It is sometimes desirable to preserve mammalian cells by hypothermia rather than freezing during short term transplantation. Here we found an ability of hypothermic (+4°C) preservation of fish antifreeze protein (AFP) against rat insulinoma cells denoted as RIN-5F. The preservation ability was compared between type I-III AFPs and antifreeze glycoprotein (AFGP), which could be recently mass-prep...

Emission spectroscopy has been used for the first time in a spectroscopic study of a family of uranium(IV) halide complexes in non-aqueous media. The room temperature electronic absorption spectra of the simple coordination compounds [Li(THF)4][UX5(THF)] (X = Cl, Br, I), [Et4N]2[UCl6] and UCl4 in THF have been recorded and all transitions assigned with the aid of a comprehensive computational s...

Six new titanocene compounds have been isolated and characterised. These compounds were synthesised from their fulvene precursors using Super Hydride (LiBEt3H) followed by transmetallation with titanium tetrachloride to yield the corresponding titanocene dichloride derivatives. These complexes are bis-[((1-methyl-3-diethylaminomethyl)indol-2-yl)methylcyclopentadienyl] titanium (IV) dichloride (...

The data are reported for an in vitro metabolism study of two novel synthetic cannabinoids, N-(1-adamantyl)-1-pentyl-1H-indole-3-carboxamide (APICA) and its fluorinated analog N-(1-adamantyl)-1-(5-fluoropentyl)-1H-indole-3-carboxamide (5F-APICA, STS-135), which are active ingredients of smoking mixtures sold in Russia since 2012. The cannabinoids were isolated from herbal mixtures using prepara...

This Article contains errors in Figure 5F–J, where the right-hand y axes 'Density (lncRNAs)' are incorrectly given as 'Density (except lncRNAs)'. The correct Figure 5 appears below as Figure 1.

The fixed point alternative methods are implemented to giveHyers-Ulam  stability for  the quintic functional equation $ f(x+3y)- 5f(x+2y) + 10 f(x+y)- 10f(x)+ 5f(x-y) - f(x-2y) = 120f(y)$ and thesextic functional equation $f(x+3y) - 6f(x+2y) + 15 f(x+y)- 20f(x)+15f(x-y) - 6f(x-2y)+f(x-3y) = 720f(y)$   in the setting ofintuitionistic fuzzy normed spaces (IFN-spaces).  This methodintroduces a met...

Background/Aims Treatment for cholangitis without common bile duct (CBD) stones has not been established in patients with gallstones. We investigated the usefulness of endoscopic biliary drainage (EBD) without endoscopic sphincterotomy (EST) in patients diagnosed with gallstones and cholangitis without CBD stones by endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP) and intraductal ultrasono...

The objective of this study was to develop an oral microemulsion formulation of the antitumor diterpenoid agent, ent-11α-hydroxy-15-oxo-kaur-16-en-19-oic-acid (henceforth referred to as 5F), to enhance its bioavailability and evaluate its hepatotoxicity. Pseudoternary phase diagrams showed that the optimal microemulsion formulation contained 45% water, 10% castor oil as the oil phase, 15% Cremo...

Gynura procumbens (Lour.) Merr (family Compositae) is cultivated in Southeast Asia, especially Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand, for medicinal purposes. This study evaluated the in vivo hypoglycemic properties of the water extract of G. procumbens following 14 days of treatment and in vitro in RIN-5F cells. Glucose absorption from the intestines and its glucose uptake in abdominal skeletal musc...