Novel coronaviruses and mammarenaviruses of hedgehogs from Russia including the comparison of viral communities of hibernating and active specimens.

Introduction: Small mammals, especially rodents and bats, are known reservoirs of zoonotic viruses, but little is known about the viromes of insectivorous species including hedgehogs (order Eulipotyphla), which often live near human settlements and come into contact with humans.

Methods: We used high-throughput sequencing and metaviromic analysis to describe the viromes of 21 hedgehogs (Erinaceus sp.) sampled from summer 2022 to spring 2023.

A Novel Mastadenovirus from Which Represents a Distinct Evolutionary Branch of Viruses from Bats in Europe.

Bats are natural hosts of a wide variety of viruses, including adenoviruses. European bats are known to carry mastadenoviruses categorized as species B (widespread in European Vespertilionidae bats) and whose taxonomy has not been clarified. We examined fecal samples from Vespertilionidae bats (five species) captured in central Russia and found that 2/12 (16%) were positive for mastadenoviruses.

Modern Approaches to de novo Synthesis of Extended DNA Fragments: Assembly of a Wide Repertoire of Sequences.

The standardization of DNA fragment assembly methods for many tasks of synthetic biology is crucial. This is necessary for synthesizing a wider repertoire of sequences, as well as for further automation and miniaturization of such reactions. In this work, we proposed conditions for the assembly of DNA fragments from chemically synthesized oligonucleotides and we identified the errors occurring in the sequence under these conditions.

[Catecholamine levels and their distribution in the uterus during pregnancy and labor].

Catecholaminergic fiber distribution and noradrenaline levels were studied in various sections of the myometrium of a pregnant uterus. Female myometrium preparations obtained during surgery were studied by histochemical and radioenzymic methods. The findings evidence that catecholaminergic innervation of the myometrium is essentially reduced by the end of normal pregnancy and is detectable only in the lower segment of the uterus; in labor this phenomenon is virtually undetectable.

[The adrenergic innervation of the normal rat uterus and during pregnancy].

Histochemical analysis revealed that, normally, the main amount of adrenergic fibers in the rat uterus is connected with vascular innervation. The amount of neural elements projecting to the muscle cells in insignificant. In pregnancy, the amount of fibers with the specific fluorescence decreases and they completely disappear from the myometrium in parturient rats.

[Adrenergic innervation of the uterus of the rat in various phases of the estrous cycle].

Adrenergic innervation of the rat uterus is connected chiefly with vessel innervation. The highest density of fibers and the highest intensity of specific fluorescence is shown in the stage of dioestrus, the least those--in oestrus. These indices correlated with the estradiol and progesterone level in the plasma.