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  1. Zhang Q, Zhao JJ, Xu J, Feng F, Qu W
    J Ethnopharmacol, 2015 Sep 15;173:48-80.
    PMID: 26091967 DOI: 10.1016/j.jep.2015.06.011
    The genus Uncaria belongs to the family Rubiaceae, which mainly distributed in tropical regions, such as Southeast Asia, Africa and Southeast America. Their leaves and hooks have long been thought to have healing powers and are already being tested as a treatment for asthma, cancer, cirrhosis, diabetes, hypertension, stroke and rheumatism. The present review aims to provide systematically reorganized information on the ethnopharmacology, phytochemistry and pharmacology of the genus Uncaria to support for further therapeutic potential of this genus. To better understanding this genus, information on the stereo-chemistry and structure-activity relationships in indole alkaloids is also represented.
  2. Qu W, Loke Show P, Hasunuma T, Ho SH
    Bioresour Technol, 2020 Feb 22;305:123072.
    PMID: 32163881 DOI: 10.1016/j.biortech.2020.123072
    This work aimed to study an newly isolated microalgal strain, Chlamydomonas sp. QWY37, that can achieve a maximum carbohydrate production of 944 mg/L·d, along with high pollutant removal efficiencies (chemical oxygen demand: 81%, total nitrogen: 96%, total phosphate: nearly 100%) by optimizing culture conditions and using an appropriate operation strategy. Through a cell-displayed technology that utilizes combined engineered system, a maximum microalgal bioethanol yield of 61 g/L was achieved. This is the first report demonstrating the highest microalgal carbohydrate productivity using swine wastewater without any pretreatments associated with direct high-density bioethanol production from the subsequent microalgal biomass. This work may represent a breakthrough in achieving feasible microalgal bioethanol conversion from real swine wastewater.
  3. Ishiura H, Shibata S, Yoshimura J, Suzuki Y, Qu W, Doi K, et al.
    Nat Genet, 2019 08;51(8):1222-1232.
    PMID: 31332380 DOI: 10.1038/s41588-019-0458-z
    Noncoding repeat expansions cause various neuromuscular diseases, including myotonic dystrophies, fragile X tremor/ataxia syndrome, some spinocerebellar ataxias, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and benign adult familial myoclonic epilepsies. Inspired by the striking similarities in the clinical and neuroimaging findings between neuronal intranuclear inclusion disease (NIID) and fragile X tremor/ataxia syndrome caused by noncoding CGG repeat expansions in FMR1, we directly searched for repeat expansion mutations and identified noncoding CGG repeat expansions in NBPF19 (NOTCH2NLC) as the causative mutations for NIID. Further prompted by the similarities in the clinical and neuroimaging findings with NIID, we identified similar noncoding CGG repeat expansions in two other diseases: oculopharyngeal myopathy with leukoencephalopathy and oculopharyngodistal myopathy, in LOC642361/NUTM2B-AS1 and LRP12, respectively. These findings expand our knowledge of the clinical spectra of diseases caused by expansions of the same repeat motif, and further highlight how directly searching for expanded repeats can help identify mutations underlying diseases.
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