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- Naumov, V., et al.
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COVIDomic: A multi-modal cloud-based platform for identification of risk factors associated with COVID-19 severity
- 2021
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Ingår i: Plos Computational Biology. - : Public Library of Science (PLoS). - 1553-734X .- 1553-7358. ; 17:7
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Author summary This article introduces COVIDomic, a new integrative multi-omics online platform designed to facilitate the analysis of the large amount of health data collected from COVID-19 patients. The COVIDomic platform includes a user-friendly interface and provides a set of bioinformatics tools for the analysis of multi-modal metatranscriptomic data to determine the origin of the coronavirus strain and the expected severity of the disease. An analytical workflow includes microbial pathogens community analysis, COVID-19 genetic epidemiology and patient stratification. These features allow studying the presence of common microbial organisms, their antibiotic resistance and the severity of the infection, as well as obtaining insights on the geographical locations from which the strain could have originated. Such openly distributed multi-modal platform will greatly accelerate the ongoing COVID-19 research and improve our readiness to respond to other infectious outbreaks. Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is an acute infection of the respiratory tract that emerged in December 2019 in Wuhan, China. It was quickly established that both the symptoms and the disease severity may vary from one case to another and several strains of SARS-CoV-2 have been identified. To gain a better understanding of the wide variety of SARS-CoV-2 strains and their associated symptoms, thousands of SARS-CoV-2 genomes have been sequenced in dozens of countries. In this article, we introduce COVIDomic, a multi-omics online platform designed to facilitate the analysis and interpretation of the large amount of health data collected from patients with COVID-19. The COVIDomic platform provides a comprehensive set of bioinformatic tools for the multi-modal metatranscriptomic data analysis of COVID-19 patients to determine the origin of the coronavirus strain and the expected severity of the disease. An integrative analytical workflow, which includes microbial pathogens community analysis, COVID-19 genetic epidemiology and patient stratification, allows to analyze the presence of the most common microbial organisms, their antibiotic resistance, the severity of the infection and the set of the most probable geographical locations from which the studied strain could have originated. The online platform integrates a user friendly interface which allows easy visualization of the results. We envision this tool will not only have immediate implications for management of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, but will also improve our readiness to respond to other infectious outbreaks.
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- Manskikh, V. N., et al.
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Age-associated murine cardiac lesions are attenuated by the mitochondria-targeted antioxidant SkQ1
- 2015
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Ingår i: Histology and Histopathology. - 0213-3911 .- 1699-5848. ; 30:3, s. 353-360
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Age-related changes in mammalian hearts often result in cardiac hypertrophy and fibrosis that are preceded by inflammatory infiltration. In this paper, we show that lifelong treatment of BALB/c and C57BL/6 mice with the mitochondria-targeted antioxidant SkQ1 retards senescence-associated myocardial disease (cardiomyopathy), cardiac hypertrophy, and diffuse myocardial fibrosis. To investigate the molecular basis of the action of SkQ1, we have applied DNA microarray analysis. The global gene expression profile in heart tissues was not significantly affected by administration of SkQ1. However, we found some small but statistically significant modifications of the pathways related to cell-to-cell contact, adhesion, and leukocyte infiltration. Probably, SkQ1-induced decrease in leukocyte and mesenchymal cell adhesion and/or infiltration lead to a reduction in age-related inflammation and subsequent fibrosis. The data indicate a causative role of mitochondrial reactive oxygen species in cardiovascular aging and imply that SkQ1 has potential as a drug against age-related cardiac dysfunction.
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- Rebrova, N. V., et al.
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Crystal growth and characterization of Eu2+ doped Cs1-xRbxCaBr3
- 2020
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Ingår i: Journal of Alloys and Compounds. - : Elsevier BV. - 0925-8388 .- 1873-4669. ; 816
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- A series of Eu2+ doped Cs1-xRbxCaBr3 solid solutions were grown using the Bridgman-Stockbarger technique. Their photoluminescence and scintillation properties are studied. Upon optical and X-ray excitation, the Cs1-xRbxCaBr3 and Eu2+ activated samples show a band, which can be attributed to the 5d-4f transition in Eu2+. The decay time constants become shorter with increasing Rb content and lie in the range of 3-4 mu s. The scintillation performance of solid solutions Cs1-xRbxCa0. 95Eu0.05Br3 is improved compared with the end members (CsCa0.95Eu0.05Br3 and RbCa0.95Eu0.05Br3). The best energy resolution of 6.4% at 662 keV was determined for Cs0.2Rb0.8Ca0.95Eu0.05Br3 , and the best light yield, equal to 61.2% of Nal:TI, was demonstrated by Cs0.4Rb0.6Ca0.95Eu0.05Br3.
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- Terenin, V. I., et al.
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1-(Trifluoromethyl)-3,4-dihydropyrrolo-[1,2-a] pyrazines: synthesis and reactions with O- and N-nucleophiles
- 2011
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Ingår i: Chemistry of Heterocyclic Compounds. - : Springer Science and Business Media LLC. - 0009-3122 .- 1573-8353. ; 46:10, s. 1271-1278
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The method of synthesis has been developed and reactions of 1-(trifluoromethyl)-3,4-dihydro-pyrrolo[1,2-a]pyrazines with O- and N-nucleophiles have been studied. It was found that reactions of nucleophiles with 1-(trifluoro-methyl)pyrrolo[1,2-a]pyrazines transforms the trifluoromethyl group to amide and amidine groups together with aromatization of the pyrrolo[1,2-a]pyrazine system as a result of the formal elimination of a molecule of hydrogen fluoride.
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