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Differential Protein Expression Of Caco-2 Cells Treated With Selenium Nanoparticles Compared With Sodium Selenite And Selenomethionine, Linglin Fu, Xuxia Yan, Xinming Ruan, Junda Lin, Yanbo Wang Dec 2014

Differential Protein Expression Of Caco-2 Cells Treated With Selenium Nanoparticles Compared With Sodium Selenite And Selenomethionine, Linglin Fu, Xuxia Yan, Xinming Ruan, Junda Lin, Yanbo Wang

Biomedical Engineering and Sciences Faculty Publications

The study was designed to determine the differential protein expression of Caco-2 cells treated with different forms of selenium including sodium selenite, selenomethionine (Se-Met), and selenium nanoparticles (nano-Se). Two-dimensional polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (2D-PAGE) and mass spectrometry (MS) were used to identify the differentially expressed proteins. The results indicated that seven protein spots, ubiquitin-conjugating enzyme E2 (E2), glutathione synthetases (GS), triosephosphate isomerase (TSP), T-complex protein 1 subunit zeta (TCPZ), lamin-B1, heterogeneous nuclear ribonucleoprotein F (hnRNP F), and superoxide dismutase [Cu-Zn] (Cu, Zn-SOD) were significantly different among all the groups. According to the order of control, sodium selenite, Se-Met, and Nano-Se, the …


Reference Point Indentation Is Not Indicative Of Whole Mouse Bone Measures Of Stress Intensity Fracture Toughness, Alessandra Carriero, Jan L. Bruse, Karla J. Oldknow, José Luis Millán, Colin Farquharson, Sandra J. Shefelbine Oct 2014

Reference Point Indentation Is Not Indicative Of Whole Mouse Bone Measures Of Stress Intensity Fracture Toughness, Alessandra Carriero, Jan L. Bruse, Karla J. Oldknow, José Luis Millán, Colin Farquharson, Sandra J. Shefelbine

Biomedical Engineering and Sciences Faculty Publications

Bone fragility is a concern for aged and diseased bone. Measuring bone toughness and understanding fracture properties of the bone are critical for predicting fracture risk associated with age and disease and for preclinical testing of therapies. A reference point indentation technique (BioDent) has recently been developed to determine bone's resistance to fracture in a minimally invasive way by measuring the indentation distance increase (IDI) between the first and last indentations over cyclic indentations in the same position. In this study, we investigate the relationship between fracture toughness KC and reference point indentation parameters (i.e. IDI, total indentation distance (TID) …


Ranbp9 Overexpression Accelerates Loss Of Pre And Postsynaptic Proteins In The Apδe9 Transgenic Mouse Brain, Hongjie Wang, Ruizhi Wang, Shaohua Xu, Madepalli Krishnappa Lakshmana Jan 2014

Ranbp9 Overexpression Accelerates Loss Of Pre And Postsynaptic Proteins In The Apδe9 Transgenic Mouse Brain, Hongjie Wang, Ruizhi Wang, Shaohua Xu, Madepalli Krishnappa Lakshmana

Biomedical Engineering and Sciences Faculty Publications

There is now compelling evidence that the neurodegenerative process in Alzheimer's disease (AD) begins in synapses. Loss of synaptic proteins and functional synapses in the amyloid precursor protein (APP) transgenic mouse models of AD is well established. However, what is the earliest age at which such loss of synapses occurs, and whether known markers of AD progression accelerate functional deficits is completely unknown. We previously showed that RanBP9 overexpression leads to robustly increased amyloid β peptide (Aβ) generation leading to enhanced amyloid plaque burden in a mouse model of AD. In this study we compared synaptic protein levels among four …