Influence of Bisphosphonates on Alveolar Bone Loss around Osseointegrated Implants.

Context: Bisphosphonates are extensively used drugs for the management of osteoporosis and other disorders affecting the bones. The stability and lifetime of osseointegrated dental implants may be influenced by their impact on bone metabolism.

Materials And Methods: A randomized controlled trial was undertaken with a sample size of 60 individuals who were implanted with orally integrated dental implants.

Comparative Evaluation of Tear Strength and Tensile Strength of Different Types of Gingival Mask Materials: An In Vitro Study.

Introduction: The implant-supported prosthetic treatment strategy is commonly chosen in modern dentistry to address tooth loss caused by a variety of conditions or dental defects. To achieve healthy and natural-looking results in implant dentistry, it is essential to replicate the peri-implant soft tissue. The gingival tissue that surrounds implants is quite accurately replicated by gingival masks.

The Surface Deterioration of Prefabricated Zirconia Crowns on Exposure to Acidulated Phosphate Fluoride Gel: An In Vitro Study.

Introduction Zirconia is a widely used restorative material in dentistry due to its superior aesthetic and mechanical properties. The oral cavity is a complex ecosystem with various components, which affect the teeth, as well as artificial restorative materials. Various personal and professional interventions carried out can severely affect the properties of restorative materials, thus altering the longevity of the prosthesis; 1.

Blood Conservation and Hemostasis in Cardiac Surgery: A Survey of Practice Variation and Adoption of Evidence-Based Guidelines.

Background: Blood conservation and hemostasis are integral parts of reducing avoidable blood transfusions and the associated morbidity and mortality. Despite the publication of blood conservation guidelines for cardiac surgery, evidence suggests persistent variability in practice patterns. Members of the Society of Cardiovascular Anesthesiologists (SCA) created a survey to audit conformance to existing guidelines and use the results to help narrow the evidence-to-practice gap.

Incidental Diagnosis of Carcinoid Disease by Intraoperative Transesophageal Echocardiography and Subsequent Discovery of a Neuroendocrine Tumor during Cardiac Surgery.

• Carcinoid heart disease typically involves the right-sided valves of the heart. • Carcinoid valves are fixed and retracted with limited mobility. • Pathognomonic appearance of valves increases carcinoid likelihood.

Growth and structural discrimination of cortical neurons on randomly oriented and vertically aligned dense carbon nanotube networks.

The growth of cortical neurons on three dimensional structures of spatially defined (structured) randomly oriented, as well as on vertically aligned, carbon nanotubes (CNT) is studied. Cortical neurons are attracted towards both types of CNT nano-architectures. For both, neurons form clusters in close vicinity to the CNT structures whereupon the randomly oriented CNTs are more closely colonised than the CNT pillars.

Hydrogen bonding in neutral and cation dimers of H2Se with H2O, H2S, and H2Se.

Structures, hydrogen bonding, and binding energies of H(4)SeA (A = O, S, Se) dimers and their cation radicals have been studied using DFT-B3LYP, MP2, and CCSD methods with 6-31++G(d,p), cc-pVTZ, and aug-cc-pVTZ basis sets. The binding energy (BE) order of the most stable neutral and cationic dimers have been found to be (H(2)Se···HOH) > (H(2)Se···HSH) > (H(2)Se···HSeH), and (H(2)Se···SeH(2))(+) > (H(2)Se···SH(2))(+) > (HSe···HOH(2))(+), respectively, by B3LYP/6-31++G(d,p) and MP2/aug-cc-pVTZ methods. Higher electronegativity of the heteroatom has been found to result in more stability of the neutral dimer but less of the cationic dimer.

Three-dimensional carbon nanotube electrodes for extracellular recording of cardiac myocytes.

Low impedance at the interface between tissue and conducting electrodes is of utmost importance for the electrical recording or stimulation of heart and brain tissue. A common way to improve the cell-metal interface and thus the signal-to-noise ratio of recordings, as well as the charge transfer for stimulation applications, is to increase the electrochemically active electrode surface area. In this paper, we propose a method to decrease the impedance of microelectrodes by the introduction of carbon nanotubes (CNTs), offering an extremely rough surface.

Hierarchical structures of carbon nanotubes and arrays of chromium-capped silicon nanopillars: formation and electrical properties.

The formation of stochastically oriented carbon-nanotube networks on top of an array of free-standing chromium-capped silicon nanopillars is reported. The combination of nanosphere lithography and chemical vapor deposition enables the construction of nanostructures that exhibit a hierarchical sequence of structural sizes. Metallic chromium serves as an etching mask for Si-pillar formation and as a nucleation site for the formation of carbon nanotubes through the chemical vapor deposition of ethene, ethanol, and methane, respectively, thereby bridging individual pillars from top to top.

Assembly of one dimensional inorganic nanostructures into functional 2D and 3D architectures. Synthesis, arrangement and functionality.

This review will focus on the synthesis, arrangement, structural assembly, for current and future applications, of 1D nanomaterials (tubes, wires, rods) in 2D and 3D ordered arrangements. The ability to synthesize and arrange one dimensional nanomaterials into ordered 2D or 3D micro or macro sized structures is of utmost importance in developing new devices and applications of these materials. Micro and macro sized architectures based on such 1D nanomaterials (e.

Generation and agglomeration behaviour of size-selected sub-nm iron clusters as catalysts for the growth of carbon nanotubes.

Mass-selected, ligand-free Fe(N) clusters with N = 10-30 atoms (cluster diameter: 0.6-0.9 nm) were implanted into [Al@SiO(x)] surfaces at a low surface coverage corresponding to a few thousandths up to a few hundredths of a monolayer in order to avoid initial cluster agglomeration.

Degradation of dichlorvos using hydrodynamic cavitation based treatment strategies.

The degradation of an aqueous solution of dichlorvos, a commonly used pesticide in India, has been systematically investigated using hydrodynamic cavitation reactor. All the experiments have been carried out using a 20 ppm solution of commercially available dichlorvos. The effect of important operating parameters such as inlet pressure (over a range 3-6 bar), temperature (31 °C, 36 °C and 39 °C) and pH (natural pH = 5.

Antioxidant activity and free radical scavenging reactions of gentisic acid: in-vitro and pulse radiolysis studies.

Abstract Antioxidant activity of gentisic acid has been studied using fast chemical kinetics and two in vitro models, namely the isolated rat liver mitochondria (RLM) and the human erythrocytes. The presence of gentisic acid (GA) during irradiation significantly reduced the levels of gamma radiation induced damages to lipids and proteins in RLM. Further, GA imparted protection to the human erythrocytes against exposure to gamma radiation.

Gas phase synthesis and field emission properties of 3D aligned double walled carbon nanotube/anatase hybrid architectures.

A 3D hybrid architecture composed of macroscopic, vertically aligned CNT blocks which are formed via a metal catalyzed CVD process followed by deposition of TiO(2) on the CNT side walls in nanocrystalline or amorphous form is presented. The morphology of the deposited TiO(2) can be tailored by the deposition method employed. Depositing TiO(2) from the gas phase by employing the organometallic precursor Ti[OCH(CH(3))(2)](4) leads to formation of nanocrystalline anatase or rutile particles with a dense coverage on the surface and within the 3D CNT scaffold.

Analysis of an engineered plasma kallikrein inhibitor and its effect on contact activation.

Engineering of protein-protein interactions is used to enhance the affinity or specificity of proteins, such as antibodies or protease inhibitors, for their targets. However, fully diversifying all residues in a protein-protein interface is often unfeasible. Therefore, we limited our phage library for the serine protease inhibitor ecotin by restricting it to only tetranomial diversity and then targeted all 20 amino acid residues involved in protein recognition.

Active plasma kallikrein localizes to mast cells and regulates epithelial cell apoptosis, adipocyte differentiation, and stromal remodeling during mammary gland involution.

The plasminogen cascade of serine proteases directs both development and tumorigenesis in the mammary gland. Plasminogen can be activated to plasmin by urokinase-type plasminogen activator (uPA), tissue-type plasminogen activator (tPA), and plasma kallikrein (PKal). The dominant plasminogen activator for mammary involution is PKal, a serine protease that participates in the contact activation system of blood coagulation.

In vivo radioprotection by 5-aminosalicylic acid.

The radioprotective effect of 5-aminosalicylic acid (5ASA) was investigated in mouse bone marrow. The present study was aimed at investigating the radioprotective effect of pre-irradiation treatment with 5ASA against a range of whole-body lethal (8-11 Gy) and sublethal (1-4 Gy) doses of gamma-radiation (RT) in adult Swiss albino mice. Protection against lethal irradiation was evaluated from 30-day mouse survival and against sublethal doses was assessed from chromosomal aberrations in the bone marrow 24 h after irradiation.

Ionized state of hydroperoxy radical-water hydrogen-bonded complex: (HO2-H2O)+.

Ab initio molecular orbital calculations have been employed to characterize the structure and bonding of the (HO2-H2O)+ radical cation system. Geometry optimization of this system was carried out using unrestricted density functional theory in conjunction with the BHHLYP functional and 6-311++G(2df,2p) as well as 6-311++G(3df,3p) basis sets, the second-order Møller-Plesset perturbation (MP2) method with the 6-311++G(3df,3p) basis set, and the couple cluster (CCSD) method with the aug-cc-pVTZ basis set. The effect of spin multiplicity on the stability of the (HO2-H2O)+ system has been studied and also compared with that of oxygen.

Structural investigation of asymmetrical dimer radical cation system (H2O-H2S)+: proton-transferred or hemi-bonded?

Ab initio molecular orbital and hybrid density functional methods have been employed to characterize the structure and bonding of (H2O-H2S)+, an asymmetrical dimer radical cation system. A comparison has been made between the two-center three-electron (2c-3e) hemi-bonded system and the proton-transferred hydrogen-bonded systems of (H2O-H2S)+. Geometry optimization of these systems was carried out using unrestricted Hartree Fock (HF), density functional theory with different functionals, and second-order Møller-Plesset perturbation (MP2) methods with 6-311++G(d,p) basis set.

Free radical scavenging reactions and antioxidant activity of embelin: biochemical and pulse radiolytic studies.

Embelin (from Embelia ribes) is a component of herbal drugs and possess wide range of medicinal properties. These properties may be, in part, due to scavenging of oxidizing free radicals. In this context, free radical scavenging reactions and antioxidant activity of embelin (2,5-dihydroxy-3-undecyl-1,4-benzoquinone) have been studied.