兔主动脉冻结膨胀行为及其影响因素的研究

文采用热机械分析仪(TMA)分别研究了低温保护剂(CPA)和冻结速率对兔主动脉冻结相变过程中膨胀的影响。研究结果表明:在兔主动脉的冻结过程中,先是逐渐膨胀到某一峰值,然后突然有收缩的发生;降温速率越大,其相应的热膨胀系数也越大;添加二甲亚砜(DMSO)大大增加了主动脉冻结过程的未冻水含量,从而对其冻结膨胀有明显影响,而且,DMSO浓度越大,其冻结膨胀系数越小。     

三元溶液共晶DSC实验研究

抑制共晶产生对低温保存非常重要。本文利用差示扫描量热法研究了加低温保护剂(DMSO、乙二醇、 1,2丙二醇、甘油和1,3丁二醇)的NaCl水溶液的共晶行为。得到以5％、10％、15％NaCl水溶液为母液的五种保护剂溶液热流曲线图。研究发现,溶液共晶是过冷、随机过程。低温保护剂有抑制NaCl水溶液共晶的作用。低温保护剂浓度越高, 共晶焓越小,对共晶的抑制作用越大。不同种类保护剂的抑制共晶的能力从强到弱依次是甘油、乙二醇、 DMSO、 1,2 丙二醇和1,3丁二醇。升温过程中,溶液发生共晶反玻璃化现象和玻璃化现象。     

纳米低温保护剂水合及玻璃化性质的DSC研究

利用差示扫描量热仪（DSC）研究了羟基磷灰石（HA）纳米微粒对丙三醇溶液冻结过程中水合性质及玻璃化性质的影响．实验结果表明在中高浓度HA纳米颗粒对溶液水合性质影响显著．与未加纳米颗粒的溶液相比,溶液结晶量减少,未冻水含量增大．在较低浓度溶液中,加入纳米颗粒后玻璃化温度变化不明显,但反玻璃化温度明显升高;当溶液浓度达到6...     

纳米微粒对低温保护剂溶液结晶性质的影响

为了研究纳米微粒对低温保护剂溶液结晶性质的影响,实验利用差示扫描量热仪(DSC)测量了加入不同粒径、不同质量分数的HA纳米微粒的乙二醇(EG)低温保护剂溶液的成核温度和结晶焓。实验结果表明:纳米微粒加入EG溶液后,成核温度明显升高,并且随着纳米微粒粒径的和质量浓度的增大而升高显著;加入一定质量浓度(>0.2%)的纳米微粒后,同浓度的低温保护剂溶液的结晶焓稳定地升高。成核温度与结晶焓的升高说明,纳米微粒能够促进低温保护剂溶液的结晶。     

醇类低温保护剂水溶液过冷和水合性质研究

利用差示扫描量热仪研究了乙二醇、丙三醇、1,3丙二醇、1,3丁二醇和2,3丁二醇水溶液的过冷行为和水合性质,得出了这些性质与线性多元醇溶液浓度的关系.研究发现,在低浓度过冷度与浓度之间没有明显关系;而在中高浓度则具有相似的变化规律,即随着溶液浓度增大而增大.各低温保护剂在水合性质上所表现出的差异性,体现了保护剂的官能团(羟基、甲基)所起到的重要作用.     

生物材料冻存中低温保护剂的作用机理及实验研究

生物材料在冻存过程中保存液内加载低温保护剂可以减轻降温和复温时对细胞的损伤。介绍了低温保护剂的种类及其特点,分析了低温保护剂的作用机理。实验结果表明,选择合适的低温保护剂及其浓度,可以大大提高生物细胞的存活率。     

冻结状态下主动脉裂纹扩展及断裂模式的研究

采用动态力学分析仪(DMA)研究了温度、降温速率、低温保护剂对冻结状态下兔胸主动脉的裂纹扩展和断裂模式的影响.研究结果表明:随着温度的降低,主动脉轴向由典型的韧性断裂转变为典型的脆性断裂,并且其裂纹扩展也越困难;降温速率对冻结状态下主动脉的裂纹扩展和断裂模式影响不大;DMSO对主动脉的冻结过程有明显的"软化"作用,裂纹更容易扩展,而且呈现出典型的韧断;均以5℃/min降温到-50℃后,血管周向比轴向易于扩展,但其与轴向试样表现出截然相反的典型韧断,这充分说明冻结状态下主动脉仍然体现出各向异性的特点.     

锥虫保护剂冻结及冻干特性研究

保护剂溶液冻结及冻干特性的研究对生物材料保护剂的选择以及冷冻干燥工艺的设计具有重要的指导意义。选择聚乙烯醇(PVA)、海藻糖和叔丁醇作为锥虫的保护剂,采用差示扫描量热法研究了PVA/海藻糖/叔丁醇保护剂溶液的冻结特性,并对PVA/海藻糖/叔丁醇保护剂溶液进行了冷冻干燥实验,考察了不同冷冻条件对PVA/海藻糖/叔丁醇保护剂溶液冻结特性和冻干特性的影响。     

二甲亚砜对关节软骨渗透性研究

玻璃化被认为是低温保存关节软骨的一种有效方法,但需要考虑低温保护剂渗入软骨的速率以及低温保护剂毒性的制约。本文选用二甲亚砜(DMSO)作为低温保护剂,对其在1℃,22℃和37℃时对绵羊关节软骨的渗透特性进行了研究,得到相应的扩散系数为1.9×10~(-6) cm~2/s,3.3×10~(-6) cm~2/s和5.7×10~(-6)cm~2/s,活化能为22.84 kJ/mol。认识低温保护剂对关节软骨的渗透特性有助于建立低温保护剂加入/取出过程的数学模型,从而优化关节软骨的玻璃化保存方案。     

兔主动脉低温杨氏模量的实验研究

为进一步完善动脉低温保存过程中为解决低温断裂问题而建立的冻结过程的热应力分析物理模型,本文研究家兔主动脉血管从室温到-80℃温度范围内,杨氏模量随温度的变化情况和加抗冻剂CPA的影响。研究发现兔丰动脉低温冻结状态的杨氏模量随温度的降低而增大;加CPA对兔丰动脉血管冻结状态下的杨氏模量有影响,相同温度情况下加CPA试样的杨氏模量比不加CPA试样的要低。     

Fast radial NMR microimaging studies of the freezing of extruded pasta

Fast radial NMR microimaging protocols are presented for studying time dependent profiles of unfrozen water and ice during the freezing of extruded pasta (spaghetti). The radial imaging profiles of unfrozen water are analysed with an approximate analytic solution based on a generalized Plank model of freezing as well as by a more exact numerical simulation. The potential of the imaging technique for studying freezing kinetics in other food materials is discussed.     

Analysis of volumetric unfrozen water contents in freezing soils

In this study, a series of freezing experiments were carried out to investigate the changes of volumetric unfrozen water contents in freezing soils. The experimental results show that the soil type and the initial volumetric water content have significant effect on the freezing point and volumetric unfrozen water content of freezing soils. On the base of the experimental results and the previous researches, a new model was developed to describe the changes of the volumetric unfrozen water contents in freezing soils. The developed model was validated by comparing the calculated results against the experimental ones.     

What is 'unfreezable water', how unfreezable is it,and how much is there?

Water that remains unfrozen at temperatures below the equilibrium bulk freezing temperature, in the presence of ice, is sometimes called unfreezable or bound. This paper analyses the phenomenon in terms of quantitative measurements of the hydration interaction among membranes or macromolecules at freezing temperatures. These results are related to analogous measurements in which osmotic stress or mechanical compression is used to equilibrate water of hydration with a bulk phase. The analysis provides formulas to estimate, at a given sub-freezing temperature, the amount of unfrozen water due to equilibrium hydration effects. Even at tens of degrees below freezing, this hydration effect alone can explain an unfrozen water volume that considerably exceeds that of a single 'hydration shell' surrounding the hydrophilic surfaces. The formulas provided give a lower bound to the amount of unfrozen water for two reasons. First, the well-known freezing point depression due to small solutes is, to zeroth order, independent of the membrane or macromolecular hydration effect. Further, the unfrozen solution found between membranes or macromolecules at freezing temperatures has high viscosity and small dimensions. This means that dehydration of such systems, especially at freezing temperatures, takes so long that equilibrium is rarely achieved over normal experimental time scales. So, in many cases, the amount of unfrozen water exceeds that expected at equilibrium, which in turn usually exceeds that calculated for a single hydration shell.     

MRI-monitored cryosurgery in the rabbit brain

The inability to observe the transient, irregular shape of the frozen region that develops during cryosurgery has inhibited the application of this surgical technique to the treatment of tumors in the brain and deep in visceral organs. We used proton NMR spin-echo and spoiled gradient-echo imaging to monitor the development of frozen lesions during cryosurgery in the rabbit brain and the resulting postervosurgical changes up to 4 hr after freezing. Spoiled gradient-echo images (TE = 14 ms; TR = 50 ms) were acquired during freezing and thawing at a rate of 15 s/slice. Although the frozen region itself is invisible in MR images, its presence is distinguished easily from the surrounding unfrozen soft tissue because of the large contrast difference between frozen and unfrozen regions. T₂-weighted spin-echo images (TE = 100 ms, TR = 2 s) obtained after thawing suggest that edema forms first at the margin of the region that was frozen (cryolesion) and then moves into the region's core. Histological examination showed complete necrosis in the cryolesion and a sharp transition to undamaged tissue at the margin of the lesion and its image. Blood-brain barrier (BBB) damage was investigated using gadolinium-DTPA. The region of edema in the T₂-weighted spin-echo images was coincident with the area of BBB damage in the Gd-DTPA-enhanced T₁-weighted spin-echo images (TE = 33 ms, TR = 400 ms) and both were distinguishable as areas of high signal relative to the surrounding normal tissue. The results of these experiments indicate that MR can both effectively monitor the cryosurgical freezing and thawing cycle and characterize the postcryosurgical changes in tissue during follow-up.     

Water–heat migration and frost-heave behavior of a saturated silty clay with a water supply

In this study, a large-scale one-directional freezing experiment with water supply was performed to investigate the water–heat migration and frost-heave behavior of the saturated silty clay. The results indicate that the temperature gradient is larger in the frozen zone than that in the unfrozen zone because of the heat release of the supplied water and its water–ice phase change during the freezing process. Furthermore, the different parts of the total frost heave are evaluated, respectively, and it is also found that the frost heave can be reduced if the advance rate of the freezing front is effectively controlled even if external water is sufficient.     

The concentration effect on the ‘hydrophobic’ and ‘hydrophilic’ behaviour around DMSO in dilute aqueous DMSO solutions. A computer simulation study

We have carried out a molecular dynamics study of dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO) in water at 298 K at two different densities by simulating two different concentrations: 0.055 and 0.19 mole fraction. We have found an enhancement in the structure of water, an effect that becomes more pronounced as the concentration of DMSO increases. At both concentrations there is a well-defined hydration structure around the oxygen atom of DMSO, which is able to establish strong hydrogen bonds with surrounding water molecules. An increase in the concentration of DMSO depletes the solution of bulk water molecules, reducing the number of hydrogen bonds that water can have in the immediate vicinity of DMSO but increasing the strength of the hydrogen bonds made between the oxygen atom of DMSO and water. There is clear evidence of ‘hydrophobic’ hydration around the methyl groups of DMSO, which is enhanced as the concentration of DMSO increases.     

Cryopreservation of rabbit spermatozoa with freezing media supplemented with reduced and oxidised glutathione

This study researches the effects of supplementation with reduced glutathione (GSH, 0.5 mm) and oxidised glutathione (GSSG, 0.5 mM) freezing extenders on different semen parameters after equilibration with DMSO preservation solution (45 min at 5 degrees C) and post-thawing. The main findings that emerged from this study are that (i) addition of GSH and GSSG to the freezing media did not result in any improvement in functional sperm tests after equilibrium phase. (ii) No differences were observed after cryopreservation in functional sperm tests and embryo recovery rate. In conclusion, the addition of 0.5 mM GSH or GSSG appears not to play an important role in sperm antioxidant defence during cooling and freezing in rabbit spermatozoa.     

A modified differential scanning calorimetry for determination of cell volumetric change during the freezing process

A modified analytical and experimental method using differential scanning calorimeter (DSC) was developed to determine the cell volume change during the freezing process. Two cell types were used in the study: human platelets and erythrocytes (red blood cells). Isotonic cell suspensions with different cytocrits were prepared and used in the DSC experiments. Low cooling rates were used to avoid intracellular ice formation. Cell suspensions were cooled from room temperature to -40 degrees C. Latent heat release from the freezing of cell suspensions was shown to be a linear function of cytocrit. From slope and intercept of the linear function, cell volume change was determined based on a developed theoretical model. From experimental data and theoretical analyses, it was revealed that (a) the final volume of a human platelet at -40 degrees C was 33.7% of its isotonic volume, and 15.2% of the original (at isotonic condition) intracellular water remained unfrozen inside platelets, and (b) the final volume of human erythrocyte at -40 degrees C was 50.0% of its isotonic volume, and 30.3% of the original intracellular water was kept inside cells as residual unfrozen water.     

Nonuniformity of starch/nanosilica composites and interfacial behaviour of water and organic compounds

Hydrated starch alone and in composition with nanosilica A-300 and quercetin (natural antioxidant) was studied in the form of powders (mechanical mixture) and gels using ¹H NMR (at 200-280 K), FTIR (293 K), TG (293-573 K), TSDC (90-265 K) and quantum chemistry methods. Influence of weakly polar (chloroform-d, CDCl₃) and polar ((CD₃)₂SO, DMSO) deuterated solvents on bound water structure in these systems was also analysed at 200-280 K. The energetic and structural boundaries between weakly (unfrozen at 250-260 < T < 273 K) and strongly (unfrozen at 200 < T < 250-260 K) bound waters become nonabrupt after the addition of these solvents to quercetin/starch/nanosilica composites because of the differences in water interaction with these substances differently affecting its freezing point depression.