Novel Approaches to the Establishment of Local Microenvironment from Resorbable Biomaterials in the Brain In Vitro Models.

The development of brain in vitro models requires the application of novel biocompatible materials and biopolymers as scaffolds for controllable and effective cell growth and functioning. The "ideal" brain in vitro model should demonstrate the principal features of brain plasticity like synaptic transmission and remodeling, neurogenesis and angiogenesis, and changes in the metabolism associated with the establishment of new intercellular connections. Therefore, the extracellular scaffolds that are helpful in the establishment and maintenance of local microenvironments supporting brain plasticity mechanisms are of critical importance.

Assessment of Biochemical Parameters of the Oral Fluid before and after Using Office Teeth Whitening Systems.

One of the most important functions of the oral fluid is to maintain oral homeostasis. In-office teeth whitening systems are able to change the mineral metabolism and the activity of a number of enzymes in the oral fluid, but there are conflicting data in publications about this. The aim of this study was to compare the effect of Opalescense Boost, ZOOM Advance POWER, and ZOOM Phillips White Speed, which contain different percentages of hydrogen peroxide, on the performance of oral fluid.

Hematosalivarian barrier: structure, functions, study methods (review of literature).

The human body consists of various systems (blood, tissues, extracellular fluid, intracellular contents) separated by biological membranes. Physiological barriers ensure the physico-chemical composition of the internal environment remains constant and protects the body from environmental changes. The permeability of the histohematic barrier depends on the concentration of substances in the blood, the body's condition, external influences, and a number of other reasons caused by stimuli coming from the external or internal environment.

Newborns from women infected with COVID-19: somatic and metabolic status.

To date, there are limited data regarding manifestations of new coronavirus infection in infants born of SARS-CoV-2 infected mothers, so the aim of this study is to investigate somatic and metabolic status of newborn infants born to mothers diagnosed with COVID-19. The investigation was carried out on the bases of Laboratory Diagnostic Department of Samara Regional Clinical Hospital named after V.D.

Molecular profile of oral fluid in new coronavirus infection.

Oral fluid is an alternative biological material that confirms correlations with blood parameters in various pathological conditions of the body. In order to find a non-invasive approach to stratification of patients with COVID-19 disease, molecular biomarkers of the oral fluid have been determined in patients with moderate coronavirus infection in comparison with clinically healthy individuals. It has been shown that proteomic, carbohydrate, macro- and microelement profiles of the oral fluid in coronavirus infection can be used for diagnostics.

[Characteristics of the metabolic status of children of the first year of life with protein-energy deficiency depending on the gestational age at birth.].

Comparative analysis of energy-plastic exchange indicators in mature and premature children of the first year of life in the development of protein-energy malnutrition (PEM) was carried out. Unidirectional changes are revealed, including an increase in creatinine, lactate and creatine phosphokinase activity levels, suggesting a n increasing muscle mass deficit against the background of glucose anaerobic oxidation activation. In preterm infants, glucose and triacylglicerine levels decrease, which reflects uncompensated insufficiency of energy substrates and, accordingly, ATP level.

[Blood group and human diseases (review of literature).].

AB0 blood group antigens were discovered over a century ago; however, it is still important to study their role in development of various pathological conditions. Today it is known that antigenic determinants of this blood group are present not only on erythrocyte membrane but also on other cells and tissues: platelets, gastrointestinal epithelium and salivary glands, respiratory system cells. In the last decade, a large number of studies have appeared to reveal the relationship between a specific disease and blood group type, meta-analyses have been published.

[Сlinicmolecular indicators of inflammatory destructive damage of the oral cavity in periodontitis in persons with various group accessories of blood.].

In order to find a connection between the alteration of oral tissues and genetic predisposition to inflammatory and destructive processes in oral media, the cytokine profile of the oral fluid of clinically healthy individuals was determined for various blood group affiliations according to the AB0 system. The group-specific features of individuals with B(III) blood group were revealed: an increase of 32,5% in the content of interleukin-6 and 63,1% in the content of interleukin-8 compared with similar data for people with 0(I), A(II), AB(IV) blood groups, which can predispose to the greatest activity of the inflammatory process in the oral cavity in individuals with antigen B. Confirmation of this fact is an increase of IgA antibodies to gliadin in the blood among patients with chronic generalized periodontitis with B(III) blood group, up to 5,00 U/ml (p<0,01), which indicates the processes of acute inflammation, and along with an increase in blood IgG antibodies to transglutaminase in comparison with a group of clinically healthy individuals, it serves as an indicator of damage to the body's connective tissue at the molecular level.

[The role of small molecules in metabolism regulation (review).].

The paper focuses on intermolecular interactions, particularly interactions between proteins and natural intermediates (small molecules). Molecules with a molecular weight of up to 1000 Da are free in cytoplasmic solution and form a pool of intermediates. Methods of computer modeling for prediction of protein-proteinaceous, protein-ligand, protein - a small molecule of interactions are presented.

[Coagulation test features depending on the AB0-blood groups system antigenic composition.].

The maintenance of normal blood flow through the vessels is the result of the coordinated work of the coagulation and anticoagulation systems of our body. The balance of this system depends on many factors, including endothelial, humoral, platelet ones, however, we still lack knowledge about the effect of antigenic determinants on the state of the hemostatic system. This study is devoted to assessing the effect of the presence and absence of antigens on the AB0 system, presented on erythrocyte and platelet membranes, on hemostatic parameters.

[Saliva diagnostic in the research about human immune adaptation to study stress and to differrent water drinking behavior.].

85 healthy young people were participates of a randomized placebo controlled cross-over fashion. This study tested associations between different water drinking behavior, the condition of oral immune protection and stress factors over 3 months. We examined saliva IL-1, IL-4, IL-6, TNF-α, γ-IFN, α-amylase and compared them with stress-associated psychophysiological data.

[Molecular markers of the oral mucosa damage in patients with leukemia.].

The criteria for early manifestations of mucosal lesions in patients with acute and chronic leukemia are distinguished: in the absence of complaints and changes in the index assessment of the oral cavity, a block of initial dental signs in the form of edema of the tongue and the smoothness of its papillae, pallor of the oral mucosa in patients with leukemia. In theoral fluid of patients with the initial signs of dental pathology in acute leukemia, a specific spectrum of disorders was established in the form of the lowest antibody level of immunoglobulin A class to transglutaminase in combination with a high amount of Ig G antibodies to transglutaminase - 8.73 ± 0.

[The effect of hyperglycemia on indices of biochemical blood analysis in vitro.].

The purpose of study was to detect possible deviations between the results of biochemical analysis of blood and true values in conditions of hyperglycemia in vitro and dependences of the given alterations from group belonging of analyzed blood. The biochemical analysis was applied to blood samples of patients with various blood groups according system AB0 in conditions of normo- and hyperglycemia in vitro. The criterion for choice was established the content of main biochemical indices of blood (total protein, total bilirubin, glucose, total cholesterol, urea, creatinine, activity of hylaninamitotransferase (ALT), aspartataminotransferase (AST), lactatedehydrogenase (LDG)) within the reference limits.

[Evaluation of vitamin status of workers of oil-processing enterprises (Samara Region) according to the data on vitamin consumption and blood serum level].

Vitamin status of 77 employees of oil refineries (39 men and 38 women aged 22 to 62 years, body mass index - 25.0±4.7 kg/m) has been assessed in autumn.

[Assessment of vitamin status of the workers of Samara thermal power plant according to data on vitamin intake and their levels in blood].

Sufficiency of 58 employees of a thermal power plant (47 men and 11 women aged 21 to 64 years, body mass index - 27.0±5.8 kg/m), with vitamins A, E, D, B, B, folic acid and carotenoids (content in the blood plasma) and vitamin C (urinary excretion) was conducted in winter (February 2015).

Changes in myocardial metabolism induced by ethanol administration.

The utilization of ethyl alcohol in the myocardium and the reactions connected with its metabolism were investigated in rabbits which were given over a period of two months a 30% ethanol solution per os in a dosage of 1 g/kg body weight, and in a control group. Alcohol intoxication led to a reduction of the reserve of oxidized nicotinamide coenzymes, to an intensification of glycolytic processes, to slowed down utilization of substrates in the citric acid cycle and to an accumulation of less-oxidized metabolism products (dihydroxyacetone phosphate, lactate, pyruvate, malate, oxaloacetate, 2-oxoglutarate). A change was also observed in the myocardial microstructure.

Biochemical background of atherosclerotic heart lesion in an experiment.

The authors investigated enzymic systems and corresponding substrate cycles that transport hydrogen across the mitochondrial membrane in a myocardium with experimental cholesterol-induced atherosclerosis. Sensitive spectrophotometric methods were used for assessing the activities of cytoplasmic and mitochondrial enzymes: lactate and alpha-glycerphosphate dehydrogenases, and of characteristic mitochondrial enzymes: glutamate and beta-hydroxybutyrate dehydrogenases. Specific enzymological methods were used in determining the concentrations of lactic, pyruvic, glycerophosphoric, dihydroacetonephosphoric, malic, oxaloacetic, glutamic, alpha-ketoglutaric, acetoacetic, and beta-hydroxybutyric acids.

[Generation and transport systems of restored equivalents in rabbit brain tissue under experimental atherosclerosis].

Distrubances are found in the shuttle transport systems of extramitochonidral hydrogen in the brain of rabbits with experimental atherosclerosis, the catalytical function of glyceraldehyde phosphate dehydrohenase being preserved. A decrease in the activity of cytoplasmatic glycerophosphate dehydrogenase was observed parallel with an increase in the content of glycerophosphate. Deviations from the norm in the malate-aspartate shunt are pronounced in a considerable activation of mitochondrial malate dehydrogenase, inhibition of aspartate amino transpherase, accumulation of oxaloacetate and exhaustion of the malate stock.