The heterogeneity of cell populations by the cytochemical characteristics of the cellular chromatin

Cell heterogeneity of cytochemical characteristics of chromatin in the norm and after provocative factors in vitro (a heating at 45 degrees C, X-irradiation and joint actions of heating and X-ray irradiation) was investigated in the peripheral blood mononuclear cells of sheep and mouse, the lymphoid cell populations of the murine bone marrow, spleen and thymus. As a criterion of cytochemical heterogeneity were used the distinctions in the rate of staining of cell nuclei with DNA-specific dyes, that was registered by means of measurement of coefficient variation of the DNA-histogram basis peak, with a flow cytometry. Heterogeneity of cytochemical characteristics are dealt with showed a variability of spatial organization of interphase nuclei of single cells. The provocative factors bring about a decrease in the level of the cytochemical characteristics heterogeneity in the sheep mononuclear cells. In the murine cell populations studied no such equalizing of the marker of variability was revealed.     

Application of shape-memory alloys in nuclear power

Scientific-Research and Design Institute of Electrical Engineering, Special Office of Machine Design. Translated from Atomnaya énergiya, Vol. 79, No. 4, pp. 304–306, October, 1995.     

Metallo- and fractographic examination of reasons for failure of two-layer thin-walled bellows operating under compressive loading

Conclusions 1. The structure of the metal and the design of the fractured bellows (with the exception of the parameters D, L,a and t, which changed during service) satisfy the requirements of the normalization and technical documents.2. The main reason for failure of the bellows is its long-term service, almost four times higher than the design life.3. Failure is also caused by the presence on the surface of the bellows of technological roughness acting as regions of microcrack nucleations.4. To increase the efficiency of bellows, it is efficient to produce them from pipes/blanks with an electrochemically polished surface.5. The detected HV—running life dependence can be used to evaluate approximately the number of operating cycles of failed bellows and also their permissible service life.6. The design life of the bellows of the 44.5–15–0.18×2 type under this loading system may be increased from 3000 to 5000 cycles.Translated from Fiziko-Khimicheskaya Mekhanika Materialov, Vol. 2, No. 2, pp. 125–127, March–April, 1993.