Features of Brain Damage after Neutron Irradiation of the Head and Modification of the Damage by Lactoferrin.

Purpose: The purpose of the study was to investigate the effect of γ,n-irradiation of the mouse head on the brain cells damage, behavior, and cognition and to examine the possibility of using lactoferrin (LF) to alleviate radiation-induced impairments.

Materials And Methods: Mouse heads were irradiated in a beam of neutrons and gamma rays from the IR-8 nuclear reactor. The brain cells of control and irradiated mice were isolated using Percoll.

SPECIFICS OF PRESCRIBING ANTIRETROVIRAL DRUGS IN THE TREATMENT OF HIV INFECTION.

HIV infection is one of the most acute problems of our time, characterized by slow development, prolonged course, and numerous clinical manifestations. Currently, there is a large number of drugs acting on different processes of human immunodeficiency virus replication, which constitute the group of highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART). This article shows a theoretical review of modern HAART and analyzes the prescribed treatment regimens for patients with HIV infection.

Study of the Antibacterial Activity of Superhydrophilic and Superhydrophobic Copper Substrates against Multi-Drug-Resistant Hospital-Acquired Isolates.

The global spread of multidrug-resistant (MDR) hospital-acquired pathogens is a serious problem for healthcare units. The challenge of the spreading of nosocomial infections, also known as hospital-acquired pathogens, including Pseudomonas aeruginosa, must be addressed not only by developing effective drugs, but also by improving preventive measures in hospitals, such as passive bactericidal coatings deposited onto the touch surfaces. In this paper, we studied the antibacterial activity of superhydrophilic and superhydrophobic copper surfaces against the strain PA103 and its four different polyresistant clinical isolates with MDR.

The Use of Neural Stem Cells-Derived Exosomes to Prevent Late Radiation-Induced Cognitive Impairments in Mice.

We studied the effect of intranasal administration of neural stem cell (NSC)-derived exosomes on behavior and cognitive functions of mice in the late period after head irradiation in a dose of 8 Gy. The used exosomes had specific markers (CD9/CD63, 99.5%; TSG101, 98.

Radiation-induced neuroinflammation monitoring by the level of peripheral blood monocytes with high expression of translocator protein.

Purpose: Currently there are no effective diagnostic methods for the control of neuroinflammation before manifestation of cognitive impairment after head irradiation. The translocator protein (TSPO) is highly expressed in glial cells upon brain damage, therefore we compared the changes in the number of cells with high TSPO expression in the brain and peripheral blood during radiation-induced neuroinflammation.

Materials And Methods: Hippocampal cytokines mRNA expression and the content of cells with high TSPO expression in the brain and peripheral blood monocytes were analyzed up to eight months after mice head γ-irradiation at a dose of 2 Gy or 8Gy.

PAN-1, a P-granule component important for C. elegans fertility, has dual roles in the germline and soma.

In Caenorhabditis elegans, P granules are germline-specific, RNA-containing granules that segregate into the germline precursor cell during early embryogenesis. In this short report, PAN-1, which previously has been found by others in screens for genes causing larval molting defects, is identified here as a novel P-granule component and a binding partner of GLH-1 (Germline RNA Helicase-1), a constitutive, germline-specific, P-granule protein. The PAN-1 predicted protein contains multiple leucine-rich repeats (LRRs) and regions with similarities to F-box proteins.

Tailored vapor-phase growth of Cu(x)O-TiO2 (x = 1, 2) nanomaterials decorated with Au particles.

We report on the fabrication of Cu(x)O-TiO(2) (x = 1, 2) nanomaterials by an unprecedented vapor-phase approach. The adopted strategy involves the growth of porous Cu(x)O matrices by means of chemical vapor deposition (CVD), followed by the controlled dispersion of TiO(2) nanoparticles. The syntheses are performed on Si(100) substrates at temperatures of 400-550 °C under wet oxygen atmospheres, adopting Cu(hfa)(2)·TMEDA (hfa = 1,1,1,5,5,5-hexafluoro-2,4-pentanedionate; TMEDA = N,N,N',N'-tetramethylethylenediamine) and Ti(O-(i)Pr)(2)(dpm)(2) (O-(i)Pr = isopropoxy; dpm = 2,2,6,6-tetramethyl-3,5-heptanedionate) as copper and titanium precursors, respectively.

[Soft palate muscles electrostimulation in treatment of children at different stages of exudative otitis media].

We studied efficacy of electrical stimulation of soft palate muscles in 180 patients (292 ears) with various stages of exudative otitis media (EOM). The analysis of the results covered 172 patients. 8 patients withdraw because of the 4th (fibrous) stage of the process (n=4) and incomplete treatment course (n=4).