91. Antibodies to p53 - can they serve as tumor markers in patients with malignantlymphomas?Barbara Jezeršek Novaković, Srdjan Novaković, 2000, izvirni znanstveni članek Povzetek: Background. Tumor suppressor gene p53 is mutated in approximately 21% of patients with nonHodgkin's lymphomas (the percentage varying from 0 up to 67% depending upon the histological type). Most of the mutations are point missense mutations resulting in nuclear accumulation of altered protein. Roughly one third of patients with overexpression of p53 protein develop circulating anti p53 antibodies. The present study was aimed at defining the usefulness of serial serological determinations of autoantibodies to p53 for clinical follow up of NHL patients. Patients and methods. Serum levels of antibodies to p53 were determined in various time intervals in three lymphoma patients (who had elevated serum levels at the time of diagnosis) for maximum two years using the commercially available ELISA kit p53-Autoantikoerper ELISA2. Generation. Results. In all three cases the temporal patterns of anti p53 antibodies reflected accurately disease progression or regression, and even foretold a relapse ten months in advance. The reflection of disease regression by autoantibodies lagged approximately three months behind the morphological disappearance of the disease due to a long half life of the antibodies. Conclusion. Our results confirmed the usefulness of antibodies to p53 as tumor markers for follow up of lymphoma patients, yet the subset of patients that could be appropriately followed up with this method is very limited due to the low proportion of patients that develop immune response to p53 protein.
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93. Optimizing hot-work tool steel microstructure for enhanced toughnessAnže Bajželj, Tilen Balaško, Barbara Šetina, Jaka Burja, 2024, izvirni znanstveni članek Ključne besede: hot-work tool steel, austempering, bainitic transformation, lower bainite, impact toughness
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94. Influence of curing / drying methods including microwave heating on alkali activation of waste casting coresBarbara Horvat, Vilma Ducman, 2021, objavljeni znanstveni prispevek na konferenci Povzetek: Within previous investigation alkali activation of waste casting cores at room temperature did not give promising results, i.e. when the precursor was gently ground and sieved below 600 %m the alkali activated material fell apart at demolding, and when the precursor was ground below 90 %m, the alkali activated material did not solidify in more than 2 years. , Therefore different drying/curing methods were applied to enhance the reaction. Waste casting cores were prepared in two granulations (sieved below 600 %m and below 90 %m), activated with Na -water glass and 10 M NaOH, cured at different temperatures (70 °C and room temperature), and subsequently cured/dried at three different conditions: room temperature, 110 °C, and irradiated with microwaves. The highest compressive strength, 25 MPa, was gained with subsequent curing/drying at 110 °C. The lowest density, 0.5 kg/l, with compressive strength above 3 MPa, was achieved with subsequent curing/drying with microwaves .
Ključne besede: waste casting cores, alkali activation, curing, drying, microwaves, mechanical strength
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96. p53 - the paradigm of tumor-suppresor genes?Barbara Jezeršek Novaković, Srdjan Novaković, 1998, pregledni znanstveni članek Povzetek: p53 is a tumor-suppressor gene the alterations of which are among the most frequent genetic changes detected in human neoplasms. Its product - p53 protein is a component of several biochemical pathways that are central to carcinogenesis: DNA transcription, genomic stability, DNA repair, cell cycle control, and apoptosis. The analysis of the spectrum of p53 mutations and insight into the p53 mediated biochemical pathways of programmed cell death and cell cycle arrest, provide clues to understanding of molecular pathogenesis of cancer of mechanisms related to p53 mediated tumor suppression. The purpose of the resent article is to summarise the most important facts concerning p53 since understanding of the above listed processes might provide the potential molecular targets for the development ofa rational cancer treatment.
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100. Exploration of macromolecular phenotype of human skeletal muscle in diabetes using infrared spectroscopyBarbara Zupančič, Chiedozie Kenneth Ugwoke, Mohamed Elwy Abdelmonaem, Armin Alibegović, Erika Cvetko, Jože Grdadolnik, Anja Šerbec, Nejc Umek, 2023, izvirni znanstveni članek Povzetek: Introduction: The global burden of diabetes mellitus is escalating, and more efficient investigative strategies are needed for a deeper understanding of underlying pathophysiological mechanisms. The crucial role of skeletal muscle in carbohydrate and lipid metabolism makes it one of the most susceptible tissues to diabetes-related metabolic disorders. In tissue studies, conventional histochemical methods have several technical limitations and have been shown to inadequately characterise the biomolecular phenotype of skeletal muscle to provide a holistic view of the pathologically altered proportions of macromolecular constituents. Materials and methods: In this pilot study, we examined the composition of five different human skeletal muscles from male donors diagnosed with type 2 diabetes and non-diabetic controls. We analysed the lipid, glycogen, and collagen content in the muscles in a traditional manner with histochemical assays using different staining techniques. This served as a reference for comparison with the unconventional analysis of tissue composition using Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy as an alternative methodological approach. Results: A thorough chemometric post-processing of the infrared spectra using a multi-stage spectral decomposition allowed the simultaneous identification of various compositional details from a vibrational spectrum measured in a single experiment. We obtained multifaceted information about the proportions of the different macromolecular constituents of skeletal muscle, which even allowed us to distinguish protein constituents with different structural properties. The most important methodological steps for a comprehensive insight into muscle composition have thus been set and parameters identified that can be used for the comparison between healthy and diabetic muscles. Conclusion: We have established a methodological framework based on vibrational spectroscopy for the detailed macromolecular analysis of human skeletal muscle that can effectively complement or may even serve as an alternative to histochemical assays. As this is a pilot study with relatively small sample sets, we remain cautious at this stage in drawing definitive conclusions about diabetes-related changes in skeletal muscle composition. However, the main focus and contribution of our work has been to provide an alternative, simple and efficient approach for this purpose. We are confident that we have achieved this goal and have brought our methodology to a level from which it can be successfully transferred to a large-scale study that allows the effects of diabetes on skeletal muscle composition and the interrelationships between the macromolecular tissue alterations due to diabetes to be investigated.
Ključne besede: diabetes mellitus, skeletal muscle, metabolism, macromulecular composition, infrared spectroscopy, multivariate analysis, histochemical assays
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