Clinical significance of Bacteroides fragilis as a potential prognostic factor in colorectal cancer.

Introduction: Bacteroides fragilis (B. fragilis) is considered to act in an anti-inflammatory manner on the intestinal tract. On the contrary, enterotoxigenic B.

Increased bioavailability of diosmetin-7-glucoside-γ-cyclodextrin inclusion complex compared with diosmin in Sprague-Dawley rats.

Diosmin (DSN) is found mainly in citrus fruits, and has potent antioxidant effects. This study aimed to evaluate pharmacokinetics of diosmetin-7-glucoside-γ-cyclodextrin (DIOSG-CD) inclusion complex. The area under the curve values from AUC0-24 of DIOSG-CD, prepared by reacting DSN and naringinase with γ-CD, were approximately 800-fold higher than those of DSN following their administration in Sprague-Dawley rats.

Serum level of apoptosis inhibitor of macrophage in dogs with histiocytic sarcoma and its association with the disease.

Histiocytic sarcoma (HS) is a rare neoplasm of macrophages or dendritic cells with a poor prognosis in dogs. As the apoptosis inhibitor of macrophage (AIM) is characteristically expressed in canine macrophages, we hypothesised that AIM is involved in the development or progression of HS in dogs. In this study, AIM expression in the tumour region and serum AIM levels in dogs with HS was assessed.

Experimental study of phase separation in dynamically asymmetric unentangled polymer blend.

We examined a phase separation process of a dynamically asymmetric blend of unentangled polyisoprene (PI) and poly(4-ethylstyrene) (PC2St) exhibiting the upper critical solution temperature. PI having the type-A dipole was the dielectrically active fast component, whereas PC2St was the dielectrically inert slow component whose dynamics can be detected by rheological measurements. To precisely model the phase separation process, it is important to estimate the composition dependence of the mobility, which is needed to describe the phase separation dynamics.