Titanium matrix composites (TMC) represent a perspective materials category with potential applications in many important fields like aerospace constructions, automotive industry, ship structures, sports and households objects, and others. A titanium matrix composite is constituted of a titanium or titanium alloy – matrix and reinforcements materials, which are usually ceramics in form of parti...

Anthrax is an era old deadly disease against which there are only two currently available licensed vaccines named anthrax vaccine adsorbed and precipitated (AVP). Though they can provide a protective immunity, their multiple side-effects owing to their ill-defined composition and presence of toxic proteins (LF and EF) of Bacillus anthracis, the causative organism of anthrax, in the vaccine form...

To determine the fate of polymeric micelles after oral administration, we investigated the possible transport of polymeric micelles across Caco-2 monolayers and their biodistribution in rats after per os administration of [14C]-labelled mmePEG750P(CL-co-TMC) micelles containing risperidone (BCS Class II drug). mmePEG750P(CL-co-TMC) was able to cross Caco-2 monolayer via a saturable transport me...

PURPOSE To compare the results of advanced visual field defects (VFD) measured with the conventional reference perimeter Octopus 101 (O-101) and the new portable Tübingen Mobile Campimeter (TMC). METHODS Thirty-seven subjects (18 to 75 years), 13 with advanced arcuate scotomas, 12 with VFD respecting vertical meridians, 6 with concentric constriction and 6 healthy controls were included. Firs...

High valent non-heme iron-oxygen species, such as Fe=O adducts, have been proposed as key intermediates for numerous non-heme iron enzymes. However, only one such Fe=O adduct has been detected in an enzyme system. In contrast, synthetic complexes containing non-heme Fe=O units have been generated using a variety of supporting ligands, and these studies have already demonstrated that the coordin...

Redox-inactive metal ions that function as Lewis acids play pivotal roles in modulating reactivities of oxygen-containing metal complexes in a variety of biological and biomimetic reactions, including dioxygen activation/formation and functionalization of organic substrates. Mononuclear nonheme iron(III)-peroxo species are invoked as active oxygen intermediates in the catalytic cycles of dioxyg...

Three ternary metal composites (TMCs) with iron nitrate, aluminum and copper nitrate (Fe-TMC-N, Al-TMC-N, Cu-TMC-N) were synthesized their physicochemical properties investigated. Characterization of the TMCs was achieved by elemental analysis (XPS), infrared (IR) spectroscopy thermogravimetric (TGA). The surface charge estimated from point-of-zero-charge (PZC), which depended on type precursor...

Objective(s): An efficient vaccine against TB is an urgent need. TB peptides are safe candidate but they are weak immunogens and needs to be potentiated by adjuvant/delivery systems. The main purpose of the present study was to determine the potential of CHT based NPs containing ESAT-6 antigen of M. tuberculosis for inducing mucosal and systemic immune responses after intranasal and subcutaneou...

We examined the relationship between the various psychosocial problems in Japanese-Brazilians (JB) in Japan highlighted in our recent community-based researches (Miyasaka et al., 2002; Otsuka et al., 2003) and the structure of their community as one of the largest foreign immigrant groups in the country, through the point of view of ‘transnational migrant community (TMC)’ by Rouse (1991) and Ts...