NiS nanoparticles (NiS NPs) have been hydrothermally prepared and characterized by the methods of X-ray diffraction, scanning electronic microscope, X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy, UV-Vis diffuse reflectance spectra, photoluminescence, and thermogravimetric analysis. NiS NPs exhibit fast adsorption in the removal of Congo red (CR) in aqueous solution, in which the pseudo-second-order model wa...

MV-NIS is an engineered measles virus that is selectively destructive to myeloma plasma cells and can be monitored by noninvasive radioiodine imaging of NIS gene expression. Two measles-seronegative patients with relapsing drug-refractory myeloma and multiple glucose-avid plasmacytomas were treated by intravenous infusion of 10(11) TCID50 (50% tissue culture infectious dose) infectious units of...

Novel NiS/CdS heterostructures with enhanced visible-light photocatalytic activity were successfully prepared via a facile two-step hydrothermal process. The synthesized materials were characterized using X-ray diffraction, high-resolution transmission electron microscopy and UV-Vis diffuse reflectance spectroscopy. The photocatalytic activity was investigated by the degradation of quinoline un...

OBJECTIVE Dyshormonogenetic congenital hypothyroidism (CH) was reported to be associated with a mutation in the sodium iodide symporter (NIS) gene. The present study was undertaken in the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region of China, to determine the nature and frequency of NIS gene mutations among patients with CH due to dyshormonogenesis. SUBJECTS AND METHODS Blood samples were collected from ...

This study explored the key requirements identified by stakeholders for the integration of Nursing Information Systems (NIS) in three public hospitals in the southern suburbs of Adelaide. The study used a qualitative approach of semi-structured interviews, focus groups, site visits to the hospitals and review of relevant literature to ascertain what participants saw as the necessary ingredients...

Background: Thyroidectomy, radioactive iodine therapy, chemotherapy, or their combination are treatments of choice for thyroid cancers. However, cancer stem cells (CSCs) may become resistant to therapy, and mutations in somatic genes affect radioiodine uptake. This study determined the effect of a phosphoinositide-3-kinase (PI3K) inhibitor on anaplastic thyroid CSCs. Materials and Methods: The ...

OBJECTIVE To study the oncogenic potential of mouse translation initiation factor 3 (TIF3) and elongation factor-1delta (TEF-1delta) in malignant transformed human bronchial epithelial cells induced by crystalline nickel sulfide (NiS). METHODS Abnormal expressions of human TIF3 and TEF-1delta genes in two kinds of NiS-transformed cells and NiS-tumorigenic cell lines were investigated and anal...

Treating breast cancer brain metastases (BCBMs) is challenging. Na+/I- symporter (NIS) expression in BCBMs would permit their selective targeting with radioiodide (131I-). We show impressive enhancement of tumor response by combining131I- with gemcitabine (GEM), a cytotoxic radiosensitizer. Nude mice mammary fat-pad (MFP) tumors and BCBMs were generated with braintropic MDA-MB-231Br cells trans...

I radiation therapy of differentiated thyroid cancer may be compromised by thyroid stunning (i.e., a paradoxical inhibition of radioiodine uptake caused by radiation from a pretherapeutic diagnostic examination). The stunning mechanism is yet uncharacterized at the molecular level. We therefore investigated whether the expression of the sodium/ iodide symporter (NIS) gene is changed by irradiat...

For Stokes problem, we show how to obtain nite volume schemes from a Mixed nite element method with a well chosen numerical integration diagonalising the mass matrix. The analysis of the corresponding nite volume scheme is directly deduced from general results of mixed nite element theory. In this note, we exhibit nite volume scheme for Stokes problem and give optimal a priori error estimate. R...