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    Bis[Ό-3,5-bis­(2-pyrid­yl)pyrazolato]bis­(hydrogensulfato)­dicopper(II) methanol disolvate

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    The title compound, [Cu2(C13H9N4)2(HSO4)2]·2CH3OH, consists of discrete centrosymmetric dinuclear complex mol­ecules and methanol solvent mol­ecules. The CuII atom shows a square-pyramidal coordination geometry and is bonded to four N atoms of the two bis-chelating 3,5-bis­(2-pyrid­yl)pyrazol­ate ions (bpypz−) and one O atom of the hydrogensulfate ion. The bpypz− ligands in the complex mol­ecule are virtually coplanar [dihedral angle between the mean ligand planes = 0.000(1)°] with the CuII atom deviating in opposite directions from their best plane by 0.2080 (12) Å. π–π stacking inter­actions between the pyridyl and pyrazole rings [centroid–centroid distance = 3.391 (3) Å] and strong O—H⋯O hydrogen bonds between the hydrogensulfate ligands and the methanol mol­ecules assemble the mol­ecules into a one-dimensional polymeric structure extending along the a axis. The methanol mol­ecule acts both as an accepter and a donor in the hydrogen bonding

    Percutaneous Endoscopic Gastrostomy, Duodenostomy and Jejunostomy

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    Although enteral feeding by nasal gastric tube is popular for the patients who have a swallowing disability and require long-term nutritional support, but have intact gut, this tube sometimes causes aspiration pneumonia or esophageal ulcer. For these patients, conventional techniques for performance of a feeding gastrostomy made by surgical laparotomy have been used so far. However, these patients are frequently poor anesthetic and operative risks. Percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy (PEG) which can be accomplished with local anesthesia and without the necessity for laparotomy has become popular in the clinical treatment for these patients. PEG was performed in 31 cases, percutaneous endoscopic duodenostomy (PED) in 1 case, and percutaneous endoscopic jejunostomy (PEJ) in 2 cases. All patients were successfully placed, and no major complication and few minor complications (9%) were experienced in this procedure. After this procedure, some patients could discharge their sputa easily and their pneumonia subsided. PED and PEJ for the patients who had previously received gastrostomy could also be done successfully with great care. Our experience suggests that PEG, PED, and PEJ are rapid, safe, and useful procedures for the patients who have poor anesthetic or poor operative risks

    Vimentin diversity in health and disease

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    Vimentin is a protein that has been linked to a large variety of pathophysiological conditions, including cataracts, Crohn’s disease, rheumatoid arthritis, HIV and cancer. Vimentin has also been shown to regulate a wide spectrum of basic cellular functions. In cells, vimentin assembles into a network of filaments that spans the cytoplasm. It can also be found in smaller, non-filamentous forms that can localise both within cells and within the extracellular microenvironment. The vimentin structure can be altered by subunit exchange, cleavage into different sizes, re-annealing, post-translational modifications and interacting proteins. Together with the observation that different domains of vimentin might have evolved under different selection pressures that defined distinct biological functions for different parts of the protein, the many diverse variants of vimentin might be the cause of its functional diversity. A number of review articles have focussed on the biology and medical aspects of intermediate filament proteins without particular commitment to vimentin, and other reviews have focussed on intermediate filaments in an in vitro context. In contrast, the present review focusses almost exclusively on vimentin, and covers both ex vivo and in vivo data from tissue culture and from living organisms, including a summary of the many phenotypes of vimentin knockout animals. Our aim is to provide a comprehensive overview of the current understanding of the many diverse aspects of vimentin, from biochemical, mechanical, cellular, systems biology and medical perspectives

    Structural difference due to intramolecular stacking interactions in dinuclear rhodium(III) complexes [{Rh(η5-C5Me5)(L)}2]n+containing pyrimidine-2-thionate and related ligands

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    Self-assembling reactions between [Rh(η5-C5Me5)(H2O)3]2+and pyrimidine-2-thionate(pymt) or related ligands[L; mpymt = 4-methyl-pyrimidine-2-thionate(1-), dmpymt = 4,6-dimethylpyrimidine-2-thionate(1-), apymt = 4-aminopyrimidine-2-thionate(1-), dapymt = 4,6-diaminopyrimidine-2-thionate(1-), or mpol = 2-sulfanyl-3-pyridinolate(2-)] were carried out and the products characterized by UV/vis, NMR spectroscopy, electrospray ionization mass spectrometry, and crystal structure analysis. All products are dinuclear rhodium(III) complexes of [{Rh(η5-C5Me5)(L)}2]n+: three crystal structures with mpymt, dmpymt and mpol were determined. The mpymt and dmpymt ligands co-ordinate through a 1Îș2N,S:2ÎșS mode and the two pyrimidine rings are located in cis position,whereas mpol adopts a five-membered chelating mode with 1Îș2S,O:2ÎșS and the two pyrimidine rings are located in trans position. Such structural difference can reasonably be explained by the intramolecular stacking interaction between the two bridging ligands
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