TOF-SIMS Evidence of Intercalated Molecular Gases and Diffusion-Limited Reaction Kinetics in an α Particle-Irradiated PTFE Matrix

2006 ◽  
Vol 110 (4) ◽  
pp. 1820-1829 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gregory L. Fisher ◽  
Christopher Szakal ◽  
Christopher J. Wetteland ◽  
Nicholas Winograd
Keyword(s):  
Reaction Kinetics ◽  
Molecular Gases ◽  
Diffusion Limited ◽  
Tof Sims ◽  
And Diffusion ◽  
Diffusion Limited Reaction

A large portion of the astrocyte proteome is dedicated to perivascular endfeet, including critical components of the electron transport chain

2021 ◽  
pp. 0271678X2110041
Author(s):  
Jesse A Stokum ◽  
Bosung Shim ◽  
Weiliang Huang ◽  
Maureen Kane ◽  
Jesse A Smith ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Electron Transport ◽  
Electron Transport Chain ◽  
Glycogen Storage ◽  
Subcellular Compartment ◽  
Diffusion Limited ◽  
Transport Chain ◽  
Critical Components ◽  
And Diffusion ◽  
Ubiquitous Presence ◽  
Astrocyte Endfeet

The perivascular astrocyte endfoot is a specialized and diffusion-limited subcellular compartment that fully ensheathes the cerebral vasculature. Despite their ubiquitous presence, a detailed understanding of endfoot physiology remains elusive, in part due to a limited understanding of the proteins that distinguish the endfoot from the greater astrocyte body. Here, we developed a technique to isolate astrocyte endfeet from brain tissue, which was used to study the endfoot proteome in comparison to the astrocyte somata. In our approach, brain microvessels, which retain their endfoot processes, were isolated from mouse brain and dissociated, whereupon endfeet were recovered using an antibody-based column astrocyte isolation kit. Our findings expand the known set of proteins enriched at the endfoot from 10 to 516, which comprised more than 1/5th of the entire detected astrocyte proteome. Numerous critical electron transport chain proteins were expressed only at the endfeet, while enzymes involved in glycogen storage were distributed to the somata, indicating subcellular metabolic compartmentalization. The endfoot proteome also included numerous proteins that, while known to have important contributions to blood-brain barrier function, were not previously known to localize to the endfoot. Our findings highlight the importance of the endfoot and suggest new routes of investigation into endfoot function.

scholarly journals Reaction-Diffusion Systems: Self-Balancing Diffusion and the Use of the Extent of Reaction as a Descriptor of Reaction Kinetics

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Miloslav Pekař
Keyword(s):  
Reaction Kinetics ◽  
Reaction Diffusion ◽  
Reaction Diffusion Systems ◽  
Diffusion Systems ◽  
And Diffusion ◽  
Reaction And Diffusion

Self-balancing diffusion is a concept which restricts the introduction of extents of reactions. This concept is analyzed in detail for mass- and molar-based balances of reaction-diffusion mixtures, in relation to non-self-balancing cases, and with respect to its practical consequences. A note on a recent generalization of the concept of reaction and diffusion extents is also included.<br>

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