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Seminal biomarkers for the evaluation of male infertility

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Asian Journal of Andrology 2016年第3期18卷 426-433,I0009页

作者： Jared M Bieniek andrei p drabovich Kirk C Lo Department of Urology Hartford Hospital Hartford CT USA Department of Clinical Biochemistry University Health Network Toronto ON Canada Department ofLaboratory Medicine and pathobiology University of Toronto Toronto ON Canada Department of Surgery Division of Urology Mount Sinai Hospital Toronto ONCanada.

For men struggling to conceive with their partners, diagnostic tools are limited and often consist of only a standard semen analysis. This baseline test serves as a crude estimation of male fertility, leaving patients and clinicians in need of additional diagnostic biomarkers. Seminal fluid contains the highest concentration of molecules from the male reproductive glands, therefore, this review focuses on current and novel seminal biomarkers in certain male infertility scenarios, including natural fertility, differentiating azoospermia etiologies, and predicting assisted reproductive technique success. Currently available tests include antisperm antibody assays, DNA fragmentation index, sperm fluorescence in situ hybridization, and other historical sperm functional tests. The poor diagnostic ability of current assays has led to continued efforts to find more predictive biomarkers. Emerging research in the fields of genomics, epigenetics, proteomics, transcriptomics, and metabolomics holds promise for the development of novel male infertility biomarkers. Seminal protein-based assays of TEXI01, ECM 1, and ACRV1 are already available or under final development for clinical use. Additional panels of DNA, RNA, proteins, or metabolites are being explored as we attempt to understand the pathophysiologic processes of male infertility. Future ventures will need to continue data integration and validation for the development of clinically useful infertility biomarkers to aid in male infertility diagnosis, treatment, and counseling.

关键词： assisted reproductive techniques diagnosis male infertility, semen

Gasoline-derived methyl tert-butyl ether as a potential obesogen linked to metabolic syndrome

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Journal of Environmental Sciences 2020年第5期32卷 209-211页

作者： Yasmine Rais andrei pdrabovich Division of Analytical and Environmental Toxicology Department of Laboratory Medicine and PathologyFaculty of Medicine and DentistryUniversity of AlbertaEdmontonCanada

The power and efficiency of gasoline engines is often improved through the use of fuel with high octane *** octane rating of fuel could be further increased with oxygenate additives such as alcohols and ethers,with me... 详细信息

关键词： Methyl tert-butyl ether Gasoline additives Adipogenesis Metabolic syndrome Endocrine-disrupting chemicals Obesogens

Nature Inspired Hay Fever Therapy

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Journal of Bionic Engineering 2008年第4期5卷 335-339页

作者： andrei p. Sommer Institute of Micro and Nanomaterials University of Ulm

The survival oriented adaptation of evolved biosystems to variations in their environment is a selective optimization process. Recognizing the optimised end product and its functionality is the classical arena of bionic engineering. In a primordial world, however, the molecular organization and functions of prebiotic systems were solely defined by formative processes in their physical and chemical environment, for instance, the interplay between interfacial water layers on surfaces and solar light. The formative potential of the interplay between light （laser light） and interfacial water layers on surfaces was recently exploited in the formation of supercubane carbon nanocrystals. In evolved biosystems the formative potential of interracial water layers can still be activated by light. Here we report a case of hay fever, which was successfully treated in the course of a facial rejuvenation program starting in November 2007. Targeting primarily interfacial water layers on elastin fibres in the wrinkled areas, we presumably also activated mast cells in the nasal mucosa, reported to progressively decrease in the nasal mucosa of the rabbit, when frequently irradiated. Hay fever is induced by the release of mediators, especially histamine, a process associated with the degranulation of mast cells. Decrease in mast cells numbers implies a decrease in the release of histamine. To the best of our knowledge this is the first report on the treatment of hay fever with visible light. This approach was inspired by bionic thinking, and could help ameliorating the condition of millions of people suffering from hay fever world wide.

关键词： allergic rhinitis biomimetic triangle crystalline interracial water layers light diamond elastin

Universal enzymatic numerical p systems with small number of enzymatic variables

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Science China(Information Sciences) 2018年第9期61卷 38-49页

作者： Zhiqiang ZHANG Tingfang WU andrei p■UN Linqiang pAN Key Laboratory of Image Information processing and Intelligent Control of Education Ministry of China School of Automation Huazhong University of Science and Technology School of Electric and Information Engineering Zhengzhou University of Light Industry Bioinformatics Department National Institute of Research and Development for Biological Sciences Department of Computer Science Faculty of Mathematics and Computer ScienceUniversity of Bucharest

Numerical p systems(for short, Np systems) are distributed and parallel computing models inspired from the structure of living cells and economics. Enzymatic numerical p systems(for short, ENp systems) are a variant of Np systems, which have been successfully applied in designing and implementing controllers for mobile robots. Since ENp systems were proved to be Turing universal, there has been much work to simplify the universal systems, where the complexity parameters considered are the number of membranes, the degrees of polynomial production functions or the number of variables used in the *** the number of enzymatic variables, which is essential for ENp systems to reach universality, has not been investigated. Here we consider the problem of searching for the smallest number of enzymatic variables needed for universal ENp systems. We prove that for ENp systems as number acceptors working in the all-parallel or one-parallel mode, one enzymatic variable is sufficient to reach universality; while for the one-parallel ENp systems as number generators, two enzymatic variables are sufficient to reach *** results improve the best known results that the numbers of enzymatic variables are 13 and 52 for the all-parallel and one-parallel systems, respectively.

关键词： bio-inspired computing numerical p system mobile robot membrane controller universality

Body Building on Diamonds

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Journal of Bionic Engineering 2009年第1期6卷 14-17页

作者： andrei p. Sommer Tim Scharnweber Hans-Joerg Fecht Institute of Micro and Nanomaterials University of UlmUlm 89081Germany Institute for Biological Interfaces Research Center KarlsruheKarlsruhe 76021Germany Institute for Nanotechnology Research Center Karlsruhe Karlsruhe 76021Germany

Whereas conservative therapies aim to stall the advance of disease,regenerative medicine strives to reverse *** capacity of most tissues to regenerate derives from stem cells,but there are a number of barriers which have to be circumvented before it will be possible to use stem-cell-based *** therapies,however,are expected to improve human health enormously, and knowledge gained from studying stem cells in culture and in model organisms is now laying the groundwork for a new era of regenerative *** of the most prominent methods to study stem cell differentiation is to let them to form embryoid *** favourable conditions any stem cell line will form embryoid ***,the mechanism of the formation of embryoid bodies is not very well understood,and to produce them in the laboratory is in no way trivial-an important technical barrier in stem cell ***,the embryoid body cultivation step has been successfully circumvented for the derivation of osteogenic cultures of embryonic stem *** we report on a simple and reusable system to cultivate embryoid bodies in extremely short *** method is inspired by the principles that lead to the establishment of the biomimetic triangle.

关键词： biomimetic triangle stem cells embryoid bodies nanobionics nanocrystalline diamond

It is Time for a Change： opetri Dishes Weaken Cells

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Journal of Bionic Engineering 2012年第3期9卷 353-357页

作者： andrei p. Sommer Mike Kh. Haddad Hans-Joerg Fecht Institute of Micro and Nanomaterials University of Ulm 89081 Ulm Germany Institute for Nanotechnology Karlsruhe Institute for Technology 76344 Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen Germany

We wish to draw the attention to a potential deficiency in the biocompatibility of polystyrene cell culture dishes which is caused by a softening of the material under relevant culture conditions. The finding confirms the central hypothesis of our previous model study. In it we assumed a local increase in pH at the interface between the hydrophilic polymer and liquid. The finding is of considerable biological interest. polystyrene tissue culture dishes are now in use for 50 years. To the best of our knowledge their biocompatibility has never been challenged. Here we report the first experimental proof that exposure to water softens the surface of polystyrene petri dishes. We expect that our results will stimulate the development of a new generation of cell culture devices, including petri dishes and culture flasks, and the establishment of improved biomimetic settings for tissue engineering and stem cell research. New non-swelling biomaterials or nanocoatings designed to reduce the swelling of polymer ct, lture dishes could improve cell performance. The need for further study is clear.

关键词： petri dish polystyrene biomimetic triangle nanoindentation stem cells diamond

The Top of the Biomimetic Triangle

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Journal of Bionic Engineering 2008年第2期5卷 91-94页

作者： andrei p. Sommer Dan Zhu Matthias Wiora Hans-Joerg Fecht Institute of Micro and Nanomaterials University of Ulm Ulm 89081 Germany Institute for Nanotechnology Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe Karlsruhe 76021 Germany

There is increasing observational evidence indicating that crystalline interfacial water layers play a central role in evolution and biology. For instance in cellular recognition processes, in particular during first contact events, where cells decide upon survival or entering apoptosis. Understanding water layers is thus crucial in biomedical engineering, specifically in the design of biomaterials inspired by biomimetic principles. Whereas there is ample experimental evidence for crystalline interfacial water layers on surfaces in air, their subaquatic presence could not be verified directly, so far. Analysing a polarity dependent asym- metry in the surface conductivity on hydrogenated nanocrystalline diamond, we show that crystalline interfacial water layers persist subaquatically. Nanoscopic interfacial water layers with an order different from that of bulk water have been identified at room temperature on both hydrophilic and hydrophobic model surfaces - in air and subaquatically. Their generalization and systematic inclusion into the catalogue of physical and chemical determinants of biocompatibility complete the biomimetic triangle.

关键词： biomimetic triangle crystalline interfacial water layers nanobionics diamond

parallel Algorithm and Software for Image Inpainting via Sub-Riemannian Minimizers on the Group of Rototranslations

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Numerical Mathematics(Theory,Methods and Applications) 2013年第1期6卷 95-115页

作者： Alexey p.Mashtakov andrei A.Ardentov Yuri L.Sachkov program Systems Institute Pereslavl-ZalesskyRussia

The paper is devoted to an approach for image inpainting developed on the basis of neurogeometry of vision and sub-Riemannian *** is realized by completing damaged isophotes(level lines of brightness)by optimal curves for the left-invariant sub-Riemannian problem on the group of rototranslations(motions)of a plane SE(2).The approach is considered as anthropomorphic inpainting since these curves satisfy the variational principle discovered by neurogeometry of vision.A parallel algorithm and software to restore monochrome binary or halftone images represented as series of isophotes were *** approach and the algorithm for computation of completing arcs are presented in detail.

关键词： Image inpainting sub-Riemannian geometry neurogeometry of vision group of rototranslations of a plane parallel software

Hybrid Triboelectric-Electromagnetic Nanogenerators for Mechanical Energy Harvesting:A Review

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Nano-Micro Letters 2021年第12期13卷 163-220页

作者： Joao V.Vidal Vladislav Slabov andrei L.Kholkin Marco p.Soares dos Santos Department of physics and CICECO-Aveiro Institute of Materials University of Aveiro3810-193 AveiroPortugal Department of physics and I3N University of Aveiro3810-193 AveiroPortugal Laboratory of Functional Low-Dimensional Structures National University of Science and Technology MISISMoscowRussia Department of Mechanical Engineering Centre for Mechanical Technology and Automation(TEMA)University of Aveiro3810-193 AveiroPortugal

Motion-driven electromagnetictriboelectric energy generators(E-TENGs) hold a Hybrid triboelectric-electromagnetic generators C A Bgreat potential to provide higher voltages,higher currents and wider operating bandwidths than Cantilever generators1 μm both electromagnetic and triboelectric generators Rotating generatorsSliding generators standing alone. Therefore,they are promising solutions to autonomously supply a broad range of Flexible blade generators Magnetoelectric highly sophisticated devices. This paper provides generators a thorough review focused on major recent breakLinear generators Multidimensional generators throughs in the area of electromagnetic-triboelectric vibrational energy harvesting. A detailed pendulum generators analysis was conducted on various architectures including rotational,pendulum,linear,sliding,cantilever,flexible blade,multidimensional and 1 cm magnetoelectric,and the following hybrid technologies. They enable highly e cient ways to harvest electric energy from many forms of vibrational,rotational,biomechanical,wave,wind and thermal sources,among others. Open-circuit voltages up to 75 V,short-circuit currents up to 60 mA and instantaneous power up to 144 mW were already achieved by these nanogenerators. Their transduction mechanisms,including proposed models to make intelligible the involved physical phenomena,are also overviewed here. A comprehensive analysis was performed to compare their respective construction designs,external excitations and electric outputs. The results highlight the potential of hybrid E-TENGs to convert unused mechanical motion into electric energy for both large-and small-scale ***,this paper proposes future research directions toward optimization of energy conversion e ciency,power management,durability and stability,packaging,energy storage,operation input,research of transduction mechanisms,quantitative standardization,system integration,miniaturization and multi-energy hybrid cells.

关键词： E-TENG Hybrid triboelectric-electromagnetic Nanogenerators Energy harvesting