Etching of Blood Proteins in the Early and Late Flowing Afterglow of Oxygen Plasma

2013 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 12-23 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alenka Vesel ◽  
Metod Kolar ◽  
Nina Recek ◽  
Kinga Kutasi ◽  
Karin Stana-Kleinschek ◽  
...  
2012 ◽  
Vol 44 (13) ◽  
pp. 1565-1571 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alenka Vesel ◽  
Metod Kolar ◽  
Ales Doliska ◽  
Karin Stana-Kleinschek ◽  
Miran Mozetic

2018 ◽  
Vol 27 (9) ◽  
pp. 094005 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alenka Vesel ◽  
Rok Zaplotnik ◽  
Janez Kovac ◽  
Miran Mozetic

Author(s):  
M. Locke ◽  
J. T. McMahon

The fat body of insects has always been compared functionally to the liver of vertebrates. Both synthesize and store glycogen and lipid and are concerned with the formation of blood proteins. The comparison becomes even more apt with the discovery of microbodies and the localization of urate oxidase and catalase in insect fat body.The microbodies are oval to spherical bodies about 1μ across with a depression and dense core on one side. The core is made of coiled tubules together with dense material close to the depressed membrane. The tubules may appear loose or densely packed but always intertwined like liquid crystals, never straight as in solid crystals (Fig. 1). When fat body is reacted with diaminobenzidine free base and H2O2 at pH 9.0 to determine the distribution of catalase, electron microscopy shows the enzyme in the matrix of the microbodies (Fig. 2). The reaction is abolished by 3-amino-1, 2, 4-triazole, a competitive inhibitor of catalase. The fat body is the only tissue which consistantly reacts positively for urate oxidase. The reaction product is sharply localized in granules of about the same size and distribution as the microbodies. The reaction is inhibited by 2, 6, 8-trichloropurine, a competitive inhibitor of urate oxidase.


Author(s):  
Virgil Peck ◽  
W. L. Carter

Any electron microscopical study of the morphology of bulk polymers has throughout the years been hampered by the lack of any real ability to produce meaningful surface variations for replication. True etching of polymers should show crystalline and amorphous regions in some form of relief. The use of solvents, acids, organic vapors, and inert ion bombardment to etch samples has proved to be useful only in limited applications. Certainly many interpretations of these results are subject to question.The recent use of a radiofrequency (R. F.) plasma of oxygen to degrade and remove organic material with only minor heating has opened a new possibility for etching polymers. However, rigid control of oxygen flow, time, current, and sample position are necessary in order to obtain reproducible results. The action is confined to surface layers; the molecular weight of the polymer residue after heavy etching is the same as the molecular weight of the polymer before attack, within the accuracy of measurement.


2020 ◽  
Vol 59 (SJ) ◽  
pp. SJJF03
Author(s):  
Sitti Subaedah ◽  
Haruka Uematsu ◽  
Nobuya Hayashi

2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 (11) ◽  
pp. 41-45
Author(s):  
Yu.S. Popil ◽  
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V.M. Korzh ◽  
V.Ya. Chernyak ◽  
Ye.A. Zakharov ◽  
...  

2020 ◽  
Vol 54 (5) ◽  
pp. 15-22
Author(s):  
I.M. Larina ◽  
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D.N. Kashirina ◽  
K.S. Kireev ◽  
A.I. Grigoriev ◽  
...  

We performed the first ever comparative analysis of modifications in the proteome, ionogram and some other blood plasma biochemical indices of 18 male cosmonauts (44 ± 6 years of age) before and after maiden or repeated long-term missions to the Russian segment of the International space station (ISS RS). Levels of proteins, substrates and ions as well as chemical components were measured using the LC-MS-based proteomics and routine biochemical techniques. A total of 256 to 281 indices were investigated with the methods of descriptive statistic, regression analysis, and access to bioinformatics resources. It was shown that blood indices recovery from the maiden and repeated missions reflects changes in the body systems and goes at a various speed. The results of measurements made prior to launch and on day 7 after landing are dependent on the number of missions. The bioinformatics techniques showed that after maiden missions both the mediator proteins of alkaline phosphatase (AP) and blood proteins with reliably changing concentrations are associated with the bio-processes including stress, metabolism and DNA reparation, apoptosis, catabolism and proteolysis. During early re-adaptation from repeated missions the AP level was affected by bone remodeling, phosphorylation, angiogenesis and coagulation cascade suggesting a distinct and urgent trigger of the processes of bone structure and mineralization.


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