarker to evaluate and regulate lipid metabolism. After whole grain diet treatment for 8 weeks, the lipids both in serum and liver were reduced, as well as the body weight. Moreover, there were 136 miRNAs with significant differences among our three dietary patterns (the CS diet, BR diet and WW diet) analyzed by serum miRNAs sequencing, and only 16 miRNAs showed simultaneous dhanisms of whole grain diets for lipid metabolism, as well as a new therapeutic target for the treatment of obesity.Wound healing is of major clinical concern and is constantly being explored for early restoration and enhanced recovery. While the etiology of the wound healing is multifactorial, high inflammation and increased oxidative stress which results in chronic inflammation, endothelial dysfunction and collagen degradation, delay the overall healing process. Thus, visual sensing of the oxidative stress would be highly informative in the successful implementation of wound healing therapies based on specific requirements. In this study, electrospinning was used to fabricate silk fibroin nanofibrous mats infused with Amplex red capable of detecting hydrogen peroxide, a reactive oxygen molecule. These mats produced a visible change in color with the limit of detection at 1 μM H2O2 concentration. In vivo studies carried out in diabetic mice with impaired wounds also displayed a visible change in color of the mats infused with Amplex red within 24 hours. These electrospun silk fibroin nanofibrous Amplex infused mats has the potential to enable a futuristic platform where decisions can be made for enhanced wound healing therapy.Coarse-grained molecular dynamics simulations of diamond nanoparticles were performed to investigate the effects of size polydispersity on three polyhedral shapes chosen to span a diverse space of surface interactions. It was found that the resulting self-assembly was size dependent as the simulations were quenched, with the largest nanoparticles providing a clustered scaffold for subsequent smaller nanoparticle assembly. Additionally, facet-facet interactions were dominated by the 111 surface and the resulting aggregate was dominated by meso-sized porosity for monodisperse systems, broadening to larger diameters for polydisperse systems.The efficient delivery of drugs to cells depends on their diffusion through the extracellular matrix (ECM) of tissues. Here we present a study on the diffusion of nanoprobes of radius from 1 nm to over 100 nm in the ECM of spheroids of three cell types (HeLa, MCF-7 and fibroblasts). We quantified the nanoparticle transport in the spheroids' proliferating zone. We determined the size-dependent viscosity of the ECM. We revealed that nanoobjects up to 10 nm in radius exhibited unobstructed diffusion in the ECM, regardless of the spheroid type. The presented length-scale dependent viscosity profiles for spheroids pave the way for advanced modelling of drug administration through tissues.A concise and asymmetric synthesis of the enantiomeric pyrrolidines 2 and ent-2 are herein reported. Both enantiomers were assessed as β-GCase inhibitors. While compound ent-2 acted as a poor competitive inhibitor, its enantiomer 2 proved to be a potent non-competitive inhibitor. Docking studies were carried out to substantiate their respective protein binding mode. Both pyrrolidines were also able to enhance lysosomal β-GCase residual activity in N370S homozygous Gaucher fibroblasts. Notably, the non-competitive inhibitor 2 displayed an enzyme activity enhancement comparable to that of reference compounds IFG and NN-DNJ. This work highlights the impact of inhibitors chirality on their protein binding mode and shows that, beyond competitive inhibitors, the study of non-competitive ones can lead to the identification of new relevant parmacological chaperones.A reactivity study of a β-diketiminate titanium(iii) phosphanylphosphido complex [MeNacNacTi(Cl)η2-P(SiMe3)-PtBu2] (1) towards ketones such as benzophenone, 9-fluorenone, acetophenone, cyclopentanone, cyclohexanone and cycloheptanone is reported. The reactions of 1 with aromatic ketones (without α-protons) directly lead to the Ti(iii) complex [MeNacNacTi(μ2-Cl)(OSiMe3)] (5) and Ti(iv) complexes with the pinacol condensation product [MeNacNacTi(OSiMe3)(η2-pinacolate)] (3), and phosphanylphosphaalkenes Ph2C[double bond, length as m-dash]P-PtBu2 (2) and (fluorenyl)C[double bond, length as m-dash]P-PtBu2 (6), respectively. The reaction with acetophenone leads to the titanium(iii) complex with the aldol condensation product as ligand [MeNacNacTi(Cl)OCMe(Ph)CH2(C[double bond, length as m-dash]O)Ph] (8) and in parallel to phosphanylphosphaalkene (Ph)MeC[double bond, length as m-dash]P-PtBu2 (9) and 5. The reactions of 1 with cyclic ketones (cyclopentanone and cyclohexanone) lead to Ti(iii) complexes [(ArN[douhaalkenes were characterized by NMR spectroscopy.Liquid-liquid-liquid equilibria (LLLE) is usually observed in many industrial processes primarily linked to enhanced oil recovery techniques. However their measurements are complex and so are their computations. An inherently predictive tool is often useful for elucidating their distribution ratios and phase compositions. In the present work, the phase behavior of nine ternary and two quaternary LLLE systems were predicted employing the quantum chemical based COnductor like Screening MOdel-Segment Activity Coefficient (COSMO-SAC) model. The methodology namely, Rachford-Rice LLLE (RRL3E) algorithm and Henley-Rosen LLLE (HRL3E) algorithm were used to predict the triphasic compositions in each system. In the RRL3E approach, the triphasic systems were assumed into two co-existing biphasic liquid-liquid equilibria systems, whereas in the HRL3E approach, all three phases were considered to be in equilibrium with each other simultaneously. BBI608 chemical structure Apart from predicting the local compositions, the HRL3E algorithm was also used to predict the individual phase splits and phase fractions of the LLLE region. Average overall root mean square deviation (rmsd (%)) values considering all 42 datasets and corresponding to 414 data points were recorded as 4.65% and 4.83% using the RRL3E and HRL3E algorithms respectively. Further, the RRL3E algorithm was extended to correlate the LLLE data for all systems using the Genetic Algorithm (GA) based NRTL (GA-NRTL) and UNIQUAC (GA-UNIQUAC) models.Curvature and size effects in halogen interactions with extended aromatic species have been evaluated, employing computational methods, in dimers formed by dihalogens Cl2, Br2 and I2 with both planar (coronene and circumcoronene) and curved (corannulene, sumanene and C60) aromatic systems. The main controlling factor in these interactions is dispersion, so they become stronger as the size of the halogen grows. The nature of the interaction with the halogen changes depending on the curvature and the extension of the aromatic system. As the aromatic species becomes larger, parallel stacked structures are favoured by dispersion increases over halogen bonded ones. Parallel dimers by the concave side are also favoured as the curvature of the aromatic species increases, while the effect is the opposite by the convex side. Overall, halogen bond interactions are not favoured for large planar or curved aromatic systems; only by the convex face of the most curved structures the dispersion contribution decreases enough so as to make halogen bonded structures competitive with parallel stacked ones.In the present attempt, a Dy, W co-doped La2Mo2O9 (LMX) system is explored to understand the order-disorder phase transition, dynamical disorder state and their influence on the oxy-ion diffusion mechanism. The X-ray diffraction study confirms the co-dopant induced suppression of the order-disorder phase transition temperature of LMX. The oxygen ion diffusion in the LMX matrix is through intrinsic oxygen vacancies. Disorder oxygen vacancies enhance the degree of freedom of oxy-ion diffusion; these are related to the dynamical disorder states in LMX. These disorder states are demonstrated by high temperature Raman spectra. Dynamical disordering of oxygen vacancies in co-doped LMX systems is revealed by studying the rate of change of intensity of the Mo-O bond vibration as a function of temperature; non-uniformity in the rate of change of intensity is correlated to dynamical disorder. The dielectric relaxation studied by using dielectric loss spectra reveals a single relaxation peak for the pure-LMX system, whiSOFCs).The rapid, room-temperature defluorosilylation of trifluoromethane, a highly potent greenhouse gas, has been achieved using a simple silyl lithium reagent. An extensive computational mechanistic analysis provides a viable reaction pathway and demonstrates the unexpected electrophilic nature of LiCF3. The reaction generates a bench stable fluorinated building block that shows promise as an easy-to-use difluoromethylating agent. The difluoromethyl group is an increasingly important bioisostere in active pharmaceutical ingredients, and therefore our methodology creates value from waste. The potential scalability of the process has been demonstrated by achieving the reaction on a gram-scale.