Publications by authors named "Pustovit O"

Article Synopsis
  • - Oil and gas extraction in the Arctic can release toxic compounds called polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) into local waterways, impacting marine life, particularly fish like the navaga cod.
  • - A study focused on the specific PAH 3-methyl-phenanthrene (3-MP) revealed that it negatively affects the electrical excitability of navaga cod heart cells, especially at lower temperatures (9°C and 15°C) but not at 21°C.
  • - The combined effects of high temperatures and elevated potassium levels in the environment can worsen the impact of 3-MP on cardiac function, highlighting the complex interactions between temperature, potassium concentration, and PAH toxicity on fish health.
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Optogenetics, the method of light-controlled regulation of cellular processes is based on the use of the channelrhodopsins that directly generate photoinduced currents. Most of the channelrhodopsin genes have been identified in the green microalgae Chlorophyta, and the demand for increasing the number of functionally characterized channelrhodopsins and the diversity of their photochemical parameters keeps growing. We performed the expression analysis of cation channelrhodopsin (CCR) genes in natural isolates of microalgae of the genera and from the unique Arctic Circle region.

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Here, we characterized the p.Arg583His (R583H) Kv7.1 mutation, identified in two unrelated families suffered from LQT syndrome.

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Alkylated polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons are abundant in crude oil and are enriched during petroleum refinement but knowledge of their cardiotoxicity remains limited. Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) are considered the main hazardous components in crude oil and the tricyclic PAH phenanthrene has been singled out for its direct effects on cardiac tissue in mammals and fish. Here we test the impact of the monomethylated phenanthrene, 3-methylphenanthrene (3-MP), on the contractile and electrical function of the atrium and ventricle of a polar fish, the navaga cod (Eleginus nawaga).

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Cavutilide (niferidil, refralon) is a new class III antiarrhythmic drug which effectively terminates persistent atrial fibrillation (AF; 84.6% of patients, mean AF duration 3 months) and demonstrates low risk of torsade de pointes (1.7%).

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We studied the frequency dependence of the effects of the novel Russian class III antiarrhythmic drug refralon on the duration of action potentials (AP) in rabbit ventricular myocardium. The absence of an inverse frequency dependence of AP prolongation was demonstrated: the effects of refralon at stimulation frequency of 1 Hz were stronger than at 0.1 Hz.

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The article presents modern methods of surgical treatment of chronic dacryocystitis, a brief historical review of various options for endonasal endoscopic dacryocystorhinostomy is carried out. The method of plastic seamless formation of dacryocystostomy, which does not require intubation of the lacrimal passages and/or using of silicone stoma dilators, is described. Between 2010 and 2019 at The State Budgetary Healthcare Institution of Moscow Area Moscow regional research clinical institute .

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