Kyushu University

About: Kyushu University is a education organization based out in Fukuoka, Japan. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Population & Catalysis. The organization has 68284 authors who have published 135190 publications receiving 3055928 citations. The organization is also known as: Kyūshū Daigaku.

Gene Transfer of Stromal Cell–Derived Factor-1α Enhances Ischemic Vasculogenesis and Angiogenesis via Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor/Endothelial Nitric Oxide Synthase–Related Pathway: Next-Generation Chemokine Therapy for Therapeutic Neovascularization

Abstract: Background— Stromal cell–derived factor-1α (SDF-1α) is implicated as a chemokine for endothelial progenitor cells (EPCs). We therefore hypothesized that SDF-1α gene transfer would induce therapeutic neovascularization in vivo by functioning as a chemokine of EPC. Methods and Results— To examine SDF-1α–induced mobilization of EPC, we used bone marrow–transplanted mice whose blood cells ubiquitously express β-galactosidase (LacZ). We produced unilateral hindlimb ischemia in the mice and transfected them with plasmid DNA encoding SDF-1α or empty plasmids into the ischemic muscles. SDF-1α gene transfer mobilized EPCs into the peripheral blood, augmented recovery of blood perfusion to the ischemic limb, and increased capillary density associated with partial incorporation of LacZ-positive cells into the capillaries of the ischemic limb, suggesting that SDF-1α induced vasculogenesis and angiogenesis. SDF-1α gene transfer did not affect ischemia-induced expression of vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) but...

Search for squarks and gluinos with the ATLAS detector in final states with jets and missing transverse momentum using √s = 8 TeV proton-proton collision data

Abstract: A search for squarks and gluinos in final states containing high-p T jets, missing transverse momentum and no electrons or muons is presented. The data were recorded in 2012 by the ATLAS experiment in s√=8 TeV proton-proton collisions at the Large Hadron Collider, with a total integrated luminosity of 20.3 fb−1. Results are interpreted in a variety of simplified and specific supersymmetry-breaking models assuming that R-parity is conserved and that the lightest neutralino is the lightest supersymmetric particle. An exclusion limit at the 95% confidence level on the mass of the gluino is set at 1330 GeV for a simplified model incorporating only a gluino and the lightest neutralino. For a simplified model involving the strong production of first- and second-generation squarks, squark masses below 850 GeV (440 GeV) are excluded for a massless lightest neutralino, assuming mass degenerate (single light-flavour) squarks. In mSUGRA/CMSSM models with tan β = 30, A 0 = −2m 0 and μ > 0, squarks and gluinos of equal mass are excluded for masses below 1700 GeV. Additional limits are set for non-universal Higgs mass models with gaugino mediation and for simplified models involving the pair production of gluinos, each decaying to a top squark and a top quark, with the top squark decaying to a charm quark and a neutralino. These limits extend the region of supersymmetric parameter space excluded by previous searches with the ATLAS detector.

Expression of vascular endothelial growth factor and its possible relation with neovascularization in human brain tumors.

Abstract: To examine which growth factors correlate with neovascularization in human brain tumors, the mRNA levels of transforming growth factor α, transforming growth factor, β, basic fibroblast growth factor, and vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) genes were determined by a Northern blot analysis in surgically obtained human gliomas and meninglomas The vascular development was determined by counting the number of microvessels which were immunostained with von Willebrand factor We normalized the growth factor mRNA levels versus the glyceraldehyde phosphate dehydrogenase mRNA level In the 17 gliomas and 16 meningiomas examined, the mRNA of transforming growth factors α and β, basic fibroblast growth factor, and VEGF were expressed at various levels Among those 4 growth factors, the mRNA levels of VEGF, but not those of transforming growth factors α and β and basic fibroblast growth factor, correlated significantly with vascularity in both gliomas (correlation coefficient r = 0499; P < 005) and meningiomas (correlation coefficient r = 0779; P < 0001) These findings thus suggest that VEGF may be a positive factor in tumor angiogenesis in both human gliomas and meningiomas

Conformational Equilibrium of Bis(trifluoromethanesulfonyl) Imide Anion of a Room-Temperature Ionic Liquid: Raman Spectroscopic Study and DFT Calculations

Abstract: The structure of bis(trifluoromethanesulfonyl) imide (TFSI-) in the liquid state has been studied by means of Raman spectroscopy and DFT calculations. Raman spectra of 1-ethyl-3-methylimidazolium (EMI+) TFSI- show relatively strong bands arising from TFSI- at about 398 and 407 cm-1. Interestingly, the 407 cm-1 band, relative to the 398 cm-1 one, is appreciably intensified with raising temperature, suggesting that an equilibrium is established between TFSI- conformers in the liquid state. According to DFT calculations followed by normal frequency analyses, two conformers of C2 and C1 symmetry, respectively, constitute global and local minima, with an energy difference 2.2−3.3 kJ mol-1. The wagging ω-SO2 vibration appears at 396 and 430 cm-1 for the C1 conformer and at 387 and 402 cm-1 for the C2 one. Observed Raman spectra over the range 380−440 cm-1 were deconvoluted to extract intrinsic bands of TFSI- conformers, and the enthalpy of conformational change from C2 to C1 was evaluated. The enthalpy value is...