Investigating the Metabolism of Plants Germinated in Heavy Water, DO, and HO-Enriched Media Using High-Resolution Mass Spectrometry.

Mass spectrometry has been an essential technique for the investigation of the metabolic pathways of living organisms since its appearance at the beginning of the 20th century. Due to its capability to resolve isotopically labeled species, it can be applied together with stable isotope tracers to reveal the transformation of particular biologically relevant molecules. However, low-resolution techniques, which were used for decades, had limited capabilities for untargeted metabolomics, especially when a large number of compounds are labelled simultaneously.

Combined Gamma-Rays and Carbon-12 Nuclei Irradiation Modulates Brain Chemokine and Cytokine Production and Improves Spatial Learning in Tau P301S, but not 5xFAD Mouse Line.

Earlier we showed the pro-cognitive effect of low doses of combined irradiation (including heavy charged particles) on Wistar rats. In the present work we studied the effect of irradiation (gamma-rays, 0.24 Gy; carbon-12, 0.

Untargeted Lipidomics after DO Administration Reveals the Turnover Rate of Individual Lipids in Various Organs of Living Organisms.

The administration of low doses of DO to living organisms was used for decades for the investigation of metabolic pathways and for the measurement of the turnover rate for specific compounds. Usually, the investigation of the deuterium uptake in lipids is performed by measuring the deuteration level of the palmitic acid residue using GC-MS instruments, and to our knowledge, the application of the modern untargeted LC-MS/MS lipidomics approaches was only reported a few times. Here, we investigated the deuterium uptake for >500 lipids for 13 organs and body liquids of mice (brain, lung, heart, liver, kidney, spleen, plasma, urine, etc.

Synthesis of Cy5-Labelled C5-Alkynyl-modified cytidine triphosphates via Sonogashira coupling for DNA labelling.

New applications of palladium-catalyzed Sonogashira-type cross-coupling reaction between C5-halogenated 2'-deoxycytidine-5'-monophosphate and novel cyanine dyes with a terminal alkyne group have been developed. The present methodology allows to synthesize of fluorescently labeled C5-nucleoside triphosphates with different acetylene linkers between the fluorophore and pyrimidine base in good to excellent yields under mild reaction conditions. Modified 2'-deoxycytidine-5'-triphosphates were shown to be good substrates for DNA polymerases and were incorporated into the DNA by polymerase chain reaction.

[Immunochemical and electromyographic indicators for assessment of pain status in myofascial back pain syndrome].

Objective: A complex examination of patients with chronic myofascial pain syndrome (MPS).

Material And Methods: This study included 136 patients with MPS (66 men and 70 women). Pain was assessed using a Visual Analogue Scale (VAS).

Study of Humoral Immunity Indicators for Evaluation of Chronic Pain State.

Variation of natural antibody (nAb) levels to the pain bioregulators (β-endorphin, orphanin, serotonin, dopamine, histamine, and angiotensin) in blood serum at chronic low back pain (LBP) was studied for 21 days. We revealed gender features of immuno-profiles: more elevated nAb levels in women at 1st day and equal levels in gender groups at 21st day. In addition, nAb levels remained above normal up to day 21 in most of patients despite a threefold decrease in pain intensity, measured using a differential visual analogue scale.

[A comparative study of immune and clinical indicators in radicular and myofascial back pain].

Aim: To compare immunochemical and clinical parameters in patients with chronic radicular and myofascial back pain.

Material And Methods: A study included 92 patients (55 men and 37 women) with radicular pain syndrome and 97 patients (33 men and 64 women) with myofascial pain syndrome. Pain status was assessed with the differential visual analogous scale (at rest, on movement, at night and during spontaneous pain).

Pressure algometry and enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay of natural antibodies in the evaluation of pain syndrome.

The dynamics of possible markers of pain syndrome: pain pressure thresholds of intolerance (PTI) and natural antibodies to mediators of pain processing (nAbs) in blood serum at dorsalgia was studied. We have shown that most men and women had reduced PTIs. Night PTIs were lower than daytime PTIs regardless of the gender.

[Dynamics of pain tolerance thresholds and humoral immunity factors at dorsalgy].

Objective: Our aim was to study the possible markers of pain syndrome--indicators of pain sensitivity--pain pressure tolerance thresholds (PPTT), and immuno-indicators--natural antibodies against pain processing mediators (eAb) for evaluation the possibility of its using for a objective pain assessment at chronic low back pain.

Methods: Pain sensitivity was assessed daily and nightly, by measuring the PPTT The natural antibody levels (eAb), were determined in serum by ELISA. Measurement of all parameters were performed at 1st, 10th and 21 days.