European Journal of Molecular Biotechnology

188-196

Authors: Eaman A. S. AL-Rubaee, Suha T. Abd, Nadia M. Kadim

The structural and optical properties of the titanium dioxide nanoparticles [TiO2 NPs] have been investigated using [UV-Vis] spectrophotometer and SEM. The produced nanoparticles show small and about sharp round peaks around 220 nm. The produced nanoparticles have a spherical shape with an average particle size ˂50 nm. The effect of titanium dioxide NPs was studied on the activity of Alkaline Phosphatase [ALP] in the saliva of 25 patients with gingivitis in comparison to 20 healthy subjects with the average age about 22–23 years for both groups. The results correlated with the observation that salivary alkaline phosphatase activity increase in patient with gingivitis in comparison to control group and salivary ALP activity inhibited by titanium dioxide nanoparticles.

210-227

Authors: Ignat Ignatov, Oleg Mosin

The isotopic composition, the temperature and the pH value of water were analyzed in experiments with prognosis of primary hydrosphere and hydrological conditions for origin of first organic forms in hot mineral water with HDO. For this aim we performed experiments with hot mineral water and seawater from Bulgaria and water with varying content of deuterium using IR- and DNES-spectroscopy. As model systems were used cactus juice of Echinopsis pachanoi and Mediterranean jellyfish Cotylorhiza tuberculata. The reactions of condensation–dehydration occurring in alkaline aqueous solutions at t = 65–95 0C and рН = 9–10, resulting in synthesis from unorganic molecules the larger organic molecules as polymers and short polipeptides, were discussed, as well as the possible mechanisms of the deuterium accumulation in form of HDO in hot water. It was shown that hot alkaline mineral water with temperature from +65 0C to +95 0C and the pH value from 9 to 11 is more suitable for the origination of life and living matter than other analyzed water samples. In hot mineral waters the local maximums in IR-spectra are more manifested compared to the local maximums obtained in IR-spectra of the same water at a lower temperature. The difference in the local maximums from +20 0C to +95 0C at each +5 0C according to the Student t-criterion makes up p < 0,05.