https://www.selleckchem.com/products/gs-9973.html In this paper, new nitrogen doped carbon dots with a high quantum yield and novel optical properties were synthesized by a simple and fast one step microwave-assisted synthesis. Citric acid monohydrate was used as a carbon source and 2,2-dimethyl-1,3-propanediamine as nitrogen source. The prepared N-CDs were characterized by Fourier transform infrared, Raman, UV-visible and photoluminescence spectroscopies. Transmission electron microscope (TEM) images revealed that the N-CDs have distinctive flake-shape morphology. The N-CDs exhibit bright blue luminescence and quenching response towards Hg2+ ions. The quenching sensitivity was investigated. The results indicate a limit of detection as low as 7.63 nM and a linear relationship over the range 0-4.2 μM. In addition, the prepared N-CDs were tested as sensor for pH in the range from 1 to 7. © 2020 Published by Elsevier Ltd.Matrix Gla protein (MGP), a modulator of the BMP-SMAD signals, inhibits arterial calcification in a Glu γ-carboxylation dependent manner but the role of MGP highly expressed in a subset of bone marrow (BM) mesenchymal stem/stromal cells is unknown. Here we provide evidence that MGP might be a niche factor for both normal and malignant myelopoiesis. When mouse BM hematopoietic cells were cocultured with mitomycin C-treated BM stromal cells in the presence of anti-MGP antibody, growth of hematopoietic cells was reduced by half, and maintenance of long-term culture-initiating cells (LTC-ICs) was profoundly attenuated. Antibody-mediated blockage of MGP also inhibited growth (by a fifth) and cobblestone formation (by half) of stroma-dependent MB-1 myeloblastoma cells. MGP was undetectable in normal hematopoietic cells but was expressed in various mesenchymal cells and was aberrantly high in MB-1 cells. MGP and bone morphogenetic protein (BMP)-4 were co-induced in stromal cells cocultured with both normal hematopoietic cells and MB-1 myeloblastoma cells in a