Exploring a Substitution Strategy to Ethylene Oxide for CO Sequestration and Catalytic Conversion: A Theoretical Study.

We show here that attaching -NH, -NHCH, or -N(CH) to ethylene oxide can dramatically reduce the CO cycloaddition barrier, from 69.5 kcal/mol (R = -H) down to 22.1 kcal/mol [R = -N(CH)], which may enable CO fixation under milder conditions without the help of catalysts.

Nanochannel sensor for sensitive and selective adamantanamine detection based on host-guest competition.

The abuse of adamantanamine (ADA) and its derivatives as veterinary drugs in the poultry industry could cause severe health problems for humans. It is of great need to develop a rapid, cheap and ultrasensitive method for ADA detection. In this study, a sensitive conical nanochannel sensor was established for the rapid quantitative detection of ADA with the distinctive design of the host-guest competition.

Interleukin 6 induces M2 macrophage differentiation by STAT3 activation that correlates with gastric cancer progression.

Interleukin 6 (IL-6) was abundant in the tumor microenvironment and played potential roles in tumor progression. In our study, the expression of IL-6 in tumor tissues from 36 gastric cancer (GC) patients was significantly higher than in non-tumor tissues. Moreover, the number of CD163CD206 M2 macrophages that infiltrated in tumor tissues was significantly greater than those infiltrated in non-tumor tissues.