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Published in Antonella Sansone, Cultivating Mindfulness to Raise Children Who Thrive, 2020
The coherence of the physiological heart and muscular tone can be nurtured during pregnancy and around the period of birth through body-self awareness, wisdom and heart coherence guidance. This can prepare parents to attune with their babies and understand them prior to birth, which leads to the possibility of heart-to-heart and touch/holding biocommunication or synchronisation between mother and baby, but also between two other individuals or more. Through the in-arm experience and affectionate touch, the baby has his first bodily experiences of the pleasure of emotional and social relationships. It is the “mutual perceptions” of muscular tension and energy – such as the mother’s containing arms and the baby’s own visceral responses – that shapes the gestures, movements and the quality of vitality and holding. These highly communicative experiences are on multiple levels and reciprocal. On the basis of these early experiences, the baby learns to develop trust, a style of intimate relationships and attachment with meaningful people. Surrounded by other sensitive caregivers, the baby develops a mindful personality and mindful gestures and movements. This may also suggest how the interweaving dynamics influencing a baby’s sleeping pattern develop. Difficulties in the baby’s regulation and sleep may be linked to parents’ difficulty in mindfully holding and rocking consequent to their disconnection with bodily feelings or emotional shutdown leading to frozen muscular tension (Persico, 2002). Movements, touch and holding may be rushed, unconfident or frozen, rather than slow, firm, carefully attuned and reassuring.
Autofluorescence as a Parameter to Study Pharmaceutical Materials
Published in Victoria Vladimirovna Roshchina, Fluorescence of Living Plant Cells for Phytomedicine Preparations, 2020
Victoria Vladimirovna Roshchina
Betalains. Brightly colored flowers such as Bougainvillea, Celosia, Gomphrena, and Portulaca, which are widely used in folk medicine and as additions to soups and salads around the Mediterranean and in tropical Asian countries, contain the fluorescent pigments betalains (Gandia-Herrero et al. 2005a, b). The chemical group of the compounds includes yellow-emitted betaxanthins and blue-emitted betacyanins, when excited by blue or UV light. Their presence may be connected with successful pollination occurring with the help of insects or birds and is therefore relevant in biocommunication (Iriel and Lagorio 2010a, b). Betalains are the DOPA or dopamine conjugates with phenolic ring. Celosia argentea and Gomphrena globosa L. (family Amaranthaceae) are used in traditional medicine, including the treatment of respiratory diseases, jaundice, urinary system conditions, and kidney problems. G. globosa is native to Central America, including regions of Brazil, Panama, and Guatemala, but is now grown globally. Boiled flowers of the species form a tea, which is used for baby gripe, oliguria, cough, and diabetes (Roriz et al. 2014). The major betacyanins identified in globe amaranth are gomphrenin, isogomphrenin II, and isogomphrenin III. These compounds are stored in vacuoles in the plant. As a tropical annual plant, G. globosa blooms continuously throughout summer and early fall. It is very heat tolerant and drought resistant, but grows best in full sun and regular moisture. Bougainvillea glabra has also been used for treatment due to betanidin 6-O-β-glucoside and betanidin (Heuer et al. 1994). The anthocyanins pelargonidin and cyanidin of Portulaca oleracea, a succulent species from the family Portulaccaceae, possess a wide spectrum of pharmacological properties, such as neuroprotective, antimicrobial, antidiabetic, antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, antiulcerogenic, and anticancer activities (Zhou et al. 2015). However, there is still little information about the molecular mechanisms of their action.
Influence of doping chromium ions on the electrical properties of hydroxyapatite
Published in Egyptian Journal of Basic and Applied Sciences, 2020
Moustafa Ibrahim, Abdelfattah Dawood
Results show that as chromium concentration increases, the electrical conductivity increases, indicating a better biocommunication of Cr-HA compared with the pure HA. The dielectric permittivity of the HA crystal at low frequencies increased with increasing chromium-doping concentration, while all samples, the pure and doped ones, show a relatively comparable trend at higher frequency region. HA-doped sample at a concentration of 2% wt showed the best dielectric behavior, the least resistance and the highest relaxation frequency and showed the fastest relaxation time (as estimated from the Nyquist semicircles) at low-frequency and high-frequency regions under the applied temperature. The electrical conductivity and dielectric properties increased as temperature increases, which means that chromium ions doping improve HA bioconductivity and enhances its electrical properties.