This work addresses the use of TiO2-based particles as an intermediate layer for reaching fully dense Pd-membranes by Electroless Pore-Plating long-time hydrogen separation. Two different layers formed raw and Pd-doped TiO2 were considered. The estimated Pd-thickness composite membrane was reduced in half when ceramic doped with Pd nuclei before their incorporation onto porous support vacuum-as...

Cell-to-cell movement of plant viruses occurs via plasmodesmata (PD), organelles that evolved to facilitate intercellular communications. Viral movement proteins (MP) modify PD to allow passage of the virus particles or nucleoproteins. This passage occurs via several distinct mechanisms one of which is MP-dependent formation of the tubules that traverse PD and provide a conduit for virion trans...

Reducing the morbidity associated with peritonitis is one of the major challenges to improve outcomes for patients on peritoneal dialysis (PD). In the short-term, during the actual episode, patients suffer pain, risk of hospitalization and social inconvenience, with extra and often numerous hospital visits. In one series, peritonitis accounted for 25% of hospital admissions for patients on PD [...

Objective Increased expression of programmed death-ligand 1 (PD-L1) on tumor cells can be found in various malignancies; however, very limited information is known about its role in anal squamous cell carcinoma (ASCC). This study explored PD-L1 expression in ASCC patients and its association with patients' clinicopathological features, CD8+ T cell infiltration, and prognosis. Methods Formalin...

Characean plants provide an excellent experimental system for electrophysiology and physiology due to: (i) very large cell size, (ii) position on phylogenetic tree near the origin of land plants and (iii) continuous spectrum from very salt sensitive to very salt tolerant species. A range of experimental techniques is described, some unique to characean plants. Application of these methods provi...

Parkinson's disease (PD) is a neurodegenerative disease with motor and non-motor symptoms, including constipation. Therefore, several studies have investigated the gastrointestinal tract, and more specifically the enteric nervous system (ENS), in search of an early biomarker of PD. Besides α-synuclein aggregation, mitochondrial dysfunction and dysregulation of intracellular Ca2+ concentration p...

The movement of potexviruses through the cytoplasm to plasmodesmata (PD) and through PD to adjacent cells depends on the viral and host cellular proteins. Potexviruses encode three movement proteins [referred to as the triple gene block (TGB1-3)]. TGB1 protein moves cell-to-cell through PD and requires TGB2 and TGB3, which are endoplasmic reticulum (ER)-located proteins. TGB3 protein directs th...

Multidrug-resistance (MDR) in cancer cells is often associated with marked changes in the membrane cholesterol levels. To assess the cholesterol-dependence of MDR modulator efficiency in terms of the drug-membrane interactions, the ability of 5 MDR-modulators to induce the leakage of Sulphan blue through anionic liposomes was quantified at various mole fractions x(chol) of cholesterol (0-0.42)....