PURPOSE Chagas disease (CD) has become a global health issue mainly due to migration. Germany lacks surveillance data and is home to a large Latin American immigrant population. Recognising that Bolivia is the country with the highest CD prevalence in Latin America, this cross-sectional, descriptive pilot study investigated CD and associated factors among citizens of Bolivian origin living in M...

CD 4 + and CD 8 + T lymphocyte counts, naive and memory/effector CD 4 + T subpopulations, and the expression of CD 38 on CD 8 + T lymphocytes were evaluated in four groups: AIDS patients with tuberculosis (HIV/TB, n=14), HIV-1 infected patients (HIV, n=10), HIV-1 negative patients with tuberculosis (TB, n=20) and healthy controls (CTL, n=17). TB and HIV had fewer CD 4 + T cells than CTL, with t...

The demand for selection of aptamers against various small chemical molecules has substantially increased in recent years. To incubate and separate target-specific aptamers, the conventional SELEX procedures generally need to immobilize target molecules on a matrix, which may be impotent to screen aptamers toward small molecules without enough sites for immobilization. Herein we chose Cd(II) as...

Abstract Background Endoscopic healing is an important treatment goal in Crohn’s disease (CD). Vedolizumab (VDZ) was shown to induce endoscopic after 6 months a significantly greater proportion of pts with early CD than those late (>2 years)(UEGW 2022). We investigated whether further could be attained more VDZ no SES-CD worsening at month compared baseline. Methods Pts the LOVE-CD study...

The title compound, [Cd(CH(4)N(2)S)(2)(H(2)O)(4)][Cd(CH(4)N(2)S)(3)(H(2)O)(3)](SO(4))(2), contains two mol-ecules of each of the Cd complexes and four sulfate ions in the asymmetric unit: all the Cd atoms exhibit distorted octa-hedral geometries. The Cd-S and Cd-O bond lengths around the Cd atoms in the bis-(thio-urea) cations are in the ranges 2.580 (4)-2.599 (4) and 2.323 (8)-2.421 (9) Å, res...

The complex stability constants (K(S)) and thermodynamic parameters (DeltaG degrees, DeltaH degrees, and TDeltaS degrees ) for 1:1 inclusion complexation of beta-cyclodextrin (beta-CD) derivatives, 6-O-phenyl-beta-CD (2) 6-O-(4-formyl-phenyl)-beta-CD (3), 6-O-(4-nitrophenyl)-beta-CD (4), 6-O-(4-bromophenyl)-beta-CD (5), 6-O-(4-chlorophenyl)]-beta-CD (6), and 6-O-(4-hydroxybenzoyl)-beta-CD (7) w...

One purpose in this research was to determine the toxic effects of Cd on antioxidant enzymes of Oxya chinensis (Orthoptera: Acridoidae). Changes in the activities of the antioxidant enzymes superoxide dismutase (SOD), catalase (CAT), and guaiacol peroxidase (GPx) were measured in O. chinensis insects injected with Cd(2+). Fifth-nymphs of O. chinensis insects were injected with Cd(2+) at differe...

In the title compound, [Cd(2)(C(6)H(8)O(4))(2)(C(16)H(20)N(4))(H(2)O)(4)](n), penta-gonal-bipyramidally coordinated Cd(II) ions are connected into {Cd(2)(2,2-dimethyl-succinate)(2)(H(2)O)(4)} centrosymmetric dimeric clusters. In turn, these clusters are linked by tethering 1,4-bis-(3-pyridylmeth-yl)piperazine (3-bpmp) ligands into [Cd(2)(2,2-dimethyl-succinate)(2)(3-bpmp)(H(2)O)(4)](n) coordina...

Purpose: To study the inclusion mechanism and heat stability of the complex formed between 4'hydroxychalcone and hydroxypropyl-β-cyclodextrin (HP-β-CD) Methods: The inclusion mechanism of the complex of 4'-hydroxychalcone and HP-β-CD was investigated by phase solubility method. The physicochemical properties of the complex were evaluated by Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FT-IR) and x-...

The title compound, [Cd(C(4)H(4)O(4))(H(2)O)(2)](n), has been synthesized under hydro-thermal conditions. The asymmetric unit consists of one Cd(2+) cation, one succinate anion and two aqua ligands. The Cd atoms present a distorted penta-gonal bipyramidal coordination and are bridged into layers parallel to (201) by succinate ligands.