Objectives: Patients with lung cancer pose a high risk of morbidity and mortality after lung resection. Those who receive perioperative cardiopulmonary rehabilitation (PRCR) have better prognosis. Peak oxygen consumption (peak VO), VO at the ventilatory threshold (VO at VT), and slope of minute ventilation to carbon dioxide production (V/V slope) measured during pre-surgical cardiopulmonary exercise testing (CPET) have prognostic values after lung resection.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFTriple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) is a heterogeneous subtype of breast cancer with poor prognosis. Here, we present a peptide-drug conjugate (PDC)─bradykinin-potentiating peptide-paclitaxel (BPP-PTX) conjugate─synthesized by conjugating BPP9a with PTX via a succinyl linker. BPP-PTX targets the angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) on TNBC cells.
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September 2008
In order to investigate the relationship between the aggregation structure and fluorescence properties of composites of rare earth fluorescent complexes and polymers, the fluorescent complexes of Eu(TTA)3 x 2H2O and Eu(TTA)3 x (TPPO)2 were synthesized by the reaction of TTA (2-thenoyltrifluoroacetone), TPPO (triphenylphosphine oxide) and EuCl3, and their composites with polyvinylpyrrolidone (PVP K30) were prepared. The fluorescence spectroscopy, FTIR spectroscopy and TEM were used to characterize these composites. Fluorescence spectroscopy results indicated that the fluorescence intensity of the PVP/Eu(TTA)3 x 2H2O composites is obviously improved compared with that of the Eu(TTA)3 x 2H2O complexes.
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September 2008
Temperature-dependent FT IR, DSC and POM were used to investigate the interaction between PVPK90 and nylon 6 molecules and its effect on the thermal behavior and morphology of nylon 6. DSC results suggest that the melting and crystallization behavior of nylon 6 are obviously influenced by the introduction of PVP. With the PVP content increasing, the crystallization temperature, melting temperature and the crystallinity of nylon 6 decreased, and eventually, both the exothermal and endothermic peaks could not be observed when the PVP content reached 80%, implying that the aggregation structure of nylon 6 changes from the crystalline state to the amorphous state.
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