[Experience with mobile units of Disaster Medicine Service of the Russian Defense Ministry in local wars and armed conflicts].

The article describes the experience of using of mobile medical units for medical support of combat operations in the armed conflicts in the North Caucasus. The factors affecting the operation of medical services in local wars and armed conflicts are analyzed. Suggestions for the optimization of organizational structure and principles of the use of mobile units service Emergency Medicine are formulated.

Solvent reorganization energies in A-DNA, B-DNA, and rhodamine 6G-DNA complexes from molecular dynamics simulations with a polarizable force field.

We estimate solvent reorganization energies lambda(s) of electron transfer (ET) in DNA stacks between positively charged guanine (acceptor) and neutral guanine (donor), as well as in rhodamine 6G (R6G)-DNA complexes between R6G (acceptor) and neutral guanine (donor) from molecular dynamics simulations that used a polarizable force field in combination with a polarizable water model. We compare results from the polarizable scheme with those from a common nonpolarizable analogue. We also discuss the influence of charge sets, separate contributions of solute and solvent electronic polarizations, and partial contributions of different molecular groups to changes of lambda(s) due to electronic polarization.

Effect of solvent polarization on the reorganization energy of electron transfer from molecular dynamics simulations.

The solvent contribution lambda(s) to the reorganization energy of electron transfer can be estimated from averages of the potential energy gaps between neutral-pair and ion-pair states over an ensemble of structures generated from molecular dynamics simulations. Invoking a Marcus-type two-sphere model for charge separation and recombination in an aqueous environment, we explored the effect of a polarizable force field and noted a strong reduction of lambda(s) (by approximately 45%) compared to the corresponding value obtained with a standard nonpolarizable force field. Both types of force fields yield lambda(s) values that in agreement with the Marcus theory, vary strictly linearly with the inverse of the donor-acceptor distance; the corresponding slopes translate into appropriate effective optical dielectric constants, epsilon(infinity) approximately 1.

Structure of rhodamine 6G-DNA complexes from molecular dynamics simulations.

Chromophore-DNA complexes are useful for understanding charge transport along pi-stacks once their structural properties have been clarified. We studied two rhodamine 6G semicapping complexes with 15-mer B-DNA duplexes to determine the preferred orientation of the dye with respect to the neighboring base pair. For each of these systems, two distinct chromophore alignments were identified and quantified in terms of base-step parameters.

Molecular-dynamics simulations of pyronine 6G and rhodamine 6G dimers in aqueous solution.

We have carried out molecular-dynamics (MD) simulations on dimers of the positively charged laser dyes pyronine 6G (P6G) and rhodamine 6G (R6G) in aqueous solution, generating trajectories of 2.5 ns for various computational protocols. We discuss how the choice of atomic partial charges and the length of the trajectories affect the predicted structures of the dimers and compare our results to those of earlier MD-simulations, which were restricted to only 0.