Stem cells from human exfoliated deciduous teeth ameliorate concanavalin A-induced autoimmune hepatitis by protecting hepatocytes from apoptosis.

Background: Autoimmune hepatitis is a serious autoimmune liver disease that threatens human health worldwide, which emphasizes the urgent need to identify novel treatments. Stem cells from human exfoliated deciduous teeth (SHED), which are easy to obtain in a non-invasive manner, show pronounced proliferative and immunomodulatory capacities.

Aim: To investigate the protective effects of SHED on concanavalin A (ConA)-induced hepatitis in mice, and to elucidate the associated regulatory mechanisms.

[Expression of mucin regulated by recombinant human interleukin-6 in HT-29 cell of colon cancer].

Objective: To study the regulation of the mucin protein in colon cancer cell line HT-29 by recombinant human interleukin-6(rIL-6) and to further elucidate the development of colon cancer.

Methods: The HT-29 cells were treated with different concentrations of rIL-6(1, 2, 5, 10 and 20 μg/L), then flow cytometry and RT-PCR were used to detect the expression of mucin1 and mucin2. Transwell invasion assay was used to observe the effect of invasion capability of rIL-6 to HT-29 cells.

Asymmetric [3,3]- and [1,3]-sigmatropic rearrangements of gamma-allyloxy vinylogous urethanes.

Vinylogous urethanes derived from condensation of prolinol or prolinol tert-butyldimethylsilyl ether with 4-allyloxyketoester were found to undergo a thermal [3,3]-sigmatropic rearrangement, providing compounds with N-substituted quaternary carbon centers. Cyclizations (subsequently or in situ) of the rearranged products generated hexahydro-3,4-dioxa-8a-aza-as-indacen-2-ones. Various terminally substituted allyloxy ketoesters and arylmethoxy ketoesters were found to generate tricyclic compounds via [1,3]-sigmatropic rearrangement.

Diammonium aqua-(ethyl-ene-diamine-tetra-acetato)iron(II) trihydrate.

In the title compound, (NH(4))(2)[Fe(C(10)H(12)N(2)O(8))(H(2)O)]·3H(2)O, the Fe(II) center is in a distorted penta-gonal-bipyramidal geometry. Two carboxyl-ate O and two N atoms from the ethyl-enediaminetetra-acetate (EDTA) ion and one O atom from coordinated water comprise the equatorial plane. Two other carboxyl-ate O atoms from the EDTA ion occupy the apical sites.

catena-Poly[[bis-(nitrato-κO,O')copper(II)]-μ-2,2'-(ethane-1,2-diyldithio)di-1,3,4-thia-diazole-κN:N].

In the title compound, [Cu(NO(3))(2)(C(6)H(6)N(4)S(4))](n), the Cu(II) atom, occupying a crystallographic inversion centre, is six-coordinated by two N atoms of two 2,2'-[1,2-ethane-diyl-bis-(thio)]bis-[1,3,4-thia-diazole] ligands in trans positions, and four O atoms from two symmetry-related opposite nitrate anions, which are asymmetrically bonded, resulting in a strong distorted octa-hedral geometry of the central atom. The ethane group is equally disordered over two sites via another inversion centre. The bridging bidentate 2,2'-[1,2-ethanediylbis(thio)]bis-[1,3,4-thia-diazole] ligands link the Cu(II) centres into a one-dimensional chain.