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Dissmore T, DeMarco AG, Jayatilake M, Girgis M, Bansal S, Li Y, Mehta K, Sridharan V, Gill K, Bansal S, Tyburski JB, Cheema AK. Longitudinal metabolic alterations in plasma of rats exposed to low doses of high linear energy transfer radiation. J Environ Sci Health C Toxicol Carcinog 2021; 39:219-233. [PMID: 33902389 PMCID: PMC9896584 DOI: 10.1080/26896583.2020.1865027] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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Astronauts embarking on deep space missions are at high risk of long-term exposure to low doses of high linear energy transfer (LET) radiation, which can contribute to the development of cancer and multiple degenerative diseases. However, long term effects of exposure to low doses of high LET radiation in plasma metabolite profiles have not been elucidated. We utilized an untargeted metabolomics and lipidomics approach to analyze plasma obtained from adult male Long Evans rats to determine the longitudinal effects of low-dose proton and low-dose oxygen ion whole-body irradiation on metabolic pathways. Our findings reveal that radiation exposure induced modest changes in the metabolic profiles in plasma, 7 months after exposure. Furthermore, we identified some common metabolite dysregulations between protons and oxygen ions, which may indicate a similar mechanism of action for both radiation types.
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- Tixieanna Dissmore
- Department of Oncology, Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, Georgetown University, Medical Center, Washington, DC, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington, DC, USA
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- Department of Oncology, Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, Georgetown University, Medical Center, Washington, DC, USA
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- Department of Oncology, Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, Georgetown University, Medical Center, Washington, DC, USA
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- Department of Oncology, Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, Georgetown University, Medical Center, Washington, DC, USA
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- Department of Oncology, Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, Georgetown University, Medical Center, Washington, DC, USA
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- Department of Oncology, Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, Georgetown University, Medical Center, Washington, DC, USA
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- Division of Radiation Health, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, AR, USA
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- Department of Oncology, Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, Georgetown University, Medical Center, Washington, DC, USA
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- Department of Oncology, Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, Georgetown University, Medical Center, Washington, DC, USA
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- Department of Oncology, Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, Georgetown University, Medical Center, Washington, DC, USA
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington, DC, USA
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Blázquez E, Rodríguez C, Ródenas J, Navarro N, Riquelme C, Rosell R, Campbell J, Crenshaw J, Segalés J, Pujols J, Polo J. Evaluation of the effectiveness of the SurePure Turbulator ultraviolet-C irradiation equipment on inactivation of different enveloped and non-enveloped viruses inoculated in commercially collected liquid animal plasma. PLoS One 2019; 14:e0212332. [PMID: 30789926 PMCID: PMC6383881 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0212332] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/27/2018] [Accepted: 01/31/2019] [Indexed: 11/23/2022] Open
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The objective of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of the SurePure Turbulator ultraviolet-C (UV-C, 254 nm wavelength) irradiation equipment on inactivation of different enveloped and non-enveloped viruses in commercially collected liquid animal plasma. Specifically, Pseudorabies virus (PRV), Porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus (PRRSV), Porcine epidemic diarrhea virus (PEDV), Bovine viral diarrhea virus (BVDV), Classical swine fever virus (CSFV), Swine influenza virus (SIV) as enveloped viruses and Porcine parvovirus (PPV), Swine vesicular disease virus (SVDV), Porcine circovirus type 2 (PCV-2) and Senecavirus A (SVA) as non-enveloped viruses, were inoculated in bovine or porcine plasma and subjected to different UV-C irradiation doses (0, 750, 1500, 3000, 6000 and 9000 J/L) using an UV-C device developed for opaque liquid working under turbulent flow. The enveloped viruses tested were inactivated at < 3000 J/L of UV-C, being the dose needed to inactivate 4 log TCID50 (4D) of 1612 J/L for PRV,1004 J/L for PRRSV, 1953 J/L for PEDV, 1639 J/L for SIV, 1641 J/L for CSFV and 1943 J/L for BVDV. The non-enveloped viruses tended to have higher 4D values: 2161 J/L for PPV, 3223 J/L for SVA and 3708 J/L for SVDV. Because the initial viral concentration was <4.0 Log for PCV-2, it was not possible to calculate the 4D value for this virus. In conclusion, these results demonstrated that the SurePure Turbulator UV-C treatment system is capable of inactivating significant levels of swine viruses inoculated in commercially collected porcine or bovine plasma. It was concluded that irradiation with UV-C can provide an additional redundant biosafety feature in the manufacturing process of spray-dried animal plasma.
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- Elena Blázquez
- APC EUROPE, S.L.U. Pol. Ind. El Congost, Granollers, Spain
- IRTA, Centre de Recerca en Sanitat Animal (CReSA, IRTA-UAB), Campus de la Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Bellaterra, Barcelona, Spain
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- APC EUROPE, S.L.U. Pol. Ind. El Congost, Granollers, Spain
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- IRTA, Centre de Recerca en Sanitat Animal (CReSA, IRTA-UAB), Campus de la Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Bellaterra, Barcelona, Spain
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- IRTA, Centre de Recerca en Sanitat Animal (CReSA, IRTA-UAB), Campus de la Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Bellaterra, Barcelona, Spain
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- Departament d’Agricultura, Ramaderia, Pesca i Alimentació (DARP) Generalitat de Catalunya, Campus de la Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Bellaterra, Barcelona, Spain
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- Departament de Sanitat i Anatomia Animals, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), Bellaterra, Barcelona, Spain
- UAB, Centre de Recerca en Sanitat Animal (CReSA, IRTA-UAB), Campus de la Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Bellaterra, Barcelona, Spain
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- IRTA, Centre de Recerca en Sanitat Animal (CReSA, IRTA-UAB), Campus de la Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Bellaterra, Barcelona, Spain
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- APC EUROPE, S.L.U. Pol. Ind. El Congost, Granollers, Spain
- APC Inc, Ankeny, Iowa, United States of America
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Cottingim KM, Johnston LJ, Hilbrands AM, Shurson GC, Urriola PE. Ultraviolet irradiation of spray-dried porcine plasma does not affect the growth performance of nursery pigs when compared with nonirradiated bovine plasma. J Anim Sci 2017; 95:3120-3128. [PMID: 28727088 PMCID: PMC7109998 DOI: 10.2527/jas.2017.1486] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/02/2023] Open
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Ultraviolet light irradiation of spray-dried porcine plasma (SDPP) decreases the risk of disease transmission, but it may decrease the activity of bioactive components in SDPP. Therefore, the objectives of this study were to determine growth performance, morbidity, and mortality responses of nursery pigs fed UV-irradiated SDPP (UV-SDPP) compared with nonirradiated spray-dried bovine plasma (SDBP). Pigs (n = 480; 6.09 ± 2.4 kg initial BW) were blocked by initial BW, and blocks were assigned to pens. the sex ratio was equalized within blocks and pens. Pens were randomly assigned to 1 of 5 dietary treatments (8 pigs/pen and 12 replicates/treatment) in a 3-phase feeding program (phase 1 = d 0 to 13, phase 2 = d 14 to 27, and phase 3 = d 28 to 55). Dietary treatments included a control diet without UV-SDPP or SDBP and diets containing 3% UV-SDPP, 3% SDBP, 6% UV-SDPP, or 6% SDBP during phase 1. Diets were formulated to meet or exceed nutrient requirements and contained the same concentrations of standardized ileal digestible Lys and Lys:ME ratio within phases. Pigs were provided ad libitum access to diets throughout the 55-d experiment. Dietary inclusion rates during phase 2 were reduced to 1.5% UV-SDPP, 1.5% SDBP, 3% UV-SDPP, and 3% SDBP, and all pigs were fed a common diet without UV-SDPP or SDBP during phase 3. Growth performance data were analyzed as a 2 × 2 factorial arrangement of treatments with a control within a completely randomized block design to evaluate the main effects of plasma processing (UV irradiated vs. nonirradiated) and dietary inclusion level, and block, room, and pen were random effects. In phase 1, there were no differences in G:F among treatments, but pigs fed 6% UV-SDPP and 6% SDBP had greater (P < 0.01) ADG (0.11 vs. 0.08 kg/d) and ADFI (0.17 vs. 0.15 kg/d) than pigs fed the control, 3% SDBP, and 3% UV-SDPP diets. After phase 1 (d13), feeding UV-SDPP or SDBP increased (P = 0.02) the BW of pigs. In phases 2 and 3 and the overall feeding period (d 0 to 55), there were no differences in ADG, ADFI, and G:F among dietary treatments. There was a linear decrease (P < 0.01) in mortality of nursery pigs as dietary inclusion rate of SDBP and UV-SDPP increased. In conclusion, feeding SDBP or UV-SDPP diets improved ADG and ADFI during the first 2 wk after weaning due to improved feed consumption, and UV irradiation appeared to have no detrimental effects on the feeding value of SDPP.
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- K. M. Cottingim
- Department of Animal Science, University of Minnesota, St. Paul 55108
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- West Central Research and Outreach Center, University of Minnesota, Morris 56267
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- West Central Research and Outreach Center, University of Minnesota, Morris 56267
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- Department of Animal Science, University of Minnesota, St. Paul 55108
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- Department of Animal Science, University of Minnesota, St. Paul 55108
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There are various antioxidant materials that scavenge free radicals in human plasma. It is possible that the radical-scavenging function causes a radiation protective effect in humans. This study estimated the hydroxyl (OH) radical-scavenging activity induced by X-ray irradiation in human plasma. The test subjects included 111 volunteers (75 males and 36 females) ranging from 22 to 35 years old (average, 24.0). OH radicals generated in irradiated human plasma were measured by electron spin resonance (ESR). The relationships between the amount of the OH radical and chemical and biological parameters [total protein, total cholesterol, triglycerides and hepatitis B surface (HBs) antibodies] were estimated in the plasma of the 111 volunteers by a multivariate analysis. The presence of HBs antibodies had the greatest influence on OH radical-scavenging activity. One volunteer who did not have the HBs antibody was given an inoculation of the hepatitis B vaccine. There was a remarkable decrease in the amount of OH radical generated from plasma after the HBs antibody was produced. The results indicate that the HBs antibody is an important factor for the scavenging of OH radicals initiated by X-ray irradiation in the human body.
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- Yoichiro Hosokawa
- Division of Medical Life Sciences, Hirosaki University, 66-1 Hon-cho, Hirosaki, Aomori 036-8564, Japan
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- School of Dentistry, Health Sciences University of Hokkaido, 1757 Kanazawa, IshikariTobetsu, Hokkaido 061-0293, Japan
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Stephan W. Inactivation of hepatitis viruses and HIV in plasma and plasma derivatives by treatment with beta-propiolactone/UV irradiation. Curr Stud Hematol Blood Transfus 2015:122-7. [PMID: 2642784 DOI: 10.1159/000416562] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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A combined treatment of plasma or plasma derivatives by beta-propiolactone (beta-PL)/UV irradiation is in use at Biotest for the preparation of the virus-safe, stabilized serum (Biseko) and coagulation factor concentrates. The efficacy of this sterilization procedure has been demonstrated for HAV (greater than 8.2 log10), HBV (6.9 log10), NANBHV (greater than 4.5 log10) and HIV (greater than 6.0 log10). The methods used in these studies (titration in chimpanzees or cell cultures) are not applicable in routine monitoring of sterilization processes. We therefore developed a test system using four types of bacteriophages: phi X174, phi e, Kappa and f2. Using these bacteriophages in 88 single tests, sterilization efficacy was regularly monitored during the period from 1981 to 1986. The four types of bacteriophages showed, on average, an inactivation rate of 6.7 log10, independent of size or genome structure. This inactivation is in the range of the inactivation of the relevant pathogenic virus, HBV, by beta-PL/UV. It was shown that under the production conditions of Intraglobin and the other Biotest immunoglobulin preparations, beta-PL (without UV) is as virucidal as the combination of beta-PL/UV in plasma or cryo-poor plasma.
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Experimental study of the effects of polychromatic visible and infrared light on biological fluids was carried out in order to validate the new approaches to phototherapy. Polychromatic light generated by Bioptron device at different modes and frequencies was released through the fiberoptic cable, including the exposure paralleled by CO2 saturation of water and exposure from a device placed 10 cm above the water surface, which ensured maximum light absorption. The effects of irradiation were recorded in 26 and 15 min, while the increase of light absorption by blood plasma in vivo was recorded 1 h after a bath with water pre-exposed to polarized light. Absorption bands corresponding to those for immunomodulatory, anti-inflammatory, and antiviral drugs, were detected. Changes in the spectra of valency oscillations, depending on the oscillation anharmonism values, were detected.
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Aida L, Soumaya G, Myriam E, Mohsen S, Hafedh A. Effects of static magnetic field exposure on plasma element levels in rat. Biol Trace Elem Res 2014; 160:67-72. [PMID: 24894831 DOI: 10.1007/s12011-014-9987-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/14/2014] [Accepted: 04/16/2014] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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The interaction of static magnetic fields (SMFs) with living organisms is a rapidly growing field of investigation. The magnetic fields (MFs) effect observed with radical pair recombination is one of the well-known mechanisms by which MFs interact with biological systems. SMF influenced cellular antioxidant defense mechanisms by affecting antioxidant enzymes such as superoxide dismutase (SOD), glutathione peroxidase (GPx), and catalase (CAT). However, there were insufficient reports about the effects of SMF on macro and trace elements in serum, and the results were contradictory until now. In the current study, 12 rats were divided into two groups, namely as control and exposure group (128 mT and 1 h/day during five consecutive days). The macro and trace element concentrations in serum were examined. No significant difference was observed in the sodium (Na), potassium (K), calcium (Ca), phosphorus (P), and selenium (Se) levels in rat compared to control. By contrast, exposure to SMF showed an increase in the zinc (Zn) level and a decrease in iron (Fe) concentration. Under our experimental conditions, SMF exposure cannot affect the plasma levels of macroelements, while it can disrupt Zn and Fe concentrations in rat.
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- Lahbib Aida
- Laboratory of Integrative Physiology, Faculty of Sciences of Bizerte, Carthage University, 7021, Jarzouna, Tunisia,
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Basharina OV, Zemchenkova OV, Artiukhov VG. [The protective effect of autologous plasma against the development of oxidative stress in UV-irradiated lymphocytes of peripheral blood of donors]. Radiats Biol Radioecol 2012; 52:602-607. [PMID: 23516891] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/01/2023]
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The influence of UV-light (240-390 nm) at the dozes of 151 and 755 J/m2 on the intensity of processes of the lipid peroxidation, activity of lactate dehydrogenase (LDH), succinate dehydrogenase (SDH), cytochrome c oxidase and the level of the energy supply of donors' blood lymphocytes in the absence and presence of autologous plasma was investigated. It was shown that during the incubation of native and UV-irradiated lymphocytes, autologous plasma reduces the intensity of lipid peroxidation, thus protecting cells from oxidative stress. As a result, the endocellular level of ATP is restored in UV-irradiated lymphocytes (during the daily incubation), which reflects the intensification of the adaptive ability of cells in the presence of autologous plasma.
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Thiele T, Kellner S, Hron G, Wasner C, Nauck M, Zimmermann K, Wessel A, Warkentin TE, Greinacher A, Selleng K. Storage of thawed plasma for a liquid plasma bank: impact of temperature and methylene blue pathogen inactivation. Transfusion 2012; 52:529-36. [PMID: 21880044 DOI: 10.1111/j.1537-2995.2011.03317.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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BACKGROUND Rapid transfusion of fresh-frozen plasma (FFP) is desired for treating coagulopathies, but thawing and issuing of FFP takes more than 40 minutes. Liquid storage of plasma is a potential solution but uncertainties exist regarding clotting factor stability. We assessed different storage conditions of thawed FFP and plasma treated by methylene blue plus light (MB/light) for pathogen inactivation. STUDY DESIGN AND METHODS Fifty thawed apheresis plasma samples (approx. 750 mL) were divided into three subunits and either stored for 7 days at 4°C, at room temperature (RT), and at 4°C after MB/light treatment. Clotting factor activities (Factor [F] II, FV, FVII through FXIII, fibrinogen, antithrombin, von Willebrand factor antigen, Protein C and S) were assessed after thawing and on Days 3, 5, and 7. Changes were classified as "minor" (activities within the reference range) and "major" (activities outside the reference range). RESULTS FFP storage at 4°C revealed major changes for FVIII (median [range], 56% [33%-114%]) and Protein S (51% [20%-88%]). Changes were more pronounced when plasma was stored at RT (FVIII, 59% [37%-123%]; FVII, 69% [42%-125%]; Protein S, 20% [10%-35%]). MB/light treatment of thawed FFP resulted in minor changes. However, further storage for 7 days at 4°C revealed major decreases for FVIII (47% [12%-91%]) and Protein S (49% [18%-95%]) and increases for FVII (150% [48%-285%]) and FX (126% [62%-206%]). CONCLUSION Storage of liquid plasma at 4°C for 7 days is feasible for FFP as is MB/light treatment of thawed plasma. In contrast, storage of thawed plasma for 7 days at RT or after MB/light treatment at 4°C affects clotting factor stability substantially and is not recommended.
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- Thomas Thiele
- Institut für Immunologie und Transfusionsmedizin, Ernst-Moritz-Arndt Universität, Greifswald, Germany
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Vinnikov V, Lloyd D, Finnon P. Bystander apoptosis in human cells mediated by irradiated blood plasma. Mutat Res 2012; 731:107-116. [PMID: 22230196 DOI: 10.1016/j.mrfmmm.2011.12.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/17/2011] [Revised: 10/11/2011] [Accepted: 12/13/2011] [Indexed: 05/31/2023]
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Following exposure to high doses of ionizing radiation, due to an accident or during radiotherapy, bystander signalling poses a potential hazard to unirradiated cells and tissues. This process can be mediated by factors circulating in blood plasma. Thus, we assessed the ability of plasma taken from in vitro irradiated human blood to produce a direct cytotoxic effect, by inducing apoptosis in primary human peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBM), which mainly comprised G(0)-stage lymphocytes. Plasma was collected from healthy donors' blood irradiated in vitro to 0-40Gy acute γ-rays. Reporter PBM were separated from unirradiated blood with Histopaque and held in medium with the test plasma for 24h at 37°C. Additionally, plasma from in vitro irradiated and unirradiated blood was tested against PBM collected from blood given 4Gy. Apoptosis in reporter PBM was measured by the Annexin V test using flow cytometry. Plasma collected from unirradiated and irradiated blood did not produce any apoptotic response above the control level in unirradiated reporter PBM. Surprisingly, plasma from irradiated blood caused a dose-dependent reduction of apoptosis in irradiated reporter PBM. The yields of radiation-induced cell death in irradiated reporter PBM (after subtracting the respective values in unirradiated reporter PBM) were 22.2±1.8% in plasma-free cultures, 21.6±1.1% in cultures treated with plasma from unirradiated blood, 20.2±1.4% in cultures with plasma from blood given 2-4Gy and 16.7±3.2% in cultures with plasma from blood given 6-10Gy. These results suggested that irradiated blood plasma did not cause a radiation-induced bystander cell-killing effect. Instead, a reduction of apoptosis in irradiated reporter cells cultured with irradiated blood plasma has implications concerning oncogenic risk from mutated cells surviving after high dose in vivo irradiation (e.g. radiotherapy) and requires further study.
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Aydin B, Akar A. Effects of a 900-MHz electromagnetic field on oxidative stress parameters in rat lymphoid organs, polymorphonuclear leukocytes and plasma. Arch Med Res 2011; 42:261-7. [PMID: 21820603 DOI: 10.1016/j.arcmed.2011.06.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/16/2011] [Accepted: 05/25/2011] [Indexed: 01/08/2023]
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BACKGROUND AND AIMS The present study investigated the effects of a 900-MHz electromagnetic field (EMF) for 2 h/day for 45 days on lymphoid organs (spleen, thymus, bone marrow), polymorphonuclear leukocytes (PMNs) and plasma of rats, focusing on changes in the enzymatic and nonenzymatic antioxidant system. We determined whether there is any difference between immature and mature rats in terms of oxidative damage caused by EMF and tested recovery groups to determine whether EMF-induced damage is reversible in immature and mature rats. METHODS Twenty four immature and 24 mature rats were divided randomly and equally into six groups as follows: two control groups, immature (2 weeks old) and mature (10 weeks old); two groups were exposed to 900 MHz (28.2 ± 2.1 V/m) EMF for 2 h/day for 45 days. Two recovery groups were kept for 15 days after EMF exposure. RESULTS Substantial, deleterious biochemical changes were observed in oxidative stress metabolism after EMF exposure. Antioxidant enzyme activity, glutathione levels in lymphoid organs and the antioxidant capacity of the plasma decreased, but lipid peroxidation and nitric oxide levels in PMNs and plasma and also myeloperoxidase activity in PMNs increased. Oxidative damage was tissue specific and improvements seen after the recovery period were limited, especially in immature rats. CONCLUSIONS In the present study, much higher levels of irreversible oxidative damage were observed in the major lymphoid organs of immature rats than in mature rats.
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- Birsen Aydin
- Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Amasya University, Turkey.
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Cazenave JP. [Photochemical inactivation of pathogens in platelets and plasma: five years of clinical use in routine and hemovigilance. Towards a change of paradigm in transfusion safety]. Transfus Clin Biol 2011; 18:53-61. [PMID: 21474358 PMCID: PMC7110539 DOI: 10.1016/j.tracli.2011.02.023] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/22/2011] [Accepted: 02/28/2011] [Indexed: 11/15/2022]
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The transfusion of labile blood products is vital and essential for patients in absence of alternative treatment. Patients and doctors have always feared transfusion-transmitted infections by blood, blood components and blood-derived drugs. Photochemical inactivation of platelet concentrates and plasma, using a technique associating amotosalen and UVA, has been used for five years in a French region for the whole population and a large spectrum of patients, with efficacy and safety. It would seem wise to introduce labile blood products, submitted to pathogen inactivation by a technique already approved by a regulatory agency and not to wait for a perfect system including red blood cells concentrates. Universal implementation of pathogen inactivation in labile blood products is a major and key step to improve safety against infection in transfusion.
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- J-P Cazenave
- Établissement français du sang Alsace, 10, rue Spielmann, BP 36, 67065 Strasbourg cedex, France.
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Lindholm C, Acheva A, Salomaa S. Clastogenic plasma factors: a short overview. Radiat Environ Biophys 2010; 49:133-138. [PMID: 20020152 DOI: 10.1007/s00411-009-0259-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/15/2009] [Accepted: 11/30/2009] [Indexed: 05/28/2023]
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A large number of studies have revealed that irradiated subjects produce soluble factors found in their blood plasma which, when transferred into cell cultures from non-irradiated individuals, show clastogenic (chromosome breaking) activity. Increased yields of chromatid-type aberrations have been characteristic in most of these studies. Exposed cohorts of various origins have revealed to possess this feature: from A-bomb survivors to patients treated with radiotherapy. It is apparent that the plasma factors are sustainable for long time periods. On the other hand, they seem to be produced very fast after exposure. Considerable variation in the effect has been found between individuals with similar radiation exposure. Further, the phenomenon is not restricted to irradiated populations. Clastogenic plasma has also been observed in patients with inflammatory diseases or congenital chromosome breakage syndromes as well in subjects exposed to other agents than ionizing radiation. Chromosomal aberration inducing substances have been detected not only in vivo, but also in vitro. A common feature to all the conditions is that they are associated with oxidative stress. Studies on the biochemical nature of the clastogenic factor(s) have been conducted, and tumor necrosis factor alpha and lipid peroxidation products, among others, have been suggested as good candidates. The relevance of the plasma factors to health effects remains open. The aim of the paper is to give a short overview on the phenomenon of clastogenic factors--their occurrence and formation as well as possible effectors.
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- Carita Lindholm
- Radiation and Nuclear Safety Authority (STUK), P.O. Box 14, 00881, Helsinki, Finland.
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Seyhan N, Canseven AG. In Vivo Effects of ELF MFs on Collagen Synthesis, Free Radical Processes, Natural Antioxidant System, Respiratory Burst System, Immune System Activities, and Electrolytes in the Skin, Plasma, Spleen, Lung, Kidney, and Brain Tissues. Electromagn Biol Med 2009; 25:291-305. [PMID: 17178588 DOI: 10.1080/15368370601054787] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/15/2023]
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In this study, the results related with the effects of 50 Hz, 0.2 mT-3 mT MFs exposures on collagen synthesis, epilepsy, electrolytes, lipid peroxidation (MDA), Nitric Oxide (NOx), respiratory burst system (MPO), antioxidant defense system (GSH), and immune system (NK cell activity) in spleen, skin, lung, kidney, brain, and plasma tissues performed at Gazi Biophysics Department are reviewed. Our studies indicate that ELF MFs had effects on the tissues examined.
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- Nesrin Seyhan
- Department of Biophysics, Gazi University, Ankara, Turkey
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Kheladze ZS, Kheladze ZZ, Shoniia RN, Dzhanani SV, Tsutskiridze BN. [The influence of the plasma radiation, external electrical pacing and nitroglycerin on precursor cells in critical patients]. Georgian Med News 2009:20-23. [PMID: 19359713] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/27/2023]
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Research aims to find out best medical therapy in treatment of critical patients. The treatment of the critical patients by a combination of the skin surface plasma radiation, external electrical pacing and i.v. infusion of adequate dozes of nitroglycerine in comparison with traditional methods of treatment within first two weeks promote to stable, besides statistically significant growth of the bone marrow and peripheral blood cells quantity, including precursor and immunocompetent cells, erythrocytes, leucocytes, especially its young forms and thrombocytes, normalizes the respiratory and metabolic components of the acid-base balance, increases surviving of the patients, reduces frequency of complications and category of the invalidity and the cost and duration of the treatment.
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Weisbach V, Strobel J, Hahn B, Rödel F, Lotter M, Zingsem J, Ringwald J, Eckstein R. Effect of gamma irradiation with 30 Gy on the coagulation system in leukoreduced fresh-frozen plasma. Transfusion 2007; 47:1658-65. [PMID: 17725731 DOI: 10.1111/j.1537-2995.2007.01338.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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BACKGROUND The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of gamma irradiation with 30 Gy on the coagulation system in leukoreduced fresh-frozen plasma (FFP). STUDY DESIGN AND METHODS In 74 FFP units that had been stored for 352 +/- 103 days below -30 degrees C, the following variables were determined in parallel in an irradiated and not irradiated half: prothrombin time (PT); activated partial thromboplastin time (APTT); thrombin time; antithrombin III; protein C; protein S; von Willebrand factor antigen; ristocetin cofactor; plasminogen-alpha(2)-antiplasmin; the coagulation factors fibrinogen, factor (F)II, FV, FVII, VIII, F IX, FX, FXI, FXII, FXIII, and activated factor XII (FXIIa); D-dimer; fibrin monomer; thrombin-antithrombin complex; prothrombin fragment 1 + 2 (F1+2); plasmin-alpha(2)-antiplasmin complexes (PAPs); and platelet factor 4. The FVII activity ratio was assayed to quantify activation of FVII. RESULTS Irradiation with 30 Gy resulted in a reduction of APTT (35.0 +/- 4.1 sec vs. 34.4 +/- 4.1 sec; p = 0.00000006) and PT (89.8 +/- 8.2% vs. 90.7 +/- 8.0%; p = 0.002) and a significant increase of the activities of the coagulation factors FII, FV, FVII, F IX, FX, and FXII. FVIII activity decreased from 118 +/- 31 to 116 +/- 32 percent (p = 0.02). Activation of the coagulation system was shown by an increase in the FVII activity ratio (1.19 +/- 0.29 vs. 1.31 +/- 0.34; p = 0.0000001), FXIIa (0.81 +/- 0.50 ng/mL vs. 0.90 +/- 0.51 ng/mL; p = 0.006), and F1+2 (1.19 +/- 0.20 nmol/L vs. 1.24 +/- 0.20 nmol/L; p = 0.000005) after irradiation with 30 Gy, whereas an increase of PAP (16.2 +/- 11.5 ng/mL vs. 20.2 +/- 12.0 ng/mL; p = 0.0004) demonstrated activation of the fibrinolytic system. No negative influence of irradiation with 30 Gy on inhibitors of coagulation was observed. CONCLUSION Gamma irradiation of leukoreduced FFPs with 30 Gy results in a significant but very weak activation of the coagulation and fibrinolytic system in FFPs.
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- Volker Weisbach
- Department of Transfusion Medicine and Hemostaseology, Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen, Germany.
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Zbikowska HM, Nowak P, Wachowicz B. Haemostatic properties of human plasma subjected to a sterilizing dose of gamma irradiation in the presence of ascorbate. Blood Coagul Fibrinolysis 2007; 18:271-7. [PMID: 17413765 DOI: 10.1097/mbc.0b013e3280a69148] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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The objective was to study the effects of gamma irradiation, in the presence of sodium ascorbate, on coagulation/fibrinolytic activity of fresh frozen plasma to be applied to inactivate the transfusion-transmitted viruses in plasma-derived products. Plasma was irradiated (50 kGy total dose, on dry ice) using a 60Co source. The plasma proteins were analysed by sodium dodecyl sulphate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis and western blot and the following parameters estimated: prothrombin time, functional fibrinogen concentration, thrombin-induced fibrinogen polymerization, plasminogen activity, and tissue-type plasminogen activator-induced conversion of plasminogen to plasmin. In irradiated plasma a moderate fragmentation of the most labile plasma proteins was found. The prothrombin time was prolonged (1.5-fold), functional fibrinogen was significantly reduced (60%), fibrinogen polymerization was impaired, plasminogen was predominantly maintained (90%) and tissue-type plasminogen activator-induced conversion of plasminogen to plasmin was unchanged. Ascorbate (25 mmol/l) raised the level of functional fibrinogen in irradiated plasma (to 50%; P=0.0245) and slightly accelerated its polymerization. The small protective effect of ascorbate might be due to inhibition of the radiation-induced fibrinogen oxidation and/or fragmentation but addition of other antioxidants/stabilizers would be crucial when a high irradiation dose, an effective treatment for inactivation of the most resistant viruses, is applied.
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Heger A, Römisch J, Svae TE. A biochemical comparison of a pharmaceutically licensed coagulation active plasma (Octaplas®) with a universally applicable development product (Uniplas) and single-donor FFPs subjected to methylene-blue dye and white-light treatment. Transfus Apher Sci 2006; 35:223-33. [PMID: 17118709 DOI: 10.1016/j.transci.2006.08.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/16/2006] [Revised: 08/18/2006] [Accepted: 08/31/2006] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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The strive for more standardised and highly efficacious products is one of the important mainstays in modern haemotherapy. Coagulation active plasma for transfusion is the product of choice when treating hereditary or acquired isolated or complex coagulopathies, when no specific concentrate is available. The aim of this study was to perform an extensive biochemical comparison of the pharmaceutically licensed coagulation active plasma named Octaplas with an identical, but universally applicable, development product (Uniplas, working title) and single-donor fresh-frozen plasma (FFP) units subjected to a medical device treatment using a combination of methylene-blue dye and subsequent white-light exposure (MB plasma). Our study showed that there are differences in the biochemical characteristics between Octaplas and MB plasma, while Uniplas revealed the same quality as Octaplas. The variability of selected plasma proteins in the 20 individual MB plasma units tested was high compared to Octaplas/Uniplas. Beyond the reported decreased levels of protein S and plasmin inhibitor found in Octaplas/Uniplas, and the significant loss of fully functional fibrinogen in MB plasma and its impact on selected global coagulation parameters, the latter product additionally revealed several coagulation factor activities outside the ranges given for normal single-donor FFP. It is important for plasma prescribers to be aware of the major inherent differences between Octaplas and MB plasma.
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- Andrea Heger
- Octapharma Pharmazeutika Produktionsges.m.b.H, Pre-Clinical Research and Development Department, Oberlaaer Strasse 235, A-1100 Vienna, Austria.
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Singh Y, Sawyer LS, Pinkoski LS, Dupuis KW, Hsu JC, Lin L, Corash L. Photochemical treatment of plasma with amotosalen and long-wavelength ultraviolet light inactivates pathogens while retaining coagulation function. Transfusion 2006; 46:1168-77. [PMID: 16836564 PMCID: PMC7201872 DOI: 10.1111/j.1537-2995.2006.00867.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 119] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/05/2022]
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BACKGROUND: The INTERCEPT Blood System, a photochemical treatment (PCT) process, has been developed to inactivate pathogens in platelet concen‐trates. These studies evaluated the efficacy of PCT to inactivate pathogens in plasma and the effect of PCT on plasma function. STUDY DESIGN AND METHODS: Jumbo (600 mL) plasma units were inoculated with high titers of test pathogens and treated with 150 µmol per L amotosalen and 3 J per cm2 long‐wavelength ultraviolet light. The viability of each pathogen before and after treatment was measured with biological assays. Plasma function was evaluated through measurement of coagulation factors and antithrombotic protein activities. RESULTS: The levels of inactivation expressed as log‐reduction were as follows: cell‐free human immunodeficiency virus‐1 (HIV‐1), greater than 6.8; cell‐associated HIV‐1, greater than 6.4; human T‐lymphotropic virus‐I (HTLV‐I), 4.5; HTLV‐II, greater than 5.7; hepatitis B virus (HBV) and hepatitis C virus, greater than 4.5; duck HBV, 4.4 to 4.5; bovine viral diarrhea virus, 6.0; severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus, 5.5; West Nile virus, 6.8; bluetongue virus, 5.1; human adenovirus 5, 6.8; Klebsiella pneumoniae, greater than 7.4; Staphylococcus epidermidis and Yersinia enterocolitica, greater than 7.3; Treponema pallidum, greater than 5.9; Borrelia burgdorferi, greater than 10.6; Plasmodium falciparum, 6.9; Trypanosoma cruzi, greater than 5.0; and Babesia microti, greater than 5.3. Retention of coagulation factor activity after PCT was expressed as the proportion of pretreatment (baseline) activity. Retention was 72 to 73 percent of baseline fibrinogen and Factor (F)VIII activity and 78 to 98 percent for FII, FV, FVII, F IX, FX, FXI, FXIII, protein C, protein S, antithrombin, and α2‐antiplasmin. CONCLUSION: PCT of plasma inactivated high levels of a wide range of pathogens while maintaining adequate coagulation function. PCT has the potential to reduce the risk of transfusion‐transmitted diseases in patients requiring plasma transfusion support.
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Porphyrins are photosensitizers and may be applicable in situations where viral inactivation is required, as for in vitro inactivation of nonenveloped viruses in blood components or in other aqueous media. No study has examined the efficacy of porphyrin inactivation on human pathogens such as hepatitis A virus (HAV) in plasma or other liquids. Experiments were conducted to evaluate the effect of synthetic porphyrins on HAV in porphyrin-containing human plasma and phosphate-buffered saline exposed to long-wavelength (365 nm) UV light. Inactivation of bacteriophage MS2 (MS2) also was determined in some trials. Solutions containing cationic, anionic or amphiphilic porphyrins irradiated with an average light dose of 4.3 J/cm(2) for 90 min resulted in >3 log(10) (>99.9%) to >4 log(10) (>99.99%) inactivation of both HAV and MS2. Viral inactivation may have been greater than observed because the limits of detection of the assay had been reached. Under ambient lighting conditions, none of the porphyrins was mutagenic in the Ames assay and only the congener with the longest chain-length, tetrakis (N-[n-hexadecyl]-4-pyridiniumyl) porphyrin, was appreciably toxic to mammalian cells. Disinfection by photoactivated synthetic porphyrins therefore can offer an effective and relatively safe approach to removal of nonenveloped viruses from aqueous media.
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- Michael J Casteel
- Department of Environmental Sciences and Engineering, School of Public Health, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA.
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Zbikowska HM, Nowak P, Wachowicz B. Protein modification caused by a high dose of gamma irradiation in cryo-sterilized plasma: protective effects of ascorbate. Free Radic Biol Med 2006; 40:536-42. [PMID: 16443169 DOI: 10.1016/j.freeradbiomed.2005.09.012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/07/2005] [Revised: 09/06/2005] [Accepted: 09/06/2005] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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Gamma irradiation is a method of pathogen inactivation in plasma derivatives currently under development. Gamma rays inactivate all known blood-borne viruses. However, the virucidally effective dose of radiation may affect the integrity and function of plasma proteins. Biological activity recoveries of the therapeutic products were shown to be significantly improved by lowering the irradiation temperature and by the addition of antioxidants; the mechanisms responsible for this have not been elucidated yet. Here we sterilized human plasma by gamma irradiation (50 kGy), on dry ice, in the presence (or absence) of ascorbate. The subsequent protein oxidation was quantified by a ferric-xylenol orange (hydroperoxides) and by DNPH-coupled assays (carbonyls). We demonstrated for the first time that irradiation of frozen plasma (without saturation with oxygen) resulted in the generation of protein hydroperoxides, the yield of which was dramatically decreased when plasma was irradiated in the presence of either sodium azide or ascorbate. In irradiated plasma the concentration of protein carbonyls was twofold higher than in nonirradiated control. Ascorbate significantly inhibited protein carbonylation. We concluded that freezing of plasma during irradiation does not provide the complete protection against protein carbonylation and hydroperoxide generation. Addition of ascorbate and some nontoxic metabolic inhibitors might be useful as protecting stabilizers.
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- Halina M Zbikowska
- Department of General Biochemistry, University of Lodz, Banacha 12/16 Street, 90-237 Lodz, Poland.
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Cardo LJ, Rentas FJ, Ketchum L, Salata J, Harman R, Melvin W, Weina PJ, Mendez J, Reddy H, Goodrich R. Pathogen inactivation of Leishmania donovani infantum in plasma and platelet concentrates using riboflavin and ultraviolet light. Vox Sang 2006; 90:85-91. [PMID: 16430665 DOI: 10.1111/j.1423-0410.2005.00736.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 88] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Leishmania is transmitted by the bite of the phlebotomine sandfly or by transfusion of infected blood products. Leishmaniasis currently poses a significant problem in several parts of the world, and is an emerging problem in others. The Mirasol PRT technology is based on the use of riboflavin and ultraviolet light to generate chemical reactions in the nucleic acids of pathogens, which prevents replication and leads to inactivation. The intent of this study was to examine the ability of the Mirasol PRT System to kill the Leishmania parasite in human plasma and platelet concentrates. MATERIALS AND METHODS In visceral Leishmaniasis, amastigotes are present in the blood and in the reticuloendothelial system within monocytes. For each unit of plasma or platelets treated, isolated mononuclear cells obtained from 100 ml of normal donor whole blood were incubated with 1.0 x 10(8) Leishmania donovani infantum promastigotes to produce amastigote-laden macrophages. The infected macrophages were added to 250 ml of human plasma or to 250 ml of platelet concentrates. Infected units were cultured pretreatment in 10-fold serial dilutions to determine the limits of detection. Thirty millilitres of 500 microM riboflavin was added to each unit, which was then illuminated with 5.9 J/cm2 of ultraviolet light (6.24 J/ml). After treatment and after 2 months of frozen storage, plasma units were cultured in 10-fold serial dilutions. Platelets were cultured on the day of treatment and on day 5 of storage post-illumination. RESULTS A 5 log reduction of Leishmania was demonstrated in five of six units of plasma, and a 7 log reduction of Leishmania was demonstrated in one plasma unit. A 5 log reduction of Leishmania was demonstrated in five of six units of platelets, and a 6 log reduction of Leishmania was demonstrated in one unit. CONCLUSIONS There is no donor screen for Leishmania and other pathogens constantly emerging in our blood supply. The Mirasol PRT System for Platelets and Plasma is an effective means of killing Leishmania and other emerging pathogens in these blood products.
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- L J Cardo
- Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Department of Blood Research, Transfusion Medicine Branch, Silver Spring, MD 20910-7500, USA.
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Novel experiments with Ultrasound Associated with High Frequency Electromagnetic Field (UAHFEMF) irradiation on rats and mice found evidences of characteristic Alzheimer's disease (AD) degenerations including neurite plaques, beta-amyloid, TAU plaque and deposition in cells, Neuro-Fibrillary Tangle and Paired Helical Filament (PHF) with rats and mice irradiated up to 2454 hours. Concomitant passive avoidance test was performed on six mice, and all showed signs of visual and auditory agnosia and lost cognition of threatening condition. The post section Thioflavin-S fluorescent microscopy found dilated ventricles and dense amyloid-deposition in Ca3 and dentate gyrus. In addition, PHF was identified in the 2454 hours-irradiated rat brain by electron microscope. A human T-cell activation RhoGTPase-activating protein (TAGAP) isoform b homolog (GenBank accession # P84107) induced in the UAHFEMF-treated rat brain was identified using electron spray ionization (ESI) liquid chromatography tandem mass spectrometry (LC/MS/MS). We hypothesized that one of the causes of AD can be the UAHFEMF discharges in human brain.
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- Ing-Feng Chang
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Nevada, Reno, 89557, USA
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Lin L, Conlan MG, Tessman J, Cimino G, Porter S. Amotosalen interactions with platelet and plasma components: absence of neoantigen formation after photochemical treatment. Transfusion 2005; 45:1610-20. [PMID: 16181212 DOI: 10.1111/j.1537-2995.2005.00554.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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BACKGROUND The INTERCEPT Blood System (Baxter Healthcare Corp., and Cerus Corp.) is a photochemical treatment (PCT) process that uses amotosalen (S-59) and ultraviolet A (UVA) illumination to inactivate a broad spectrum of pathogens. STUDY DESIGN AND METHODS To evaluate the potential of the process to create neoantigens, the amounts of residual amotosalen and photoproducts present in PCT platelets (PLTs) and PCT plasma were quantified. The initial amount of amotosalen was 150 micromol per L. After illumination with 3 J per cm2 UVA and before transfusion, a compound adsorption device was used to substantially reduce the amounts of free amotosalen and unreactive photodegradation products. Patient serum samples from Phase III clinical trials were assayed by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) for antibodies to potential amotosalen neoantigens. RESULTS After PCT, 15 percent of the starting amount of amotosalen remains bound to PLTs, and 15 to 22 percent remains bound to plasma components. The majority of bound amotosalen is associated with lipid. Less than 1 percent of PLT-bound amotosalen and approximately 2 percent of plasma-bound amotosalen can be extracted into the water-soluble protein fraction. In seven Phase III clinical trials, 523 patients received more than 8000 units of PCT PLTs or PCT plasma. None of the patients exhibited clinical or laboratory manifestations of neoantigenicity. Furthermore, no other alteration of PLT membrane proteins was identified based on testing for lymphocytotoxic antibodies and PLT-specific alloantibodies. CONCLUSION These results indicate that no neoantigens were detected by ELISA after PCT, suggesting that transfusion of PCT PLTs or PCT plasma does not induce adverse immunologic responses.
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- Lily Lin
- Cerus Corporation, Concord, California 94520, USA.
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Yarranton H, Lawrie AS, Mackie IJ, Pinkoski L, Corash L, Machin SJ. Coagulation factor levels in cryosupernatant prepared from plasma treated with amotosalen hydrochloride (S-59) and ultraviolet A light. Transfusion 2005; 45:1453-8. [PMID: 16131377 DOI: 10.1111/j.1537-2995.2005.00551.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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BACKGROUND The standard treatment for thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura (TTP) is plasma exchange with fresh-frozen plasma (FFP). Exposure to large volumes of FFP increases the risk of transfusion-transmitted infections. Cryosupernatant (CSP) offers a theoretical advantage over FFP, because it lacks the large von Willebrand factor (VWF) forms implicated in the pathogenesis of TTP. This study compared the hemostatic variables of CSP prepared from FFP treated with a photochemical pathogen inactivation process to CSP prepared from conventional FFP. STUDY DESIGN AND METHODS Forty CSP units were prepared from North American blood group A donor FFP. Twenty-one of the FFP units were individually treated with amotosalen hydrochloride (S-59) and ultraviolet A light (test, photochemically treated FFP), and 19 units were not treated (control, FFP). RESULTS Hemostatic variables of test and control CSP were similar and within reported ranges for conventional FFP with the exception of those properties depleted in CSP. VWF-cleaving protease activity (VWF:CP) and protein S (PS) levels (total and free antigen and activity) were within the conventional FFP reference range for test and control CSP. There were statistical differences between test and control CSP for alpha(2)-antiplasmin, antithrombin, protein C, and VWF:CP on a per-volume basis, but all levels were within the reference range for FFP, and the differences were not significant when expressed per gram of CSP protein. CONCLUSION S-59-treated CSP retained adequate levels of critical plasma proteins for plasma exchange therapy in acute TTP. The data indicate good preservation of hemostasis control proteins such as PS, alpha(2)-antiplasmin, and VWF:CP activity (ADAMTS13).
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- Helen Yarranton
- Department of Haematology, University College London, London, United Kingdom
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Water-coupled excimer lamp systems have been developed to inactivate microorganisms within complex, low-optical quality, fluids. Monochromatic lamps were selected to minimize UV-B and UV-C absorption within the carrier fluids while maximizing deposition within specific chemical targets. Fundamentals, system scaling and power supply design are discussed. This work used two large-surface area excimer lamps as intense sources of near monochromatic radiation at 308 and 282 nm. Data are presented for two distinct fluid systems: flow-through processing of large-volume metalworking fluids used in heavy industry and batch irradiation of human blood plasma and platelet suspensions used in transfusion medicine. In the first, a 200-600 L/min reactor is used to control bacterial concentrations within metalworking fluids used in large-scale metal machining processes. Control is defined as the maintenance of 10(3) to 10(4) CFU/mL in fluids that without treatment would have concentrations over 10(7) CFU/mL. The second is a batch process for viral inactivation in undiluted blood bank products. Samples of fresh frozen plasma and platelet suspensions were spiked with high titers of porcine parvovirus (PPV) and irradiated at 308 and 282 nm. Although both wavelengths were effective at reducing PPV levels, 308 nm light resulted in both higher rates of viral inactivation (greater than 6 log units) and lower rates of fluid degradation.
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- John J Coogan
- University of Dallas, Department of Physics, Irving, TX, USA.
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A highly sensitive chemiluminescence (CL) method for evaluation of medical radiation damage degree is presented. According to the principle of cell stress response to ionizing radiation, lymphocytes will produce reactive oxygen species (ROS) after irradiation. The ROS produced can react with 2-methyl-6-(p-methoxyphenyl)-3,7-dihydroimidazo[1,2-alpha] pyrazin-3-one (MCLA), a specific CL probe for superoxide anion (O(.-) (2)) and singlet oxygen ((1)O(2)), to emit light at 465 nm. The CL intensity is positively related to the amount of generated ROS detected 30 min after irradiation. Cell viability, which is inversely related to cell mortality, was determined by MTT assay after 3 days' culture. The results show that both CL intensity and cell mortality of lymphocytes increase with the increase of the radiation dose when the dosage is no more than 3 Gy, suggesting a positive relationship between the degree of lymphocyte cell damage and the amount of ROS generated. In addition, the effects of catalase, Cu-Zn superoxide dismutase (SOD), mannitol, sodium azide (NaN(3)), and D(2)O on MCLA-dependent CL of lymphocytes are discussed. We believe that the MCLA-dependent CL method would potentially provide an easy way for evaluating the degree of lymphocyte damage induced by radiation.
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- Debin Zhu
- Institute of Laser Life Science, South China Normal University, Guangzhou 510631, People's Republic of China.
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Caillet-Fauquet P, Di Giambattista M, Draps ML, Sandras F, Branckaert T, de Launoit Y, Laub R. Continuous-flow UVC irradiation: a new, effective, protein activity-preserving system for inactivating bacteria and viruses, including erythrovirus B19. J Virol Methods 2004; 118:131-9. [PMID: 15081608 DOI: 10.1016/j.jviromet.2004.02.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/20/2003] [Revised: 01/30/2004] [Accepted: 02/02/2004] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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Despite the increasing number of screening tests being introduced, ensuring the inactivation of blood-borne pathogens in blood-derived therapeutic material is a major concern. Dynamic continuous-flow UVC irradiation is a new way to inactivate a large range of pathogens without adding any photosentizers. The efficacy of different methods was evaluated against the following viruses: murine parvovirus MVMp, human B19, the encephalomyocarditis virus (EMC, a picornavirus used as a model for model for hepatitis A virus), and bovine herpes virus type 1 (BHV, a model for enveloped viruses such as hepatitis B virus). We show that continuous-flow UVC irradiation is very effective, particularly against resistant pathogens (e.g. parvoviruses and bacteria) at UVC doses preserving protein activity. It may be applicable to newly emerging related viruses or variants.
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- Perrine Caillet-Fauquet
- Laboratoire de Virologie Moléculaire, Faculté de Médecine, Université Libre de Bruxelles, CP614, 808 route de Lennik, 1070 Brussels, Belgium.
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Alvarez-Larrán A, Del Río J, Ramírez C, Albo C, Peña F, Campos A, Cid J, Muncunill J, Sastre JL, Sanz C, Pereira A. Methylene blue-photoinactivated plasma vs. fresh-frozen plasma as replacement fluid for plasma exchange in thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura. Vox Sang 2004; 86:246-51. [PMID: 15144529 DOI: 10.1111/j.0042-9007.2004.00506.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 54] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Plasma exchange with fresh-frozen plasma (FFP) is the treatment of choice in thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura (TTP). Methylene blue-photoinactivated plasma (MBPIP) has been proposed as a safer alternative to FFP, but its effectiveness in the treatment of TTP is not well established. The purpose of this study was to investigate whether MBPIP is as effective as FFP in the treatment of TTP by plasma exchange. MATERIALS AND METHODS A retrospective analysis was carried out of 56 TTP episodes, occurring between 1990 and 2003, which had been treated by plasma exchange. MBPIP was used for fluid replacement in 27 episodes and FFP in 29. The effect of plasma (MBPIP or FFP) on treatment outcomes was analysed by multivariate logistic regression. RESULTS Compared to patients treated with FFP, those receiving MBPIP had an increased risk of dying from progressive TTP [adjusted odds ratio (OR) = 31; 95% confidence interval (CI): 1.2 to > 100], a greater number of recurrences while on plasma exchange therapy (OR = 4.6; 95% CI: 1.2-17), and a lower probability of attaining a sustained remission within 9 days of starting plasma exchange (OR = 5.2; 95% CI: 1.3-20). CONCLUSIONS MBPIP seems to be less effective than FFP in the treatment of TTP. It is therefore prudent to avoid MBPIP until therapeutic equivalency to FFP has been established by randomized, controlled trials.
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- A Alvarez-Larrán
- Service of Haematotherapy & Haemostasis, Hospital Clínic & IDIBAPS, Barcelona, Spain
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Melatonin has been reported to participate in the regulation of a number of important physiological and pathological processes. Melatonin, which is a powerful endogenous antioxidant, may play a role in the prevention of oxidative damage. The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of pretreatment with melatonin (5 mg kg(-1) and 10 mg kg(-1)) on gamma-radiation-induced oxidative damage in plasma and erythrocytes after total-body irradiation with a single dose of 5 Gy. Total-body irradiation resulted in a significant increase in plasma and erythrocyte MDA levels. Melatonin alone increased the levels of SOD and GSH-Px. Erythrocyte and plasma MDA levels in irradiated rats that were pretreated with melatonin (5 or 10 mg kg(-1)) were significantly lower than those in rats that were not pretreated. There was no significant difference between the effects of 5 and 10 mg kg(-1) on plasma MDA activities and CAT activities. However, erythrocyte MDA levels showed a dose-dependent decrease, while GSH-Px activities increased with dose. Our study suggests that melatonin administered prior to irradiation may protect against the damage produced by radiation by the up-regulation of antioxidant enzymes and by scavenging free radicals generated by ionizing radiation.
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- Mehmet Koc
- Department of Radiation Oncology, Ataturk University, Medical School, Erzurum, Turkey.
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Zhou XP, Xu JB, Sun P, Yan F, Wang QL, Bu FR. [The effect of methylene blue/photochemical method for virus inactivation on plasma components]. Zhongguo Shi Yan Xue Ye Xue Za Zhi 2003; 11:305-7. [PMID: 12844419] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 03/03/2023]
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Virus inactivation of plasma can be achieved by methylene blue/photochemical method. To investigate the effect of this method on immunological properties and biochemical functions of plasma components, the virus-inactivation method was performed on single-donor plasma that was exposed to visible light (40,000 lux) at room temperature for 1 h in the presence of 1 micro mol/L methylene blue. The results showed that activities of the factor VIII, PT and APTT were decreased to a certain degree while most of other plasma proteins were not affected significantly. Human plasma components including albumin, glucose and minerals as well as plasma pH were also not affected. By using different electrophoreses and immunochemical techniques, no neoantigens were found in photodynamically treated plasma and electrophoretic mobility revealed identical patterns for untreated and treated plasma. In conclusion, methylene blue/photochemical method dose not considerably influence the properties of major of plasma components.
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- Xi-Peng Zhou
- Institute of Blood Transfusion, Academy of Military Medical Sciences, Beijing 100850, China
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Roshchina AA, Nikolaeva SS, Kozhura VL, Teselkin YO, Babenkova IV, Yakovleva LV, Bykov VA, Novoderzhkina IS, Basarab DA, Rebrov LB, Parshina EY, Kirsanova AK. Water status and LPO in rat tissues during massive blood loss and irradiation with He-Ne laser. Bull Exp Biol Med 2003; 135:136-8. [PMID: 12802417 DOI: 10.1023/a:1023859529038] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/18/2002] [Indexed: 11/12/2022]
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We revealed a relationship between water balance and LPO in the myocardium, liver, and blood plasma during massive blood loss and irradiation with He-Ne laser. Low-intensity laser irradiation of the plasma inhibits LPO and normalizes water balance in rat tissues during massive blood loss.
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- A A Roshchina
- VILAR Research, Training, and Methodological Center of Biomedical Technologies, Moscow
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Hambleton J, Wages D, Radu-Radulescu L, Adams M, MacKenzie M, Shafer S, Lee M, Smyers J, Wiesehahn G, Corash L. Pharmacokinetic study of FFP photochemically treated with amotosalen (S-59) and UV light compared to FFP in healthy volunteers anticoagulated with warfarin. Transfusion 2002; 42:1302-7. [PMID: 12423514 DOI: 10.1046/j.1537-2995.2002.00220.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 65] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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BACKGROUND To date, no clinical trials have characterized FFP infusion efficacy, and infusion still carries infectious risk. This single-blinded crossover study compared postinfusion kinetics of FVII in photochemically treated FFP to standard FFP. STUDY DESIGN AND METHODS Subjects donated plasma by apheresis. Half of the collected plasma was treated with the psoralen amotosalen hydrochloride (S-59) and UVA light, and half were prepared as standard plasma. Subjects received warfarin over 4 days to lower FVII levels. On Day 4, subjects received 1 L of either treated or standard FFP. After 2 weeks, subjects underwent a regimen identical to that with the other type of FFP. RESULTS After warfarin ingestion, the mean FVII concentration was 0.33 IU per mL. Both types of FFP exhibited comparable FVII kinetics, with a mean peak increment of 0.10 to 0.12 IU per mL occurring at the end of infusion. The effect disappeared after 8 hours. DISCUSSION Study data of warfarin-treated healthy volunteers demonstrate that psoralen plus UV-treated FFP provides an equivalent in vivo coagulation response to control plasma. A 1-L dose of FFP in adults may provide an initial increment of 0.10 IU per mL of FVII. In the absence of bleeding, FVII levels return to baseline after 8 hours.
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- Julie Hambleton
- Department of Medicine, General Clinical Research Center, Moffitt Hospital, University of California-San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA
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Wang RK. Signal degradation by multiple scattering in optical coherence tomography of dense tissue: a Monte Carlo study towards optical clearing of biotissues. Phys Med Biol 2002; 47:2281-99. [PMID: 12164587 DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/47/13/307] [Citation(s) in RCA: 117] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022]
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Multiple scattering is a major source that limits light penetration into biotissues, thereby preventing visualization of the deep microstructures for high-resolution optical imaging techniques. The optical clearing approach is a new adventure in biomedical optics for manipulating the optical properties of tissue; for example, the scattering coefficient and the degree of forward scattering of photons, by the use of the chemical administration method in order to improve the optical imaging depth, particularly for the recently developed optical coherence tomography (OCT). This paper investigates systematically how the multiple scattering affects signal attenuation and localization in general, and how the alterations of optical properties of tissue enhance the optical imaging depth and signal localization in particular, by the use of Monte Carlo simulations through the separate considerations of the least scattered photons (LSP) and multiple scattered photons (MSP). The LSP are those photons that contribute to the precise OCT signal, i.e. localization, and the MSP are those that degrade the OCT signal. It is shown that with either the reduction of the scattering coefficient or the increase of the degree of forward scattering, signal localization and imaging depth for OCT is enhanced. Whilst the increase of the anisotropic factor of the medium is more efficient in improving signal localization, it introduces more scattering events for the photons travelling within the tissue for both the LSP and MSP. It is also found that the OCT imaging resolution is almost reduced exponentially with the increase of the probing depth as opposed to the claimed system resolution. We demonstrate that optical clearing could be a useful tool to improve the imaging resolution when the light progressively penetrates the high scattering medium. Experimental results are also presented to show intuitively how multiple scattering affects OCT signal profiles by the use of intralipid solution and healthy human whole blood, representing moderately and highly scattering media respectively.
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- Ruikang K Wang
- Institute of BioScience and Technology, Cranfield University at Silsoe, Bedfordshire, UK.
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A radio frequency (RF) plasma system was used to decompose the ethylene oxide (EO) contained gas in the EO/Ar, and EO/O2/Ar system, respectively. The reactants and final products were analyzed by using FTIR (Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy). The effects of plasma operational parameters, including input power wattage (W), total gas flow rate (Q), feeding concentration (C) of EO and operational pressure for EO decomposition were evaluated. Due to the importance of the high-energy electrons in the RF plasma system, the EO decomposition fraction in plasma reaction increased with decreasing operational pressure, while that of thermal reaction, reported by previous investigations, increased with increasing operational pressure. However, owing to the electrophilic characteristic of oxygen atoms in the EO molecule causing the effect of electron attachment, in conditions of higher EO feeding concentration, the pressure dependence became the same for both plasma- and thermal-reaction. The EO oxidation reaction has also been investigated, the result shows that EO almost completely oxidized at 600-692 K gas temperature. The main products for the EO/Ar system are CO, CH4, C2H6, C2H4, and C2H2, and those for the EO/O2/Ar system are CO2 and H2O.
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- W T Liao
- Department of Environmental Engineering, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan 70101, Taiwan
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Riggert J, Humpe A, Legler TJ, Wolf C, Simson G, Köhler M. Filtration of methylene blue-photooxidized plasma: influence on coagulation and cellular contamination. Transfusion 2001; 41:82-6. [PMID: 11161250 DOI: 10.1046/j.1537-2995.2001.41010082.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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BACKGROUND Virus inactivation of plasma can be achieved by photodynamic methods in the presence of phenothiazine dyes such as methylene blue (MB). Subsequent filtration may increase the efficacy of virus inactivation and reduce adverse effects of WBC contamination and MB. STUDY DESIGN AND METHODS This study examined the effect of filtration with three different filters (MBF1, MBF2, and MBF3) on MB concentration, residual cells, coagulation factors, and activation measures of coagulation, fibrinolysis, and complement in MB-treated (1 microM/L) plasma units. RESULTS Filtration reduced the concentration of MB by > or = 89 percent. WBCs were depleted by 92 percent (MBF1) and >99.9 percent (MBF2 and MBF3). Treatment with MB significantly decreased the coagulation potency from levels in untreated plasma, as measured by thromboplastin time ratio (112 +/- 18% vs. 95 +/- 11%), activated partial thromboplastin time (40 +/- 3 sec vs. 44 +/- 3 sec), thrombin time (16.9 +/- 1.1 sec vs. 18.6 +/- 1.5 sec), factor VIII (1.09 +/- 0.21 U/mL vs. 0.85 +/- 0.13 U/mL), and vWF (0.94 +/- 0.65 U/mL vs. 0.65 +/- 0.24 U/mL). Filtration did not further decrease these values, while factor XI (0.75 +/- 0.22 U/mL vs. 0.37 +/- 0.20 U/mL) and prekallikrein values decreased in MB plasma units filtered with the MBF3. In addition, activated factor XII (0.7 +/- 0.5 microg/L vs. 4.5 +/- 1.0 microg/L) increased. CONCLUSION WBCs and MB can be eliminated from MB-treated plasma units by filtration. Differences in biocompatibility of the different filters, especially the influence on the contact phase of coagulation, must be taken into consideration.
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- J Riggert
- Department of Transfusion Medicine, University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany.
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Simonsen AC, Sørensen H. Clinical tolerance of methylene blue virus-inactivated plasma. A randomized crossover trial in 12 healthy human volunteers. Vox Sang 2000; 77:210-7. [PMID: 10717600 DOI: 10.1159/000031129] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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OBJECTIVES Baxter's methylene blue (MB) photoinactivation of fresh frozen plasma (FFP) is a method that effectively removes any intracellular potentially infectious agent, such as prions, by filtration combined with an improved photochemical virus inactivation on a single unit of FFP. The purpose of this study was to demonstrate clinical and biochemical tolerance of MB-treated plasma in healthy human volunteers. METHODS The design was a crossover randomized trial. Twelve subjects received alternatively treated and nontreated autologous FFP. Coagulation parameters were tested as well as clinical and biochemical parameters. RESULTS No clinical or statistically significant difference was detected for any of the parameters. CONCLUSION Transfusion of FFP treated for viral reduction by an improved MB photoinactivation method was shown to be safe and did not affect the normal function of coagulation proteins. We consider this method as a valuable alternative to other methods described as it combines the photoinactivation with a filtration step removing any intracellular infectious agents, such as prions.
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- A C Simonsen
- Blood Bank and Department of Clinical Immunology, Rigshospitalet, The National University Hospital of Copenhagen, Denmark.
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Idrisova LT, Enikeev DA, Baĭburina GA. [The effect of laser hemotherapy on the acid glycosaminoglycan content of the liver and blood plasma in rats in the dynamics of an alcoholic coma]. Patol Fiziol Eksp Ter 2000:15-7. [PMID: 10846903] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/16/2023]
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The aim of the study was determination of the content of acid glycosaminoglicans (GAG) in hepatic tissue and blood plasma of rats in the course of alcoholic coma and in response to laser irradiation of venous blood. The alcoholic intoxication was achieved by introduction of 40% ethanol through a metal probe into the stomach. The content of acid GAG was defined according to Diche. Alcoholic coma caused reduction of GAG levels in hepatic tissue and an increase in blood plasma which were correlated with the severity of neurological state. Laser irradiation of venous blood promoted a trend to normalization of GAG content in the investigated tissues. A relative reduction in GAG plasma levels after laser hemotherapy indicates effectiveness of the conducted therapy.
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Dolomatov SI, Pishak VP, Klykov OV, Skliarchuk VM. [Seasonal changes in the triiodothyronine level of the blood evoked by ultraviolet irradiation in vitro]. Aviakosm Ekolog Med 2000; 33:46-8. [PMID: 10656136] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/15/2023]
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Ultraviolet irradiation (lambda = 254 nm) of the whole blood of juvenile bulls in vitro results in a plasmatic T3 increase dependent on the time of exposure. Dynamics of the growth of hormone content because of UV varies with season. No negative correlation between plasmatic T3 and T4 in irradiated and non-irradiated blood samples was stated. Hence, increased T3 levels in blood after UV irradiation in vitro is a consequence of the output of erythrocyte-deposited hormone rather than photoactivation of the T4 to T3 conversion.
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Alaoui-Youssefi A, Lamproglou I, Drieu K, Emerit I. Anticlastogenic effects of Ginkgo biloba extract (EGb 761) and some of its constituents in irradiated rats. Mutat Res 1999; 445:99-104. [PMID: 10521695 DOI: 10.1016/s1383-5718(99)00139-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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In a previous study we reported that radiation-induced clastogenic factors (CF) are found in the plasma of Chernobyl accident recovery workers and that their chromosome damaging effects are inhibited by antioxidant treatment with a Ginkgo biloba extract (EGb761). In the present study, we induced CF in rats with a radiation dose of 4.5 Gy. The protective effects of the complete extract were compared to those obtained with the extract devoid of its terpene fraction (CP205), with isolated ginkgolides A+B and bilobalide at the concentrations present in EGb761. The pretreatment samples were taken at day 22 postirradiation, the posttreatment samples the day following arrest of the 3-week treatment. The adjusted clastogenic score (ACS) were reduced from 11.71+/-3.55 to 2.00+/-2.83 after treatment with 100 mg/kg and from 13.43+/-2.23 to 4.29+/-2.14 with 50 mg/kg of the complete extract (p<0.0001). Similar protective effects were observed with CP205, ginkgolides and bilobalide (p<0. 001), while the reduction of ACS in placebo-treated rats was not statistically significant (12.80+/-1.79 and 9.20+/-2.68). However, if the efficacy of the treatment was compared to placebo, only the complete extract was significantly protective. While all components exerted anticlastogenic effects at the concentrations present in the complete extract, the comparison of the different groups by analysis of variance did not reveal significant differences. This may be due to to the small number of animals available in each treatment group. The complete extract reduced the ACS by 83% at the dose of 100 mg/kg, while the lower dose of 50 mg/kg and the three components reached only 66%-68% reduction. The better protection provided by the complete extract is due to synergistic rather than to additive effects.
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- A Alaoui-Youssefi
- Institut Santé et Développement, Université Paris VI, 15-21 Rue de l'Ecole de Médecine, 75006, Paris, France
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Popov I, Lewin G. Photochemiluminescent detection of antiradical activity. VI. Antioxidant characteristics of human blood plasma, low density lipoprotein, serum albumin and amino acids during in vitro oxidation. LUMINESCENCE 1999; 14:169-74. [PMID: 10423578 DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1522-7243(199905/06)14:3<169::aid-bio539>3.0.co;2-k] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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During investigation of the mechanism of therapeutic efficacy of UV (254 nm)-irradiated autologous blood, the antioxidant capacity (AC) of plasma, serum albumin, 20 amino acids, uric acid, ascorbic acid and alpha-tocopherol was measured after irradiation in vitro. AC of plasma demonstrated a biphasic time course (decrease to in a minimum (greater zero) followed by an increase). AC of uric acid, ascorbic acid and alpha-tocopherol diminished under irradiation to zero. In contrast, albumin and seven amino acids developed AC following irradiation. During the Cu(+2)-induced oxidation of low-density lipoprotein (LDL), the AC measured in a system for water-soluble substances appeared, after a lag-phase, to be comparable to that of the conjugated diene formation; AC of LDL measured in a system for lipid-soluble substances demonstrated a biphasic course. Our results suggest that: (a) the oxidized products of some amino acids and proteins acquire antiradical properties at the same time that they are being produced; (b) the biphasic character of changes of antioxidant properties of blood plasma during UV irradiation represents the overlapping of two processes: disappearing of antioxidants and acquisition of AC by (lipo)proteins; and (c) the measurement of AC of blood plasma (lipo)proteins can possibly serve to detect the existence and extent of oxidative stress in human organism.
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- I Popov
- Research Institute for Antioxidant Therapy Co., Berlin, Germany.
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Human blood plasma from persons 30-80 years of age have been measured by a total antioxidant assay using a highly fluorescent molecule, beta-phycoerythrin (BPE), as the target for radiation-generated free radicals. The plasma samples showed an inverse relationship between radioprotective ability and donor age. The results are consistent with data showing that protein from older subjects provides less protection against oxidative stress than that from middle-aged subjects.
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- K J Lenton
- Radiation Biology and Health Physics Branch, AECL, Chalk River Laboratories, Ontario, Canada.
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The high prevalence of bacterial infections among patients with end-stage renal disease suggests that "professional" phagocytes such as neutrophils are functionally impaired. This dysfunction has been ascribed to uremic toxins, malnutrition, and dialysis. The aim of this study was to investigate the contribution of apoptosis to neutrophil dysfunction in uremia. Neutrophils harvested from uremic patients (n = 6) and age-/gender-matched healthy control subjects (n = 6) were incubated with either 50% autologous plasma or 10% fetal calf serum. After 24-h incubation, apoptosis was quantified by flow cytometry by using propidium iodide nuclear staining. Neutrophils from healthy volunteers were also incubated with either 50% heterologous normal or uremic plasma. After 24-h incubation, apoptosis was quantified by flow cytometry and transmission electron microscopy. In addition, superoxide production was determined by measuring the capacity to reduce ferri- to ferro-cytochrome C by using 4-beta-phorbol 12-beta-myristate 13-alpha-acetate or N-formyl methionyl-leucyl-phenylalanine (fMLP) for stimulus. Phagocytosis was determined by the uptake of 14C-labeled heat-killed Staphylococcus aureus. Compared with normal neutrophils, uremic neutrophils demonstrated greater apoptosis in the presence of autologous plasma (9 +/- 4 versus 19 +/- 6%, P = 0.01) as well as 10% fetal calf serum (19 +/- 7 versus 31 +/- 6%, P = 0.03). Furthermore, compared with normal neutrophils exposed to heterologous normal plasma, those exposed to heterologous uremic plasma exhibited higher apoptosis rates (19 +/- 3 versus 40 +/- 5%, P = 0.002), lower tMLP-stimulated superoxide production (22.6 +/- 2.5 versus 15.5 +/- 1.1 nmol O2*-/3.12 x 10(5) cells/30 min, P = 0.01), and a lower phagocytosis index (38 +/- 3% versus 27 +/- 5%, P = 0.04). Apoptosis correlated inversely with fMLP-stimulated superoxide production (r = -0.60, P = 0.04) and phagocytosis (r = -0.57, P = 0.05). These results suggest that uremic neutrophils undergo accelerated in vitro apoptosis. Furthermore, uremic plasma accelerates apoptosis of normal neutrophils, resulting in a dysfunctional pattern that is similar to that observed in uremia.
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- M Cendoroglo
- Department of Medicine, New England Medical Center Hospitals, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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Léonard A, Léonard ED, Gerber GB, Crutzen-Fayt MC, Richard F, Gueulette JG, Akhmatullina NB. No evidence for radiation-induced clastogenic factors after in vitro or in vivo exposure of human blood. Mutat Res 1998; 420:33-6. [PMID: 9838032 DOI: 10.1016/s1383-5718(98)00144-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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Experiments were performed with human plasma irradiated in vitro or in vivo in order to evaluate the extent to which clastogenic factors might disturb the adaptive response to DNA-damaging factors currently studied in our laboratory. The studies were carried out with plasma isolated from whole blood given 4 Gy of X-rays in vitro and with plasma from people receiving local radiotherapy at a total dose of about 60 Gy gamma rays. Addition of irradiated plasma to culture medium did not result in a statistically significant increase in structural aberrations in chromosomes of non-irradiated normal blood.
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- A Léonard
- Teratogenicity and Mutagenicity Laboratory, Catholic University of Louvain, Avenue E. Mounier 72, UCL 7237, Brussels 1200, Belgium.
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Treatment of human plasma with methylene blue in combination with visible light (MB/light) inactivates several bloodborne viruses such as retro viruses and herpes viruses. The viral nucleic acid is thought to be a critical target for the inactivation procedure. We investigated the effects of photodynamic treatment on the RNA of hepatitis C virus (HCV) and human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) using Amplicor reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR), which detects and quantifies a small fragment of the viral RNA. The detectable HCV RNA load (5-nontranslated region) in infected human plasma declined by 94-97 % within 10 min of illumination in small-scale experiments (1-2 ml vol.). Since the same effect was observed in both anti-HCV positive and negative ("window") samples, it can be concluded that HCV antibodies do not influence virus inactivation by photodynamic treatment. The effect of treatment on RT-PCR signals of HIV-1, which is known to be inactivated rapidly by MB/light treatment, was examined. Plasma was infected with HIV-1 and subjected to RT-PCR, which detected a part of the gag gene. The extent and kinetics of PCR signal reduction induced by MB/light treatment were similar to those observed for HCV. Experiments at production scale where single plasma units (300 ml) were infected with HCV showed reduction rates of PCR signals consistent with those measured in the small-scale experiments. The data support the view that MB/light treatment affects the viral nucleic acids and suggest that HCV is susceptible to the procedure.
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Emerit I, Quastel M, Goldsmith J, Merkin L, Levy A, Cernjavski L, Alaoui-Youssefi A, Pogossian A, Riklis E. Clastogenic factors in the plasma of children exposed at Chernobyl. Mutat Res 1997; 373:47-54. [PMID: 9015152 DOI: 10.1016/s0027-5107(96)00187-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 60] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/03/2023]
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Clastogenic factors (CFs), as they were described previously in accidentally or therapeutically irradiated persons, in A-bomb survivors and in liquidators of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, were also detected in the plasma of Chernobyl-exposed children. A high percentage of plasma ultrafiltrates from 170 children, immigrated to Israel in 1990, exerted clastogenic effects in test cultures set up with blood from healthy donors. The differences were highly significant in comparison to children immigrated from 'clean' cities of the former Soviet Union or children born in Israel. The percentage of CF-positive children and the mean values of the adjusted clastogenic scores (ACS) were higher for those coming from Gomel and Mozyr, which are high exposure sites (IAEA measurements), compared to those coming from Kiev. There was no correlation between residual 137-Caesium body burden and presence of CFs. However, both measurements were not done at the same time (in 1990 and 1992-1994, respectively). Also no relationship could be revealed between enlargement of the thyroid gland and CF-positivity. CFs are not only observed after irradiation, but in a variety of chronic inflammatory diseases with autoimmune reactions. They were also described in the congenital breakage syndromes, which are hereditary diseases with the highest cancer incidence in humans. Whether the clastogenic effects continuously produced by circulating CFs represent a risk factor for malignant late effects deserves further study and follow-up. Since CF formation and CF action are mediated by superoxide radicals, prophylactic treatment with antioxidants may be suggested for Chernobyl-exposed children, whose plasma induces a strongly positive CF-test.
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- I Emerit
- Department of Cytogenetics, CNRS, Paris, France
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Butylin IP, Kurik MV, Manzhara VS, Stuchinskaia NV. [Blood plasma luminescence in ischemic heart disease]. Lik Sprava 1996:72-4. [PMID: 9138820] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/04/2023]
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Low-temperature spectra were measured of blood plasma fluorescence and phosphorescence in patients with ischemic heart disease. It has been shown that structure of radiation spectra depends upon severity of illness and use of ultra-violet radiation of blood as a therapeutic procedure. It is suggested that radiational processes in blood plasma might be caused by luminescence of proteins, lipoproteins and radicals of blood plasma. A conclusion is reached to the effect that measurement of spectra of luminescence, phosphorescence under low temperatures of blood plasma is of great importance for understanding mechanisms of pathological processes and efficiency of the treatment options employed.
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Vasil'ev AP, Strel'tsova NN, Mironova NA, Kiianiuk NS, Zimina TP, Senatorov IN. [The dynamic interactions of the level of blood plasma and erythrocyte membrane cholesterol under the influence of the laser irradiation of patients with ischemic heart disease]. Vopr Kurortol Fizioter Lech Fiz Kult 1996:37-8. [PMID: 8686226] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/01/2023]
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Starikov AV, Oksamitnaia EG, Gavriliuk EI, Iushchenko PV. [The use of autologous blood and plasma transfusions in patient combined treatment]. Klin Khir 1996:5-7. [PMID: 9044792] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/03/2023]
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