Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)
Shuangbo Huang, Deyuan Wu, Xiangyu Hao, Jiawei Nie, Zihao Huang, Shuo Ma, Yi‐Ling Chen, Shengxing Chen, Jianyao Wu, Jihui Sun, Huasun Ao, Binghui Gao, Chengquan Tan,
... of supplementation of a cheaper combined dietary fiber (CDF, using bamboo shoots fiber and alginate fiber to ... basal diet supplemented with 2% KF or 2% CDF (CDF containing 15% KF, 60% bamboo shoots fiber, and ... gene sequencing. Compared with CON, both KF and CDF treatments not only increased the piglet birth weight ( ... P < 0.01). In addition, KF or CDF supplementation reduced fasting blood insulin level (P < ... lt; 0.05) at farrowing. Meanwhile, KF or CDF supplementation increased microbial diversity (P < 0.05) ...
Tópico(s): Adipose Tissue and Metabolism
2023 - Oxford University Press | Journal of Animal Science
ASTM International
Jia Han, Rui Zhang, Dina Muheyati, Mei Lv, Wubulikasimu Aikebaier, Bing Peng,
... have investigated the effect of chickpea dietary fiber (CDF) on high-fat diet (HFD)-induced hyperlipidemia and ... and the other three groups were fed with CDF in different doses: high CDF (30 g CDF/kg of HFD), medium CDF (15 g CDF/kg of HFD), and low CDF (5 g CDF/kg of HFD). After CDF treatment, the lipid level in serum was determined ... determined by 16S rDNA sequencing. We found that CDF could decrease the levels of total cholesterol, triglyceride, ...
Tópico(s): Clostridium difficile and Clostridium perfringens research
2021 - Mary Ann Liebert, Inc. | Journal of Medicinal Food
ASTM International
Aniefon Ibuot, Andrew P. Dean, Jon K. Pittman,
... to identify members of the Cation Diffusion Facilitator (CDF) family of metal ion transporter. All algal genomes contained at least one CDF gene with four species having >10 CDF genes (median of 5 genes per genome), further ... a ubiquitous gene family. Phylogenetic analysis suggested a CDF gene organisation of five groups, which includes Zn-CDF, Fe/Zn-CDF and Mn-CDF groups, consistent with previous phylogenetic analyses, and two ... 2 and 5 that was distinct from other CDF proteins, such that alanine or serine replaced the ...
Tópico(s): Trace Elements in Health
2020 - Oxford University Press | Metallomics
Shuai Liu, Qiang Yu, Hairong Huang, Kunyou Hou, Ruihong Dong, Yi Chen, Jianhua Xie, Shaoping Nie, Mingyong Xie,
... fermentation and antioxidant properties of carrot dietary fiber (CDF) in vivo and in vitro. Compared with CDF treatment, 16S rRNA pyrosequencing of in vivo mice ... fermentation samples showed that dephenolized carrot dietary fiber (CDF-DF) treatment decreases operational taxonomic units (OTUs), ACE ... while the pH value was higher in the CDF-DF group than those in the CDF group. Interestingly, the combination of bound polyphenols and CDF-DF (CDDP) could recover these indexes influenced by ... polyphenols in in vitro fermentation samples. Furthermore, the CDF-DF-fed mice exhibited higher MDA content and ...
Tópico(s): Microbial Metabolites in Food Biotechnology
2019 - Royal Society of Chemistry | Food & Function
Tong Xu, Huiwen Chen, Jincheng Li, Shan Hong, Li Shao, Xiutao Zheng, Qiao Zou, Yuting Wang, Sijia Guo, Juquan Jiang,
In the cation diffusion facilitator (CDF) family, the transported substrates are confined to divalent metal ions, such as Zn2+, Fe2+, and Mn2+. However, this study identifies a novel CDF member designated MceT from the moderate halophile Planococcus ... which have not been reported in any identified CDF transporters as yet. MceT is proposed to represent a novel CDF group, Na-CDF, which shares significantly distant phylogenetic relationship with three known CDF groups including Mn-CDF, Fe/Zn-CDF, and ...
Tópico(s): Molecular Sensors and Ion Detection
2019 - Frontiers Media | Frontiers in Microbiology
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
Kota Sahara, Katiuscha Merath, Diamantis I. Tsilimigras, J. Madison Hyer, Alfredo Guglielmi, Luca Aldrighetti, Matthew J. Weiss, Ryan C. Fields, George A. Poultsides, Shishir K. Maithel, Itaru Endo, Timothy M. Pawlik, other members of the U.S. Neuroendocrine Tumor Study Group,
... rates following surgical resection. Conditional disease‐free survival (CDFS) estimates may be more clinically relevant compared to actuarial survival estimates. Methods CDFS was assessed using a multi‐institutional cohort of ... associated with disease‐free survival (DFS). Three‐year CDFS (CDFS3) estimates at “x” year after surgery were calculated as CDFS 3 = DFS(x + 3)/DFS(x). Results A ... at 1 year to 39% at 5 years, CDFS 3 increased over time. CDFS 3 at 5 years was estimated as 89% ... who lived 2 and 5 years, respectively. Overall, CDFS 3 in each subgroup increased postoperatively as years ...
Tópico(s): Radiopharmaceutical Chemistry and Applications
2019 - Wiley | Journal of Surgical Oncology
Shuai Liu, Mengyun Jia, Jiajun Chen, Haisheng Wan, Ruihong Dong, Shaoping Nie, Mingyong Xie, Qiang Yu,
... antioxidant and prebiotics properties of carrot dietary fiber (CDF). The polyphenols were removed from CDF by alkaline extraction to obtain dephenolized dietary fiber (CDF-DF). The optimized conditions of extracting polyphenols from CDF were solid-liquid ratio of 1:8.5, ... spectroscopy illustrated that the major functional group of CDF-DF and CDF shared most of the key features, despite changes ... further performed demonstrating no significant structure differences between CDF-DF and CDF. Moreover, the antioxidant properties, including ...
Tópico(s): Polysaccharides Composition and Applications
2019 - Elsevier BV | Food Hydrocolloids
Simon M. Collin, Tom Norris, Paul Gringras, Peter S Blair, Kate Tilling, Esther Crawley,
... as having (or not having) 'chronic disabling fatigue' (CDF, a proxy for CFS/ME) between the ages ... of sleep duration at age nine years with CDF at age 13 years, as well as sleep duration at age 11 years with CDF at age 16 years.Children who had CDF during adolescence had shorter night-time sleep duration ... were more common in children who subsequently developed CDF. The odds of CDF at age 13 years were 39% lower (odds ... at age nine years, and the odds of CDF at age 16 years were 51% lower (OR = ... 24.0) minutes shorter among children who developed CDF at age 13 years, and sleep duration at ...
Tópico(s): Human Health and Disease
2018 - Elsevier BV | Sleep Medicine
Hoang Van Toan, Vo‐Nguyen Quoc Bao, Hung Nguyen‐Le,
... and . As a result, the cumulative distribution function (CDF) and probability density function (PDF) of can be ... is the outage SNR threshold and denotes the CDF of . Similar to the above computations for the ... as (22) For notational simplicity, we introduce , , , , , the CDF of can be rewritten as (23) It is ... following corollary will be useful in deriving the CDF and PDF of . Corollary 1.Let Z be ... d. gamma random variables , with parameters and . The CDF and PDF of the random variable Z are ... fact that and take the same form, the CDFs of and are derived by (19) and (20), ...
Tópico(s): Advanced Wireless Communication Technologies
2017 - Institution of Engineering and Technology | IET Communications
... EDF) and a chemical or concentration driving force (CDF). Thus, to comprehend electrical signaling in the nervous ... that ions are simultaneously governed by EDFs and CDFs. This idea of “combining” two different types of ... therefore, must be subject to both EDFs and CDFs. Moreover, illustrative examples are easy to come by. ... is driven into the cell by both its CDF and the EDF, whereas K+ is driven inward by the EDF, but outward by its CDF. They can then reason that the actual direction ... the cell, they can conclude that the outward CDF is larger than the inward EDF.After introducing ...
Tópico(s): Electrochemical Analysis and Applications
2017 - American Physical Society | AJP Advances in Physiology Education
BackgoundThe Cancer Drugs Fund (CDF) has been the subject of controversy since its inception, with critics arguing that it creates a “backdoor” to the National ... among cancer drugs.ObjectivesOur objective was to estimate CDF’s willingness and ability to pay for cancer drugs, providing guidance regarding where CDF funds are best spent, and determining the number ... displaced through the existence of the fund.MethodsUsing CDF utilization figures, cost-per-QALY, and treatment episode ... determine appropriate cost-effectiveness thresholds to inform the CDF’s decision making.ResultsThe CDF exhibits a willingness- ...
Tópico(s): Healthcare cost, quality, practices
2016 - Elsevier BV | Value in Health
M. Hari Prasad, Gopika Vinod, Avinash J. Gaikwad, A. RamaRao,
... sites. The PSA risk metrics Core Damage Frequency (CDF) and Large Early Release Frequency (LERF) currently are ... risk metrics. Some documents provide suggestions for site CDF and site LERF. This paper proposes a new ... study on hypothetical data shows that site level CDF is not sum of CDF of all units but around 18% higher than unit level CDF. When the CDF is considered to be a random variable then, the new methodology produces site CDF as 50% higher than single unit CDF. These two approaches have been detailed in the ...
Tópico(s): Nuclear Engineering Thermal-Hydraulics
2016 - Elsevier BV | Progress in Nuclear Energy
Yongquan Xue, Bin Luo, W. N. Brandt, D. M. Alexander, F. E. Bauer, B. D. Lehmer, Guang Yang,
... for the 2 Ms Chandra Deep Field-North (CDF-N) and the 250 ks Extended Chandra Deep Field-South (E-CDF-S) Surveys, implementing a number of recent improvements in Chandra source-cataloging methodology. For CDF-N/E-CDF-S, we provide a main catalog that contains ... are new compared to the Alexander et al. CDF-N/Lehmer et al. E-CDF-S main catalogs. We also provide CDF-N/E-CDF-S supplementary catalogs that consist of 72/56 ... 3$?> mag counterparts. For all <?CDATA $\approx 1800$?> CDF-N and E-CDF-S sources, including the <? ...
Tópico(s): Adaptive optics and wavefront sensing
2016 - Institute of Physics | The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series
C.. Chen, Guohua Gao, Paul Gelderblom, Eduardo Jiménez-Morales,
... flow is proposed to integrate cumulative-distribution-function (CDF) mapping with PCA (CDF/PCA) for assisted history matching on a two-facies channelized reservoir. The CDF/PCA is developed to reconstruct reservoir models by ... PCA results to new values according to the CDF curves of different properties in different facies. Therefore, the models reconstructed by CDF/PCA preserve both geological (facies fraction) and geostatistical ( ... characteristics of their original or prior models. The CDF/PCA method is first applied to a real- ...
Tópico(s): Hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis
2016 - | SPE Reservoir Evaluation & Engineering
Prashant Kesharwani, Lingxiao Xie, Sanjeev Banerjee, Guangzhao Mao, Subhash Padhyé, Fazlul H. Sarkar, Arun K. Iyer,
... targeted dendrimer formulation of 3, 4-difluorobenzylidene curcumin (CDF) and evaluate its potential in CD44 targeted therapy ... CD44-targeted PAMAM dendrimer (HA-PAMAM) formulation of CDF. The resulting dendrimer nanosystem (HA-PAMAM-CDF) had a particle size and surface charge of ... pancreatic cancer cells were treated with HA-PAMAM-CDF, a dose-dependent cytotoxicity was observed. Furthermore, blocking ... soluble HA prior to treatment with HA-PAMAM-CDF nano-formulation resulted in 1.71 fold increase ... IC50 value compared to non-targeted formulation (PAMAM-CDF), confirming target specificity of HA-PAMAM-CDF. Additionally, ...
Tópico(s): Nanoparticle-Based Drug Delivery
2015 - Elsevier BV | Colloids and Surfaces B Biointerfaces
S. M. Lee, Paul J. Adams, David T. Yue,
... of channel opening termed Ca(2+) -dependent facilitation (CDF). Real-time Ca(2+) imaging and Ca(2+) uncaging here reveal that CDF turns out to be strikingly faster, more Ca( ... grounds. Robust resolution of the quantitative profile of CDF enables deduction of a realistic biophysical model for ... process. These results suggest that CaV 2.1 CDF would figure most prominently in short-term synaptic ... precise neurophysiological role of this calcium-dependent facilitation (CDF) remains uncertain, however, in large measure because the ...
Tópico(s): Neural dynamics and brain function
2015 - Wiley | The Journal of Physiology
Charlotte Chamberlain, Simon M. Collin, Luke Hounsome, Amanda Owen‐Smith, Jenny Donovan, William Hollingworth,
Using mixed-methods, we investigated the CDF in the South West of England (3193 cancer patients treated through the CDF, April 1st 2011–March 31st 2013) for evidence of: ( ... socioeconomic group; and (3) the perception of the CDF as fair, using semi-structured interviews with oncology ... was a lower proportion of women in the CDF cohort than in the Cancer Registry reference population (e.g., melanoma, CDF 36.8% female, reference population 48.7%; difference ... a lower proportion of older patients in the CDF compared with the reference population (e.g., colorectal ...
Tópico(s): Medication Adherence and Compliance
2015 - Elsevier BV | Journal of Cancer Policy
Jin Yong Lee, So Eun Park, Soo Jung Shin, Chul Woo Kim, Sang Seok Kim,
... epidermis on acral sites. Meanwhile, cellular digital fibroma (CDF) is a unique subset of acquired digital fibrokeratomas ... cells1. Here, we report a rare case of CDF and its clinicopathologic characteristics. A 38-year-old ... of these findings, the lesion was diagnosed as CDF. After the lesion was completely removed, the patient ... skin. ... Since McNiff et al.1 first described CDF in 2005, their observations have been regarded as ... smaller than typical SAFMs. Histopathologically, both SAFM and CDF can be characterized by spindle to stellate cells ...
Tópico(s): Sarcoma Diagnosis and Treatment
2015 - Korean Dermatological Association | Annals of Dermatology
Hui Liu, Joong-Wook Park, Max M. Häggblom,
... 3,4-tetrachlorodibenzofuran (1,2,3,4-tetra-CDF), octachlorodibenzofuran (octa-CDF) and 1,2,3,4-tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin ( ... 4-tetra-CDD). 1,2,3,4-tetra-CDF was dechlorinated via 1,2,3-, 2,3, ... and 1,3,4/1,2,4-tri-CDFs to 1,3-, 2,3-, and 2,4-di-CDFs and finally to 4-mono-CDF. The dechlorination rate of 1,2,3,4-tetra-CDF was generally slower than that of 1,2, ... as a co-substrate. Dechlorination of spiked octa-CDF was observed with the production of hepta-, hexa-, penta- and tetra-CDFs over 6 months. Two major phylotypes of the ...
Tópico(s): Groundwater flow and contamination studies
2013 - Elsevier BV | Environmental Pollution
Mathieu Vrac, P. Drobinski, A. Merlo, Marine Herrmann, Christophe Lavaysse, Laurent Li, Samuel Somot,
... and WRF) and from one statistical downscaling model (CDF-t) are used to evaluate the uncertainty in ... of wind, temperature, and rainfall cumulative distribution functions (CDFs) for eight stations in the French Mediterranean basin ... measure the "distance" between the simulated and observed CDFs. The ability of the three RCMs and CDF-t to simulate the "climate" variability is quantified ... always much better than ERA-40 reanalyses, whereas CDF-t produces accurate results when applied to ERA- ... downscaling approach has been used, consisting in applying CDF-t to the RCM outputs. It shows that ...
Tópico(s): Hydrology and Drought Analysis
2012 - Copernicus Publications | Natural hazards and earth system sciences
Jeffery L. Gustin, Michael J. Zanis, David E. Salt,
Members of the cation diffusion facilitator (CDF) family are integral membrane divalent cation transporters that transport metal ions out of the cytoplasm either into the extracellular space or into ... known to be transported by proteins of the CDF family include Zn, Fe, Co, Cd, and Mn. ... eukaryotes, and archaea, and in sequenced plant genomes. CDF families range in size from nine members in ... in Populus trichocarpa. Phylogenetic analysis suggests that the CDF family has expanded within plants, but a definitive ...
Tópico(s): Plant Micronutrient Interactions and Effects
2011 - Springer Science+Business Media | BMC Evolutionary Biology
Assia Jaillard, Sylvie Grand, J.F. Le Bas, Marc Hommel,
Cognitive dysfunctioning (CDF) is an important issue in stroke, interfering with recovery and social dysfunctioning. We aimed to investigate the clinical and imaging correlates of CDF in patients with a first-ever subacute ischemic stroke and no dementia.We evaluated CDF 15 days after stroke in a prospective cohort ... score > or =23 using a comprehensive neuropsychological battery. CDF was ranked into 3 categories according to Z ... each test and adjusted for age and education. CDF was analyzed in relation to stroke features. Imaging ...
Tópico(s): Cerebrovascular and Carotid Artery Diseases
2010 - Karger Publishers | Cerebrovascular Diseases
Diana Davis, Hyun Cheol Roh, Krupa Deshmukh, Janelle J. Bruinsma, Daniel L. Schneider, James Guthrie, J. David Robertson, Kerry Kornfeld,
... and zinc content varied 27-fold. We investigated cdf-2, which encodes a predicted zinc transporter in the cation diffusion facilitator family. cdf-2 mRNA levels were increased by high dietary zinc, suggesting cdf-2 promotes zinc homeostasis. CDF-2 protein was expressed in intestinal cells and localized to cytosolic vesicles. A cdf-2 loss-of-function mutant displayed impaired growth and reduced zinc content, indicating that CDF-2 stores zinc by transport into the lumen of vesicles. The relationships between three cdf genes, cdf-1, cdf-2, and sur-7, ...
Tópico(s): Heavy Metal Exposure and Toxicity
2009 - Oxford University Press | Genetics
Ayako Fukunaka, Tomoyuki Suzuki, Yayoi Kurokawa, Tomohiro Yamazaki, Naoko Fujiwara, Kaori Ishihara, Hitoshi Migaki, Katsuzumi Okumura, Seiji Masuda, Yuko Yamaguchi‐Iwai, Masaya Nagao, Taiho Kambe,
The majority of CDF/ZnT zinc transporters form homo-oligomers. However, ZnT5, ZnT6, and their orthologues form hetero-oligomers in the early secretory ... known about homo-oligomerization that occurs in other CDF/ZnT family proteins. Here, we addressed this issue ... transmembrane domains II and V in which many CDF/ZnT proteins have conserved hydrophilic amino acid residues ... they are required for zinc transport in other CDF/ZnT family homo-oligomers. We also found that ... about the mechanism of action through heterodimerization of CDF/ZnT proteins that function in the early secretory ...
Tópico(s): Heavy Metal Exposure and Toxicity
2009 - Elsevier BV | Journal of Biological Chemistry