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Four adult female Japanese newts, Cynops pyrrhogaster, were carried for 15 days aboard the orbiting space shuttle, Columbia, in July of 1994, as part of the Second International Microgravity Laboratory, IML-2 aquatic animal experiments. These previously fertilized newts, after stimulation with chorionic gonadotropin by a spaceflight adapted injection procedure, deposited numerous eggs for study of early development during weightlessness. The primitive saccular lungs of the two newts which survived the spaceflight revealed by TEM marked pulmonary cytopathologic changes including basal laminar separation, microvillar degeneration, and cytoplasmic granular changes in the primary granulated pneumocytes. Also, intracellular edema in the pulmonary collagenous matrix and vacuolar changes in the ciliated pulmonary lining cell type and in vascular endothelial cells were observed. These changes, triggered by the spaceflight, and not seen in controls also relying on respiration via the skin, may reflect a chronic mild hypoxia as it is known that newts undergoing oviposition are subject to increased oxygen demand.
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PMID:Cytopathologic observations of the lung of adult newts (Cynops pyrrhogaster) on-board the space shuttle, Columbia, during the Second International Microgravity Laboratory experiments. 1153 33

The development of an electrochemical immunosensor for the detection of human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG) is described with a limit of detection as low as 0.3 pg mL(-1) in phosphate buffer. In this immunosensor, cysteamine (Cys) and gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) were used to immobilize an anti-hCG monoclonal antibody onto a gold electrode (GE). The structure of AuNPs has been confirmed by EDS, SEM, and TEM analysis. Due to the large specific surface area and excellent electrical conductivity of AuNPs, electron transfer was promoted and the amount of hCG antibody was enhanced significantly. A systematic study on the effects of experimental parameters such as pH, incubation time in the hCG solution and urea solution used for experiments on the binding between the immobilized antibody and hCG has been carried out. Under optimal experimental parameters, differential pulse voltammetry (DPV) signal changes of the [Fe(CN)6](3-/4-) are used to detect hCG with two broad linear ranges: 0.001 to 0.2 and 0.2 to 60.7 ng mL(-1). The LOD value proves more sensitive in comparison with previously reported methods. The prepared immunosensor showed high sensitivity and stability. In addition, the immunosensor was successfully used for the determination of hCG in human serum.
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PMID:Layer-by-layer assembly of gold nanoparticles and cysteamine on gold electrode for immunosensing of human chorionic gonadotropin at picogram levels. 2683 59