detecting ethanol along with response of 53 (50 ppm) at 275 °C. [6] Mesoscale porosity makes a significant contribution to obtaining high response in MOS because of the facile penetration of gas molecules. [7] A number of efforts have been made to synthesize mesoporous materials, [8][9][10][11] one of which involved the nanocast mesostructured metal oxides synthesized by hard template. Compared to soft template and sacrificial colloidal template methods, the hard template can provide a relatively stable matrix during heat treatment over a larger temperature range, as a result, it helps MOS show higher crystallinity. [12] Recently, it has been reported that hetero nanostructures consisting of two or more components with noble metals decorated can improve the sensing performance. [13,14] To improve the gas sensing performance of metal oxides, noble metals, such as Ag, Pd, Pt, and Au are commonly regarded as catalyst, especially, Ag is able to weaken the adsorption and the desorption energy of ethanol molecules on the surface by promoting the electron conduction properties, [15] thus it enables the analyte to access the activated surface. Perovskite type (ABO 3 , where A is rare earth and B is transition metal) MOS have attracted considerable attentions in applications of catalysis, [16] renewable energy storage, [17] and gas sensors [18] due to their numerous favorable physical/chemical properties. Among various perovskite type materials, LaFeO 3 shows considerably sensitive to reducing gases such as ethanol, [19] acetone, [20] and formaldehyde. [21] However, pure LaFeO 3 have some deficiencies such as high resistance, high working temperature, and poor selectivity. Ag/LaFeO 3 has been investigated to detect VOCs at low temperature (<200 °C) according to our previous work. Zhang et al. reported Ag/LaFeO 3 showed excellent gassensing properties to formaldehyde gas. At the optimal working temperature of 90 °C, the response of the sensor to 1 ppm formaldehyde is 25. [22] In addition, it was reported that the substitution of La 3+ in the LaFeO 3 compound by the lower-valent cations, such as Mg 2+ , [23] Ba 2+ , [24] Ca 2+ , [25] Sr 2+ , [26] and Pb 2+ , [27] could significantly improve gas sensing properties of materials, especially gas response and selectivity.In this study, mesoporous Ag/Zn-LaFeO 3 nanocomposites have been synthesized via a simple nanocasting technique shown in Figure 1. This kind of composite not only possesses a highly active and large surface area for ethanol recognition,The rational design of heterojunction between different metal oxides with mesoporous structures has attracted tremendous attention due to their special physicochemical properties and vital importance for practical applications. In this paper, mesoporous Ag/Zn-LaFeO 3 nanocomposite is successfully synthesized through a facile nanocasting technique using KIT-6 as a hard template in sol-gel route and used as sensing materials to achieve an exceptionally sensitive and selective detection of trace ppm-level ethanol. The obtained compos...
Viral myocarditis is a common disease that contributes to dilated cardiomyopathy or heart failure. Coxsackievirus B (CVB) is one of the major causative pathogens of viral myocarditis. Previous studies have shown that autophagy is exploited to promote CVB replication in cell lines. To study whether cardiac myocytes respond to CVB infection in a similar way, viral myocarditis was established by the inoculation of 3-week-old BALB/c mice with CVB3. Electron microscopic observation showed that autophagosome-like vesicles were induced in the cardiac myocytes of mice infected by CVB3 at 3, 5, and 7 days after viral infection. The lipidated microtubule-associated protein 1 light chain 3 (LC3), LC3-II, was also significantly increased in both myocardium and the cardiac myocytes extracted from the ventricles of mice infected with CVB3. The increased LC3-II coincided with high level of viral RNA and proteins in both myocardium and isolated cardiac myocytes. Moreover, viral protein synthesis was significantly decreased in primary cardiac myocytes by the treatment with 3-methyladenine, an inhibitor of autophagy. The expression and the phosphorylation of extracellular signal regulated kinase (ERK) were also increased in both myocardium and in the isolated cardiac myocytes of the virus-infected mice, while the interplay of ERK with autophagic response remains to be studied. This study demonstrated that cardiac myocytes respond to CVB3 infection by increased formation of autophagosomes in vivo, which might be exploited for viral replication.
Tuberculosis (TB), caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) infection, remains the most common cause of death from a single infectious disease. More safe and effective vaccines are necessary for preventing the prevalence of TB. In this study, a subunit vaccine of ESAT-6 formulated with c-di-AMP (ESAT-6:c-di-AMP) promoted mucosal and systemic immune responses in spleen and lung. ESAT-6:c-di-AMP inhibited the differentiations of CD8+ T cells as well as macrophages, but promoted the differentiations of ILCs in lung. The co-stimulation also enhanced inflammatory cytokines production in MH-S cells. It was first revealed that ESAT-6 and c-di-AMP regulated autophagy of macrophages in different stages, which together resulted in the inhibition of Mtb growth in macrophages during early infection. After Mtb infection, the level of ESAT-6-specific immune responses induced by ESAT-6:c-di-AMP dropped sharply. Finally, inoculation of ESAT-6:c-di-AMP led to significant reduction of bacterial burdens in lungs and spleens of immunized mice. Our results demonstrated that subunit vaccine ESAT-6:c-di-AMP could elicit innate and adaptive immune responses which provided protection against Mtb challenge, and c-di-AMP as a mucosal adjuvant could enhance immunogenicity of antigen, especially for innate immunity, which might be used for new mucosal vaccine against TB.
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