770 resultados para Membranas compósitas


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La tuberculosis es un serio problema de salud pública, esta enfermedad representa la segunda causa de muerte ocasionada por un agente infeccioso. Una de las razones de la elevada tasa de morbi-mortalidad es la multifarmacorresistencia desarrollada por la bacteria, dicha resistencia es más frecuente en infecciones que requieren un tratamiento prolongado, lo cual conduce a mayor riesgo de incumplimiento por parte del paciente. Considerando la problemática asociada al tratamiento de la tuberculosis, el desarrollo de un sistema que libere isoniazida de manera sostenida representa una forma para mejorar el cumplimiento de la terapia, permitiendo mantener las concentraciones plasmáticas del fármaco en el rango terapéutico y reducir el riesgo de desarrollo de resistencia por el Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Contribuciones y Conclusiones: En el presente trabajo de investigación se evaluaron las características de liberación de la isoniazida incorporada en una matriz cerámica a base de SiO2 a condiciones fisiológicas in vitro. La síntesis del biomaterial se realizó vía sol-gel a diferentes condiciones de pH y relación TEOS/Agua. El material cerámico conteniendo la isoniazida fue caracterizado mediante técnicas térmicas, espectrométricas y microscópicas. Se realizaron pruebas de extracción para determinar la incorporación de isoniazida en el biomaterial, así como ensayos in vitro para evaluar las características de liberación de isoniazida en solución acuosa a pH fisiológico y mediante la determinación de permeabilidad en membranas artificiales. La cinética de liberación a pH fisiológico ocurrió en dos fases y esta dependió directamente de la morfología y de las propiedades texturales de la matriz, el factor más importante fue la porosidad, mientras que el estudio de permeabilidad de isoniazida en membranas artificiales indica que no se ve afectada cuando esta se incorporó en los biomateriales.

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Introducción: A mediados de los años 70’s del siglo pasado el descubrimiento de la tecnología del ADN recombinante marca el inicio de la era de la biotecnología moderna. La implementación de estas tecnologías permitió la utilización de organismos como sistemas de expresión que a lo largo de los años ha generado la producción de una gran variedad de productos biológicos. Dentro de estos sistemas Pichia pastoris es un sistema de expresión ampliamente utilizado debido a sus características tales como la producción de proteínas en grandes cantidades, la liberación de los productos al medio de cultivo, la obtención de productos complejos que requieren modificaciones postraduccionales típicas de los eucariotas o que contienen puentes disulfuro, entre otras. Nocardia brasiliensis es una bacteria parcialmente ácido-alcohol resistente la cual forma colonias granulares, con hifas aéreas escasas, sus colonias exhiben un color anaranjado pardo con bordes en blanco. N. brasiliensis es patógena para el ser humano y es el agente causal del actinomicetoma. El actinomicetoma es una enfermedad crónica generalmente localizada en las extremidades. Se caracteriza por ser un proceso lento de tumefacción con nódulos, abscesos y fístulas.La Superóxido Dismutasa (SOD) es una enzima reductora polimérica que cataliza la conversión del ión superóxido a peróxido de hidrógeno y oxígeno molecular. La SOD ha sido propuesta como un factor de virulencia de microorganismos patógenos, cuya acción consiste en bloquear los efectores oxidativos del estallido respiratorio iniciado por los fagocítos en el fagolisosoma. Este mecanismo ha sido descrito para bacterias de los géneros Mycobacterium, Rhodococcus y Nocardia. Objetivo: producir y caracterizar la Superóxido Dismutasa A (SODA) de Nocardia brasiliensis en Pichia pastoris. Metodología: se realizó el diseño de primers adicionando secuencias de sitios de corte para las enzimas XhoI y AvrII, así como una cola de histidinas en el extremo 5’ para la amplificación del gen sodA de N. brasiliensis a partir del ADN genómico de Nocardia brasiliensis. El amplicón se clonó en el vector de expresión pPIC9. Se llevó a cabo la transformación por electroporación de levaduras Pichia pastoris GS115. La producción de SOD se llevó a cabo en inducciones de 96 h con metanol como agente inductor. Los sobrenadantes se dializaron con membranas de celulosa. Los dializados se observaron por SDS-PAGE y western blot. Se analizó la actividad funcional de la enzima con el SOD Assay kit de Sigma Aldrich. Resultados: Por reacción en cadena de la polimerasa se obtuvo una secuencia de 625 pb correspondiente al gen sodA. El fragmento se ligó al vector de expresión pPIC9 y fue caracterizado con las enzimas de restricción XhoI y AvrII. Las cepas trasformadas de P. pastoris GS115 se caracterizaron con el gen aox1 obteniendo cepas Mut+ y Muts. Los análisis por SDSPAGE mostraron bandas no observadas en el control negativo de expresión mientras en los western blot solo una de las clonas mostró señal. Los análisis de actividad funcional sugieren inhibición de la reacción enzimática infiriendo presencia de la proteína SOD en el medio dializado. Conclusiones: Se logró la construcción del sistema de expresión Pichia pastoris con el casete de expresión de la SOD de N. brasiliensis. Así como la generación de cepas Mut+y Muts. En los ensayos de actividad funcional se observó inhibición de la reacción enzimática.

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This work a studied the high energy milling effect in microstructure and magnetic properties of the WC-10wt.%Co composite. The composite powders were prepared by mechanical mixed and milled at 2 hours, 100 hours, 200 hours and 300 hours in planetary milling. After this process the composite were compacted in stainless steel die with cylindrical county of 10 mm of diameter, at pressure 200 Mpa and sintered in a resistive furnace in argon atmosphere at 1400 oC for 5 min. The sintered composite were cutted, inlaid, sandpapered, and polished. The microestrutural parameters of the composite was analyzed by X-ray diffraction, scanning electronic microscopy, optical microscopy, hardness, magnetic propriety and Rietveld method analyze. The results shows, with milling time increase the particle size decrease, it possibility minor temperature of sintering. The increase of milling time caused allotropic transformation in cobalt phase and cold welding between particles. The cold welding caused the formation of the particle composite. The X-ray diffraction pattern of composite powders shows the WC peaks intensity decrease with the milling time increase. The X-ray diffraction pattern of the composite sintered samples shows the other phases. The magnetic measurements detected a significant increase in the coercitive field and a decrease in the saturation magnetization with milling time increase. The increase coercitive field it was also verified with decrease grain size with milling time increase. For the composite powders the increase coercitive field it was verified with particle size reduction and saturation magnetization variation is relate with the variation of free cobalt. The Rietveld method analyze shows at milling time increase the mean crystalline size of WC, and Co-cfc phases in composite sintered sample are higher than in composite powders. The mean crystallite size of Co-hc phase in composite powders is higher than in composite sintered sample. The mean lattice strains of WC, Co-hc and Co-cfc phases in composite powders are higher than in composite sintered samples. The cells parameters of the composite powder decrease at milling time increase this effect came from the particle size reduction at milling time increase. In sintered composite the cells parameters is constant with milling time increase

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In this work, was studied the formation of a composite of the refractory metal niobium with copper, through the process of high-energy milling and liquid phase sintering. The HEM can be used to synthesize composite powders with high homogeneity and fine size particle distribution. It may also produce the solid solubility in immiscible systems such as Nb-Cu, or extend the solubility of systems with limited solubility. Therefore, in the immiscible system Cu-Nb, the high-energy milling was successfully used to obtain the composite powder particles. Initially, the formation of composite particles during the HEM and the effect of preparation technique on the microstructure of the material was evaluated. Four loads of Nb and Cu powders containing 20%wt Cu were synthesized by MAE in a planetary type ball mill under different periods of grinding. The influence of grinding time on the metal particles is evaluated during the process by the withdrawal of samples at intermediate times of milling. After compaction under different forces, the samples were sintered in a vacuum furnace. The liquid phase sintering of these samples prepared by HEM produced a homogeneous and fine grained. The composite particles forming the sintered samples are the addition of a hard phase (Nb) with a high melting point, and a ductile phase (Cu) with low melting point and high thermal and electrical conductivities. Based on these properties, the Nb-Cu system is a potential material for many applications, such as electrical contacts, welding electrodes, coils for generating high magnetic fields, heat sinks and microwave absorbers, which are coupled to electronic devices. The characterization techniques used in this study, were laser granulometry, used to evaluate the homogeneity and particle size, and the X-ray diffraction, in the phase identification and to analyze the crystalline structure of the powders during milling. The morphology and dispersion of the phases in the composite powder particles, as well the microstructures of the sintered samples, were observed by scanning electron microscopy (SEM). Subsequently, the sintered samples are evaluated for density and densification. And finally, they were characterized by techniques of measuring the electrical conductivity and microhardness, whose properties are analyzed as a function of the parameters for obtaining the composite

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The Potiguar basin has large fields of viscous oil where the used method for recovering is based on vapor injection; this operation is carried out by injecting vapor in the oilwell directly, without the protection of a revetment through thermal insulation, what causes its dilation and, consequently, cracks in the cement placed on the annular, and lost of hydraulic insulation; this crack is occasioned by the phenomenon of retrogression of the compressive resistance due to the conversion of the hydrated calcium silicate in phases calcium-rich, caused by the high temperatures in the wells, subjected to thermal recuperation. This work has evaluated the application of composite pastes with addition of residue of biomass of ground sugar-cane bagasse as anti-retrogression mineral admixture for cementation of oil-wells subjected to thermal recuperation. The addition of the mineral residue was carried out considering a relative amount of 10, 20, 30, 40 and 59% in relation to cement mass, trying to improve the microstructure of the paste, still being developed a reference paste only with cement and a paste with addition of 40% of silica flour - renowned material in the oil industry as anti-retrogression additive. Pozzolanic activity of the ash was evaluated through XRD, TG/DTG, as the resistance to compression, and it was also determined the physical and mechanical behavior of the pastes when submitted to cure at low temperatures (22 and 38º C); besides it was evaluated the behavior of the pastes when submitted to two cycles of cure at high temperature (280ºC) and pressure (7 MPa). It was verified that the ash of the sugar-cane biomass presents pozzolanic reaction and has great efficiency in decrease the permeability of the paste by filler effect, as well as that addition of ash in a relative amount of 10, 20 e 30% increases cured compressive resistance at low temperatures. It was also showed that the ash in a relative amount of 40% and 59% has very significant efficiency as anti-retrogression additive, since it prevents the decrease of compressive resistance and forms hydrated calcium silicate type xenotlita and tobermorita which have more resistance and stability in high temperatures

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Lightweight oilwell cement slurries have been recently studied as a mean to improve zonal isolation and sheath-porous formation adherence. Foamed slurries consisting of Portland cement and air-entraining admixtures have become an interesting option for this application. The loss in hydrostatic pressure as a consequence of cement hydration results in the expansion of the air bubbles entrapped in the cement matrix, thus improving the sheath-porous formation contact. Consequently, slurries are able to better retain their water to complete the hydration process. The main objective of the present study was to evaluate the effect of the addition of an air-entraining admixture on the density, stability and permeability of composite slurries containing Portland cement and diatomite as light mineral load. Successful formulations are potential cementing materials for low fracture gradient oilwells. The experimental procedures used for slurry preparation and characterization were based on the American Petroleum Institute and ABNT guidelines Slurries containing a pre-established concentration of the air-entraining admixture and different contents of diatomite were prepared aiming at final densities of 13 to 15 lb/gal. The results revealed that the reduction of 15 to 25% of the density of the slurries did not significantly affect their strength. The addition of both diatomite and the air-entraining admixture increased the viscosity of the slurry providing better air-bubble retention in the volume of the slurry. Stable slurries depicted bottom to top density variation of less than 1.0 lb/gal and length reduction of the stability sample of 5.86 mm. Finally, permeability coefficient values between 0.617 and 0.406 mD were obtained. Therefore, lightweight oilwell cement slurries depicting a satisfactory set of physicochemical and mechanical properties can be formulated using a combination of diatomite and air-entraining admixtures for low fracture gradient oilwells

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Thin commercial aluminum electrolytic and passed through reactions was obtained with anodic alumina membranes nanopores. These materials have applications in areas recognized electronic, biomedical, chemical and biological weapons, especially in obtaining nanostructures using these membranes as a substrate or template for processing nanowires, nanodots and nanofibers for applications noble. Previous studies showed that the membranes that have undergone heat treatment temperature to 1300° C underwent changes in morphology, crystal structure and optical properties. This aim, this thesis, a study of the heat treatment of porous anodic alumina membranes, in order to obtain and to characterize the behavior changes structures during the crystallization process of the membranes, at temperatures ranging between 300 and 1700° C. It was therefore necessary to mount a system formed by a tubular furnace resistive alumina tube and controlled environment, applying flux with special blend of Ag-87% and 13% N2, in which argon had the role of carrying out the oxygen nitrogen system and induce the closing of the pores during the densification of the membrane. The duration of heat treatment ranged from 60 to 15 minutes, at temperatures from 300 to 1700° C respectively. With the heat treatment occurred: a drastic reduction of porosity, grain growth and increased translucency of the membrane. For the characterization of the membranes were analyzed properties: Physical - thermogravimetric, X-ray diffraction, BET surface area; morphological - SEM, EDS through compositional and, optical absorbance, and transmittance in the UV-VIS, and FTIR. The results using the SEM showed that crystallization has occurred, densification and significant changes in membrane structure, as well as obtaining microtube, the BET analysis showed a decrease in specific surface area of the membranes has to 44.381 m2.g-1 to less than 1.8 m2.g-1 and in the analysis of transmittance and absorbance was found a value of 16.5% in the range of 800 nm, characteristic of the near infrared and FTIR have confirmed the molecular groups of the material. Thus, one can say that the membranes were mixed characteristics and properties which qualify for use in gas filtration system, as well as applications in the range of optical wavelength of the infra-red, and as a substrate of nanomaterials. This requires the continuation and deepening of additional study

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Dissertação de Mestrado, Engenharia Biológica, Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologias, Universidade do Algarve, 2014

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Se realizó un estudio observacional en recién nacidos sépticos ocurridos en la Unidad de Neonatología de la Fundación Humanitaria Pablo Jaramillo, durante el período de enero de 2009 a diciembre de 2011, con el objetivo de analizar la incidencia de antecedentes maternos y parámetros propios del recién nacido como posibles factores de riesgo para la sepsis, los parámetros de laboratorio que contribuyen a diagnosticar procesos infecciosos en el recién nacido y el desenlace que tuvieron los mismos. Durante este tiempo ingresaron 164 casos con riesgo de sepsis, sospecha de sepsis y sepsis bacteriana (42.62 /1000 nacidos vivos) y la mortalidad fue del 3.04%. Predominó la sepsis de inicio precoz sobre la tardía. Los principales antecedentes maternos fueron la ruptura prematura de membranas seguido de la infección de vías urinarias. En cuanto a los factores del recién nacido prevaleció el sexo masculino, prematurez y de bajo peso al nacer

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Se estudiaron quinientos recién nacidos productos de parto virginal, mediante hisopado se recolectaron muestras de secreción de conducto auditivo externo, faringe y muestra de aspirado gástrico. El cultivo se re4alizó en agar sangre de carnero desfibrinada al 5% identificándose el germen mediante el tipo de hemólisis, la susceptibilidad a la prueba de bacitracina, sulfametoxasol/trimetoprim, y la confirmación mediante la prueba de aglutinación de látex (streptex) específica para el estreptococo del grupo B (EGB). Resultados: la prevalencia de colonización por estreptococo del grupo B en recién nacidos fuel 5.8%. En los recién nacidos cuyas madres presentaron rotura de membranas de más de 18 horas, la colonización fue del 26.1%. Los recién nacidos colonizados (n=29), no presentaron diferencias con relación al resto de factores de riesgo: fiebre, bacteriuria materna, edad gestacional, peso y sexo del recién nacido. Conclusiones: si bien, la prevalencia ecncontrada de colonización por EGB en el recién nacido no fue tan alta como la reportada en otros países; sin embargo, se deben realizar otros estudios para establecer si ste agente es el responsable de infección en la etapa neonatal

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Se realiza un estudio en 90 pacientes intervenidas de cesárea no planificada en el hospital Vicente Corral Moscoso para determinar la eficacia profiláctica de los antibióticos en la prevención de la infección de los antibióticos en la prevención de la infección de la herida quirúrgica, de la endometritis y de la morbilidad febril, con la hipótesis de que es suficiente la administración de 3 dosis de ampicilina por vía venosa para prevenirlas: el grupo A recibió ampicilina, vía venosa en 3 dosis de 1 gramo con una hora de intervalo: el grupo B, ampicilina, en 21 dosis, una cada 8 horas, las primeras veinte y cuatro horas del postoperatorio via venosa y los seis días siguientes por vía oral, (esquema utilizado usualmente en el Hospital Vicente Corral Moscoso; y el grupo C ceftriaxona, vía venosa en 1 sola dosis de 1 gr. Los grupos de edstudio no presentaron entre ellos diferencias significativas en lo que se refiere a factores de riesgo: tiempo de labor de parto, dilatación cervical, rotura de membranas, tiempo de rotura de membranas, número de tactos y valores de hemoglobina. La infección de la herida se encontró en el 3.3de los casos no existiendo diferencia significativa entre los grupos de estudio (p>0.05). La endometritis fue del 1.1no observándose, igualmente, diferencia estadística entre los grupos de estudio. La morbilidad febril se presentó en el 15.6, igualmente sin diferencia significativa. Se concluye que no existe diferencia significativa en la administración antibiótica entre los tres grupos de estudio para prevenir la infección de la herida quirúrgica o la endometritis y estos valores concuerdan con los resultados que refieren la mayoría de estudios reportados en la literatura mundial

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Modeling transport of particulate suspensions in porous media is essential for understanding various processes of industrial and scientific interest. During these processes, particles are retained due to mechanisms like size exclusion (straining), adsorption, sedimentation and diffusion. In this thesis, a mathematical model is proposed and analytical solutions are obtained. The obtained analytic solutions for the proposed model, which takes pore and particle size distributions into account, were applied to predict the particle retention, pore blocking and permeability reduction during dead-end microfiltration in membranes. Various scenarios, considering different particle and pore size distributions were studied. The obtained results showed that pore blocking and permeability reduction are highly influenced by the initial pore and particle size distributions. This feature was observed even when different initial pore and particle size distributions with the same average pore size and injected particle size were considered. Finally, a mathematical model for predicting equivalent permeability in porous media during particle retention (and pore blocking) is proposed and the obtained solutions were applied to study permeability decline in different scenarios

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Dissertação (mestrado)—Universidade de Brasília, Faculdade de Agronomia e Medicina Veterinária, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Saúde Animal, 2016.

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Changes induced by PA on nucleic acid (NA) conformation and synthesis is proven to be a major reason for PA essentiality (1-3). However, PA interactions with other polyanions, for instance polyanionic membrane lipid bilayers and glyosaminoglycans have received less attention (3-4). The functional importance of these interactions still is an obscure but interesting area of cell and molecular biology, especially in mammalian cells for which specific PA transport systems are not fully characterized (5). In mammals, activity and turnover of the polyamine (PA) synthesis key enzyme is controlled by a set of proteins: Antizymes (OAZ1-3) and antizyme inhibitors (AZIN1 and 2). It is demonstrated that AOZ modulate polyamine uptake (6), and that PA transport to mitochondria is linked to the respiratory chain state and modulates mitochondrial permeability transition (7). Antizyme expression variants have been located in mitochondria, being proposed as a proapoptotic factor (7-8). AZIN 2 is only expressed in a reduced set of tissues that includes mast cells, where it is associated to mast cell granules membrane (9). This fact, together to the abnormalities observed in bone marrow derived mast cell granules when they are differentiated under restricted PA synthesis conditions (10 and unpublished results), point out to important roles of PA and their related proteins in structure and function of mast cell granules. We will also present novel biophysical results on tripartite interactions of PA that remark the interest of the characterization of PA interactions with lipid bilayers for biomedicine and biotechnology. Thus, the information reported in this paper integrates previously reported information with our still unpublished results, all indicating that PA and their related proteins also are important factors for structure and dynamics of biological membranes and their associated functions essential in human physiology; for instance, solute interchange with the environment (uptake and secretion), oxidative metabolism and apoptosis. The importance of these involved processes for human homeostasis claim for further research efforts. 1. Ruiz-Chica J, Medina MA, Sánchez-Jiménez F and Ramírez FJ (2001) Fourier Transform Raman study of the structural specificities on the interaction between DNA and biogenic polyamines. Biophysical J. 80:443-454. 2. Lightfoot HL, Hall J (2014) Endogenous polyamine function--the RNA perspective. Nucleic Acids Res. 42:11275-11290. 3. Igarashi K, Kashiwagi K (2010) Modulation of cellular function by polyamines. Int J Biochem Cell Biol. 42:39-51. 4. Finger S, Schwieger C, Arouri A, Kerth A, Blume A (2014) Interaction of linear polyamines with negatively charged phospholipids: the effect of polyamine charge distance. Biol Chem. 395:769-778. 5. Poulin R, Casero RA, Soulet D. (2012) Recent advances in the molecular biology of metazoan polyamine transport. Amino Acids. 42:711-723. 6. Kahana C (2009) Regulation of cellular polyamine levels and cellular proliferation by antizyme and antizyme inhibitor. Essays Biochem. 4:47-61. 7. Agostinelli E, Marques MP, Calheiros R, Gil FP, Tempera G, Viceconte N, Battaglia V, Grancara S, Toninello A (2010) Polyamines: fundamental characters in chemistry and biology. Amino Acids 38:393-403. 8. Liu GY, Liao YF, Hsu PC, Chang WH, Hsieh MC, Lin CY, Hour TC, Kao MC, Tsay GJ, Hung HC (2006) Antizyme, a natural ornithine decarboxylase inhibitor, induces apoptosis of haematopoietic cells through mitochondrial membrane depolarization and caspases' cascade. Apoptosis 11:1773-1788. 9. Kanerva K, Lappalainen J, Mäkitie LT, Virolainen S, Kovanen PT, Andersson LC (2009). Expression of antizyme inhibitor 2 in mast cells and role of polyamines as selective regulators of serotonin secretion. PLoS One 31:e6858. 10. García-Faroldi G, Rodríguez CE, Urdiales JL, Pérez-Pomares JM, Dávila JC, Pejler G, Sánchez-Jiménez F, Fajardo I (2010) Polyamines are present in mast cell secretory granules and are important for granule homeostasis. PLoS One 30:e15071.

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A peri-implantite é uma patologia que ocorre nos tecidos adjacentes dos implantes, onde ocorre uma perda óssea em redor do implante, podendo levar à sua perda. Vários mecanismos terapêuticos têm sido propostos na tentativa de travar a evolução desta patologia, como é o caso do tratamento regenerativo, onde se recorre ao uso de membranas e enxertos ou substitutos ósseos. O tratamento regenerativo tem sido alvo de grande discussão, uma vez que é impossível saber de que maneira cada paciente pode reagir à aplicação desta terapia, para além de que os resultados existentes nos estudos atuais reportam uma escassez no tratamento por completo da patologia. No entanto, os estudos existentes demonstram bons resultados e relatam que a sua aplicação é promissora no tratamento da peri-implantite, nomeadamente na redução dos parâmetros clínicos (profundidade de sondagem e hemorragia pós-sondagem) e dos parâmetros radiográficos (preenchimento ósseo).