Influence of chronic nitrate intoxication on the concentration of lipid hydroperoxides in the gastric mucosa

The excessive alimentary intake of nitrates into human and animal body can cause a cascade of changes in their organism. The sources of nitrates can be either products of vegetable origin (especially beetroot) or groundwater and drinking water (regions with developed agriculture). The first system of organs, which experiences the negative effect of nitrates, is the digestive system. The purpose of this work was to establish the effect of chronic nitrate intoxication on the content of lipid hydroperoxides in rat stomach mucous membrane. Materials and methods. We carried out experiment on 24 white rats. We divided animals into 2 groups: the control group (10) and the group of chronic nitrate intoxication (14). We modeled chronic nitrate intoxication by intragastric administration of sodium nitrate at a dose of 500 mg / kg for 30 days. The content of lipid hydroperoxides in 10% of the mucous membrane homogenate was determined by the method of VB Gavrilov. and MI Mishkorudnaya (1983). We analyzed the obtained results for normality by the Shapiro-Wilk method. Further, we compared data by the Student method. The difference was considered statistically significant if p <0.05. Results and discussion. Chronic nitrate intoxication reduces the content of dien conjugates (DC) in the gastric mucosa by 8% relative to the control group. The concentration of triene conjugates (TC) increases by 20.51%. The content of octadiene conjugates (ODC) increases by 52.2%. Decrease in the concentration of DC under conditions of nitrate intoxication, we can explain by the increase in activity of superoxide dismutase [1]. The remaining hydroperoxides are products of the later stages of lipid peroxidation (LPO), which is controlled by the glutathione system. Thus, it can be argued that the excessive intake of nitrates in the body leads to a disruption in the functioning of the glutathione system. Conclusion. Excess intake of nitrates in the body prevents the activation of LPO on early stages, but enhances lipid oxidation that has already begun

Survey of charge symmetry breaking operators for dd -> alpha pi0

The charge-symmetry-breaking amplitudes for the recently observed d d -> alpha pi0 reaction are investigated. Chiral perturbation theory is used to classify and identify the leading-order terms. Specific forms of the related one- and two-body tree level diagrams are derived. As a first step toward a full calculation, a few tree-level two-body diagrams are evaluated at each considered order, using a simplified set of d and alpha wave functions and a plane-wave approximation for the initial dd state. The leading-order pion-exchange term is shown to be suppressed in this model because of poor overlap of the initial and final states. The higher-order one-body and short-range (heavy-meson-exchange) amplitudes provide better matching between the initial and final states and therefore contribute significantly and coherently to the cross section. The consequences this might have for a full calculation, with realistic wave functions and a more complete set of amplitudes, are discussed.Comment: REVTeX 4, 35 pages, 8 eps figures, submitted to PR

The impact of migration of highly skilled workers on the country's competitiveness and economic growth

The links between the migration of highly skilled workers and economic growth (in terms of GNI per capita) and the competitiveness of countries have been studied. The study is based on statistics from developed countries and using correlation-regression analysis and modelling, as well as cluster analysis using the package of processing and analysis of statistical information STATISTICA. The analysis found that the immigration of workers with higher education has a significant impact on strengthening the competitiveness and economic development of countries - this is confirmed by the impact of talent migration, which is assessed by the values of case studies ('The Human Flight and Brain Drain' sub-index Fragile States Index and 'Brain gain' sub-index' in the Global Talent Competitiveness Index and 'Highly educated workers' sub-index in the OECD indicators of talent attractiveness). Their impact on macroeconomic indicators is higher compared to the links with social development indicators. Of course, this does not mean that such links should not be seen as important in public economic development management, as they illustrate the level of efficiency achieved in creating favourable conditions for realizing the potential of highly skilled workers, including pull-factors for their immigration. But in the macroeconomic management of a competitive economy, according to our research, actions aimed at attracting highly skilled migrants have the most significant and obvious impact. Other links can be taken into account and used in modelling for the development of institutional support for proactive migration policy for highly qualified workers

Influence of combined nitrate and fluoride intoxication on connective tissue disorders in rats gastric mucosa

We established that chronic excessive fluoride or nitrate intake can cause oxidative and nitrosative stress-depended collagen degradation, simultaneously decreasing the concentration of anti-inflammatory GAG. Combined intoxication leads to even more severe connective tissue degradation, but subsequently activates compensatory mechanisms through increase in concentration of anti-inflammatory GAG

Cooperative coupling of ultracold atoms and surface plasmons

Cooperative coupling between optical emitters and light fields is one of the outstanding goals in quantum technology. It is both fundamentally interesting for the extraordinary radiation properties of the participating emitters and has many potential applications in photonics. While this goal has been achieved using high-finesse optical cavities, cavity-free approaches that are broadband and easy to build have attracted much attention recently. Here we demonstrate cooperative coupling of ultracold atoms with surface plasmons propagating on a plane gold surface. While the atoms are moving towards the surface they are excited by an external laser pulse. Excited surface plasmons are detected via leakage radiation into the substrate of the gold layer. A maximum Purcell factor of $\eta_\mathrm{P}=4.9$ is reached at an optimum distance of $z=250~\mathrm{nm}$ from the surface. The coupling leads to the observation of a Fano-like resonance in the spectrum.Comment: 9 pages, 4 figure

First Measurement of Coherent Elastic Neutrino-Nucleus Scattering on Argon

We report the first measurement of coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering (\cevns) on argon using a liquid argon detector at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory Spallation Neutron Source. Two independent analyses prefer \cevns over the background-only null hypothesis with greater than $3\sigma$ significance. The measured cross section, averaged over the incident neutrino flux, is (2.2 $\pm$ 0.7) $\times$10$^{-39}$ cm$^2$ -- consistent with the standard model prediction. The neutron-number dependence of this result, together with that from our previous measurement on CsI, confirms the existence of the \cevns process and provides improved constraints on non-standard neutrino interactions.Comment: 8 pages, 5 figures with 2 pages, 6 figures supplementary material V3: fixes to figs 3,4 V4: fix typo in table 1, V5: replaced missing appendix, V6: fix Eq 1, new fig 3, V7 final version, updated with final revision

Measurement of J/ψ production in association with a W ± boson with pp data at 8 TeV

A measurement of the production of a prompt J/ψ meson in association with a W± boson with W± → μν and J/ψ → μ+μ− is presented for J/ψ transverse momenta in the range 8.5–150 GeV and rapidity |yJ/ψ| &lt; 2.1 using ATLAS data recorded in 2012 at the LHC. The data were taken at a proton-proton centre-of-mass energy of s = 8 TeV and correspond to an integrated luminosity of 20.3 fb−1. The ratio of the prompt J/ψ plus W± cross-section to the inclusive W± cross-section is presented as a differential measurement as a function of J/ψ transverse momenta and compared with theoretical predictions using different double-parton-scattering cross-sections. [Figure not available: see fulltext.]

Study of ordered hadron chains with the ATLAS detector

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