mass spectrometry from bench top to bedside

... functions as high affinity receptor 10 Pulmonary Hypertension – From Bench Research to Clinical Challenges and a cofactor for plasma factors VII/VIIa, the initiator of blood coagulation TF is ... response to injury, several signaling pathways are activated in an attempt to repair the damage However, these pathways become deregulated and the cytoprotective molecules become cytotoxic leading to ... and bilirubin have cytoprotective function HO-1/CO inhibits pro-inflammatory cytokines such as CCL2 and IL-6, and increases the production of IL-10 an anti-inflammatory cytokine Interestingly,...

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... addition, mass spectrometry has been used to identify biomarkers that indicate resistance to several chemotherapeutic drugs used to treat MM Equally important mass spectrometry was used to investigate ... Hematology, University Health Network, 200 Elizabeth Street, Toronto, M5G-2C4, Canada, 2Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology, University of Toronto, King's College Circle, Toronto, ... receptor in MM Importantly their mass Page of 11 spectrometry approach demonstrated the potential for pharmacodynamic monitoring The future of mass spectrometry in biomarker discovery The use of mass...

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... polyacrylamide gel from 10 picomol, picomol, 500 femtomol, 100 femtomol, 50 femtomol, 10 femtomol, femtomol to femtomol with a Mini protein II electrophoresis apparatus (BioRad Laboratories, California, ... Silver staining of different amount of BSA picomol, 500 femtomol, 100 femtomol, 50 femtomol, 10 femtomol, femtomol to femtomol BSA (From left to right)were loaded and run by SDS-PAGE and then stained ... (TAP) Tag Pull Down and Mass Spectrometry 23 3.1 Introduction 3.1.1 Mass Spectrometry (MS) In the post-genome era, mass spectrometry (MS) has emerged as a powerful tool to quickly and efficiently...

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... Diseases – From Bench to Bedside A Diagnostic and Preventive Perspective Addition of new technologies into existing, highly efective screening programs are considered according to the ability to increase ... and Related Diseases – From Bench to Bedside A Diagnostic and Preventive Perspective HPV16 variants from European and North American samples were classified as European prototype (EP) [107] Several ... Therefore, care must be taken to avoid false-positive results derived from cross-contaminated specimens or 33 34 Human Papillomavirus and Related Diseases – From Bench to Bedside A Diagnostic and...

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... feasible Investigators at Baylor have found that gaspermeable flasks (e.g., G-Rex flasks, Wilson Wolf Manufacturing, New Brighton, MN) can be used to expand cytotoxic T cells to a much higher ... extremely important to producing the 10 to 40 × 109 cell used for adoptive cytotoxic T cell and NK cell therapy Several groups are currently working to develop and validate methods to expand, TIL, ... and autologous CD34+ cell rescue used as part of adoptive cellular therapy protocols used to treat metastatic melanoma are similar to those used for HSCT For many years lymphocytes collected from...

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... which rated from 13% in South/Central America to 22% 26 Human Papillomavirus and Related Diseases – From Bench to Bedside – Research Aspects Table Incidence of HPV infection related to ICC, HSIL ... allowing automation of HPV genotyping assays In addition, new molecular biological tools in the diagnosis and treatment of cervical cancer are included, next to the development of a research tool to ... Acknowledgements The editor of this book would like to express sincere thanks to all authors for their high quality contributions The editor expresses the gratefulness to Ms Bojana Zelenika and...

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... intragenomic regulators (Bouvard et al., 1994) The E2 protein can bind to factors on mitotic chromatin and join the virus genome to host cell chromosomes during mitosis; it contributes to coordinating ... non-inflammatory epithelial environment can also be sufficient to induce a peripheral tolerance to E7 in the cytotoxic T lymphocytes population (Tindle, 2002) E6 also interacts with the adaptor protein ... be cited: transcription factors such as p300, myc, interferon regulatory (IRF3), autocrine motility factor (AMF-1/gPS2); factors that determine adhesion, cytoskeleton and polarity, such as paxillin,...

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... adrenalectomies2 after the glands were found to produce DHEA, which could be transformed into testosterone, regarded to have caused recurrent disease All patients died in a short time postoperatively ... Prostate Cancer – From Bench to Bedside orchiectomy are also adrenalectomized This operation was conclusively remo-ving the adrenal lifesaving functions of unknown fictive factors; Cycloprostatins ... Cancer Stem Cells 493 Luis A Espinoza, Christopher Albanese and Olga C Rodriguez VII Preface In this textbook entitled Prostate Cancer – From Bench to Bedside we highlight many of the essential...

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... [36] mTOR is also a central downstream effector of PI3K/AKT pathways.[37] The mTOR signaling pathway has been reported to be deregulated in HCC [38,39] Rapamycin, a mTOR inhibitor, binds to the ... endothelial growth factor in human hepatocellular carcinoma Hepatology 1998, 28:68-77 Baldo P, Cecco S, Giacomin E, Lazzarini R, Ros B, Marastoni S: mTOR pathway and mTOR inhibitors as agents for ... survivin all together integrate leading aberrant STAT signaling activity and contribute to resistance to FLT3 inhibitors The discovery of this novel mechanism of resistance to FLT3 inhibitors, as...

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... individual intrinsic response at the bedside For any new therapy resulting from our expanded knowledge of the clotting cascade in the inflammatory response to be tailored to the needs of the individual ... inflammatory response will be required Unless any new therapies have very benign toxicities, the need to assess the need, dosage and response to treatment will mandate sensitive and specific monitoring ... monitoring techniques Bedside or clinical laboratory techniques that could be applicable to most clinical environments would allow the benefit of any new therapies to be applied to the greatest number...

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... mechanics [5–7], increases edema formation [8–10], increases inflammatory cytokine production [10], worsens histopathology [5,6], and leads to decreased surfactant production [11], even when used in combination ... with high-frequency oscillatory ventilation Hematoxylin and eosin; 100× With permission from Yoder and coworkers [63] intermittent mandatory ventilation-treated infants to 56% in HFOV-treated infants ... 0.007 Toronto P = NS Shown are mortality rates for infants with congenital diaphragmatic hernia (CDH) at Children’s Hospital, Boston (n = 285) and The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto (n =...

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... difficult to manage in an emergency situation when immediate normalisation of the international normalised ratio (INR) is required to stop life-threatening bleeding Reproduced with permission from Massachusetts ... anticoagulant factors in a patient after perfusion of PCC with pro- and anti-coagulant factors (for example, Proteins C and S) may provide some answers to this issue Factor II is likely to have been ... first 24 to 48 hours [13-15] The increased mortality in patients receiving warfarin appears related to increased in-hospital haematoma expansion and not to the initial volume of haematoma at the...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 11:23

... Critical Care Vol 13 No Truong et al inflammatory cytokines TNF-α and IL-1β [9,62] Taken together, antioxidant formation and a shift toward anti-inflammatory cytokines during moderate exercise may play ... effects on muscle, immobility can lead to a pro-inflammatory state caused by increased systemic inflammation via increases in pro-inflammatory cytokines In addition to immobility, critically ill patients ... production of anti-inflammatory cytokines [9] Typically, IL-6 (which has anti-inflammatory properties) is the first cytokine to rise during exercise, increasing up to 100-fold greater than pre-exercise...

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... Egr-1 as a pro-inflammatory regulator in ventilator-induced lung injury Moreover, peroxysome proliferator-activated receptor-gamma, an antiinflammatory nuclear regulator, seems to be involved in the ... antiinflammatory, anti-apoptotic, and anti-proliferative properties Thus, CO has advanced from a toxic waste product to a physiological regulator and the importance of endogenously derived CO to control ... mice for h before aerosol challenge led to a specific reduction of the pro-inflammatory cytokine IL-5 while other pro-inflammatory or anti-inflammatory cytokines were unaffected [81] In the same...

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... In this regard, it is important to realise that, in most hospitals, the expertise exists to rapidly deliver the skills and knowledge to the bedside when necessary to deal with critical illness ... septic shock [25-27] It would make sense to apply these concepts to critical illness in general, wherever it may occur in the wards, and to use an RRS to deliver early intervention by specifically ... our institution, where ICU doctors and nurses are no longer viewed as experts confined to the ‘ivory tower’ of the ICU but are now constantly assessing and helping to treat ‘at-risk’ patients in...

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... spectra were determined with a Voyager DE RP from PE Biosystems The natural isotopic distribution in F420 was calculated by the isotope pattern calculator provided by the University of Sheffield ... (insets, black) all three mass spectra are almost identical to the stick spectrum (insets, white) calculated for [5-1H]F420 from its elemental composition considering the isotope composition of the ... (2H2CO) were from Euriso -Top (Saarbrucken, Germany) ¨ and sodium borodeuteride (NaB2H4) was from Fluka (Taufkirchen, Germany) Coenzyme F420 and tetrahydromethanopterin (H4MPT) were purified from Methanothermobacter...

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... atoms Number of protein atoms Number of waters Number of inhibitor atoms Baverage (A2) Protein main chain atoms Protein side chain atoms All protein atoms Inhibitor atoms Water atoms Other atoms ... monoisotopic peak is often undetectable for proteins > 10 kDa, except for isotope-depleted proteins [67] Hence, the molecular masses reported hereafter refer to the masses calculated from the ... ultra-high mass- resolving power and mass accuracy For instance, proteinligand [57], proteincarbohydrate [58,59], proteinpeptide Fig Structures of thioxylo-oligosaccharide inhibitors From top to bottom:...

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... denoted T and CT, respectively The protonated monoisotopic experimental masses (MH+exp) and the calculated mass difference (p.p.m.) with the theoretical monoisotopic mass of the identified peptide are ... 1% formic acid and stored at )20 °C until MS analysis High mass MALDI-TOF MS High -mass MALDI-TOF mass spectra of the intact protein complexes were obtained using a MALDI-TOF mass spectrometer (Voyager ... nondeuterated and deuterated cross-linkers by MALDI-TOF-TOF mass spectrometry A selection of mass spectra illustrates how the comparison of chymotryptic peptides from different cross-linked complexes and...

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