Irradiation with 310 nm and 340 nm ultraviolet light-emitting-diodes can improve atopic dermatitis-like skin lesions in NC/Nga mice.

Ultraviolet (UV) light produces an immunomodulatory effect on the skin and is widely used for the treatment of chronic inflammatory skin diseases. UV light emitting diodes (UV-LEDs) are a new and promising source of UV radiation. However, their mechanism of action remains largely unknown.

Fractional CO laser treatment for vaginal laxity: A preclinical study.

Background And Objective: Various studies have investigated treatment for vaginal laxity with microablative fractional carbon dioxide CO laser in humans; however, this treatment has not yet been studied in an animal model. Herein, we evaluate the therapeutic effects of fractional CO laser for tissue remodeling of vaginal mucosa using a porcine model, with the aim of improving vaginal laxity.

Study Design/materials And Methods: The fractional CO laser enables minimally invasive and non-incisional procedures.

Coreference annotation and resolution in the Colorado Richly Annotated Full Text (CRAFT) corpus of biomedical journal articles.

Background: Coreference resolution is the task of finding strings in text that have the same referent as other strings. Failures of coreference resolution are a common cause of false negatives in information extraction from the scientific literature. In order to better understand the nature of the phenomenon of coreference in biomedical publications and to increase performance on the task, we annotated the Colorado Richly Annotated Full Text (CRAFT) corpus with coreference relations.

Rh(III)-Catalyzed C-H Functionalization of Indolines with Readily Accessible Amidating Reagent: Synthesis and Anticancer Evaluation.

The rhodium(III)-catalyzed direct C-H functionalization of various indolines with 1,4,2-dioxazol-5-ones as new amidating agents is described. This transformation provides efficient preparation of C7-amidated indolines known to display potent anticancer activity. The synthetic compounds were evaluated for in vitro anticancer activity against human prostate adenocarcinoma cells (LNCaP), human endometrial adenocarcinoma cells (Ishikawa), and human ovarian carcinoma cells (SKOV3).

Coreference resolution improves extraction of Biological Expression Language statements from texts.

We describe a system that automatically extracts biological events from biomedical journal articles, and translates those events into Biological Expression Language (BEL) statements. The system incorporates existing text mining components for coreference resolution, biological event extraction and a previously formally untested strategy for BEL statement generation. Although addressing the BEL track (Track 4) at BioCreative V (2015), we also investigate how incorporating coreference resolution might impact event extraction in the biomedical domain.

Trifluoromethylallylation of Heterocyclic C-H Bonds with Allylic Carbonates under Rhodium Catalysis.

The rhodium(III)-catalyzed γ-trifluoromethylallylation of various heterocyclic C-H bonds with CF3-substituted allylic carbonates is described. These reactions provide direct access to linear CF3-containing allyl frameworks with complete trans-selectivity via C-H bond activation followed by a formal SN-type reaction pathway.

A categorical analysis of coreference resolution errors in biomedical texts.

Background: Coreference resolution is an essential task in information extraction from the published biomedical literature. It supports the discovery of complex information by linking referring expressions such as pronouns and appositives to their referents, which are typically entities that play a central role in biomedical events. Correctly establishing these links allows detailed understanding of all the participants in events, and connecting events together through their shared participants.

Direct C-H alkylation and indole formation of anilines with diazo compounds under rhodium catalysis.

The rhodium(III)-catalyzed direct functionalization of aniline C-H bonds with α-diazo compounds is described. These transformations provide a facile construction of ortho-alkylated anilines with diazo malonates or highly substituted indoles with diazo acetoacetates.

Rhodium-Catalyzed C-H Alkylation of Indolines with Allylic Alcohols: Direct Access to β-Aryl Carbonyl Compounds.

The rhodium(III)-catalyzed site-selective C-H alkylation of various N-heterocycles, such as indolines, carbazoles, and pyrroles with readily available allylic alcohols is described. This protocol allows the generation of a heterocyclic scaffold containing a β-aryl carbonyl moiety, which is known to be a crucial structural unit of biologically active compounds.

Synthesis of N-Sulfonylamidated and Amidated Azobenzenes under Rhodium Catalysis.

The rhodium(III)-catalyzed ortho-C-H amidation of azobenzenes with arylsulfonyl and aryl and alkyl isocyanates is described. The N-sulfonyl amidation reaction using arylsulfonyl isocyanates is first reported in the C-H activation strategy. These transformations provide the facile and efficient construction of a range of amide moieties into azobenzenes.

The CHEMDNER corpus of chemicals and drugs and its annotation principles.

The automatic extraction of chemical information from text requires the recognition of chemical entity mentions as one of its key steps. When developing supervised named entity recognition (NER) systems, the availability of a large, manually annotated text corpus is desirable. Furthermore, large corpora permit the robust evaluation and comparison of different approaches that detect chemicals in documents.

Children's health insurance and access to care during and after the CHIP expansion period.

Objective/methods: We used national data from the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey and multivariate linear spline regression models to compare trends in children's health insurance coverage and access to care by income and race/ethnicity during (1998-2002) and after (2002-2006) major expansions of state insurance programs.

Results: During expansions, coverage and access for children in low-income and middle-income families improved, but these gains ceased thereafter for middle-income children, most of whom remained ineligible for public insurance. Racial and ethnic differences narrowed from 1998-2002, but persisted-and in at least one case tended to widen-from 2002-2006.