the current research was planned to investigate the effect of maleic anhydride (man) and glycidyl methacrylate (gma) treatments on morphological and physical properties of the hornbeam wood-styrene composite. test samples were divided according to astm d4446-05 to control and treated with man, st, man/st and man /st/gma. treatment was performed by vacuum- pressure method using a experimental cy...

BACKGROUND/AIMS Weekly granulocyte/monocyte adsorption (GMA) to deplete elevated and activated leucocytes should serve as a non-pharmacological intervention to induce remission in patients with ulcerative colitis (UC). This trial assessed the efficacy of monthly GMA as a maintenance therapy to suppress UC relapse. METHODS Thirty-three corticosteroid refractory patients with active UC received...

Fluorescent proteins serve as important biomarkers for visualizing both subcellular organelles in living cells and structural and functional details in large-volume tissues or organs. However, current techniques for plastic embedding are limited in their ability to preserve fluorescence while remaining suitable for micro-optical sectioning tomography of large-volume samples. In this study, we q...

Owing to the presence of nutritionally important, health-promoting bioactive compounds, especially isoflavones, soybean has acquired the status of a functional food. miRNAs are tiny riboregulator of gene expression by either decreasing and/or increasing the expression of their corresponding target genes. Despite several works on identification and functional characterization of plant miRNAs, th...

Flowering is a pivotal event in the life cycle of plants. miR172 has been widely confirmed to play critical roles in flowering time control by regulating its target gene expression in Arabidopsis. However, the role of its counterpart in soybean remains largely unclear. In the present study, we found that the gma-miR172a was regulated by a GIGANTEA ortholog, GmGIa, in soybean through miRNA metab...

Background/Aims Patients with active ulcerative colitis (UC) have elevated levels of activated myeloid-derived leukocytes as a source of inflammatory cytokines. The selective depletion of these leukocytes by adsorptive granulocyte/monocyte apheresis (GMA) with an Adacolumn should alleviate inflammation, promote remission and enhance drug efficacy. However, studies have reported contrasting effi...

An approach to synthesizing photopatternable enzymatic degradable dextran hydrogel is presented. The glycidyl methacrylate derivatized dextran (Dex-GMA) was first prepared by reacting dextran with glycidyl methacrylate at 458C with grafting efficiency of 10%. The degree of substitution (DS) was confirmed by H-NMR. Next, Dex-GMA hydrogels were prepared by crosslinking in the presence of a crossl...

Melt free-radical grafting reactions between ethylene-propylene-dieneterpolymer (EPDM) and glycidyl methacrylate (GMA) were investigated in a batch mixer (170°C, 60rpm). Effect of dicumylperoxide (DCP) initiator and GMA functionalizing monomer concentrations was studied on the grafted EPDM characteristics. Titration results indicated an increase in the graft degree (GD) and gel content (GC) val...

We show that a new type of hydrogel can be prepared by covalently inter-linking binary blends of microgel (MG) particles and that the swelling ratio and modulus of the gels can be predicted from their composition. In previous work we established that physical gels of glycidyl methacrylate (GMA) functionalised poly(methyl methacrylate-co-methacrylic acid-co-ethyleneglycol dimethacrylate) microge...