Trends in the incidence rates of lower limb amputation due to nondiabetic peripheral artery disease in a large industrial city in Western Siberia, Russia: A review from 1996 to 2019.

Background: lower limb amputation (LLA) is a growing problem in the population with and without diabetes mellitus. Monitoring the incidence rates of LLA is important for health care planning and has implications for the future problems of medical and social care.

Objective: This study aimed to determine the trends in incidence rates of LLA due to nondiabetic peripheral artery disease in Novokuznetsk, Western Siberia, Russia.

Using the interviewer-administered version of Work Rehabilitation Questionnaire (WORQ) in Russia: cross-cultural adaptation and psychometric properties in traumatic spinal cord injury.

Purpose: (1) To perform a cross-cultural adaptation of Work Rehabilitation Questionnaire to Russian (WORQ-R); (2) to report the psychometric properties of WORQ-R in patients with traumatic spinal cord injury (TSCI).

Materials And Methods: WORQ is designed to evaluate the work functioning of individuals who are engaged in vocational rehabilitation. We performed a formal cross-cultural adaptation of WORQ from English to Russian utilizing a standardized 3-step approach.

[Degradation of lignin-carbohydrate substrate by soil fungi--producers of laccase and cellobiose dehydrogenase].

The growth of nonsporulating mycelial fungi INBI 2-26(+), producer of laccase; INBI 2-26(-), producer of cellobiose dehydrogenase; and their mixed culture on lignin-carbohydrate substrates under conditions of submerged fermentation were studied. The degrees of degradation of lignin, cellulose, and hemicellulose of cut straw over 23 days amounted to 29.8, 51.

[Isolation and characterization of a cellobiose dehydrogenase formed by a asporogenic mycelial fungus INBI 2-26(-)].

A nonsporulating fungus isolated from dioxine-containing tropical soils forms cellobiose dehydrogenase, when grown in media supplemented by a source of cellulose. The enzyme purified to homogeneity by SDS-PAGE (yield, 43%) had an M(r) of 95 kDa; its pH optimum was in the range 5.5-7.