Search Results - (Author, Cooperation:P. A. Salvadori)

2015-04-25

American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

0036-8075

1095-9203

Biology

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Animals ; Archaeology ; Base Sequence ; DNA, Mitochondrial/analysis/genetics ; Dental Enamel/chemistry ; *Extinction, Biological ; Genome, Mitochondrial/genetics ; Humans ; Incisor/anatomy & histology/chemistry ; Molecular Sequence Data ; Neanderthals/anatomy & histology/*classification/*genetics ; *Phylogeny ; Tooth, Deciduous/anatomy & histology/chemistry

1749-6632

Blackwell Publishing Journal Backfiles 1879-2005

Natural Sciences in General

Electronic Resource

0392-6737

Biophysical instrumentation and techniques

Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000

Physics

Riassunto È stato usato un apparato di misurazione a un fotone per misurare la chemiluminescenza emessa durante la perossidazione dei fosfolipidi della membrana cellulare di un cuore di ratto isolato e perfuso sottoposto ad uno stress perossidativo. Lo stress perossidativo è stato ottenuto aggiungendo idroperossidi al liquido di perfusione. I differenti idroperossidi usati hanno prodotto tipiche evoluzioni temporali di chemi-luminescenza altamente riproducibili. La disponibilità di ossigeno influenza fortemente l'intensità e la cinetica di emissione della chemiluminescenza. Nell'àmbito di uno studio sull'effetto di differenti idroperossidi sul cuore di ratto isolato e perfuso, la misura della chemiluminescenza si è dimostrata un interessante e promettente strumento per il monitoraggio in continuo dei danni perossidativi nelle membrane biologiche. La sensibilità di questo metodo per la valutazione della perossidazione dei fosfolipidi delle biomembrane è circa dieci volte maggiore rispetto agli ordinari metodi di chimica analitica.

Резюме В этой статъе описывается аппаратура для ретистрации отделъных фотонов для непрерывного мониторнта улътраслабой хемилюминесценции, испус-каемой во время пероксидации фосфолипидов клеточной мембраны изолированного и перфузированного сердца крысы. В частности, аппаратура для ретистрации отделъ-ных фотонов исполъзуется для оценки напряжениь, индуцированных в сердце при добавлении тидроперекиси в пербузирующую жидкостъ. для этого исполъзуутся различные тидропероксиды, которые дают типичные временные эволюции улътса-слабой хемиюминесценции. Также получается, что наличие кислорода силъно влияет на интенсивиостъ и кинетику улътраслабои хемилюминесценции. Показывается, что улътраслабая хемилюминесценция представляет оченъ интересный и перспективный инструмент для мониторинга пероксидативных повреждений биологических мембран. Чувствителъностъ этого метода для пценки пероксидации босболинидов биомембран почти в десятъ раз выше, чем обычнын методов аналитической химии.

Summary This paper describes the use of a single-photon counting apparatus (SPCA) for the continuous monitoring of the ultraweak chemiluminescence (UWC) emitted by isolated and perfused rat hearts and deriving from phospholipid peroxydation. Specifically the SPCA was used to assess the peroxidative stress induced in the heart by the addition of an hydroperoxide to the perfusing medium. To this purpose, different hydroperoxides were used and each one produced a tipical and highly reliable temporal evolution of UWC. It was also found that the oxygen availability strongly influences the intensity and the kinetic of the UWC emission. UWC was proved to be a very interesting and promising tool for monitoring the peroxidative damage of biological membranes, both because it makes a continuous assessment possible and because the sensitivity of this method is approximately ten times greater than usual analytical chemistry methods.

Electronic Resource

1433-0350

SPET ; PET ; EEG ; MRI ; Drug-resistant epilepsy ; Epilepsy surgery

Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000

Medicine

Abstract Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), single photon emission tomography (SPET), and positron emission tomography (PET) using [18F]fluorodeoxyglucose were used in combination with scalp and scalp-video EEGs in a group of 30 pediatric patients with drug resistant epilepsy (DRE) in order to identify patients who could benefit from neurosurgical approach. Seizures were classified according to the consensus criteria of The International League Against Epilepsy. In three patients infantile spasms (IS) were diagnosed; 13 subjects were affected by different types of generalized seizures, associated with complex partial seizures (CPS) in three. In the other 14 patients partial seizures, either simple (SPS) or complex, were present. A localized abnormality was demonstrated in one patient with IS and in three patients with generalized seizures. Of the group of 14 subjects with CPS, MRI and CT were normal in 7, but SPET or PET indicated focal hypoperfusion or hypometabolism concordant with the localization of the EEG abnormalities. In 5 of the other 7 patients anatomical and functional imaging and EEG findings were concordant for a localized abnormality. It can be concluded that functional imaging combined with scalp EEGs appears to be superior to the use of only CT and MRI for selecting children with epilepsy in whom a surgical approach can be considered, in particular when CPS resistant to therapy are present.

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1432-1904

Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000

Biology

Chemistry and Pharmacology

Natural Sciences in General

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