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Plant cytoplasm preserved by lightningX Wang
Department of Geological Sciences and Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611 7800, USA
Tissue Cell 36:351-60. 2004..The importance of the identification of cytoplasm in fossil lies not in itself but in how much it influences the future research in paleobotany...
Schmeissneria: a missing link to angiosperms?Xin Wang
State Key Laboratory of Palaeobiology and Stratigraphy, Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, The Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing, China
BMC Evol Biol 7:14. 2007..The earliest reliable fossil record of angiosperms remains restricted to the Cretaceous, even though recent molecular phylogenetic studies suggest an origin for angiosperms much earlier than the current fossil record...
Paleontological evidence for membrane fusion between a unit membrane and a half-unit membraneXin Wang
State Key Laboratory of Palaeobiology and Stratigraphy, Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Nanjing, P R China
Mol Membr Biol 24:496-506. 2007..This unexpected result from an unexpected material not only marks the first evidence of on-going physiological activities in fossil plants, but also raises questions on membrane fusion in recent plants...
A chemical signal possibly related to physiology in fossil cells detected by energy dispersive X-ray microanalysisX Wang
State Key Laboratory of Palaeobiology and Stratigraphy, Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, 39 Beijing Dong Road, Nanjing 210008, PR China
Tissue Cell 38:43-51. 2006..This paves the way for further research on fossil cytoplasm, which will better our understanding on the physiology of fossil plants...
Palaeontological evidence of membrane relationship in step-by-step membrane fusionXin Wang
State Key Laboratory of Palaeobiology and Stratigraphy, Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Nanjing, P R China
Mol Membr Biol 28:115-22. 2011..Observing such a transient phenomenon in fossil material implies that the fixing was most likely accomplished quickly by a natural process. The mechanism behind this phenomenon is clearly worthy of further enquiry...
L-malate production by metabolically engineered Escherichia coliX Zhang
Department of Microbiology and Cell Science, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611, USA
Appl Environ Microbiol 77:427-34. 2011..42 mol mol(-1)) and productivity (0.47 g liter(-1) h(-1)). This malate yield and productivity are equal to or better than those of other known biocatalysts...
The earliest normal flower from Liaoning Province, ChinaXin Wang
Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, The Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing, China
J Integr Plant Biol 51:800-11. 2009....
Room-temperature synthesis of self-assembled Sb2S3 films and nanorings via a two-phase approachQiaofeng Han
Key Laboratory for Soft Chemistry and Functional Materials, Ministry of Education, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Nanjing, China
Langmuir 28:6726-30. 2012..The Sb(2)S(3) nanorings showed higher photocatalytic activity for methyl orange degradation under visible light than the Sb(2)S(3) films owing to broader spectrum response and better aqueous dispersion...
Atomic force microscope observation on ultrastructures in plant cellsXin Wang
State Key Laboratory of Palaeobiology and Stratigraphy, Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Nanjing 210008, China
J Nanosci Nanotechnol 10:6624-8. 2010..The comparison among outcomes of AFM, SEM, TEM and LM on the same single cell suggest that this modified method is a good, applicable, efficient and faithful way applying AFM on biological materials...
Novel PEG functionalized graphene nanosheets: enhancement of dispersibility and thermal stabilityShupeng Zhang
Key Laboratory of Soft Chemistry and Functional Materials, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Ministry of Education, Nanjing, 210094, China
Nanoscale 3:2169-74. 2011..In our case, an increase of 35 K in thermal stability can be obtained for PEG4000 after filling with as low as 1 wt % of the PEG modified carbon sheets, suggesting their great potential as novel nanofillers in industry...
Preparation and Characterization of Mesoporous Zirconia Made by Using a Poly (methyl methacrylate) TemplateGuorong Duan
Ruidi Engineering and Technology Center, Nanjing Hydraulic Research Institute, Nanjing, 210024, P, R, China
Nanoscale Res Lett 3:118-22. 2008..The results indicate that the average pore size was found to be 3.7 nm...
Localization and mutation detection for paroxysmal kinesigenic choreoathetosisTe Du
National Laboratory of Medical Molecular Biology, Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, 5 Dongdan 3 Tiao, Beijing 100005, China
J Mol Neurosci 34:101-7. 2008..Paroxysmal kinesigenic choreoathetosis (PKC) is an autosomal-dominant movement disorder characterized by attacks of paroxysmal involuntary movements. To date, the causative gene has not been discovered...
Bioleaching of heavy metals from mine tailings by indigenous sulfur-oxidizing bacteria: effects of substrate concentrationYun Guo Liu
College of Environmental Science and Engineering, Hunan University, Changsha 410082, PR China
Bioresour Technol 99:4124-9. 2008..5%, 1%, 2%, 3%, and 5%) under the chosen experimental conditions. The bioleaching had a significant impact on changes in partitioning of heavy metals...
Carbon dots for multiphoton bioimagingLi Cao
Department of Chemistry, Clemson University, Clemson, South Carolina 29634-0973, USA
J Am Chem Soc 129:11318-9. 2007
The challenge of cross-cultural collaborative research: lessons learnt from a pilot case-crossover study of severe occupational hand trauma in the People's Republic of ChinaKezhi Jin
School of Public Health, Fudan University, Shanghai, PR China
Inj Prev 13:133-6. 2007....
Image-guided optical spectroscopy provides molecular-specific information in vivo: MRI-guided spectroscopy of breast cancer hemoglobin, water, and scatterer sizeColin M Carpenter
Thayer School of Engineering, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire 03755, USA
Opt Lett 32:933-5. 2007..Integration of molecular spectroscopy into standard clinical MRI can be achieved with this approach to spectral tomography...
[Relationships between aboveground biomass and environmental factors along an altitude gradient of alpine grassland]Kai hui Li
Xinjiang Institute of Ecology and Geography, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Urumqi 830011, China
Ying Yong Sheng Tai Xue Bao 18:2019-24. 2007..Altitude was negatively correlated with mean air temperature and soil pH value (P < 0.01), and positively correlated with mean relative humidity (P < 0.01) and soil available nitrogen and water content (P < 0.05)...
Nortriptyline protects mitochondria and reduces cerebral ischemia/hypoxia injuryWen Hua Zhang
Department of Neurosurgery, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, 221 Longwood Avenue, LMRC 113, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Stroke 39:455-62. 2008..Because mitochondrial permeability transition and consequent mitochondrial dysfunction have been implicated in acute neuronal death, we proposed to investigate the possible neuroprotective effects of nortriptyline in cerebral ischemia...
Brewery wastewater treatment using air-cathode microbial fuel cellsYujie Feng
Department of Environmental Science and Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology, No 202, Haihe Road, Nangang District, Harbin 150090, China
Appl Microbiol Biotechnol 78:873-80. 2008..These results show that brewery wastewater can be effectively treated using MFCs, but that achievable power densities will depend on wastewater strength, solution conductivity, and buffering capacity...
O:8 serotype Yersinia enterocolitica strains in ChinaXin Wang
National Institute for Communicable Disease Control and Prevention, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, 102206, Beijing, China
Int J Food Microbiol 125:259-66. 2008..This suggests the O:8 strains lacking virulence determinants may not disseminate rapidly in humans and are maintained in animal reservoirs; and therefore exhibit higher variance and divergence from the virulent type...
The polymorphism of HLA-DR and -DQ allelic genes associated with intrahepatic cholestasis of pregnancyYiling Ding
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, The Second Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan, China
Genet Test 12:215-20. 2008..This study was conducted to investigate the association of the polymorphisms of human leucocyte antigen (HLA) class II DRB1 and DQB1 alleles and the risk for intrahepatic cholestasis of pregnancy (ICP)...
Pedological characteristics of Mn mine tailings and metal accumulation by native plantsXin Wang
College of Environmental Science and Engineering, Hunan University, Changsha, China
Chemosphere 72:1260-6. 2008..All species studied could be good candidates for revegetation of Mn tailings...
Restoration of mature etiolated cucumber hypocotyl cell wall susceptibility to expansin by pretreatment with fungal pectinases and EGTA in vitroQingxin Zhao
Jiangsu Key Laboratory for Biodiversity and Biotechnology, College of Life Science, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing 210046, People s Republic of China
Plant Physiol 147:1874-85. 2008....
A channel connecting the mother cell and forespore during bacterial endospore formationJeffrey Meisner
Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 105:15100-5. 2008..These and other results lead us to suggest that SpoIIIAH forms part of a channel between the forespore and mother cell that is required for the activation of sigma(G)...
Field-dependent-independent cognitive style in solving dynamics problemsLi Jun Wang
College of Mathematics, Physics and Informations Science, Zhejiang Normal University, China
Psychol Rep 92:867-80. 2003..The difference between Field-independent students and Field-dependent students in solving complex Dynamics problems may be that the former students more easily form a clear map of motion than the latter students...
The cellular and subcellular localization of zinc transporter 7 in the mouse spinal cordZhi Hong Chi
Department of Histology and Embryology, China Medical University, Shenyang, China
Histol Histopathol 23:781-7. 2008..The present study supports the notion that ZNT7 may function to supply zinc ions to the newly synthesized metalloproteins in the secretory pathway of the spinal neuron and the ependyma cell...
[Canopy rainfall storage capacity of tropical seasonal rainforest and rubber plantation in Xishuangbanna]Xin Wang
Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, China
Ying Yong Sheng Tai Xue Bao 17:1782-8. 2006..Compared with rubber plantation, tropical seasonal rainforest had a stronger rainfall-storage capacity due to its multi-layer structure of canopy and excellent water-holding performance...
Potential of weed species applied to remediation of soils contaminated with heavy metalsShu He Wei
Key Laboratory of Terrestrial Ecological Process, Institute of Applied Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenyang 110016, China
J Environ Sci (China) 16:868-73. 2004..If the problem of low endurance to heavy metals can be solved by a reinforcer, 3 weed species can be perhaps applied commercially...
Probing rhodopsin-transducin interactions by surface modification and mass spectrometryXin Wang
Department of Cell and Molecular Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, South Carolina 29425, USA
Biochemistry 43:11153-62. 2004..In addition, we show evidence of interaction between the end of the C-terminal tail of rhodopsin and G(t)alpha in the unactivated state of rhodopsin...
Modeling of oxygen diffusion and metabolism from capillary to musclePing Huang
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
Adv Exp Med Biol 540:325-30. 2003
[Relationship between the patients' knowledge on hypertension prevention and control and the rate on blood pressure control]Xin Wang
Department of Epidemiology, Cardiovascular Institute and Fuwai Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Beijing 100037, China
Zhonghua Liu Xing Bing Xue Za Zhi 24:1082-5. 2003..CONCLUSION: Patients' knowledge on hypertension control was significantly related to the rate on hypertension control. Health education should be helpful to improve the rate on hypertension control...
Morphological and molecular heterogeneity in release sites of single neuronsFlorence D Morgenthaler
Institut de Biologie Cellulaire et de Morphologie IBCM, Rue du Bugnon 9, 1005 Lausanne, Switzerland
Eur J Neurosci 17:1365-74. 2003..These results show that integral membrane synaptic vesicle proteins are differentially distributed among functional release sites of the same neuron...
A novel sRNA component of the carbon storage regulatory system of Escherichia coliThomas Weilbacher
Department of Molecular Biology and Immunology, University of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth, Fort Worth, TX 76107 2699, USA
Mol Microbiol 48:657-70. 2003..Homologues of csrC are apparent in several Enterobacteriaceae. The regulatory and evolutionary implications of these findings are discussed...
5-Fluorouracil derivatives from the sponge Phakellia fuscaXiao Hua Xu
Institute and National Laboratory of Elemento Organic Chemistry, Nankai University, Tianjin 300071, People s Republic of China
J Nat Prod 66:285-8. 2003..Their structures were determined on the basis of spectral analysis and X-ray diffraction...
Risk factors of military training-related injuries in recruits of Chinese People's Armed Police ForcesXin Wang
Department of Health Service, Medical College of Chinese People s Armed Police Forces, Tianjin 300162, China
Chin J Traumatol 6:12-7. 2003..To assess the incidence, types and risk factors of military training-related injuries in recruits of Chinese People's Armed Police Forces (CPAPF)...
[Effects of land utilization of sewage sludge on crops and soils]Xin Wang
Open Laboratory of Terrestrial Ecological Process, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenyang 110016
Ying Yong Sheng Tai Xue Bao 13:163-6. 2002..There was no evident harmful effect of heavy methals from sewage sludge on quality of soil environment, agricultural products and underground water when the application of sewage sludge was controlled within the range of 45 t.hm-2...
[Analysis of polymorphism of ACTBP2 locus in Han population in Chengdu and triplexing of three STR loci]Zhenbo Xu
The Research Institution of Forensic Science and Technology, Shenzhen Police Bureau, Shenzhen 518001, China
Sichuan Da Xue Xue Bao Yi Xue Ban 34:72-4. 2003..CONCLUSION: These data indicate that ACTBP2 is of good polymorphism and can be applied to human genetic study, forensic parentage testing and identification...
Mechanical strain opens connexin 43 hemichannels in osteocytes: a novel mechanism for the release of prostaglandinPriscilla P Cherian
Department of Biochemistry, University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, TX 78229 3900, USA
Mol Biol Cell 16:3100-6. 2005....
Streptococcus suis sequence type 7 outbreak, Sichuan, ChinaChangyun Ye
State Key Laboratory for Infectious Disease Prevention and Control, National Institute for Communicable Disease Control and Prevention, Changping, Beijing 102206, People's Republic of China
Emerg Infect Dis 12:1203-8. 2006..suis ST-7, the causative agent, was a single-locus variant of ST-1 with increased virulence. These findings strongly suggest that ST-7 is an emerging, highly virulent S. suis clone that caused the largest S. suis outbreak ever described...
Quantum-sized carbon dots for bright and colorful photoluminescenceYa Ping Sun
Department of Chemistry and Laboratory for Emerging Materials and Technology, Clemson University, Clemson, South Carolina 29634 0973, USA
J Am Chem Soc 128:7756-7. 2006..These strongly emissive carbon dots may find applications similar to or beyond those of their widely pursued silicon counterparts...
Single nucleotide polymorphisms in the proximal promoter region of apolipoprotein M gene (apoM) confer the susceptibility to development of type 2 diabetes in Han ChineseNifang Niu
National Laboratory of Medical Molecular Biology, Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, School of Basic Medicine, Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, PR China
Diabetes Metab Res Rev 23:21-5. 2007..In the present study, we investigated the potential association of apoM genetic variation with the development of T2D...
Approximation of Mie scattering parameters in near-infrared tomography of normal breast tissue in vivoXin Wang
Dartmouth College, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Hanover, New Hampshire 03755, USA
J Biomed Opt 10:051704. 2005....
TAK-652 inhibits CCR5-mediated human immunodeficiency virus type 1 infection in vitro and has favorable pharmacokinetics in humansMasanori Baba
Division of Antiviral Chemotherapy, Center for Chronic Viral Diseases, Graduate School of Medical and Dental Sciences, Kagoshima University, 8 35 1, Sakuragaoka, Kagoshima 890 8544, Japan
Antimicrob Agents Chemother 49:4584-91. 2005..The compound displayed favorable pharmacokinetics, and its plasma concentration was 7.2 ng/ml (9.1 nM) even 24 h after the administration of 25 mg. Thus, TAK-652 is a promising candidate as a novel entry inhibitor of HIV-1...
Expression pattern and preliminary functional analysis of human CREB4 geneYong Juan Gao
Laboratory of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, School of Life Sciences, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200062, China
Yi Chuan Xue Bao 32:898-902. 2005..Our results suggested that putative transmembrane domain of CREB4 protein was associated with modulation of its function for the transcriptional activation...
[Epidermal growth factor receptor mutation in Chinese patients with non-small cell lung cancer]Zhen-Kui Pan
Skate Key Laboratory of Oncology in Southern China, Cancer Center, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, P. R. China
Ai Zheng 24:919-23. 2005..1% (3/13) vs. 18.0% (7/39), P=0.697]. CONCLUSION: EGFR mutation rate in Chinese NSCLC patients is similar to that in Japanese patients, and is obviously higher than that in Caucasian population...
Highly potent inhibition of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 replication by TAK-220, an orally bioavailable small-molecule CCR5 antagonistKatsunori Takashima
Division of Antiviral Chemotherapy, Center for Chronic Viral Diseases, Graduate School of Medical and Dental Sciences, Kagoshima University, 8-35-1, Sakuragaoka, Kagoshima 890-8544, Japan
Antimicrob Agents Chemother 49:3474-82. 2005..At a dose of 5 mg/kg of body weight, TAK-220 showed oral bioavailabilities of 9.5 and 28.9% in rats and monkeys, respectively. Thus, TAK-220 is a promising candidate for the treatment of HIV-1 infection...
Identification of weed plants excluding the uptake of heavy metalsShuhe Wei
Key Laboratory of Terrestrial Ecological Process, Institute of Applied Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenyang 110016, China
Environ Int 31:829-34. 2005..O. biennis is a potential Cd-excluder, but also a potential Cu-excluder. The research raises the possibility of making a major breakthrough in the application of metal excluders for safe agro-production in the future...
Polymorphic CAG/CAA repeat length in the AIB1/SRC-3 gene and prostate cancer risk: a population-based case-control studyAnn W Hsing
Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, Rockville, Maryland 20852 7234, USA
Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 11:337-41. 2002..Expanded studies in other populations are needed to confirm this association and the combined effect of AIB1/SRC-3 and other hormone-related genes in prostate cancer etiology...
