{"title":"Concerning reviews, reviewers, funders and all the rest","authors":"A. Hüttenhofer","doi":"10.4024/23HU16F.jbpc.16.04","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4024/23HU16F.jbpc.16.04","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":88911,"journal":{"name":"Journal of biological physics and chemistry : JBPC","volume":"16 1","pages":"184-187"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70610530","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
T. Mdzinarashvili, M. Khvedelidze, E. Shekiladze, R. Machaidze
{"title":"Novel technology for the fast production of complex nanoliposomes","authors":"T. Mdzinarashvili, M. Khvedelidze, E. Shekiladze, R. Machaidze","doi":"10.4024/19MD16A.JBPC.16.04","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4024/19MD16A.JBPC.16.04","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":88911,"journal":{"name":"Journal of biological physics and chemistry : JBPC","volume":"16 1","pages":"172-176"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70601599","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Elene Tsitsilashvili, L. Shanshiashvili, D. Mikeladze
{"title":"Macrophages—cells with broad potential","authors":"Elene Tsitsilashvili, L. Shanshiashvili, D. Mikeladze","doi":"10.4024/21TS16M.JBPC.16.04","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4024/21TS16M.JBPC.16.04","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":88911,"journal":{"name":"Journal of biological physics and chemistry : JBPC","volume":"16 1","pages":"162-166"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70610280","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
L. Ramishvili, M. Zibzibadze, M. Alibegashvili, T. Chigogidze, M. Gordeziani, N. Gabunia, A. Khazaradze, N. Kotrikadze
{"title":"Some criteria for the evaluation of endogenous intoxication in men with prostate tumours","authors":"L. Ramishvili, M. Zibzibadze, M. Alibegashvili, T. Chigogidze, M. Gordeziani, N. Gabunia, A. Khazaradze, N. Kotrikadze","doi":"10.4024/18RA16A.jbpc.16.04","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4024/18RA16A.jbpc.16.04","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":88911,"journal":{"name":"Journal of biological physics and chemistry : JBPC","volume":"16 1","pages":"167-171"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70601411","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Disastrous performance of NanoCote/Aqua Based antimicrobial paint in a hospital setting","authors":"J. Ramsden, M. Reid, V. Whatley, S. Dancer","doi":"10.4024/16RA16A.JBPC.16.03","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4024/16RA16A.JBPC.16.03","url":null,"abstract":"There is considerable interest in the potential of antimicrobial surfaces in hospitals to reduce hospitalacquired infections (HAI). Two principal questions need to be answered: (1) are inanimate surfaces important reservoirs for microbes? and (2) can antimicrobial surfaces reduce the environmental microbial burden? The answer to (1) is far from clear, with both “yes” [1] and “no” [2] being promulgated. Nevertheless, it has at least been conceded that microbial contamination on surfaces can be, and probably is, transferred to patients via human hands [3] (while noting that well-designed studies demonstrating that point, or its converse, are so far lacking). If so, proper hand hygiene might be the answer, although Dancer has pointed out that it is, practically, easier to improve cleaning than hand hygiene [4], since the latter, more profoundly than the former, involves behavioural change rather than merely setting up a “standard operating procedure” (SOP) or similar. The answer to (2) is more straightforward: the burden can be reduced and quite a few technologies are now available for doing so [5], which might help to overcome some of the difficulties associated with conventional disinfection [6]. Recently, considerable interest has been shown in copper as an antimicrobial material. Appreciation of its efficacy probably goes back for several millennia, and quite a few studies have succeeded in demonstrating it more or less quantitatively [7–10]. In a frequently-cited paper, Salgado et al. went as far as asserting that copper surfaces reduce the rate of HAI [11]; the critique of this study [12], which effectively negates its conclusions, is unfortunately much less cited. Even if the link between antimicrobial activity at a surface and reduction of HAI remains to be convincingly demonstrated (cf. [13]), it is certainly plausible enough to warrant further investigation of the antimicrobial effect of different surfaces. Making hospital artefacts from copper may be expensive, aesthetically questionable and impracticable to retrofit. In order to counter those difficulties, there has been some interest in depositing thin films of copper on surfaces made from other materials (e.g. [14]), but this is obviously only possible for objects small enough to fit inside a vacuum chamber. A more useful approach may be to nanify the copper and incorporate it into a paint or varnish that can be readily applied to existing services. The bactericidal activity of copper nanoparticles has been demonstrated [15] (as well as that of copper oxide [16]). Cometa et al. have shown that this activity is retained upon entrapment of the particles in a hydrogel [17], and similarly with conventional polymers [18]. The effective encapsulation of the copper may, furthermore, diminish possible dermatological problems arising through copper hypersensitivity [19, 20]. Disastrous performance of NanoCote/Aqua Based antimicrobial paint in a hospital setting","PeriodicalId":88911,"journal":{"name":"Journal of biological physics and chemistry : JBPC","volume":"16 1","pages":"131-136"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-09-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70601642","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
V. Starikov, A. Kostuchenko, S. Starikova, A. Mamalis, S. Lavrynenko
{"title":"Properties of magnetron hydroxyapatite coatings deposited on oxidized substrates","authors":"V. Starikov, A. Kostuchenko, S. Starikova, A. Mamalis, S. Lavrynenko","doi":"10.4024/14ST16A.jbpc.16.03","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4024/14ST16A.jbpc.16.03","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":88911,"journal":{"name":"Journal of biological physics and chemistry : JBPC","volume":"16 1","pages":"126-130"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-09-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70600461","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A private researcher’s struggles against research fraud. I. A case study","authors":"W. Courtney","doi":"10.4024/15CO16F.jbpc.16.03","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4024/15CO16F.jbpc.16.03","url":null,"abstract":"Mechanical engineering is a mature branch of applied science. Consequently, it is characterized by steady evolutionary progress, rather than big theoretical breakthroughs and paradigm changes. However, what it lacks on the discovery front it makes up for with opportunities for invention. One key difference between an invention and a discovery is that inventions are more likely to bring riches and popular acclaim to the person who makes the breakthrough. Envy of these rewards for invention probably lies at the heart of the fraud to be described. In the summer of 1986, the author decided to celebrate his fortieth birthday by using one of the recently invented mountain bikes to bicycle off-road across the UK, from Land’s End to John o’Groats. For the first half of his journey he used foam-padded biking gloves, and for the second half gel-padded gloves. Neither type proved to be completely satisfactory for absorbing the vibrations and coping with the frequent falls resulting from his poor biking skills. So, on his return home he experimented with foam-plus-gel combinations, eventually developing a radically new mechanism for absorbing impact and vibration energy, which he referred to as shock-absorbing liquid (SALi) technology (Fig. 1).","PeriodicalId":88911,"journal":{"name":"Journal of biological physics and chemistry : JBPC","volume":"16 1","pages":"142-156"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-09-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70600762","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
V. Starikov, S. Starikova, A. Mamalis, S. Lavrynenko
{"title":"Features of medical implant passivation using anodic oxide films","authors":"V. Starikov, S. Starikova, A. Mamalis, S. Lavrynenko","doi":"10.4024/08ST16A.JBPC.16.02","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4024/08ST16A.JBPC.16.02","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":88911,"journal":{"name":"Journal of biological physics and chemistry : JBPC","volume":"16 1","pages":"90-94"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70598884","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Converging pattern of glyphosate toxicity from farm to clinic to laboratory studies","authors":"E. Sirinathsinghji","doi":"10.4024/22SI15R.JBPC.16.02","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4024/22SI15R.JBPC.16.02","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":88911,"journal":{"name":"Journal of biological physics and chemistry : JBPC","volume":"16 1","pages":"105-117"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70610373","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Mathematical-chemical investigation of DNA bases","authors":"R. Gakhokidze, M. Gverdsiteli","doi":"10.4024/10GA16L.JBPC.16.02","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4024/10GA16L.JBPC.16.02","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":88911,"journal":{"name":"Journal of biological physics and chemistry : JBPC","volume":"16 1","pages":"103-104"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70599470","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}