The use of glycerolates of biogenic elements as biocompatible precursors in sol-gel synthesis is an innovative direction and opens up new scientific and practical prospects in chemistry and technology of producing practically important biomedical materials, including hemostatic, antimicrobial, and wound healing materials. Using biocompatible precursors, silicon, zinc, boron, and iron glycerolates, new bioactive nanocomposite hydrogels were obtained by the sol-gel method. The composition and structural features of the hydrogels were studied using a complex of modern analytical techniques, including TEM, XRD, AES, and ESI MS.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Nanocomposite glycerohydrogels based on biocompatible elementcontaining glycerolates are of practicular interest for biomedical applications.
Objective: Using two biocompatible precursors, silicon and iron glycerolates, a new bioactive nanocomposite silicon‒iron glycerolates hydrogel was obtained by sol-gel method.
Methods: The composition and structural features of the hydrogel were studied using a complex of modern analytical techniques, including TEM, XRD, and AES.
Biocatalysts based on the methylotrophic yeast VKM Y-2559 immobilized in polymer-based nanocomposites for the treatment of methanol-containing wastewater were developed. The organosilica composites with different matrix-to-filler ratios derived from TEOS/MTES in the presence of PEG (SP-composite) and from silicon-polyethylene glycol (STP-composite) differ in the structure of the silicate phase and its distribution in the composite matrix. Methods of fluorescent and scanning microscopy first confirmed the formation of an organosilica shell around living yeast cells during sol-gel bio-STP-composite synthesis.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe formation of organic/inorganic hydrogels based on silicon and titanium polyethylene glycolates, new biocompatible water-soluble precursors in sol-gel processing, was investigated. The influence of different factors on the gelation process, such as excess of PEG, water molar content, pH of medium, electrolyte additives, was investigated in comparison with silicon- and titanium-glycerol precursors. The specific features of gelation for each type of precursor were revealed.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe value of fluctuating asymmetry is considered to be an indicator of the developmental instability of the organism. The consequences of activities of the mining industry plants, which are characterized by alienation and transformation of large areas of natural landscapes, are analyzed as an anthropogenic factor. The objects of study were small mammals (northern red-backed (Clethrionomys rutilus) and gray red-backed (Clethrionomys rufocanus) voles, tundra vole (Microtus oeconomus), Laxmann's (Sorex caecutiens) and tundra (S.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFFormation of organic/inorganic hydrogels based on silicon- and titanium-glycerol precursors synthesized by transesterification of alkoxy derivatives in excess of glycerol was investigated. The precursors in excess of glycerol and obtained gels were studied by chemical and physical methods including gelation kinetics, IR spectroscopy, XRD, dynamic and electrophoretic light scattering, mechanical deformation, which disclosed the basic difference in the gelation mechanism and structure of network in the hydrogels. Due to this difference, the gelation time of silicon- and titanium-glycerol precursors depended on pH or electrolyte addition in an opposite way.
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September 2011
The problem of rehabilitation of children with the attention deficit syndrome and hyperactivity remains unresolved despite a large number of relevant investigations. The comprehensive rehabilitation of such children requires the use of both medicamental and-non-medicamental factors. The objective of the present study was to address the problem of school disadaptation based on the improvement of memory and attention in children presenting with the attention deficit syndrome and hyperactivity by means of inclusion of hypoxically hypercapnic training in the program of comprehensive rehabilitation with the use ofa Karbonik respiratory training system.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFDuring the period 1973-1978 elongation with a distraction-compression apparatus was performed on 78 children with congenital limb length inequality. The length of follow-up ranged from 2 to 6 years. Inequality in limb length measured 4 to 6.
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