A phase I, randomized study of combined IL-2 and therapeutic immunisation with antiretroviral therapy

Background  

Fully functional HIV-1-specific CD8 and CD4 effector T-cell responses are vital to the containment of viral activity and disease progression. These responses are lacking in HIV-1-infected patients with progressive disease. We attempted to augment fully functional HIV-1-specific CD8 and CD4 effector T-cell responses in patients with advanced chronic HIV-1 infection.     

Deposition of thin electroplated Cd-Se layers

Cadmium-selenium alloys were electrodeposited from a sulfuric acid electrolyte. The effect of the H₂SeO₃, CdSO₄, and sulfuric acid concentrations, current density, and temperature on the composition and quality of cathode deposits was studied.     

Physical interpretation of the Kerr-Newman-Ernst solutions

A relation is determined between the physical quantities in the Kerr-Newman priming solution and the Kerr-Newman-Ernst solution transformed by using the Harrison solution. It is shown that this latter possesses a nonsingular horizon of events. The values obtained for the 4-potential of the electromagnetic field of the transformed solution is in a linear approximation in the magnetic field intensity.Translated from Izvestiya Vysshikh Uchebnykh Zavedenii, Fizika, No. 10, pp. 39–45, October, 1989.     

A new synthesis of methanoisoindoles

Russian Journal of Organic Chemistry -     

Kinetics of thermoinitiated oligomerization of 3,3′-(2,4,6-triethyl-1,3-phenylene)bis(5-methyl-1,2,4-oxadiazole)

The crystal structure of 3,3′-(2,4,6-triethyl-1,3-phenylene)bis(5-methyl-1,2,4-oxadiazole), which models the cross-linking fragment of polynitriles by benzodinitrile oxides, was determined by X-ray diffraction analysis. The kinetic regularities of its thermoinitiated oligomerization were studied by isothermal calorimetry and spectrophotometry. The process proceeds with self-acceleration, and the Arrhenius dependences of the initial and maximum reaction rates were determined. The reaction accelaration is determined by an increase in the viscosity of the reaction medium. Possible mechanisms were proposed for oligomerization.     

Influence of lanthanum concentration on acid and catalytic properties of H-pentasil in the μ-xylene isomerization reaction

Russian Journal of Applied Chemistry - Acid and catalytic properties of pentasil-type lanthanum-containing zeolites in the μ-xylene isomerization reaction were studied.     

Method of gas hydrate formation for evaluation of water desalination

Experimental technique for analysis of hydrate formation processes with an AAS-300 atomic-absorption spectrometer was developed and used to study hydrate formation in a system constituted by water and Freon R-142V.