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ANNINE-6plus, a voltage-sensitive dye with good solubility, strong membrane binding and high sensitivity
We present a novel voltage-sensitive hemicyanine dye ANNINE-6plus and describe its synthesis, its properties and its voltage-sensitivity in neurons. The dye ANNINE-6plus is a salt with a double positively charged chromophore and two bromide counterions. It is derived from the zwitterionic dye ANNINE-6. While ANNINE-6 is insoluble in water, ANNINE-6plus exhibits a high solubility of around 1 mM. Nonetheless, it displays a strong binding to lipid membranes. In contrast to ANNINE-6, the novel dye can be used to stain cells from aqueous solution without surfactants or organic solvents. In neuronal membranes, ANNINE-6plus exhibits the same molecular Stark effect as ANNINE-6. As a consequence, a high voltage-sensitivity is achieved with illumination and detection in the red end of the excitation and emission spectra, respectively. ANNINE-6plus will be particularly useful for sensitive optical recording of neuronal excitation when organic solvents and surfactants must be avoided as with intracellular or extracellular staining of brain tissue
New Role, New Country: introducing US physician assistants to Scotland
This paper draws from research commissioned by the Scottish Executive Health Department (SEHD). It provides a case study in the introduction of a new health care worker role into an already well established and "mature" workforce configuration It assesses the role of US style physician assistants (PAs), as a precursor to planned "piloting" of the PA role within the National Health Service (NHS) in Scotland
Dual Triumphalist Heritage Narrative And The Sungai Buloh Leprosy Settlement
Unlike other heritage movements in Malaysia, which are largely ethnicbased
and culture obsessed (Cartier 1996; Worden 2001), the preservation
movement of the Sungai Bulah Leprosy Settlement (SBLS thereafter),
also widely referred to as the "Valley of Hope", 1 is concerned with the
conservation of a site that is associated with a socially stigmatised disease.
Built at a jungle fringe in Selangor in 1930, SBLS was constructed as a
place for the treatment, and forced isolation from wider society, of people
suffering from leprosy. Although leprosy knows no racial boundaries as
people of any background can be afflicted with the disease, nearly eighty
per cent of the patients admitted to SBLS have been ethnic Chinese. Of
the rest, about fifteen per cent were ethnic Malays with ethnic Indians
making up five per cent. Former patients who were cured but left with
differing degrees of disfigurement and disability are also residents of the
SBLS today.2 SBLS's population reached its peal<. with 2400 people in
1958, but today their number is just slightly over one hundred (JoshuaRaghavar
1983; Wong and Phang 2006)
Bluues: a program for the analysis of the electrostatic properties of proteins based on generalized Born radii
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