The article provides a rationale for an improved technological process transporting grain from combines (ЗK) by semi-trailer dump truck (НП) in aggregate with tractor and saddle trailer. One of the main reserves increasing productivity combine is to increase utilization factor its shift time using transshipment technology based on interoperation compensators – trailers reloaders PBN-30, PBN-40,...

We report on spectroscopic study of pyrolytic hBN (pBN) by means of time-and energy-resolved photoluminescence methods. A high purity of pBN samples (though low crystallinity) allows complementary information about excited states involved into the luminescence process. We affirm our recent conclusions about the impurity-related nature of most of the fluorescence bands in microcrystalline hBN. I...

Paclitaxel (Taxol®) is a widely used chemotherapeutic agent that has a major dose limiting side-effect of painful peripheral neuropathy. Currently there is no effective therapy for the prevention or treatment of chemotherapy-induced painful peripheral neuropathies. Evidence for mitochondrial dysfunction during paclitaxel-induced pain was previously indicated with the presence of swollen and vac...

Bitterness is a distinctive taste sensation, but central coding for this quality remains enigmatic. Although some receptor cells and peripheral fibers are selectively responsive to bitter ligands, central bitter responses are most typical in broadly tuned neurons. Recently we reported more specifically tuned bitter-best cells (B-best) in the nucleus of the solitary tract (NST). Most had glossop...

The possibility of free radical reactions occurring in biological processes led to the development and employment of novel methods and techniques focused on determining their existence and importance in normal and pathological conditions. For this reason the use of nitrones for spin trapping free radicals became widespread in the 1970s and 1980s, when surprisingly the first evidence of their po...

The caudal aspect of the parabrachial (PBN) and Kölliker-Fuse (KF) nuclei receive vestibular nuclear and visceral afferent information and are connected reciprocally with the spinal cord, hypothalamus, amygdala, and limbic cortex. Hence, they may be important sites of vestibulo-visceral integration, particularly for the development of affective responses to gravitoinertial challenges. Extracell...

The pontine parabrachial nucleus (PBN) receives both opioid and Neuropeptide FF (NPFF) projections from the lower brain stem and/or the spinal cord. Because of this anatomical convergence and previous evidence that NPFF displays both pro- and anti-opioid activities, this study examined the synaptic effects of NPFF in the PBN and the mechanisms underlying these effects using an in vitro brain sl...

218 Background: Approximately 10% of patients who undergo a radical prostatectomy (RP) for localized prostate cancer subsequently experience a local recurrence. A small percentage of these patients present with prostate bed nodules (PBN). We present here, a case series of 12 patients treated with low dose rate brachytherapy (BT) for a PBN post RP. METHODS All 12 patients had biopsy confirmed ...