The golden pompano snout (GPS) and head kidney (GPHK) cell lines have been proven to be meaningful tools for the study on pathogenic infections in vitro. In this study, we aimed select most stable reference genes from seven housekeeping (Actin, B2M, GAPDH, RPL13, EF1A, 18S UBCE) applied two of (GPS GPHK) under both normal physiological conditions stimulated lipopolysaccharide (LPS) or polyinosi...

With up to 400 million affected people worldwide, chronic hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection is still a major health care problem. During the last decade, several novel therapeutic approaches have been developed and evaluated. In most regions of the world, interferon-α (IFN-α), and nucleos(t)ide analogues are currently approved. Despite major improvements, none of the existing therapies is optim...

Poly(c3A) (poly 3-deazaadenylic acid) and poly(c3I) (poly 3-deazainosinic acid) differ in biological reactivity from their parent compounds poly(A) and poly(I) and from their 7-deaza counterparts poly(c7A) and poly(c7I). Three parameters of biological reactivity were evaluated : (1 degree) interferon induction, (2 degrees) anti-complement activity, (3 degrees) reverse transcriptase inhibition. ...

Molecular dynamics simulations were used to model aramid poly(p-phenylene terephthalamide) (PPTA) and a related aromatic–aliphatic polyamide derived from five-carbon aliphatic diacid (PAP5) with nine different reactive nonreactive force fields. The fields evaluated based on crystal structures as well intermolecular H-bonding ?-? interactions. An optimum field was then simulate the stress–strain...

The poly(ethyleneimine)-functionalized silica has been developed successfully as an effective adsorbent for the adsorption removal of Cu(II) ions from electroplating wastewater. The influences of pH, contact time and initial concentration of Cu(II) ions on the adsorption capacity and the effect of adsorbent dosage on the removal efficiency of Cu(II) ions from electroplatin...

When primary rabbit kidney cell cultures are treated with either polyadenylic acid-polyuridylic acid or polyadenylic acid-polyribothymidylic acid (poly(rT)) and then judiciously exposed to actinomycin D and cycloheximide, high titers of interferon are found in the extracellular medium ("superinduction") (Vilcek, J. (1970) Ann. N. Y. Acad. Sci. 173, 390-403; Tan, Y. H., Armstrong, J. A., Ke, Y. ...

poly urea-formaldehyde was synthesized simply and rapidly from urea and formaldehyde by condensation polymerization and studied for the sorption of trace acid blue from aqueous solution. the optimum ph value for sorption of the acid blue was 4. experimental results showed that the sorption capacity of poly urea-formaldehyde for acid blue was determined. the synthetic polymer can be reused for 5...