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the postmortem findings which allowed the diagnosis of the two clinical entities in the same patient.”
“Asthma is a chronic inflammatory disorder of the airway. Arsenic trioxide PD0332991 molecular weight (ATO) is an ancient Chinese medicine, which is used to treat psoriasis, asthma, and acute promyelocytic leukemia.

We wanted to research the effect of arsenic trioxide on asthma.

Using a murine model of asthma, the airway hyperresponsiveness was conducted by the Buxco pulmonary function apparatus. Total cell counts of BALF were counted with a counting chamber. Histopathological analysis of lung tissues was conducted by hematoxylin-eosin or periodic acid-schiff stain. CD4+T cells were purified from the spleen by positive selection, using immunomagnetic beads. Apoptosis measurements were done with Annexin-V/PI

staining. Western blot analysis and real time-PCR were performed to assess the expression of C/EBP-homologous protein (CHOP) and glucose-regulated protein 78 (GRP78), respectively. RNA interference was conducted to inhibit the expression of CHOP.

We found that arsenic trioxide treatment alleviated airway hyperresponsiveness and reduced inflammation of the lung in asthmatic mice. Furthermore, arsenic trioxide treatment promoted apoptosis of CD4+T cells in vivo and in vitro. When CD4+T cells were cultured with arsenic trioxide for 5 h at a concentration of 5 mu M, the expression of GRP78 and Ipatasertib cell line CHOP was increased. Treatment of CD4+T cells with CHOP siRNA, provided partial resistance to arsenic trioxide-induced Napabucasin apoptosis of CD4+T cells

These data demonstrated that arsenic trioxide can reduce the severity of asthma attacks and induce the apoptosis of CD4+ T cell which the ER stress-CHOP pathway involved.”
“The in-plane aligned MnAs nanowires have been

grown by molecular-beam epitaxy on GaAs(001) substrates at high growth temperature (>= 450 degrees C). A discontinuous growth with break intervals (50 s’ interval per 10 s’ growth) was employed. The obtained nanowires were identified to be mainly type-B hexagonal MnAs. The influences of growth temperature and As(4)/Mn flux ratio on the nanowires’ morphology were investigated. Both high growth temperature and high As4/Mn flux ratio are necessary for the growth of uniaxially aligned MnAs nanowires with high aspect ratio. The magnetic anisotropy of the nanowires and their multimodal size distributions contribute to the large coercivity and special shape of the M-H loops along the magnetic easy axis, which is [1 (1) over bar 02]MnAs parallel to[110]GaAs. However, the longer growth time would lead to the both azimuthal alignments of the MnAs wires and the weakening of the magnetic anisotropy. (C) 2010 American Institute of Physics. [doi:10.1063/1.