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A method for preparing 125 I brachytherapy seeds is presented. Carbon bars were used as the substrates, on which a silver coating was deposited by electroless plating, and then, 125 I was adsorbed by iodinating the silver coating so as to prepare source cores. The radioactive cores were sealed individually in the titanium capsule to fabricate the 125 I brachytherapy seeds. Quality control checking of the encapsulated 125 I seeds for dimension, leakage and surface contamination were performed. And the 125 I seeds using carbon bar as the core substrate underwent computed tomography (CT) scan and X-ray imaging to determine the visualization. This paper provides valuable experiences and data for the preparation of 125 I brachytherapy seeds., (Copyright © 2020 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.)

Since this article has been suspected of research misconduct and the corresponding authors did not respond to our request to prove originality of data and figures, "Long noncoding RNA CASC2 inhibits metastasis and epithelial to mesenchymal transition of lung adenocarcinoma via suppressing SOX4, by D. Wang, Z.-M. Gao, L.-G. Han, F. Xu, K. Liu, Y. Shen, published in Eur Rev Med Pharmacol Sci 2017; 21 (20): 4584-4590-PMID: 29131257" has been withdrawn. The Publisher apologizes for any inconvenience this may cause. https://www.europeanreview.org/article/13630.

Cells are equipped with various antioxidant defense factors to antagonize insults from reactive oxygen species (ROS), thus the antioxidant capacity has been characterized by a variety of cellular responses during the pathophysiological processes. Amniotic cells have been extensively applied in clinical practice for burn treatment, corneal repair, and tissue regeneration. However, the antioxidative properties of amniotic cells have not yet been fully understood. Therefore, the current study was aimed to observe the response of amniotic cells against ROS stimuli, and to investigate the underlying molecular mechanisms. The immortalized human amniotic mesenchymal cells (iHAMs) and immortalized human amniotic epithelial cells (iHAEs) were used. The human skin fibroblast (HSF) was used as a control cell line. Changes in intracellular ROS generation, cell viability, and cellular morphology were investigated to reveal the response of amniotic cells against oxidative stresses induced by x-rays and hydrogen peroxide. In addition, expression of apoptosis-related proteins and response to antioxidative stress was also examined. The intracellular ROS level and cell apoptosis in iHAMs was remarkably increased. iHAEs showed relatively high resistance to ROS stimulation, which can be attributed to the high SOD2 expression and up-regulation of Nrf2, HO-1 after x-rays exposure. In contrast, iHAMs were found sensitive to oxidative damage. Expression of caspase-3, caspase-8 and BAX was increased, whereas down-regulation of Bcl-xL, Nrf2, HO-1, and TrxR-1. Taken together, findings have highlighted the characterization of response of amniotic derived epithelial and mesenchymal cells to oxidative stress. In physiological processes, iHAMs may play an important role to maintain the homeostasis of the pregnancy environment. However, under oxidative stimulations, iHAEs provides protection against oxidative damage in amnion tissue., (Copyright © 2019 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.)

Objective: Recently, long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) have caught more attention for their role in tumor progression. Lung adenocarcinoma (LAC) is one of these ordinary malignant tumors. This study aims to identify whether lncRNA CASC2 (cancer susceptibility candidate 2) can regulate the metastasis of LAC, and find out its potential mechanism., Patients and Methods: RT-qPCR was conducted to detect CASC2 expression level in 63 LAC tissues and 4 LAC cells. Besides, statistical methods were applied to analyze clinical data and prognosis in the 63 patients. Furthermore, function experiments were performed to determine the effect of CASC2 on LAC metastasis in vitro. The potential mechanism was further explored by RT-qPCR and Western blot assay., Results: In our study, CASC2 expression level was lower in LAC tissues than that in corresponding tissues. CASC2 expression was associated with lymph node metastasis, clinical stage and survival time of these patients. Moreover, overexpression of CASC2 inhibited migrated and invaded ability of LAC cells. Then, epithelial to mesenchymal transition (EMT) process of LAC cells and SOX4 expression was suppressed by upregulating CASC2., Conclusions: These results indicate that CASC2 could inhibit metastasis and EMT of LAC via suppressing SOX4, which may offer a new vision for interpreting the mechanism of LAC metastasis.

A method for preparing (103)Pd brachytherapy seeds is reported. The key of the method was to deposit (103)Pd onto carbon bars by electroless plating so as to prepare source cores. After each carbon bar with (103)Pd was sealed in a titanium capsule, the (103)Pd seeds were fabricated. This paper provides valuable experiences and data for the preparation of (103)Pd brachytherapy seeds., (Copyright © 2015 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.)

The Raman and FTIR spectra of acetanilide (ACN) were measured experimentally in the regions of 3 500-50 and 3 500-600 cm(-1) respectively. The equilibrium geometry and vibration frequencies of ACN were calculated based on density functional theory (DFT) method (B3LYP/6-311G(d, p)). The results showed that the theoretical calculation of molecular structure parameters are in good agreement with previous report and better than the ones calculated based on 6-31G(d), and the calculated frequencies agree well with the experimental ones. Potential energy distribution of each frequency was worked out by normal mode analysis, and based on this, a detailed and accurate vibration frequency assignment of ACN was obtained.

3,5-dimethoxybenzyl alcohol (L1 OH) is a kind of important pharmaceutical intermediate and it is also the starting material of a family of dendrimer LnOH (integer n means the layers of "branch"). A number of articles reported the structure and properties of the L1 OH. However, its molecular vibrational spectra have not been reported up to date. Study of vibrational spectra on L1 OH at the molecular level can provide new information, which is significant for the in-depth study of related molecules of drug and the dendrimer. Recent studies indicated a morphology effect on the light-harvesting functions of dendritic macromolecules. In the present report, the Raman and FTIR spectra of 3,5-dimethoxybenzyl alcohol were measured experimentally. And the density functional theory (DFT) method (B3LYP/6-311G(d,p)) were used to calculate the equilibrium geometry and vibration frequencies of L1 OH. The results showed that the calculated frequencies agree well with the experimental ones. Potential energy distribution of each frequency was worked out by normal mode analysis. Thereafter the authors got a detail assignment of the vibrational frequencies for L1 OH for the first time. Also, the results showed that the DFT is really a useful method in the study of molecular vibrational spectra.

In the present paper the authors studied theoretically and experimentally the relationship between spectral resolution and grating density, the limitations to improve the spectral resolution by using high density grating, the use of longer focal length grating to increase spectral resolution without compromising instrument throughput and the effect of slit width on spectral resolution and sensitivity. Finally, two experiment results were provided to show why higher spectral resolution is important to ensure that critical information is not lost during a Raman measurement. Stressed silicon was produced by growing a thin crystalline layer of Si on an Si(x)Ge(1-x) substrate. It is possible to use Raman spectroscopy to probe the stress in the Si(x)Ge(1-x) and Si layers at the same time. The parameter to monitor the stress is the position of the Si-Si vibrational mode in Si(x)Ge(1-x) and Si. Such a measurement requires high spectral resolution because the peaks exhibit very subtle shifts. The authors' results clearly demonstrate that the resolution offered by a high density grating is necessary to properly monitor the very small frequency shift of this cap-layer Si-Si mode in order to properly characterize the strain structure. The Raman band around 180 cm(-1) is assigned to the radial breath mode of single wall carbon nanotube (SWCN). By measuring the frequencies excited with different laser, the diameters of the sample can be obtained. Practically, sample is always composed of SWCN with different but very close diameters and their Raman bands might overlap together and are difficult to determine the frequencies. The authors' results showed that only higher resolution with the long focal length spectrometer can give accurate number and frequencies of Raman bands, which leads to a correct analysis of the diameter distribution.