Novel octopod shaped AgPO microcrystals were successfully fabricated by a simple ion exchange method under the conditions of a hot water bath using [Ag(NH)] solution and NaHPO solution as the precursors. Meanwhile, sphere and cube shaped AgPO microcrystals were also prepared followed by changing reaction materials as well as temperature. The surface morphology, microstructure and photocatalytic performance were investigated on the three different shaped crystals respectively.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: A five-year follow-up study of intensive multifactorial intervention was undertaken to assess the changes of circulating serum amyloid A (SAA) levels and the incidence of atherosclerosis (AS) in patients with short-duration type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) without macroangiopathy, and whether intensive multifactorial intervention could prevent or at least postpone the occurrence of macroangiopathy.
Methods: Among 150 patients with short-duration T2DM, 75 were assigned to receive conventional outpatient treatment (conventional group) and the others underwent intensive multifactorial integrated therapy targeting hyperglycemia, hypertension, dyslipidemia and received aspirin simultaneously (intensive group).
Results: Plasma SAA levels were higher in diabetic patients than those in healthy control subjects, and decreased obviously after intensive multifactorial intervention.
Objective: To construct a single plasmid vector mediating doxycycline-inducible recombined human insulin gene expression in myotube cell line.
Methods: An expression cassette of rtTAnls driven by promoter of human cytomegalovirus and a furin-cuttable recombined human insulin expression cassette driven by a reverse poly-tetO DNA motif were cloned into a single plasmid vector (prTR-tetO-mINS). The prTR-tetO-mINS and pLNCX were co-transfected into a myotube cell line (C2C12) and pLNCX vector were used as a control.