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Microcalorimetric study of human blood lymphocytes culture at presence of copper, cadmium and prostamax
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In this human cell study, the authors used microcalorimetry to examine separate and joint influence of the bioregulator prostamax and Cu(II) and Cd(II) ions on chromatin structure in situ, using cultured blood lymphocytes from aging people. Thermal characteristics of the denaturation process were determined in the presence of microgram quantities of Cu(II) and Cd(II) ions. The abstract reports that at these low concentrations the Cu(II) and Cd(II) ions did not influence the temperature stability of membrane, nuclear, and cytoplasm proteins. It further states that Cu(II) ions caused additional condensation of heterochromatin, while Cd(II) ions caused decondensation of heterochromatin and its partial denaturation. The findings are described qualitatively, with no summary numerical results reported for the prostamax condition in the abstract.
Abstract
Research goal was study of separate and joint influence of bioregulator prostamax and Cu(II) and Cd(II) ions on the chromatin structure in situ. The thermal characteristics of the denaturation process of blood lymphocytes culture of aging people in the presence of some microg quantities of Cu(II) and Cd(II) ions have been determined. It has been shown that Cu(II) and Cd(II) ions at these low concentrations don't influence on the temperature stability of membrane, nuclear and cytoplasm proteins. It has been shown that Cu(II) ions cause an additional condensation of the heterochromatin, and Cd(II) ions cause decondensation of heterochromatin and its partial denaturation.
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