[Effects of paclitaxel loaded-drug micelles on cell proliferation and apoptosis of human lung cancer A549 cells].

This study was conducted to investigate the paclitaxel loaded by hydrazone bonds in poly(ethylene glycol)-poly(caprolactone) micelles (mPEG-PCL-PTX) on proliferation and apoptosis of human lung cancer A549 cells and its possible mechanisms of anti-tumor activity. The cell proliferation was measured with MTT assay. Flow cytometry were used to analyze the cell cycle.

[Use of open-path TDL technique and the backward Lagrangian stochastic model to monitor ammonia emission from summer maize field].

The backward Lagrangian stochastic dispersion model in conjunction with open-path tunable diode absorption spectroscopy was used to quantify ammonia emissions from farmland based on the high-temporal resolution data, aiming to provide innovative achievements to diagnose patterns of ammonia flux. The results indicate that the bLS dispersion technique using open-path lasers to measure atmospheric ammonia concentrations is suitable for determining ammonia emissions from farmland continuously, especially for characterizing diurnal characteristics of NH3 emissions. The ammonia emissions have a significant diurnal pattern with two emission peaks from urea applied to maize on a calcareous sandy loam fluvo-aquic soil in the North China Plain.

Using neural networks to determine the contribution of danshensu to its multiple cardiovascular activities in acute myocardial infarction rats.

Ethnopharmacological Relevance: Danshensu is an active water-soluble component from Salvia Miltiorrhiza, which has been demonstrated holding multiple mechanisms for the regulation of cardiovascular system. However, the relative contribution of danshensu to its multiple cardiovascular activities remains largely unknown.

Aim Of The Study: To develop an artificial neural network (NN) model simultaneously characterizing danshensu pharmacokinetics and multiple cardiovascular activities in acute myocardial infarction (AMI) rats.

Pharmacokinetic interactions induced by content variation of major water-soluble components of Danshen preparation in rats.

Aim: To investigate the pharmacokinetic interactions induced by content variation of the main water-soluble components of Danshen injection in rats.

Methods: Intravenous Danshen injection (control) or Danshen injection with danshensu (DSS), protocatechuic aldehyde (PAL), salvianolic acid A (Sal A) or salvianolic acid B (Sal B) were administered to female Sprague Dawley rats. Plasma concentrations of DSS, Sal A, PAL and its oxidative metabolite protocatechuic acid (PA) were analyzed simultaneously with LC-MS/MS; concentrations of Sal B were determined by the LC-MS method.

Spectroscopic characterization of intramolecular charge transfer of sodium 4-(N,N-dimethylamino)naphthalene-1-sulfonate.

In this paper, a new dual fluorescent N,N-dimethylaminonaphthalene derivative, sodium 4-(N,N-dimethylamino)naphthalene-1-sulfonate (SDMDNS), was reported. It was found that SDMDNS emits dual fluorescence only in highly polar solvent water but not in organic solvents such as methanol, dioxane and acetonitrile. Only a single broad band emission at ca.