Injections of tritiated amino acid into the pretectothalamic border area of cats resulted in the appearance of numerous silver grains in the ipsilateral claustrum. The accumulation of grains was especially abundant in the dorsomedial area of the central part of the claustrum. These results indicate the presence of substantial projection from the pretectothalamic border area to the claustrum. It...

conclusions: the results showed that silver nanoparticles have an antimicrobial effect against intramacrophage b. abortus 544. results: the well diffusion agar study showed that silver nanoparticles have an antimicrobial effect on b. abortus 544. the mic and mbc of silver nanoparticles against b. abortus 544 were; 6 ppm and 8 ppm, respectively. the silver nanoparticles showed antibacterial effe...

The antimicrobial activity of silver ions has been well known for a long time. Products in which zeolite ions are replaced with silver ions taking advantage of the ease with which zeolite ions can be exchanged in this way are used in simple water purifying equipment, for example. In recent years, moreover, they have also been adapted for use as plastic additives for use in the manufacture of a ...

nowadays, the use of innovative nano-technology in the food industry quality control has significantly increased and it is widely employed in numerous fields such as diagnosis of microbial toxin of foods using nano-biosensors, increasing food shelf-life with the help of nano-clay and nano-silver packaging, as well as changing some of the unpleasant organoleptic properties such as taste, color, ...

In pulmonary emphysema, the alveolar structure progressively breaks down via a three-dimensional (3D) process that leads to airspace enlargement. The characterization of such structural changes has, however, been based on measurements from two-dimensional (2D) tissue sections or estimates of 3D structure from 2D measurements. In this study, we developed a novel silver staining method for visual...

in this study, silver nanoparticles were synthesized  using the fungus, aspergillus fumigatus. the effects of three independent variables including glucose content of culture media, initial ph and initial spore concentration on biosynthesis of silver nanoparticles were investigated. these variables affect cell morphology, cell mass, size and morphology of silver nanoparticles and degree of silv...

The cytotoxicity of silver is a known property of this metal. Interestingly, in the cases of argyria and tattoos, Ag remains in the tissue for a long time without causing harm to the host except pigmentation. To understand these contradictions, pure silver implantation by an original subcutaneous injection method was performed. Two sizes of silver powder particles were implanted subcutaneously:...

In clinical medicine metallic silver is used as anti-bacterial coating on various catheters, bandages and prostheses. By means of dissolucytosis, i.e. extracellular macrophage-mediated bio-liberation of metal ions, silver ions are continuously liberated from silver surfaces starting within minutes of exposure. The present study investigates how bio-liberation and subsequent cellular uptake of s...

an aqueous extract of pimpinella anisum was used for green synthesis of silver nanoparticles by bio reduction of an aqueous solution of silver nitrate. silver nanoparticles were characterized by uv–vis spectrometry, fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (ftir), x-ray diffraction (xrd) analysis, scanning electron microscopy (sem) and energy-dispersive x-ray analysis (edax). the increase in abs...

The biological activity of the silver nanoparticles was tested in the primary cultured human periodontal ligament cells. Two types of silver nanoparticles (colloidal silver and plasma silver) were included in this study and MTT assay, cytotoxicity assay, and apoptosis assay were done. In results, the colloidal silver showed higher inhibition on the cellular proliferation than the plasma silver ...