The aim of this study was to determine the functional importance of intrinsic connections within the hamster's superior colliculus (SC) in the development of the visual responses of neurons in the deep layers of this nucleus. We used localized injections of lidocaine to block action potentials of fibers that passed through the superficial layers and injections of CoCl2 to block synaptic transmi...

Hypoxia, which is an important factor that mediates tumor progression and poor treatment response, is particularly associated with tumor chemoresistance. However, the molecular mechanisms underlying hypoxia-induced colorectal cancer chemoresistance remain unclear. The present study aimed to explore the mechanism underlying hypoxia‑induced chemotherapy resistance in LOVO colorectal cancer cells....

Hypoxia, a condition of reduced oxygen concentration, is observed in many physiological and pathophysiological states. However, there is rather limited information regarding hypoxic effects in the processes of immortalization and senescence of human cells. Here, the effects of hypoxia induced by either 1.5% O2, or by a hypoxia-mimetic agent, CoCl2, on the protein expression of normal human dipl...

Magnesium borohydride (Mg(BH4)2) is one of the most promising hydrogen storage materials. Its kinetics of hydrogen desorption, reversibility, and complex reaction pathways during decomposition and rehydrogenation, however, present a challenge, which has been often addressed by using transition metal compounds as additives. In this work the decomposition of Mg(BH4)2 ball-milled with CoCl2 and Co...

The role of cobalt(II) complexes containing 2-formylpyrrolyl chelating ligands and phosphine ligands combined with a bromo-alkyl ester, an alkyl bromide or an azo compound in the formation of suitable initiator systems for vinyl monomer controlled radical polymerization was studied. The formation of syndiotactic-rich (Pr>0.7) poly(methyl methacrylate) (PMMA) and atactic (Pr=0.49) poly(styrene) ...

Autophagy has dual functions in cell survival and death. However, the effects of autophagy on cancer cell survival or death remain controversial. In this study, we show that Autophagy can mediate programmed cell death (PCD) of cancer cells in responding to cobalt chloride (CoCl2)-induced hypoxia in a Beclin-1-independent but autophagy protein 5 (ATG5)-dependent manner. Although ATG5 is not dire...

We report the synthesis of a terpyridine-based metal-organic layer (TPY-MOL) and its metalation with CoCl2 and FeBr2 to afford CoCl2·TPY-MOL and FeBr2·TPY-MOL, respectively. Upon activation with NaEt3BH, CoCl2·TPY-MOL catalyzed benzylic C-H borylation of methylarenes whereas FeBr2·TPY-MOL catalyzed intramolecular Csp3 -H amination of alkyl azides to afford pyrrolidines and piperidines. X-ray ab...

Zing finger protein 580 (ZFP580) is a novel Cys2-His2 zinc-finger transcription factor that has an anti-apoptotic role in myocardial cells. It is involved in the endothelial transforming growth factor‑β1 (TGF‑β1) signal transduction pathway as a mothers against decapentaplegic homolog (Smad)2 binding partner. The aim of the present study was to determine the involvement of ZFP580 in TGF‑β1‑medi...

The human hepatoma cell line, Hep3B, synthesizes large quantities of erythropoietin (Epo) mRNA and protein in a regulated manner in response to hypoxia and cobaltous chloride (CoCl2). To further understand the regulation of Epo gene expression, we studied the effects of hypoxia and CoCl2 on the rate of Epo gene transcription. While Northern blot analyses showed that steady-state Epo mRNA levels...