Salivary steroids in acute central serous chorioretinopathy.

Purpose: To analyze levels of salivary steroids, including 17-OH-progesterone (17-OHP), androstenedione, dehydroepiandrosterone, cortisol, cortisone, progesterone, testosterone, and estradiol, in patients with acute central serous chorioretinopathy (CSCR) patients.

Methods: Acute CSCR patients and healthy individuals were included in this observational case-control study. Levels of salivary steroids were determined by high-performance liquid chromatography with tandem mass spectrometry detection.

[Therapeutic and diagnostic classification of degenerative spondylolisthesis: validation and multiple-center inter-observer agreement].

Object: To evaluate inter- and intra-observer agreement of the proposed diagnostic and treatment classification of degenerative spondylolisthesis.

Material And Methods: The proposed diagnostic and treatment classification of degenerative spondylolisthesis was validated according to the GRRAS protocol. For this purpose, we retrospectively analyzed MRI, CT and spinal radiography data in 20 patients.

Aс/Bi generator for direct synthesis of Bi-labeled bioconjugates.

Background: Bi is a short-lived radionuclide currently trialed for alpha therapy of various oncological diseases. A serious obstacle to the wide medical use is decay losses of Bi during a conventional synthesis of radiopharmaceuticals. In this work, we aimed to develop a two-column Aс/Bi generator providing the accumulation of Bi separately from the parent Ac via continuous circular separation and decay of intermediate Fr.

Rubidium vanadium(III) vanadyl(IV) phosphate, RbV(VO)(PO)(HPO): crystal chemistry and low-dimensional magnetism.

In this paper, we present the synthesis and characterization of a rubidium vanadium(III) vanadyl(IV) phosphate, obtained under hydrothermal conditions. The new compound crystallizes in the triclinic space group 1̄ with the unit cell parameters = 9.637(1), = 12.