Biomedical subjects
Publications and source records attributed to Dongdong Chen.
A series of 4,5-disubstitute-1,2,3-thiadiazole compounds were designed and synthesized as potent anticancer agents, some of them exhibited excellent in vitro and in vivo inhibitory activity.
Ecological footprint (EF) model, as an indicator of sustainability, has received broad attention and wide use. With the development and refinement of the research work on EF theory and methodology, it appeared various methods which can be applied at different scales. Ecological footprint analysis has been combined with material flow analysis, life cycle assessment or input-output analysis, and especially, the newest progress in EF methods called allocating EF to final consumption categories with input-output analysis helps to develop a "standardized" EF. In this paper, the underlying causes of these methods were interpreted theoretically, and the research methods were classified into progress analysis and input-output analysis (IOA). In addition, the compound and component-based methods as well as IOA were introduced, with their respective features, application, and development progress discussed. A prospect on the development of EF in term of the tendency and application of EF methods in China and abroad was given, i. e. , the common framework should be built at the national and regional scales by using compound analysis, IOA and component-based analysis are expected to develop their application
A method was developed for the determination of acrylamide in fried starchy foods using isotope dilution gas chromatograpy-selected mass spectrometry (GC-MS). The acrylamide was extracted from samples by water, then centrifuged and cleaned up by a column of graphitized carbon black. Acrylamide was derivatized through bromination at low pH and low temperature and determined by GC-MS. With the aid of the 13C-substituted acrylamide internal standard, the mass spectrum in GC-MS was interpreted, and the content of acrylamide was measured. The limit of quantitative detection (S/N > 10) was 5 microg/kg and the recovery was in the range of 90%-105% and relative standard deviation is 6.3%. The levels of acrylamide in some fried foodstuffs such as French fries was surveyed using the method. French fries were found to contain 278-4518 microg/kg acrylamide. It means that the content of acrylamide in French fries is 10,000 times higher than the drinking water guideline of World Health Organization for acrylamide.
This paper describes the cloning and functional characterization of the heart muscle isoform of Sarco/endoplasmic reticulum Ca(2+)-ATPase (SERCA) from crayfish Procambarus clarkii. The complete crayfish heart SERCA, identified by reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) and rapid amplification of cDNA ends (RACE), consists of 4495 bp with a 3060 bp open reading frame, coding for 1020 amino acids. This isoform differs from the previously identified axial abdominal (tail) muscle SERCA solely in its C-terminal amino acids. The last nine amino acids of the tail muscle isoform are replaced by 27 hydrophobic amino acids in the heart isoform that have the potential to form an additional transmembrane domain. Consistent with other invertebrate studies, Southern blot analysis suggested that the heart and tail muscle isoforms are encoded from the same gene that is equally related to SERCA-1, -2 and -3 of vertebrates. The tissue distributions of these two isoforms have been assessed using isoform-specific probes and northern analysis. A cardiac-specific probe bound only to a 5.8 kb species in heart and had minimal cross-hybridization with 7.6 and 5.8 kb species in eggs and no hybridization with tail muscle. A tail-isoform-specific probe hybridized with a 4.5 kb species in tail muscle and cross-hybridized with a 4.5 kb species in eggs and 8.8 kb in heart muscle. Both isoforms are expressed in eggs suggesting that transcripts are formed early in development and are subsequently broadly expressed in all tissue types. Expression of the cardiac muscle SERCA isoform varied with the stage of moulting. Expression was high in intermoult and decreased in premoult. However, expression was restored rapidly in postmoult (within 2 days) unlike expression of tail muscle SERCA, which remained downregulated for weeks. Differences in contractility between the two muscle types in the postmoult period may explain these expression patterns.