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Linköping University
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About: Linköping University is a education organization based out in Linköping, Sweden. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Population & Thin film. The organization has 15671 authors who have published 50013 publications receiving 1542189 citations.
Topics: Population, Thin film, Poison control, Health care, Photoluminescence
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TL;DR: The chemical design of pentameric thiophene derivatives, denoted luminescent conjugated oligothiophenes (LCOs), which could be used for real-time visualization of cerebral protein aggregates in transgenic mouse models of neurodegenerative diseases by multiphoton microscopy are reported.
Abstract: Molecular probes for selective identification of protein aggregates are important to advance our understanding of the molecular pathogenesis underlying cerebral amyloidoses. Here we report the chemical design of pentameric thiophene derivatives, denoted luminescent conjugated oligothiophenes (LCOs), which could be used for real-time visualization of cerebral protein aggregates in transgenic mouse models of neurodegenerative diseases by multiphoton microscopy. One of the LCOs, p-FTAA, could be utilized for ex vivo spectral assignment of distinct prion deposits from two mouse-adapted prion strains. p-FTAA also revealed staining of transient soluble pre-fibrillar non-thioflavinophilic Abeta-assemblies during in vitro fibrillation of Abeta peptides. In brain tissue samples, Abeta deposits and neurofibrillary tangles (NFTs) were readily identified by a strong fluorescence from p-FTAA and the LCO staining showed complete co-localization with conventional antibodies (6E10 and AT8). In addition, a patchy islet-like staining of individual Abeta plaque was unveiled by the anti-oligomer A11 antibody during co-staining with p-FTAA. The major hallmarks of Alzheimer's disease, namely, Abeta aggregates versus NFTs, could also be distinguished because of distinct emission spectra from p-FTAA. Overall, we demonstrate that LCOs can be utilized as powerful practical research tools for studying protein aggregation diseases and facilitate the study of amyloid origin, evolution and maturation, Abeta-tau interactions, and pathogenesis both ex vivo and in vivo.
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TL;DR: The real space structure and the electronic structure (particularly Ce4f electron localization) of oxygen vacancies in CeO(2) (ceria) as a function of U in density functional theory studies with the rotationally invariant forms of the LDA+U and GGA+U functionals are examined.
Abstract: We examine the real space structure and the electronic structure (particularly Ce4f electron localization) of oxygen vacancies in CeO2 (ceria) as a function of U in density functional theory studies with the rotationally invariant forms of the LDA+U and GGA+U functionals. The four nearest neighbor Ce ions always relax outwards, with those not carrying localized Ce4f charge moving furthest. Several quantification schemes show that the charge starts to become localized at U≈3eV and that the degree of localization reaches a maximum at ∼6eV for LDA+U or at ∼5.5eV for GGA+U. For higher U it decreases rapidly as charge is transferred onto second neighbor O ions and beyond. The localization is never into atomic corelike states; at maximum localization about 80–90% of the Ce4f charge is located on the two nearest neighboring Ce ions. However, if we look at the total atomic charge we find that the two ions only make a net gain of (0.2–0.4)e each, so localization is actually very incomplete, with localization of Ce4f electrons coming at the expense of moving other electrons off the Ce ions. We have also revisited some properties of defect-free ceria and find that with LDA+U the crystal structure is actually best described with U=3–4eV, while the experimental band structure is obtained with U=7–8eV. (For GGA+U the lattice parameters worsen for U>0eV, but the band structure is similar to LDA+U.) The best overall choice is U≈6eV with LDA+U and ≈5.5eV for GGA+U, since the localization is most important, but a consistent choice for both CeO2 and Ce2O3, with and without vacancies, is hard to find.
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TL;DR: Among sensitized infants, those with high, as compared with low levels, of salivary secretory IgA are less likely to develop allergic symptoms and early colonization with certain gut microbiota, e.g. Lactobacilli and Bifidobacterium species, might be associated with less allergy development.
Abstract: Introduction: Among sensitized infants those with high, as compared with low levels, of salivary secretory IgA (SIgA) are less likely to develop allergic symptoms. Also, early colonization with cer ...
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TL;DR: Mitochondrial reactive oxygen species (ROS) and Nlrp3-inflammasome activation in non-myeloid-derived cells aggravate diabetic nephropathy, and targeting the inflammasomes may be a potential therapeutic approach to diabetic neophropathy.
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Rui Zhang | 151 | 2625 | 107917 |
Jun Lu | 135 | 1526 | 99767 |
Jean-Luc Brédas | 134 | 1026 | 85803 |
Lars Wallentin | 124 | 767 | 61020 |
S. Shankar Sastry | 122 | 858 | 86155 |
Gerhard Andersson | 118 | 902 | 49159 |
Olle Inganäs | 113 | 627 | 50562 |
Antonio Facchetti | 111 | 602 | 51885 |
Ray H. Baughman | 110 | 616 | 60009 |
Michel W. Barsoum | 106 | 543 | 60539 |
Louis J. Ignarro | 106 | 335 | 46008 |
Per Björntorp | 105 | 386 | 40321 |
Jan Lubinski | 103 | 689 | 52120 |
Magnus Johannesson | 102 | 342 | 40776 |
Barbara Riegel | 101 | 507 | 77674 |