| 3 | Recent advances,challenges,and opportunities of inorganic nanoscintillators显示文摘This review article highlights the exploration of inorganic nanoscintillators for various scientific and technological applications in the fields of radiation detection,bioimaging,and medical theranostics.Various aspects of nanoscintillators pertaining to their fundamental principles,mechanism,structure,applications are briefly discussed.The mechanisms of inorganic nanoscintillators are explained based on the fundamental principles,instrumentation involved,and associated physical and chemical phenomena,etc.Subsequently,the promise of nanoscintillators over the existing single-crystal scintillators and other types of scintillators is presented,enabling their development for multifunctional applications.The processes governing the scintillation mechanisms in nanodomains,such as surface,structure,quantum,and dielectric confinement,are explained to reveal the underlying nanoscale scintillation phenomena.Additionally,suitable examples are provided to explain these processes based on the published data.Furthermore,we attempt to explain the different types of inorganic nanoscintillators in terms of the powder nanoparticles,thin films,nanoceramics,and glasses to ensure that the effect of nanoscience in different nanoscintillator domains can be appreciated.The limitations of nanoscintillators arc also highlighted in this review article.The advantages of nanostructured scintillators,including their property-driven applications,are also explained.This review article presents the considerable application potential of nanostructured scintillators with respect to important aspects as well as their physical and application significance in a concise manner. | Santosh KGUPTA Yuanbing MAO | 2020 | Frontiers of Optoelectronics2020,13,2: | 1 |
| 4 | Amyloid-beta peptide neurotoxicity in human neuronal cells is associated with modulation of insulin-like growth factor transport, lysosomal machinery and extracellular matrix receptor interactions显示文摘Extracellular deposits of the amyloid-beta peptide(Aβ) are known as the main pathological hallmark of Alzheimer's disease. In Alzheimer's disease, neurons are injured and die throughout the brain, a process in which Aβ neurotoxicity is considered to play an important role. However, the molecular mechanisms underlying Aβ toxicity that lead to neurodegeneration are not clearly established. Here we have elucidated the molecular pathways and networks which are impacted by Aβ in neurons using SH-SY5Y human neuroblastoma cells as a model. These cells were treated with Aβ_(1–42) peptides to study changes in biochemical networks using tandem mass tag labeled quantitative proteomic technique followed by computational analysis of the data. The molecular impacts of Aβ on cells were evident in a time-and dose-dependent manner, albeit the duration of treatment induced greater differential changes in cellular proteome compared to the effects of concentration. Aβ induced early changes in proteins associated with lysosomes, collagen chain trimerization and extracellular matrix receptor interaction, complement and coagulation cascade, oxidative stress induced senescence, ribosome biogenesis, regulation of insulin-like growth factor transport and uptake by insulin-like growth factor-binding protein. These novel findings provide molecular insights on the effects of Aβ on neurons, with implications for better understanding the impacts of Aβ on early neurodegeneration in Alzheimer's disease pathology. | Liting Deng Paul AHaynes Yunqi Wu Ardeshir Amirkhani Karthik Shantharam Kamath Jemma XWu Kanishka Pushpitha Veer Gupta Stuart Graham Vivek KGupta Mehdi Mirzaei | 2020 | Neural Regeneration Research2020,15,11: | 1 |