Mesoporous Silica and Composite Nanostructures for Theranostics

We discus methods for fabrication of silica and composite nanoparticles, which can be used in various biomedical applications. The most promising types of such nanostructures are hollow silica nanosheres, sil-ica coated plasmon-resonant nanoparticles (gold nanorods and gold-silver nanocages) and nanorattles. Mesoporous silica shell can be doped by desirable targeting molecules. Here we present the results of for-mation of nanocomposites composed of gold nanorods and double-layer silica shell. The secondary mesopo-rous silica shell is doped with a photosensitizer (hematoporphyrine in our case). We demonstate some of promising theranostics applications of these nanocomposites for bioimaging and in vivo therapy of tumors. When you are citing the document, use the following link http://essuir.sumdu.edu.ua/handle/123456789/3548

Mesoporous Silica and Composite Nanostructures for Theranostics

We discus methods for fabrication of silica and composite nanoparticles, which can be used in various biomedical applications. The most promising types of such nanostructures are hollow silica nanosheres, sil-ica coated plasmon-resonant nanoparticles (gold nanorods and gold-silver nanocages) and nanorattles. Mesoporous silica shell can be doped by desirable targeting molecules. Here we present the results of for-mation of nanocomposites composed of gold nanorods and double-layer silica shell. The secondary mesopo-rous silica shell is doped with a photosensitizer (hematoporphyrine in our case). We demonstate some of promising theranostics applications of these nanocomposites for bioimaging and in vivo therapy of tumors. When you are citing the document, use the following link http://essuir.sumdu.edu.ua/handle/123456789/3548

Onset of magnetism in B2 transition metals aluminides

Ab initio calculation results for the electronic structure of disordered bcc Fe(x)Al(1-x) (0.4<x<0.75), Co(x)Al(1-x) and Ni(x)Al(1-x) (x=0.4; 0.5; 0.6) alloys near the 1:1 stoichiometry, as well as of the ordered B2 (FeAl, CoAl, NiAl) phases with point defects are presented. The calculations were performed using the coherent potential approximation within the Korringa-Kohn-Rostoker method (KKR-CPA) for the disordered case and the tight-binding linear muffin-tin orbital (TB-LMTO) method for the intermetallic compounds. We studied in particular the onset of magnetism in Fe-Al and Co-Al systems as a function of the defect structure. We found the appearance of large local magnetic moments associated with the transition metal (TM) antisite defect in FeAl and CoAl compounds, in agreement with the experimental findings. Moreover, we found that any vacancies on both sublattices enhance the magnetic moments via reducing the charge transfer to a TM atom. Disordered Fe-Al alloys are ferromagnetically ordered for the whole range of composition studied, whereas Co-Al becomes magnetic only for Co concentration >0.5.Comment: 11 pages with 9 embedded postscript figures, to be published in Phys.Rev.

ОСТ investigation of influence of cement kiln dust and keratoprotectoral medication on the cornea structure.

The research goal: in vitro study of cornea permeability at the action of cement kiln dust and keratoprotectoral medication. Materials and Methods. Experimental studies were carried out with twenty eyes often rabbits. The measurements were performed using ОСТ system OCP930SR 022 (Thorlabs, USA). Results. ОСТ tomography was used to monitor the attenuation coefficient of the cornea in vitro during the permeability of cement kiln dust and keratoprotector Systein Ultra. The permeability coefficients of the cornea for water, cement dust and keratoprotector were measured. A computer model was developed that allowed one to analyze the diffusion of these substances in the eye cornea. Conclusion. It is shown: 1) cement dust falling on the eye cornea caused pronounced dehydration of the tissue (thickness decreasing) and led to the increase in the coefficient of light attenuation, which in the conditions of cement production could affect the deterioration of the eyesight of workers; 2) the application of the keratoprotector on the eye cornea when exposed by cement dust, slowed significantly the dehydration process and did not cause the increase in the light attenuation coefficient, which characterized the stabilization of visual functions in cement production workers. In this case, the keratoprotector itself did not cause dehydration and led to the decrease in the light attenuation coefficient, which could allow it to be used for a long time in the order to protect the organ of vision from the negative effects of cement dust.</p

Tissue optical clearing mechanisms

The high scattering and absorption of opaque tissues limit the penetration of light into deep tissues, limiting the imaging depth of various optical imaging techniques. The proposed tissue optical clearing technique provides an innovative way to perform deep-tissue imaging. Recently, various optical clearing methods have been developed. They result in tissue clearing with similar physical principles but different chemical approaches. This chapter will introduce the mechanisms of the current tissue optical clearing methods, ranging from fundamental physical to chemical perspectives, including the main physical principle, refractive index matching; and chemical approaches such as dissociation of collagen, dehydration, delipidation, decalcification, and hyperhydration to reduce scattering, as well as the use of decolorization to reduce absorption.T.Y. and D.Z. were supported by the National Key Research and Development Program of China grant number 2017YFA0700501, and NSFC grant number 81171736. E.A.G, A.N.B., and V.V.T were supported by RFBR grant number 18-52-16025. L. O. was supported by the Portuguese Science Foundation grant number FCT-UIDB/04730/2020. The authors are thankful to the staff of the Portuguese Oncology Institute of Porto (IPO-Porto), Portugal, for providing the human colorectal specimens used in the research presented in this chapter. The authors also appreciate the histological photograph of the human colorectal wall, which was supplied by Dr Sónia Carvalho from IPO-Porto.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio