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The Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) is an acute inflammatory disease of the respiratory system caused by the MERS-CoV coronavirus. The mortality rate for MERS is about 34.5%. Due to its high mortality rate, the lack of therapeutic and prophylactic agents, and the continuing threat of the spread of MERS beyond its current confines, developing a vaccine is a pressing task, because vaccination would help limit the spread of MERS and reduce its death toll. We have developed a combined vector vaccine for the prevention of MERS based on recombinant human adenovirus serotypes 26 and 5. Studies of its immunogenicity have shown that vaccination of animals (mice and primates) induces a robust humoral immune response that lasts for at least six months. Studies of the cellular immune response in mice after vaccination showed the emergence of a specific CD4+ and CD8+ T cell response. A study of the vaccine protectivity conducted in a model of transgenic mice carrying the human DPP4 receptor gene showed that our vaccination protected 100% of the animals from the lethal infection caused by the MERS-CoV virus (MERS-CoV EMC/2012, 100LD50 per mouse). Studies of the safety and tolerability of the developed vaccine in rodents, rabbits, and primates showed a good safety profile and tolerance in animals; they revealed no contraindications for clinical testing.
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BaFe12-xGaxO19 (x ≤ 1.2) hexaferrites were synthesized via the usual ceramic technology. It has been established that with an increase in x, the unit cell and magnetic parameters monotonically decrease. The frequency of natural ferromagnetic resonance firstly decreases from 49.6 GHz down to 49.1 GHz when x = 0.6, and then it increases up to 50.5 GHz. The line width monotonically increases from 3.5 GHz up to 5 GHz. The peak amplitude of the resonant curve changes slightly with the exception of when x = 0.9, when it reaches -16 dB. The 1.3 GHz kOe-1 frequency shift in the bias field is more intensive for small values, when x = 0.3. The decreasing values of the magnetic parameters are a result of the dilution of Fe3+-O2--Fe3+ superexchange interactions. The behavior of the amplitude-frequency characteristics is largely determined through the reduction of uniaxial exchange anisotropy. The prospects of Ga-substituted hexaferrites acting as a material that effectively absorbs the high-frequency electromagnetic radiation are shown.
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Free radical homeostasis parameters of rat's brain mitochondria under conditions of sodium nitrite administration at the peak of hypoxia had been studied. Prior to study experimental animals have been divided into two groups depending on resistance to hypobaric hypoxia. In brain mitochondria of high-resistant to hypoxia rats increase of the nitrites-ions contents and also intensification of pro- and antioxidative processes were registered in comparison with the control group. Decrease of all investgated free radical homeostasis parameters in brain mitochondria of low-resistant to hypoxia animals in comparison with the control group was determined. Administration of pro-hypoxic factor in toxic dose allowed us to reveal specific peculiarities of redox processes development in the brain mitochondria of experimental animals with different resistance to hypoxia.
