We synthesized a series of FeCl(3)/[C(4)mim]Cl (iron(III) chloride with 1-butyl-3-methylimidazolium chloride) ionic liquids. The temperature dependence of the Raman spectra of the FeCl(3)/[C(4)mim]Cl ionic liquids was measured for the first time to analyze their ionic species. In addition, the infrared spectra, thermodynamic properties, and freeze-fracture transmission electron microscopy were ...

Recently, the use of ionic liquids (ILs) for carbon capture and separation processes has gained great interest by many researchers due to the high solubility of CO₂ in ILs. In the present work, solubility measurements of CO₂ in the novel IL 1-n-butyl-3-methylimidazolium nonafluorobutylsulfonate [C₄mim][CF₃CF₂CF₂CF₂SO₃] were performed with a high-pressure view-cell technique in the temperature r...

Immortalized p19(ARF) null hepatocytes (MIM) feature a high degree of functional differentiation and are susceptible to transforming growth factor (TGF)-beta driven growth arrest and apoptosis. In contrast, polarized MIM hepatocytes expressing hyperactive Ha-Ras continue proliferation in cooperation with TGF-beta, and adopt an invasive phenotype by executing an epithelial to mesenchymal transit...

BACKGROUND Only 29 cases of constitutional 9q22 deletions have been published and all have been sporadic. Most associate with Gorlin syndrome or nevoid basal cell carcinoma syndrome (NBCCS, MIM #109400) due to haploinsufficiency of the PTCH1 gene (MIM *601309). METHODS AND RESULTS We report two mentally retarded female siblings and their cognitively normal father, all carrying a similar 5.3 M...

In this paper, we propose a framework of the mutual information-maximizing (MIM) quantized decoding for low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes by using simple mappings and fixed-point additions. Our method is generic in sense that it can be applied to LDPC with arbitrary degree distributions, implemented based on either belief propagation (BP) algorithm or min-sum (MS) algorithm. particular, MIM...

A recent study reports a novel and conserved function for the I-BAR protein MIM in guiding cell migration: MIM has an anti-endocytic activity that moderates intracellular signalling of guidance cues by sequestration of cortactin.

BACKGROUND Angiogenin is a key molecule in the healing process which has been successfully applied in the field of regenerative medicine. The role of angiogenin in dental pulp regeneration is unclear. Here we aimed to reveal the impact of the hypoxia mimetic agent L-mimosine (L-MIM) and hypoxia on angiogenin in the dental pulp. METHODS Human dental pulp-derived cells (DPC) were cultured in mo...

Surface expression of chemokine receptor CXCR4 is downregulated by missing-in-metastasis protein (MIM; also known as MTSS1), a member of the inverse BAR (I-BAR)-domain protein family that recognizes and generates membranes with negative curvature. Yet, the mechanism for the regulation is unknown. Here, we show that MIM forms a complex with CXCR4 by binding to E3 ubiquitin ligase AIP4 (also know...

Metal-insulator-metal (MIM) structures have been the subject of great interest as nanoscale plasmonic waveguides. The modeling and measurement of the loss in these waveguides is one of the critical issues in realizing the plasmon-based nanocircuitry. Due to the subwavelength size of the structure, the light injection and the measurement of the loss in MIM structures typically require tapered fi...