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As ESC8 demonstrated anti-colon cancer effect in vitro, in here, we used the same GR-targeted liposomal formulation but carrying a more fusogenic cationic lipid D1 and used against colon tumor orthotopic model in mice. We show that GR targeted formulation (D1XE-Hsp90) exhibited efficient cellular uptake, transfection and selective cytotoxicity in colon cancer cells, tumor-targeted bio-distribution and enhanced survivability, reduced tumor size in orthotopic colon tumor-bearing mice. The tumor sections exhibited reduced tumor proliferation as well as neo-vascularization, thus supporting the holistic antitumor effect of the D1XE-Hsp90 formulation. Over all our results establish the GR-targeted D1XE-Hsp90 formulation as potent anti-colon cancer therapeutics.We have studied the origin of magnetic interaction in ε-Fe2O3by ab-initio electronic structure calculations. The exchange integrals of the Heisenberg hamiltonian have been calculated using the methods based on the density functional theory (DFT) employing generalized gradient approximation with orbital dependent potential extension for 3d electrons of Fe (GGA+U method). The calculations confirm the ground antiferromagnetic (AFM) state with two Fe3+sublattices oriented up (Fe2 and Fe3) and two Fe3+sublattices oriented down (Fe1 and Fe4). The calculated exchange integrals, including also the intra-sublattice ones, are all of AFM type. Their strength weighted by the number of neighbors is larger between the Fe sublattices with opposite spins than between the sublattices with equal spin directions. The notable exception is a strong exchange integral between theneighboring tetrahedrally-coordinated sites within the Fe4 sublattice, which effectively decreases the molecular field imposed on Fe4 sites by neighboring sites of other sublattices, namely the antiparallelly oriented Fe2 and Fe3. For this reason, the ordered magnetic moment of Fe4 exhibits the fastest decrease with increasing temperature among the sublattices, leading to an uncompensated AFM arrangement in ε-Fe2O3. Considering the competition of the inter- and intra-sublattice exchange integrals and applying symmetry arguments, we infer that the collinear AFM ground state of ε-Fe2O3is prone to an intrinsic canting within the sublattices, retaining at the same time the magnetic group symmetry Pna'21'.

In the following review we outline how ultrasound can be used to measure physiological processes in the gastrointestinal tract.

We have investigated the potential of ultrasound in assessing gastrointestinal physiology including original research regarding both basic methodology and clinical applications.

Our main findings show the use of ultrasound to study esophageal motility, measure volume and contractility of the stomach, assess motility, wall thickness, and perfusion of the small bowel, and evaluate wall vascularization and diameters of the large bowel.

Ultrasound is a widely accessible technology that can be used for both scientific and clinical purposes. Being radiation-free and user friendly, the examination can be frequently repeated enabling longitudinal studies. Furthermore, it does not influence normal GI physiology, thus being useful to estimate motility and subtle changes in physiology. Accordingly, ultrasound scanning and physiological measurements may make a big difference for the scientist and the doctor; and for the patients who receive an efficient work-up.

Ultrasound is a widely accessible technology that can be used for both scientific and clinical purposes. Being radiation-free and user friendly, the examination can be frequently repeated enabling longitudinal studies. Furthermore, it does not influence normal GI physiology, thus being useful to estimate motility and subtle changes in physiology. Accordingly, ultrasound scanning and physiological measurements may make a big difference for the scientist and the doctor; and for the patients who receive an efficient work-up.Core-sheath nanofibrous scaffolds from polyvinyl alcohol (PVA)-strontium ranelate (SrR)-Polycaprolactone (PCL) were prepared by water in oil electrospinning method. Thus, PCL (the oil phase) was used as the shell part and a mixture of PVA and SrR (the water phase) was inserted in the core. The amounts of SrR was varied from 0 to 15 wt.% Mussel-inspired dopamine-gelatin coating was done on the nanofibrous to improve their hydrophilicity and cellular attachment. Selleckchem HG106 The effect of the SrR content on morphology, mechanical, physicochemical, in vitro release behaviors, and biological properties as well as in vivo bone regeneration was investigated. Morphological observations revealed that continuous nanofibers with a core/shell structure were successfully obtained and the fibers diameter increased as the SrR content rose. X-ray diffraction (XRD) analysis revealed that SrR was molecularly distributed in the nanofibers and increasing the amount of the SrR decreased the crystallinity of the nanofibers. Moreover, the SrR release was regulated through the mechanism of Fickian diffusion and it was assumed as fast as possible in the samples with higher SrR content. The mesenchymal stem cell culturing showed improved cell proliferation by adding SrR and accelerating the expression of ALP, Runx2, Col I, and OCN genes. Besides, the SrR-loaded nanofibers improved bone formation of calvarial defects in a rat model as revealed by in vivo investigations.We present a new computational method for estimating thesp-dexchange constant,Jeffsp-d, applicable to transition metal doped diluted magnetic semiconductors, transition metal oxides, and 2D- and 3D- dichalcogenides. The proposed method is based on results describing the variation of the magnetic features of a doped system with the variation of its magnetization density (M). The results forJeffsp-d(M)obtained with the proposed method are compared with the corresponding results,Jeffsp-d(ΔEVBM), obtained from estimations of the spin electron orbital splitting, ΔEVBM, at the valence band maximum (VBM). The latter is estimated in two ways; either directly from plots of the band structure calculations or by calculating the energy difference between the band-centers of the spin-up and spin-down electron density of states of the doped systems. Despite the inherent drawbacks in these two estimation methods for ΔEVBM, they lead to equivalent results and the correspondingJeffsp-d(ΔEVBM)are in good agreement with theJeffsp-d(M)ones.