758 results match your criteria: "Imperial College London London[Affiliation]"
RSC Adv
December 2024
Life Science Division, Sunresin New Materials Co. Ltd. 710076 Xi'an China
Diethylene glycol dimethacrylate (DEG)-crosslinked polystyrene (PS) resin offers a promising alternative to traditional divinyl benzene (DVB)-PS resin for solid-phase peptide synthesis (SPPS), particularly for challenging sequences with hydrophobic or bulky amino acids. DEG-PS resin's reduced hydrophobicity and enhanced flexibility improve synthesis efficiency, yielding peptides up to 28 residues with higher purities and yields compared to DVB-PS. In various syntheses, DEG-PS outperformed DVB-PS resin, with higher purities and yields for challenging peptides such as ABC analogue (73.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Geophys Res Planets
December 2024
Institut für Geophysik, ETH Zurich Zurich Switzerland.
Impact cratering is one of the fundamental processes throughout the history of the Solar System. The formation of new impact craters on planetary bodies has been observed with repeat images from orbiting satellites. However, the time gap between images is often large enough to preclude detailed analysis of smaller-scale features such as secondary impact craters, which are often removed or buried over a short time period.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFElevated circulating hepcidin levels have been reported in patients with pulmonary artery hypertension (PAH). Hepcidin has been shown to promote proliferation of human pulmonary artery smooth muscle cells (PASMCs) in vitro, suggesting a potential role in PAH pathogenesis. However, the role of human pulmonary artery endothelial cells (PAECs) as either a source of hepcidin, or the effect of hepcidin on PAEC function is not as well described.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe formation of complex craters requires some form of transient weakening of target rocks. Acoustic fluidization is one proposed mechanism applied in many numerical simulations of large crater formation. In a companion paper, we describe implementing the Melosh model of acoustic fluidization in the iSALE shock physics code.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Geophys Res Planets
December 2024
Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences Purdue University West Lafayette IN USA.
The collapse of large impact craters requires a temporary reduction in the resistance to shear deformation of the target rocks. One explanation for such weakening is acoustic fluidization, where impact-generated pressure fluctuations temporarily and locally relieve overburden pressure facilitating slip. A model of acoustic fluidization widely used in numerical impact simulations is the Block model.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFLife Sci
December 2024
Department of Internal Medicine, Metropolitan Hospital Center, New York, NY, USA. Electronic address:
Cardiovascular diseases are one of the leading causes of mortality and morbidity worldwide, with the total number of cases increasing to 523 million in 2019. Despite the advent of new drugs, cardiovascular mortality has increased at an alarming rate of 53.7 % from 12.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFHealth Sci Rep
December 2024
Section of Vascular Surgery, Department of Surgery and Cancer Imperial College London London UK.
Cell Stress
November 2024
National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London London, W12 ONN UK.
Human peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs) are used to examine biological processes and disease, when basal variability in cellular activation and splicing is described and unexplained. Using isolation systems that maintained buffy coat cells (PBMCs, platelets) in their own plasma, poly-A enriched RNA-sequencing (RNASeq) detected 42,720 Ensembl gene IDs, including >95% of the top 100 Genotype Tissue Expression Project (GTEx)-expressed genes in lung, colon, heart, skeletal muscle and liver, and 10/17 clinically-actionable genes listed by the Pharmacogenomics Knowledgebase. Transcriptome changes were defined after 1h treatment with 32°C hypothermia (hsp70 family member change), 10 μmol/L ferric citrate that had no discernible effect, and 100 μg/mL cycloheximide leading to induction of primary response (immediate early) genes including IL1B and TNF.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFRSC Chem Biol
November 2024
Leibniz-Forschungsinstitut für Molekulare Pharmakologie (FMP) Berlin 13125 Germany
Post-labelling cleavable substrates for self-labelling protein tags, such as SNAP- and Halo-tags, can be used to study cell surface receptor trafficking events by stripping dyes from non-internalized protein pools. Since the complexity of receptor biology requires the use of multiple and orthogonal approaches to simultaneously probe multiple receptor pools, we report the development of four membrane impermeable probes that covalently bind to either the SNAP- or the Halo-tag in the red to far-red range. These molecules bear a disulfide bond to release the non-internalized probe using the reducing agent sodium 2-mercaptoethane sulfonate (MESNA).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFRSC Adv
November 2024
Department of Materials, Imperial College London London UK
Inorganic/organic hybrid biomaterials have been developed to obtain synergy of the inorganic and organic co-networks for implant and 3D printed scaffold applications, providing combinations of bioactivity, toughness and controlled biodegradation. SiO-CaO/PTHF/PCL-diCOOH sol-gel hybrids previously showed potential for osteogenesis due to the addition of calcium to the silicate network of the hybrid, using calcium methoxyethoxide (CME) as the calcium source. Here, we investigate other calcium sources to improve mechanical properties and printability of the hybrid inks.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFEur Cardiol
November 2024
National Heart and Lung Institute, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London London, UK.
Cardiogenic shock (CS) is a critical condition with high mortality rate, as the current management of CS presents significant challenges. Exploration of more effective therapies is necessitated. This review article comprehensively examines the efficacy and safety of levosimendan in the management of CS.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBMJ
November 2024
Toxicology Unit, Imperial College London. London W6 8RP, UK.
Oxia Planum, Mars, is the future landing site of the ExoMars rover mission, which will search for preserved biosignatures in a phyllosilicate-bearing unit. Overlying the mission-important phyllosilicate-bearing rocks is a dark, capping unit-known here as the Low albedo, Thin, Resistant (LTR) unit-which may have protected the phyllosilicate-bearing unit over geologic time from solar insolation and radiation. However, little is known about the origin of the LTR unit.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction: With the advent of disease-modifying therapies, accurate assessment of biomarkers indicating the presence of disease-associated amyloid beta (Aβ) pathology becomes crucial in patients with clinically suspected Alzheimer's disease (AD). We evaluated Aβ levels in cerebrospinal fluid (Aβ CSF) and Aβ levels in positron emission tomography (Aβ PET) biomarkers in a real-world memory-clinic setting to develop an efficient algorithm for clinical use.
Methods: Patients were evaluated for AD-related Aβ pathology from two independent cohorts (Ludwig Maximilian University [LMU], = 402, and Medical University of Vienna [MUV], = 144).
Nanoscale Adv
December 2024
Department of Chemistry, University College London London WC1E 6BT UK
White flour may be directly electrospun, providing a starch nanofiber alternative which avoids unnecessary industrial extraction and purification. By dissolving 17 wt% flour in warm formic acid and cooling, a dope can be created which can be electrospun into porous mats of 372 nm fibers of pasta.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Am Heart Assoc
December 2024
Biomedical Research Foundation of the Academy of Athens Athens Greece.
Interv Cardiol
November 2024
Coronary Research Group, University Hospital Southampton UK.
Unprofessional behaviour within cardiology has been well documented and commonly occurs within the cardiac catheterisation laboratory, with higher rates in interventional subspecialities. While most trainees have positive experiences and encounters within the catheterisation laboratory, around one in five report experiencing bullying. This not only has a significant negative impact on the individuals directly involved, but also on the wider multidisciplinary team; importantly, it will have a deleterious effect on patient safety.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFGeohealth
November 2024
Online Research Club Nagasaki Japan.
Planetary Health (PH) is a relatively new field that studies the sciences behind the interaction between the environment, living organisms, and human health. The number of publications in this field has increased exponentially in the past few years. This study analyzed the trend of using the term "PH" in literature.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBJUI Compass
November 2024
British Urology Researchers in Surgical Training (BURST) London UK.
Objective: The objective of this study was to report the 12-month oncological outcomes for patients with non-muscle-invasive bladder cancer (NMIBC) within the prospective, international COVIDSurg Cancer study.
Patients And Methods: Eligible patients were aged ≥18 years and scheduled for elective surgical management of NMIBC with curative intent (transurethral resection of bladder tumour [TURBT] or bladder biopsy) from 21 January to 14 April 2020. The primary outcome was disease recurrence within 12 months of previous elective TURBT/bladder biopsy.
Rev Panam Salud Publica
October 2024
ISGlobal Barcelona Spain ISGlobal, Barcelona, Spain.
Objective: To identify challenges that may raise pathogens' resistance to antimicrobial drugs by exploring the private market for antimicrobials in two selected mining and frontier areas of Guyana.
Methods: The private sector supply was mapped by approaching all authorized pharmacies and informal outlets, e.g.
Chem Sci
October 2024
Department of Chemistry and Centre for Processable Electronics, Imperial College London London W12 0BZ UK
Organic heterojunction nanoparticles (NP) have recently gained significant interest as photocatalysts for visible light-driven hydrogen production. Whilst promising photocatalytic efficiencies have been reported for aqueous NP dispersions, the underlying dynamics of photogenerated charges in such organic heterojunction photocatalysts and how these might differ from more widely studied dry heterojunction films remain relatively unexplored. In this study, we combine transient optical spectroscopies over twelve orders of magnitude in time, using pulsed and continuous light illumination, to elucidate the differences in the charge carrier dynamics of heterojunction NP dispersions, dried NP films, and bulk heterojunction films prepared by spin coating.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPrecision medicine, which among other aspects includes an individual's genomic data in diagnosis and management, has become the standard-of-care for Mendelian cardiovascular disease (CVD). However, early identification and management of asymptomatic patients with potentially lethal and manageable Mendelian CVD through screening, which is the promise of precision health, remains an unsolved challenge. The reduced costs of genomic sequencing have enabled the creation of biobanks containing in-depth genetic and health information, which have facilitated the understanding of genetic variation, penetrance, and expressivity, moving us closer to the genotype-first screening of asymptomatic individuals for Mendelian CVD.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFClin Transl Immunology
October 2024
UCL Respiratory, Division of Medicine, Rayne Institute University College London London UK.
Objectives: Patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) have an increased susceptibility to infections, including those caused by . Why RA is associated with increased susceptibility to is poorly understood. This study aims to assess the effects of RA and B-cell depletion therapy on naturally acquired antibody responses to 289 protein antigens using a novel protein array.
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