Neurocutaneous Melanosis in an Adult Patient with Intracranial Primary Malignant Melanoma: Case Report and Review of the Literature.

Background: To explore the clinical characteristics of neurocutaneous melanosis (NCM) in adult patients to help improve diagnosis and treatment of this disease, we present a rare case of an adult patient suffering from NCM with malignant melanoma, as well as a review of the relevant Chinese and English literature.

Case Description: The patient reported here plus the patients identified in our literature review total 30 adults with NCM (20 males [66.7%] and 10 females [33.

Activated AMPK explains hypolipidemic effects of sulfated low molecular weight guluronate on HepG2 cells.

Low molecular weight and sulfated low molecular weight guluronate (LMG and SLMG) were prepared and hypolipidemic effects were studied in a human hepatocellular carcinoma HepG2 cell line. Both compounds decreased total cholesterol (TC) and triglycerides (TG) and inhibited 3-hydroxy-3-methylglutaryl-CoA reductase (HMGCR) activity in HepG2 cells. In general, SLMG had greater effects than LMG.

[Enhancement of anaerobic digestion of excess sludge by acid-alkali pretreatment].

In order to enhance the efficiency of anaerobic digestion of excess sludge, acid-alkali pretreatment method was studied. Three different pretreatment methods (alkali alone,acid-alkali, alkali-acid) were compared to investigate their impacts on hydrolysis and acidification of activated sludge. In addition, their influences on methane-producing in subsequent anaerobic digestion process were also studied.

[Research on key technologies of all fiber optic Fourier transform spectrometer].

A noval all fiber optic Fourier transform spectrometer based on single mode fiber Mach-Zehnder interferometer is reported. The authors designed a piezoelectric optical phase modulator with two centimeter scan scale, which was used to replace the moving mirror of traditonal Fourier transform spectrometer. The 1 310 nm DFB laser was used as reference light source to make equal interval sampling of test light source's interferogram, and to eliminate errors of nonlinear modulation.