Altogether, over 40 clinical trials have now been approved. Although all previous trials were undertaken using AAV serotype 2 vectors, at least two current trials utilize AAV2 vector genomes cross-packaged AG-881 or pseudotyped into AAV1 capsids, which appear to mediate more efficient gene delivery to muscle. The explosion of capsid isolates available for use as vectors
to over 120 has now provided the potential to broaden the application of AAV-based gene therapy to other cell types.”
“We synthesized new polynorbornene dicarboximide (PCaNI) functionalized with hole-transporting carbazole moieties and its copolymer (PCaNA) by ring-opening metathesis polymerization (ROMP), where the PCaNA was further reacted with 3-amino-triethoxysilane to prepare PCaNI/silica hybrid. We also investigated the feasibility of PCaNI and PCaNI/silica hybrid (PCaSi)
as a hole-transporting material for hybrid organic light emitting devices (HOLEDs). To improve the performance of the PCaNI-based HOLEDs, N, N ‘-diphenyl-N, N ‘-(3-methylphenyl)[1,10-biphenyl]-4-4 ‘-diamine (TPD) was also introduced into the PCaNI matrix. Results showed that PCaNI exhibited high glass transition temperature (similar to 260 degrees C) and high optical transparency in the visible region. The highest occupied molecular orbital (HOMO) and lowest unoccupied molecular orbital (LUMO) of PCaNI were measured as 5.6 and 2.2 eV, while the TPD-doped PCaNI showed 5.7 eV (HOMO) and 2.6 eV (LUMO). The PCaNI/silica hybrid nanolayers showed excellent solvent resistance due to the formation of selleckchem covalent bonds between ITO and PCaNI. The HOLEDs with PCaNI/TPD or PCaSi/TPD hybrid nanolayers exhibited relatively higher luminance (similar to 10,000 cd/m(2)), lower operating voltage (similar to 6.5 V at 300 cd/m(2)), and higher selleck current efficiency (similar to 2.7 cd/A). (C) 2010
Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Polym Sci Part A: Polym Chem 48: 5189-5197, 2010″
“Background: Little is known about the association between blood pressure and urinary electrolytes in young adult, nonurban-dwelling, sub-Saharan Africans. This study attempts to provide such data in a Nigerian population. Patients and Methods: Four hundred Nigerians (50 female) aged 19-40 years were studied. Their blood pressures (BPs), anthropometric variables, and overnight urinary sodium, and potassium concentrations (UNaC and UKC respectively) were measured using standard procedures. Associations between measures of BP and the other parameters were examined using appropriate statistical tools. Results: UNaC was correlated significantly with only diastolic BP (DBP) (r = 0.105, P = 0.037). Similarly, UNaC was significantly associated with DBP and mean BP (MBP) ( = 0.158, P = 0.018 and = 0.155, P = 0.020, respectively). UKC was not associated with, nor correlated with, any measure of BP. There was no significant mean difference (P > 0.05) between the sexes for measures of BP and urinary electrolytes.