Podoplanin (PDPN) is known as a lymphatic endothelial cell marker. Monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) against human, mouse, rat, rabbit, dog, cat, bovine, pig, and horse PDPN have been established in our previous studies. However, mAbs against alpaca PDPN (aPDPN), required for immunohistochemical anal...

The authentication and traceability of hazelnuts is very important for both the consumer and the food industry, to safeguard the protected varieties and the food quality. This study investigates the use of a portable FTIR spectrometer coupled to multivariate statistical analysis for the classifi...

Novel metal-free organic dyes based on polycyclic aromatic donor, pyrrolo[3,2,1-kl]phenothiazine, have been synthesized and applied in dye-sensitized solar cells. Combined with cyanoacrylic acid as the acceptor/anchoring group and simple π-spacers such as thiophene (JY40), furan (JY41), and ter...

In this paper, we propose a robot photography system that can autonomously search for the optimal target viewpoint. Two technical issues of scene composition evaluation and viewpoint selection are solved by this system. A composition evaluation method for photos is developed using well-known com...

Object tracking based on single sensor image sequences is now proved to be insufficient when facing complex challenging factors such as occlusions, background clutter, illumination variations, deformation and scale change. Complementary information between thermal infrared and visible image sequ...

Various fluorescence probes for cyanide anions in water solution have been reported, but the investigation for endogenous cyanide recognition in plant tissues and mammalian cells is still limited. Here, a mitochondria-targeted cyanide fluorescent probe Mito-CP with colorimetric and ratiometric r...

Thiocyanate leaching is an efficient and environmentally friendly method to extract gold due to fast leaching speed, excellent reaction selectivity and slight environmental risks, but thiocyanate is easily oxidized to decompose by oxidant in the leaching process, resulting in large consumption o...

The purpose of this study was to evaluate the differential effect of buffering agents on the crystallization of gemcitabine hydrochloride (GHCl) in frozen solutions. Four buffering agents, viz. citric acid (CA), malic acid (MA), succinic acid (SA) and tartaric acid (TA) were selected and their e...

Gemcitabine hydrochloride is an established chemotherapeutic agent in several solid tumors. Along with its outstanding effects, Gemcitabine has some side effects, which may cause suffering to patients. Herein we developed, a novel but simple method for the selective and sensitive quantitative de...

Electrochemical behavior of an anticancer drug, gemcitabine hydrochloride (GMB) was studied in 10.4 pH with 0.2 M phosphate buffer solution as supporting electrolyte at 25 ± 0.1 °C at gold electrode (GE) using different voltammetric techniques. The electrochemical process was observed to be di...

The present study was undertaken to assess skin permeation of gemcitabine hydrochloride (GEM) following passive diffusion, iontophoresis and sonophoresis. In vitro passive diffusion were carried out in HEPES solution of pH 4.5, 5.8, 7.4 and 9.2 which revealed a pH-dependent permeation of GEM. Fu...

Lipid polymer hybrid nanoparticles (LPHNs) combine the characteristics and beneficial properties of both polymeric nanoparticles and liposomes. The objective of this study was to design and optimize gemcitabine hydrochloride loaded LPHNs based on the central composite design approach. PLGA 50:50...

The effect of condensing metal atoms (tungsten and vanadium) on the catalytic properties of 12-heteropolyphosphoric acids, as heterogeneous oxidation catalysts, has been investigated. While both the reducibility by isobutyric acid and carbon monoxide and reoxidizability by gaseous oxygen of moly...

The rare-earth gallate glasses R4Ga6O15, where R denotes Pr or Nd, were prepared using an aerodynamic levitator and laser heating system. The structure was studied by applying the method of isomorphic substitution in neutron diffraction which allows for an identification of the gallium and rare-...

Currently, thirty-two zinc, thirty-two selenium, twenty-nine bromine, and thirty-one neodymium isotopes have been observed and the discovery of these isotopes is described here. For each isotope a brief synopsis of the first refereed publication, including the production and identification metho...

Photoluminescence of chalcogenides of europium-gallium, EuGa2S4 and EuGa2Se4, doped with neodymium is investigated. The positions of Stark levels are determined from the spectra. The symmetry of luminescence centres is shown to be lower than cubic and the existence of nonequivalent centers is es...

The binary phase diagram of the neodymium-gallium system has been investigated by differential thermal analysis (DTA), X-ray diffraction and metallography. Four intermetallic compounds were identified: Nd3Ga, Nd5Ga3, NdGa and NdGa2. The DTA results indicate the possible existence of two intermet...

For the realization of transparent oxide semiconductor device, it is indispensable to suggest a new simple patterning process instead of photolithography. As a new method of patterning, neodymium doped yttrium vanadate (Nd:YVO4) laser ablation was applied to pattern amorphous-indium gallium zinc...

Thermodynamic properties of rare earth elements (Y, La, Nd) and uranium were experimentally determined in a number of quaternary alloys at 573–1073 K. Gallium based eutectic mixtures (Ga–Al, Ga–In and Ga–Zn) were chosen as the solvents. The systems studied were La–U–Ga–Al, La–U–Ga–In, ...

The growth of single crystal orthorhombic neodymium gallium oxide is described. Difficulties with twinning, strain and cracks were eliminated by uniform melt temperature and choice of [100] growth direction using an appropriate seed crystal.