Publications by authors named "Yang-Ping Liu"

Between 1952 and 1992, more than 200 large radiobiology studies were conducted in research institutes throughout Europe, North America, and Japan to determine the effects of external irradiation and internal emitters on the lifespan and tissue toxicity development in animals. At Argonne National Laboratory, 22 external beam studies were conducted on nearly 700 beagle dogs and 50,000 mice between 1969 and 1992. These studies helped to characterize the effects of neutron and gamma irradiation on lifespan, tumorigenesis, and mutagenesis across a range of doses and dosing patterns.

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In the present study, five cyclic nitrone superoxide spin adducts, i.e. DMPO-OOH, M(3)PO-OOH, EMPO-OOH, DEPMPO-OOH and DEPDMPO-OOH, were chosen as model compounds to investigate the effect of 2,5-subsitituents on their stability, through structural analysis and decay thermodynamics using density functional theory (DFT) calculations.

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A new phosphorylated linear nitrone N-(4-hydroxybenzyliene)-1-diethoxyphosphoryl-1-methylethylamine N-oxide (4-HOPPN) was synthesized, and its X-ray structure was determined. The spin trapping ability of various kinds of free radicals by 4-HOPPN was evaluated. Kinetic study of decay of the superoxide spin adduct (4-HOPPN-OOH) shows the half-life time of 8.

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Formation of free radical intermediates in a NaOH/H(2)O(2)/Fe(III) system has been studied by ESR spectroscopy in the presence of the spin trap 5,5-dimethy-1-pyrroline N-oxide (DMPO). DMPO/O(2(*) ) (-) and DMPO/(*)OH signals were simultaneously detected in this system, but only the DMPO/(*)OH signal could be observed in the absence of Fe(III). Effects of pH values and Fe(III) concentrations on the ESR signal intensities were investigated in detail.

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A novel spin trap containing an iodoacetamide group has been synthesized and then used to target polypeptides, i.e. glutathione and bovine serum albumin, by which the resulting covalently bonded bioconjugates exhibit great potential for the application of spin trapping of transient radicals in biological systems.

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