Publications by authors named "S Kalugin"

580 microbial strains were isolated from the rhizosphere of the plants L. and grown on soil contaminated with dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane (DDT) and its metabolites. During the cultivation, two bacterial strains were selected because of their ability to grow on media containing 0.

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Alkaline Phosphatases (APs) play a key role in maintaining a ratio of phosphate to inorganic pyrophosphate (P/PP) and thus regulate extracellular matrix calcification during bone formation and growth. Among different isozymes of AP, aberrant increase in the level of tissue non-specific alkaline phosphatase (TNAP) is strongly associated with vascular calcification and end-stage renal diseases. In this context, we synthesized a novel series of fluorinated pyrimidone derivatives, i.

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Soil monitoring was accomplished at 76 former pesticide storehouses in Kazakhstan. Gas chromatography analysis was limited to the organochlorine pesticides DDT (p,p'-dichloro-diphenyl-trichloroethane) and HCH (hexachlorocyclohexane), and their associated metabolites and isomers: 2.4'-DDD (p,p'-dichlorodiphenyl dichloroethane); 4.

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In Kazakhstan, there is a problem of finding ways to clean local sites contaminated with pesticides. In particular, such sites are the deserted and destroyed storehouses where these pesticides were stored; existing storehouses do not fulfill sanitary standards. Phytoremediation is one potential method for reducing risk from these pesticides.

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The chronic oral administration of epaden (a concentrate of n-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids, n-3 PUFA) to rabbits leads to a decrease in activity of the tissue type plasminogen activator (t-PA) in the blood plasma. In order to elucidate the mechanism of this phenomenon, the epinephrine (adrenaline) stimulated t-PA release in rabbits pretreated with epaden for 4 weeks was compared to that in the control (untreated) group. The epinephrine injections led to a reliable, albeit short-time, increase in the t-PA activity in both test and control groups.

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