Interactions of a transversely excited atmospheric (TEA) CO2 laser, pulse duration similar to 2 mu s (initial spike FWHM similar to 120 ns), with polycrystalline titanium nitride (TiN) coatings deposited on high-quality ...

Original organic capping TOPO/TOP groups of CdSe and CdSe/ZnS quantum dots (QDs), from mother solution were replaced with 2_mercaptoethanol, which was chosen as model compound, in order to achieve water solubility. Obtained ...

Cell membrane is highly sensitive to irradiation which, acting directly or indirectly, may disturb functions of constitutive proteins including membrane enzymes. Plasma membrane surface-located enzyme chain of ecto-nucleotide ...

The aim of this study was to examine in vitro chelators ability to prevent copper-induced inhibition of rat myometrial ecto-ATPase activity. The effects of increasing CuSO(4) concentrations, in the absence and presence of ...

The aim of the study was to give an overview of the mechanism of inhibition of Na+/K+-ATPase activity induced by some specific and non specific inhibitors. For this purpose, the effects of some ouabain like compounds ...

The influence of malathion and its four main degradation products found in irradiated solutions (malaoxon, isomalathion, diethyl maleate and O,O-dimethyl phosphate) on acetylcholinesterase (AChE) of free and immobilized ...

The influence of cationic surfactant hexadecyltrimethylammonium bromide (CTAB) on the kinetics of the spontaneous reduction of the analytically important compound, sodium hexanitrocobaltate(III), was studied. The spontaneous ...

Altered activities of antioxidant defence system enzymes and the levels of free radicals scavengers have been found to correlate with various physiological or pathological conditions, including stress. The aim of this study ...

Morphology effects induced during interaction of mu s- (Transversely Excited Atmospheric (TEA) CO(2) laser) or ns- (HF laser) pulses with titanium nitride (TiN) coating, deposited on austenitic stainless steel AISI 316, ...

Relative intensities of eight vibronic bands, belonging to the Delta upsilon = -2 sequence of the B I-2 (+) pound -X I-2 (+) pound electronic transition of four GaO isotopomers have been measured and interpreted in terms ...