The damage to skeletal muscle capillaries in advanced Chagas' disease (stages II and III) was investigated in the vastus lateralis muscle of six patients and compared to that of six normal subjects. Capillaries we...
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The damage to skeletal muscle capillaries in advanced Chagas' disease (stages II and III) was investigated in the vastus lateralis muscle of six patients and compared to that of six normal subjects. Capillaries were visualized by the PAS-amylase reaction and muscle fibres were classified by the ATPase histochemical method. Transmission electron microscopy was used to look for capillary alterations. The capillary-to-fibre ratio and number of capillaries adjacent to type I and type IIa fibres were decreased in the patient group. At the ultrastructural level, all patients showed capillary abnormalities, mainly basement membrane thickening and reduplication, capillary occlusion, proliferative endothelial cell cytoplasm with dense bodies, large vacuoles, altered mitochondria and prominent rough endoplasmic reticulum, as well as pericyte abnormalities. Capillary alterations are similar to those in patients affected by autoimmune diseases, suggesting an autoimmune component in the chronic phase of this disease. The reduction in capillarity may contribute to altered muscle performance in these patients.
Antidisialosyl antibodies have been previously associated to chronic and acute ataxic neuropathies. We studied the presence of these antibodies in nine patients with acute self-limiting ataxic neuropathy (ASLAN) using...
Antidisialosyl antibodies have been previously associated to chronic and acute ataxic neuropathies. We studied the presence of these antibodies in nine patients with acute self-limiting ataxic neuropathy (ASLAN) using ELISA and TLC immunodetection. One patient showed serum IgG immunoreactivity against gangliosides GD3 and GQlb. The patient's IgG was able to bind to the nodes of Ranvier on frozen human dorsal root. Our studies confirmed that antidisialosyl reactivity is associated to ataxic neuropathy and its specific binding to the dorsal root could explain the predominant sensory involvement. Nevertheless, the low incidence of this reactivity indicates that a different pathogenic mechanism should be involved in most ASLAN patients.
In the present work, a capture DNA (c-DNA) was immobilized on the TNA/g-C3N4 to develop a sensitive and selective TNA/g-C3N4/c-DNA photoelectrochemical aptasensor for determining thrombin. With the aid of the specific...
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In the present work, a capture DNA (c-DNA) was immobilized on the TNA/g-C3N4 to develop a sensitive and selective TNA/g-C3N4/c-DNA photoelectrochemical aptasensor for determining thrombin. With the aid of the specific recognition of anti-thrombin aptamer towards thrombin, ingenious design of hairpin DNA, and exonuclease III-assisted recycling signal amplification, more nanoceria could be assembled on the TNA/g-C3N4/c-DNA to form TNA/g-C3N4/nanoceria in the presence of thrombin. Due to the oxidase-mimic catalytic efficiency of nanoceria and the oxygen consumption for glucose oxidation, the photoexcited electrons at the conduction band of g-C3N4 could be well transferred to that of TNA under visible light irradiation, resulting in the increase of the photocurrent of TNA/g-C3N4/nanoceria, and the increase value of photocurrent had a linear relationship with the concentration of thrombin under the optimal conditions. So, the constructed TNA/g-C3N4/c-DNA photo-electrochemical aptasensor exhibited a satisfactory quantitative range from 0.01 pM to 0.5 nM, low detection limit with 3.4 fM for thrombin determination, and was applied for the human serum analysis successfully with RSD of less than 4.8% and the recovery between 95% and 113%.
The article is devoted to the problem of assessing and predicting the strength of normal sections of bended reinforced concrete elements, which are exposed during operation to long-term force and environmental influen...
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The article is devoted to the problem of assessing and predicting the strength of normal sections of bended reinforced concrete elements, which are exposed during operation to long-term force and environmental influences. It is noted that together with the accumulation of concrete and steel reinforcement corrosion damages, the load bearing capacity of reinforced concrete structures can be significantly reduced. At the same time, the existing methods for strength calculating are still applied and do not allow from a single point of view to reflect sufficiently strictly and in detail the stress-strain state of normal sections of bended reinforced concrete elements, taking into account the influence of all operational factors on it. Thereby, based on the nonlinear deformation model of reinforced concrete, a universal calculation procedure was developed. To approve it, the experimental studies of reinforced concrete beams samples that were under static load in sulfate- and chloride-containing aggressive environments for a long time were carried out. New features of corrosion damages accumulation in concrete and steel reinforcement in these aggressive environments were determined. After comparing the experimental and calculated data of normal sections strength, it was concluded that the proposed method has sufficient accuracy and can be used for practical calculations of operated bended reinforced concrete elements with defects and damages.
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