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Author : Egholm McAllister | Published On : 09 May 2025

Anti-VCAM/LNP-mRNA mediated expression of thrombomodulin (a natural endothelial inhibitor of thrombosis, inflammation, and vascular leakage) and alleviated TNFα-induced brain edema. Thus VCAM-directed nanocarriers provide a platform for cerebrovascular targeting to inflamed brain, with the goal of normalizing the integrity of the blood-brain barrier, thus benefiting numerous brain pathologies.Spinodal demixing into two phases having very different viscosities leads to viscoelastic networks-i.e., gels-usually as a result of attractive particle interactions. Here, however, we demonstrate demixing in a colloidal system of polydisperse, rod-like clay particles that is driven by particle repulsions instead. One of the phases is a nematic liquid crystal with a highly anisotropic viscosity, allowing flow along the director, but suppressing it in other directions. click here This phase coexists with a dilute isotropic phase. Real-space analysis and molecular-dynamics simulations both reveal a long-lived network structure that is locally anisotropic, yet macroscopically isotropic. We show that our system exhibits the characteristics of colloidal gelation, leading to nonsticky gels.Although some important advances in the modeling of sorption and hygrothermal deformations of nanoporous materials such as hydrated cement paste, shale, coal, and some other rocks and soils have already been made, a comprehensive nanoporomechanics theory remains elusive. Here we strive to formulate it based on Gibb's free energy of the solid-fluid system and on the recently derived Nguyen-Rahimi-Bažant (NRB) isotherm, which corrects the Brunauer-Emmett-Teller (BET) isotherm for the effect of hindered adsorbed water in filled nanopores and extends through the capillary range up to saturation. The challenge is to capture all of the basic types of relevant published experimental data, including 1) a complete sorption isotherm of hydrated cement paste (including the capillary range), 2) pore size distribution, 3) autogenous shrinkage, 4) drying shrinkage and swelling, 5) water loss or humidity change due to heating, 6) thermal expansion at various humidities, and 7) water loss of specimens caused by compression. The previous models can fit only a few data types. The present model fits all of them. It is ready for computer simulations needed to minimize the deleterious moisture effects on long-time deformations, cracking damage, and fracture in concrete infrastructure and thereby to reduce indirectly the enormous carbon footprint of concrete. Adaptations to shale, coal beds, etc., are possible.We show that platinum displays a self-adjusting surface that is active for the hydrogenation of acetone over a wide range of reaction conditions. Reaction kinetics measurements under steady-state and transient conditions at temperatures near 350 K, electronic structure calculations employing density-functional theory, and microkinetic modeling were employed to study this behavior over supported platinum catalysts. The importance of surface coverage effects was highlighted by evaluating the transient response of isopropanol formation following either removal of the reactant ketone from the feed, or its substitution with a similarly structured species. The extent to which adsorbed intermediates that lead to the formation of isopropanol were removed from the catalytic surface was observed to be higher following ketone substitution in comparison to its removal, indicating that surface species leading to isopropanol become more strongly adsorbed on the surface as the coverage decreases during the desorption experiment. This phenomenon occurs as a result of adsorbate-adsorbate repulsive interactions on the catalyst surface which adjust with respect to the reaction conditions. Reaction kinetics parameters obtained experimentally were in agreement with those predicted by microkinetic modeling when the binding energies, activation energies, and entropies of adsorbed species and transition states were expressed as a function of surface coverage of the most abundant surface intermediate (MASI, C3H6OH*). It is important that these effects of surface coverage be incorporated dynamically in the microkinetic model (e.g., using the Bragg-Williams approximation) to describe the experimental data over a wide range of acetone partial pressures.Most replicated genetic determinants for type 1 diabetes are common (minor allele frequency [MAF] > 5%). We aimed to identify novel rare or low-frequency (MAF less then 5%) single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) with large effects on risk of type 1 diabetes. We undertook deep imputation of genotyped data followed by genome-wide association testing and meta-analysis of 9,358 type 1 diabetes cases and 15,705 controls from 12 European cohorts. Candidate variants were replicated in a separate cohort of 4,329 cases and 9,543 controls. Our meta-analysis identified 27 independent variants outside the major histocompatibility complex, among which 3 were novel and had MAF less then 5%. Three of these variants replicated with Preplication less then 0.05 and Pcombined less then Pdiscovery In silico analysis prioritized a rare variant at 2q24.3 (rs60587303 [C], MAF 0.5%) within the first intron of STK39, with an effect size comparable to those of common variants in the INS and PTPN22 loci (ORcombined 1.97, 95% CI 1.58-2.47, Pcombined 2.9 x 10-9). Pharmacological inhibition of Stk39 activity in primary murine T cells augmented effector responses through enhancement of interleukin 2 signaling. These findings provide insight into the genetic architecture of type 1 diabetes and have identified rare variants having a large effect on disease risk. © 2020 by the American Diabetes Association.Aging-dependent changes in tissue function are associated with the development of metabolic diseases. However, the molecular connections linking aging, obesity and diabetes remain unclear. Lamin A, lamin C and progerin, products of the Lmna gene, have antagonistic functions on energy metabolism and lifespan. Lamin C, albeit promoting obesity, increases lifespan suggesting that this isoform is crucial for maintaining healthy conditions under metabolic stresses. Since β-cell loss during obesity or aging leads to diabetes, we investigated the contribution of lamin C to β-cell function in physiopathological conditions. We demonstrate that aged lamin C-only expressing mice (Lmna LCS/LCS ) become obese but remain glucose tolerant, due to adaptive mechanisms including increased β-cell mass and insulin secretion. Triggering diabetes in young mice revealed that Lmna LCS/LCS animals normalize their fasting glycemia by both increasing insulin secretion and regenerating β-cells. Genome-wide analyses combined to functional analyses revealed an increase of mitochondrial biogenesis and global translational rate in Lmna LCS/LCS islets, two major processes involved in insulin secretion.