BIOTECHNICAL INFORMATION SYSTEMS FOR MONITORING OF CHEMICALS IN ENVIRONMENT: BIOPHYSICAL APPROACH

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Anthropogenic influence in nature is one of the most important problems of contemporary world. Ecoogical problems linked with environment pollution by chemical substances, hazardous for living organisms, are also important for all contemporary countries. One component of such antropogenic influence is technogenic chemical pollution in industrial regions. It appeared also as a result of accidents, disasters, contemporary military situations on the East of Ukraine, and etc. [1]. People have to direct constant efforts for revealing of such chemical pollution, for studying of its influence on living organisms and for finding of the ways for such pollutants neutralizing or elimination.
For today, solutions to environmental challenges were aided by an arsenal of information and knowledge systems that were unavailable for most of the last 30 years [2]. However after a while biotechnological methods become used more and more for this purpose. Considering that knowledge about the causes of environmental ills had grown, the number of options arise on how to handle them as well as the development of collaborations and partnerships aimed The newest biotechnical systems for environment ecological monitoring based on the use of modern information and computer technologies and existing databases of chemical substances have been analyzed. In particular, there were observed such modern biophysical research methods as imitation and program modeling, based on the author results obtained in the experiments with registration of chemo-sensitive transmembrane electric currents in neurons in voltage clamp mode, use of neuronal fluorescent markers and accounting of organisms-bioindicators. The developed systems and methods allow revealing and identification of substances hazardous to living organisms and to make conclusions about their possible biological effects. The functioning of biotechnical information systems for environmental monitoring was analyzed in a wide time ranges, using modern databases, expert subsystems and interfaces capable to identify different types of chemicals. It is shown that for such systematic environmental monitoring it is possible to study and predict the effects of substances influences for a long time from the first moments of their exposure to individual cells of organism to months and years after exposure to the whole organism.
at harnessing the growing incentive-based approaches to environmental protection. As additional information technologies and knowledge management techniques evolved, environmental considerations will join other areas of strategic importance to industry. Information technologies become unique not just because of their growing use in decision-making and knowledge management systems, important as that is. Their use had also yielded significant improvements in the efficiency of energy and materials use, minimization of environment pollution by harmful organic substances [2]. Advances in information technology are likely to continue the opportunities providing for the development of improved and new versions of information systems in complex with biotechnological, anlytical and other methods and their organization for ecological control [1]. For revealing, studying and neutralizing of pollutants a lot of different technical means, monitoring systems (MS), information systems (IS), and other samples of information and computer technologies (ICT) were invented and constructed during human industrial activity [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14]. On the other hand people need more and more perfect solutions for these tasks due to appearance of the new ecological challenges as consequences of military actions at the territory of Ukraine today, technogenic disasters like Chornobyl one, other disasters at enterprises of chemical, oil and gas industry, like spread extensive fire of oil tankers in Kyiv region, Ukraine, in June 2015 with massive release of organic matter -pollutants.
Brief review of some models of technical systems for environmental monitoring. Brief review of some models of technical systems for monitoring of environment using biotechnical means and some biophysical methods for the investigation is suggested below in this sub-chapter. Among great number of prototypes there are technical and laboratory systems, activities of which were directed on environment protection. We picked up them because they have some similar characteristics with our ones in our developed system for environmental monitoring.
1. The authors Nemtsov V. I. and Nemtsov A. V. had suggested a technical network system for monitoring of the state of environment [191]. According to the suggested method they took the probes in environment for further biophysical and analytical studyings. Such a technical network analytical system for the complex analysis and sampling of biophysical aerosols contained an electron microscope, a television microscope, made on the basis of a biological microscope with a fiber optic illuminator of side illumination of large fields of the subject plane for determining the particle size distribution and specific gravity of the particles in the sample. The analytical system had electronic scales and a multichannel sampler with a vertical suction channel. The latter were coupled with a variety of trapping elements with sampler substrate, filter, nutrient media, and heat-resistant cassette for substrates, impacted and tipped for isokinetic selection. The tips had rotary adapters and were mounted on impactors. Substrates for microbiological analysis were made with recesses and with flat covers, transparent for light and electronic streams of probe radiation. Nutrient medium was enclosed in recesses. Substrates for deposition of physico-chemical aerosols were made in the form of covers similar to that of substrates for microbiological analysis. The method allowed to carry out complex analysis and sampling of biophysical aerosols. The invention increased the study of the nature of mineralogical, physical, bacterial and viral aerosols, allowed also to take measures for environment protection. 2. Another system for monitoring environment based on laboratory studying was described in [192]. It included fixed and mobile monitoring sites equipped w i t h m e a s u r i n g i n s t r u m e n t a t i o n s . Various environmental parameters were registered and subjected to analysis. More specifically, hydrophysical field signals were registered, the chemiluminescence, chromatographic, ion-selective, spectral and radiometric analysis was performed. Besides, bed acoustic impendance was registered, molecular spin interactions of seawater protons were detected, artifacts resulting from the magnetohydrodynamic, bioelectric and concentration effect were detected, synthetic surfactant content in the aquatic environment, chlorophyll c o n c e n t r a t i o n s , m i c r o o r g a s n i s m s , phytoplankton, zooplankton was determined. The collected data was further transferred to the archivers and modeling was performed. In the course of modeling the industrial facility environment and infrastructure were divided into a number of areas and a material balance model and a forecast model were created for each of them. For the purposes of the method implementation a system comprising a water withdrawal line equipped with hydrophysical field sensors, a filtering plant for chlorophyll concentration, a filtering plant with a Seitz funnel for microorganisms sampling, a Nageotte chamber for counting the phytoplankton content, a Bogorov Counting Chamber for enumerating zooplankton, a centrifugal apparatus for determining chlorophyll content, a geophone, spectral sensor of proton spin echo were proposed. Futhermore, the proposed system comprised the devices for chemiluminescence, chromatographic, ionselective, spectral and radiometric analysis, a radiation spectrometer, an atomic absorption spectrophotometer, an X-ray fluorometric analyser, TV sensors, infrared sensors, heat sensors, a metrological module, a sidescan sonar, multiple-beam echo sounder, water quality evaluator by TropoSample parameters and bed deposits characteristics, a lidar (a light radar), a penetrometer, methane and hydrogen detection sensors.
3. Other investigators [193] developed an enough perfect method to trace changes in characteristics of biological objects (in organisms-bioindicators) using technical system with "biosensor" for receptors' antagonists. Their invention related to a method for detection of receptor antagonists comprising the following steps: (I) a sample containing the receptor antagonist fractionated by use of a liquidbased separation means, preferably capillary electrophoresis, (II) a fraction containing the receptor antagonist or modulator that fed directly to a biosensor, which was activated by an appropriate receptor agonist and, as a result of this activation, generated a measurable response. The said agonist being fed to the biosensor through the liquidbased separation means together with the antagonist or modulator. The said activation of the biosensor being pulsed by delivery of the receptor agonist to the biosensor for short period of time. The said periods being separated by other periods when no agonist was delivered to the biosensor. And (III) the change of the response resulting from deactivation of the receptor agonistactivated biosensor by the receptor antagonist or modulator was measured preferably by means of a patch clamp electrode. It was further possible to resensitize the biosensor desensitized as above by use of pulsed superfusion of the biosensor. This invention also related to an apparatus usable for practicing the above mentioned method.
Another patent provided a highly specific modern way of studying changes in biophysical characteristics in bioindicator objects, including responses to external influences using optically active markers [194]. The invention provided polynucleotides and methods for expressing light-activated proteins in animal cells and altering an action potential of the cells by optical stimulation. The invention also provided animal cells and non-human animals comprising cells expressing the light-activated proteins.
The prototype system at the cellular level allowed the following mechanisms to be investigated and used: a) a delivery device comprising a polynucleotide that comprises a nucleotide sequence encoding a light-activated polypeptide, wherein the light-activated polypeptide comprises, from N-terminus to C-terminus; i) a core amino acid sequence that is at least 95% identical to the sequence shown in SEQ ID NO; 3, SEQ ID NO; 1, SEQ ID NO; 2, or SEQ ID NO; 4; ii) an endoplasmic reticulum (ER) export signal; and iii) a membrane trafficking signal; b) a light source; and c) a control device that controls generation of light by the light source.
Ideas about monitoring in few time intervals and about selection for studying of groups of influencing chemical substances. Pollution of environment with chemical substances in industrial and other regions is widespread today. The influence of such substances is long-term usually and starts often from the moment of pollution. That is why we see as crucially important to study the influence of polluted substances at once after the moment of pollution and during long months and even years (if possible) on living organisms and their populations; and this is one stream of our interests in the present study.
The second stream of our interests is the object of studying. There are some effects of organic substances represented by phenol and indole derivatives. Although the wide spectrum of chemical substances was known as components of chemical pollution, the influences on organisms of hazardous and dangerous organic chemicals are less studied because of different reasons. Among them there are their non-stable structures in nature, "masking" of their effects by great number other organic substances in living organisms and so on [190]. From the other side, these chemicals are enough important from the point of view of their "chameleon" effects: hydrophobic circles are able to inquiry cell membranes easily, and their radicals may have hydrophylic nature and to be located outside of the surface cell membranes. Such "anchored" structures are able to occure great effects in living organisms; up to the lethal results sometimes. These substances form the large group of environmental pollutants; but among them also there are powerful toxins from living nature, like Arthropods' or Insects' toxins.
The author of this article studied influence of different organic chemicals, like phenol -and indole -derivatives with polyamine radicals of different length and complexity (PID-PR) during couple of the years [172][173][174][175][176][177][178][179][180][181][182][183]. Further, the author developed some devices and methods for monitoring the effects of such substances. In general, PID-PR substances play different roles in nature. On the one part, they are incorporated into living organisms by themselves. On the other part, substances with similar structure are components of out fluxes of industrial activity, accidents or disasters that influence hazardously on biological organisms of different hierarchical levels and especially on neurons of organisms [190]. Among ecological toxins there are a lot of substances with such chemical structure (below we call them also ecotoxins).
Novel scheme and technical system for monitoring of some chemicals influence in nature. In the article it is suggested a novel monitoring scheme that included different components: organizational, technical, biotechnical, IS-component, ICT-component, novel invented methods, and etc. (Fig. 1). For this system, its main parts and developed methods of monitoring were defended by patents [173-176, 178, 182, 183].
Monitoring with the use of this developed system could be carried out in three time intervals after beginning of substance action: 1: 0.5 ms -few minutes; 2: 10 min -4 few hours; 3: during few months and years. Respectively, there were elaborated different methods and equipment and used technical means for different time intervals. Correlation between them was depicted on Fig. 1. Detailed information about each time interval of monitoring is suggested below.
Purpose and tasks of the work. The work was aimed at a biotechnical information system developing for monitoring in environment the chemical organic substances harmful for living objects with relative methods for diagnostics of such substances in nature for studying of their effects on living organisms and their populations with further making of necessary recommendations for nature protection in different regions.
In the furtherance of this goal it was necessary to solve the following tasks: 1. To analyze contemporary prototypes of different information system for monitoring in environment.
2. To develop new contemporary experi mental methodics connected with stated tasks solutions on the base of contemporary biophysical methods. 4. To study the influence of chemical organic substances, harmful for living objects, on chemosensitive transmembrane electric currents (CTE -currents) in voltaveclamp conditions. Mainly to study effects of derivatives of phenol and indole linked with polyamines of different length and complexity.

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To study the changes in living neurons' optical properties by marking them by fluorochromes using method of retrograd axonal transport.
6. To make mathematical processing of obtained results and to develop relative mathematic and program models for effects studied in (3)(4)(5). For different segments of this biotechnical system the software development C++, C#, Java were used.
7. To conduct long-term monitoring of bioindicators populations (Noctuidae, Lepidoptera) in different regions and conditions with further processing of the obtained results (also in case of environment pollution by studied organic substances). To develop the new methods of ecological monitoring of different ecosystems state with further analysis of the obtained data and with the recommendations for some regions of Ukraine (Karpathian Mountains, Midde Podniprovie, Donbas  "Striltsivskyi Steppe" Preserve in Luhansk region) and Russia (Caucasus Mountains, Kabardino-Balkar Republic). 8. On the base of (1-7) to develop new contemporary complex biotechnical system for obtaining and processing the data concerning environment with databases (DB), authomated electronic work places (EWP) with interfaces, in which there were united novel measuring devices, biodetectors and bioanalyzers, computer means, algorithms for data processing and methods for monitoring the bioorganisms (bioindicators) and ecosystems state. This biotechnical system was named as "Ecological Information System" -"EcoIS" [176].
So,"EcoIS" was developed to study and to monitor the influence of harmful substances (like some phenol -and indole -derivatives with polyamine radicals of different length and complexity -PID-PR) on living organisms in few time intervals. From the one side, it gives a possibility to study their mechanisms of infuences; from the other side -to trace the influence of PID-PR on organisms during long periods of time (human or non-human organisms). And all of these in complex give more possibilities to prevent and to neutrolize harmful PID-PR (and other) more long-term effects on humans.
Three time intervals were studied, and these time-intervals may be grounded reasonably by biological phenomena in the studied living organisms and the instrumental possibilities (experimental, monitoring, data mining, etc.) So, the time intervals selecting was due to the following: 1) (0.5 ms -few minutes)  in this time interval the changes in neuronal membrana electrical responces under PID-PR influences on CTE -currents have happened; they might be registered in voltage-clamp conditions, patch-clamp, other methods of this pool.
2) (10 min -4 few hours)  in this time interval biochemical processes in neurons "in response" to chemicals' influences on neuron have happened. They might be revealed by fluorescent markers (the optical studyings were carried out by UV-microscopy method using the "LUMAM" fluorescent microscope producted by "Carl Zeiss" Company in Iena, Germany).
3) (during few months and years)  in this time interval the monitoring of changes in Noctuidae (Lepidoptera) organisms and populations was provided (collection of insects was carried out using light traps, field collections, other linked methods).
In such a way it was possible to register different aspects of the studied substances influences: (1) -the quickest electric processes in response to chemicals' influences; (2) -more slow biochemical processes in response; (3) very slow changes in the whole organisms and consequences of chemicals' influences on insects populations.
Brief information concerning the developed biotechnical system for ecomonitoring. The basis for biotechnical system for ecomonitoring elaboration was aimed to develop a method for the use of a network computer biotechnical monitoring system for deep large-scale study of the effect of a large number of types of chemicals on organisms-bioindicators in a wide range of time: from the moment when the chemical substance started to influence to the long-term consequences in a few years (including the effects of pollutants of the environment).
For this problem solution the biotechnical information system were developed called BTSM-3 with databases (DB), in which the sub systems of three types were united. BTSM-3 is a system that unites technical means and methods for monitoring in three time intervals. The system "EcoIS" was based on BTSM-3 but included also other subsystems, services and possibilities as follows: 1. The first subsystem contained at least one sensor (biotechnical system  BTS) with biological fragment (BF -cell, cell membrane, etc.). This sensor was included for the registration of transmembrane electric currents in single cells that might be influenced by different chemical substances. Such sensor might be a part of the whole sensory group with relative methods. It might be called a "sensor" or "detector". Time intervals of registration by the subsystem 2 and subsystem 1 were not always overlapped (Figs. 2-4).
2. The second subsystem was another sensory group -detecting group. It was developed, organized and supplemented with relative methods and serves to perform the optical registration of changes in the internal environment of cells marked in vivo by the fluorochromes, the dyes-markers (VDM), such optical changes of the cells' internal environment appeared in response to the action of some chemicals applied to the cells (Fig. 5).
3. The third subsystem was developed and organized to account the biological organismsindicators (bioindicators) with the purpose to study the results of both qualitative and quantitative composition of bioindicators' populations ( Fig. 6).
So, we proposed to use the developed biotechnical system BTSM-3 for the largescale monitoring, using the deep study of the effects of chemicals infuense on the organism in different time intervals, from the moment of the start of their action on the organism. BTSM-3 was constructed as a biotechnical information system on the basis of relevant databases with direct and/or remote access that contain a number of subsystems and sensory groups.
In BTSM-3 there was in-built subsystemsensor BTS with BF (there may be one or more such sensors, or detectors) characterized by the unity of three parts: mechanical-hydraulic part with BF, electric part and computer part. The last one allowed the registration of new received data, and also makes it possible to record in memory of the computer (PC). The obtained results were possible to record in DB (in local and/or network databases), to visualize them, to perform processing, analysis and data extraction, to make the data transmission using network technologies about the action of various chemicals. The registration process of the BTS occurs in the following sequence: the chemical substances were applied to BFs that were possible to substitute one by another. After respective agonists application there were possible to register the changes of electric transmembrana signals from BF using voltage-clamp, patchclamp, microelectrodes' techniques or other methods of these types. The effects of applied in BF substances were measurable and able to be recorded.
The developed method and relative biotechnical system BTSM-3 differs from the other because it unites three subsystems that were built into the BTSM-3 for the monitoring of the increased number of chemical substances and for the expansion of the monitoring intervals after the time of start of the substances action.
For the use in sensor group, BF had to undergo preliminary processing according to specially developed procedures [172,177] including enzyme treatment by proteases of Aspergillus oryzae and/or others substances in solutions with a selected composition, which are in contact with the gas environments of special composition, temperature and time modes of treatment. The substances acting on the BF could be obtained using various  " (BTSM-3). This complex may be an element in the block "Measuring system" (Fig. 1): at the input of the system information comes in the form of electrical or chemical signals, at utput -in form of electrical signals chemical and biochemical methods. For the substances application a specially developed concentration-clamp method might be used. It was important as well to improve the registration of the output electric signal, improving its allocation to the background of the noise and significantly reducing the noises by themselves. Also the BF could be replaced depending on the processing of molecules of their surfaces, the type of chemicals that were analyzed. BF acts as the primary link in the sensor  biodetector and/or bioanalyzer of acted substances (including environmental pollutants). The input of computers in the BTSM-3 network received the information from the databases, the data as electrical and optical signals from detector subsystems, and data of bio-indicators' organisms counting. Let's describe briefly some peculiaritiesinstrumental, methodics, etc. -for each time period of monitoring in details, as well as some obtained resuts.
Peculiarities of monitoring at the first time interval -at once after the influense of chemical substances. The first time interval of monitoring is between 0.5 ms -few minutes The devices, equipment and methods used there (both standard and newly developed) were elaborated and used in complex. This complex with studied neuronal membrane or membrane of other type of cels (let's call them "biological fragment" -BF) served, in fact, as "biodetector" and "bioanalyzer" for chemicals, applied to BF. To realize this step there were elaborated the new methods: biological cells dissociation, their cultivation, testing of PID-PR influence on trans-membrane currents in cells, some PID-PR diagnostics [172][173][174][175][176][177][178][179][180][181][182][183]. For these the results of many-year experimental author investigations of electrical signals and processes in natural membranes of neurons (MN) were described. Also there were described experimental data about electrical chemoactivated trans-membrane currents with molecular structures in MN gated them, as well as methods of such current characteristics control by some organic molecules, like PID-PR. The methods of enhancing of MN chemoactivated currents amplitudes registered in experiments and their perfected revealing among noises were elaborated and patented [172,177]. Some possible ways of insertion of this complex of devices for electrophysiological experiment into the technical IS were suggested. The obtained data were important for elaboration of the newest biosensorselectronic elements of technical systems, IS for eco-monitoring, new technical expert systems for detection and diagnosis of ecotoxins in the environment. The appropriate methods and means of the parameters measuring of electrical information signals from neurons were considered. Namely, the experiment examples with voltage-clamp and concentration-clamp on MN were done as well as activation under these conditions of CTE-currents -glutamate-activated (Glu) and kainat-activated (KK-). As it is shown in the work, this control could be achieved, for example, by acting on the MN of the mammal central nervous system by specific toxinsblockers (BTx) of Glu -and KK-activated channel-receptor complexes (or antagonists of Glu -and KK-activated channel-receptor complexes) with the purpose to block CTEcurrents. At the same time, under the conditions of the experiments, there were registered the interaction between three types of molecular structures: molecular channelreceptor complex (CRC), agonist molecules A (Glu, KK), and the molecules of CTE-currents' antagonists (BTx).
On Fig. 3 one can see the schematic description of all complex work done in the developed system, from primary registration of bioelectrical signals in the expriment under the influence of different chemical substances on neuronal membranes (left)  to computer  processing of such signals (values averaging and further processing; A  at middle)  and than to the development of mathematical and program models (M  at right).
-The method of amplification of 11.8 times the amplitudes of CTE-currents (electrical signals) at the output of the sensor and the improvement of detection of them at the background of noise during registration in experiments was developed, which is important both for the registration of CTE-currents; the patent was obtained on this method [172,177]; -algorithms for preparation of BF element of sensor -neuronal membranes (MN) from hippocampus of the rat central nervous system and algorithms for carrying out the experiments, data on the registered physical and chemical properties of experimental objects; -the experiment results on the registration of CTE-currents -signals at the output of the sensor group, which represent a series of digitized records of CTE-currents in response to the activation of CRC molecule by agonists (A) with known chemical structure of the molecules; -there were obtained the data on the control of the output signals of BTS by blocking or modifying of the registered CTE-currents after the influence of six different specific toxin (JSTX-V, JSTX-3, AR-V, AR, ARN-1, ARN-2) on the CRC. The molecules chemical structure of four investigated antagonists was established, the other two antagonists were the mixture of the substances.
Data from the series of studied effects of various types of antagonists were summarized in the DB and relative tables. The effects of all studied antagonists' infuences on CTE-currents were similar, but they were characterized also by number of distinct features, which allowed the development of certain approaches for the creation of new methods of qualitative and quantitative analysis of organic substances with toxic effects in the environment.
Further there were done: -mathematical processing and analysis of the experiments results described above on the registration of CTE-currents at the output of the BTS; -generalizations and conclusions regarding the correlation of characteristics of the blocking effect of CTE-currents influenced by the toxins with differences in chemical structure, in particular, with different lengths and structure of polyamine; -elaboration of mathematical models of registered effects under the influence of specific antagonists of Glu -and KK-currents (3 phases of interaction between molecules were considered); -material on the application of mathematical cluster methods to distinguish similar features in registered effects.
In order to develop fundamentally new methods for qualitative and quantitative analysis of organic pollutants in the environment, the dose-effect dependences for coupling of studied substances were investigated in the experiments. The values of Kd for all possible cases for the action of all antagonists were calculated (for JSTX-3 as well as AR and other antagonists from Araneidae venom). The dose-effect dependencies were single-bonded isoterms. They demonstrated the lack of co-operability. It was shown that the magnitude of the amplitudes of currents under the action of AR decreased by 2.7 times, but the nature of dose-effect dependence had not been changed. Consequently, AR did not compete with KK for binding sites on the receptor according to the results of our experiments.
The obtained dependences were proposed to put in base of new methods of detection, quantitative and qualitative analysis of the presence in environment some organic substances-pollutants. Thus, in the samples from industrial territories contaminated with organic harmful, toxic substances [190], on the basis of these dependencies it becomes possible to detect and pre-diagnose the approximate type of chemical pollutant. The regularities of the action of phenol and indole derivatives with polyamine radicals of different lengths and complexity on the CTE-currents were studied [16,17,26,143,153,163,164,[173][174][175][176][177][178][179][180][181][182][183]. The conclusions about the correlation between the chemical structure of various chemical substances (incuding pollutants) with their physiological effect on electric currents both on the molecular level and on the level of organisms were made.
Peculiarities of monitoring at the second time interval (10 min -few hours) after the influense of chemical substances. In this time interval it was possible to register biochemical processes in neurons "in response", after the influense of chemical substances on the cells. These effects were revealed by using the method of neurons retrograde marking by fluorescent markers in vivo. Optical studyings were done using UV-microscopy -"LUMAM" (fluorescent microscope from "Carl Zeiss", Iena, Germany) [1,17]. For this step realization there were developed the method of neuron state registration using some fluorescent markers that actually gave possibility to visualize the coupling between electrical and chemical changes in neurons with their optical characteristics. Results of these experiments enables to visualize the changes in electrical characteristics of the system as sets of images with their future ordering in databases (DB). Fluorochromes primulin and bis-benzimide were used for these experiments. The signal was received when molecules of agonist (A) were applied to MN at concentrations of approximately 10 -4 mol/l. Before this, the molecules of fluorescencent marker primulin were introduced inside the neurons using retrograde axon transport; and they formed complexes with proteins in cell soma. The experiments technique at all stages were described [1,17], ending with observations on changes of optical characteristics of neurons in thin sections of rat brain with the help of luminescent microscope in the mode of incident light (Fig. 5).
From the experiments shown at Fig. 5 it is possibe to see that before the action of the exciting signal (a) the brightness of the fluorescent marker primulin was much weaker than after acting on the MN of the agonists (b, c). After the action of the agonist molecules, the number of light granules in the cytoplasm of the neurons increases tremendously, the brightness of each granule increased (from the photo it is seen that the size of each granule increased), their number increased in the zone of the nucleus with the formation of the ring. Similarly, the changes in the characteristics of the fluorescing complexes caused other agonists as well, we had studied 5 agonists [1,17]. In their ability to cause the effect of fluorescence change, the agonists could be arranged in the following sequence: adrenaline > acetylcholin e> GABA > > glycine > serine.
In case of application of the method of neurons' marking using retrograde axon transport, the processes of neurons were usually well visible: their trajectories were marked with luminous granules of primulinproteins. Under the action of agonists on the neurons, the "marked" parts of the processes were significantly lengthened, exceeding two or three diameters of the neurons.
Mathematic and program modeling of different phases of electrical impulses development in MN in framework of studied systems were done. There also were developed some mathematical and program models of systems with the use of studied effects, the principles of information coding by such systems were suggested [1,25,72].
Monitoring at the third time intervallong-term monitoring during few months and years. This long-term monitoring was realized by studying of changes in biological organisms. For such studyings we selected as organisms-bioindicators insects Noctuidae (Lepidoptera) -single insects, species and their populations. Insects were collected using light traps, field collections were done as well.
As a result of the works for the development of monitoring system in the third time interval -long-term monitoring of environment -the original IS with DB of images were developed and suggested for use in ecological scientific and academic practice, for environment protection. Detailed analysis and studying of peculiarities of biological objects and necessity to use of mathematic and other methods that were not used before became the basis for the DB development [166][167][168][169][170]. The series of these works were continued by the elaboration of some IS with DB, including DB of images, and electronic working places linked with DB for professionals of few specialties (ecologists, zoologists, and some others).
The complex of the works done conserning this time interval included practical development of electronic systems for monitoring of environment, for example, using monitoring of bioindicators (Noctuidae, Lepidoptera) in different regions of Ukraine and neighboring countries. As it was written above the biotechnical system developed for such purposes is called "EcoIS", it fragment is suggested on (Fig. 6). Developed technical ISs with databases for Noctuidae (Lepidoptera) basing on the results of their study in the mountains of Elbrus region (Caucasus, Russia) during environmental eco-monitoring in extreme conditions was described as well [1,9,10,174,175,176,178]. It should be noted that the adaptation of bioorganisms in extreme conditions takes place according two strategies, and strategy of adaptation of insects differs from the strategy of adaptation of mammals.
The list of the works done in the framework of the third time interval includes the following materials [1,9,10,174,175,176,178]: -problems of the network IS development with databases were discussed; there were observed IS with databases of images, ISs with distributed databases; -problems of designing the database for ecology, according to eco-monitoring results basing on the results of the study of bioorganisms in extreme conditions were observed and discussed; -general overview of the methods of mathematics and computer modeling in the field of environment protection, other spheres of medicine and biology were done; -algorithms of ecomonitoring of fauna of different ecosystems with the use of the possibilities of academic IS and networks with distributed bio-organism databases were presented; -possibility of development of IS for ecomonitoring with databases of images have been demonstrated; -the effectiveness of the newest methods of ecological monitoring of bioorganism populations on the basis of network IS with distributed databases was demonstrated including mathematical analysis of the data obtained in conditions of monitoring points distributed on the territory of the country; -results of the work on the development of "EcoIS" system for eco-monitoring were obtained (Fig. 7). "EcoIS" is a "system of academic destination" [1,7,8]. Being electronic networking system with distributed Noctuidae (Lepidoptera) databases, "EcoIS" is -authomatized electronic working places linked with DB for professionals of few specialties (ecologists, zoologists, and some others) were constructed. They became interfaces to "EcoIS".
At the end of the description of the work done it is necessary to emphasize two positons.
I. Scientific novelties of the work done were as follows: -for the first time it was proposed the technical system of environmental data collection and processing in which the biotechnical sensors (detectors) were connected with electrical signals with measuring devices, computer means; the system also combined algorithms of data processing and methods of eco-monitoring; -for the first time there were developed the methods and biotechnical devicessensors (detectors), which allow measuring the influence of toxic substances much more accurately (by several orders of magnitude) compared to current ones; -for the first time a new type of methods for quantitative and qualitative analysis of organic substances (incuding pollutants) was invented as a method, which allows to recognize approximately the chemical structure of organic compounds in dependence to their influence on transmembrane electric currents, so in dependence to physiological effects they occurred. Some patents were obtained for these methods [179][180][181][182][183]. These works formed the scientific basis for the development of the new technical systems for such organic substances detection and analysis.
II. Practical values of the obtained results are as follows.
-A software and analytical system were developed for ecological monitoring «EcoIS», which enabled the conducting works on ecomonitoring on various objects of Ukraine (in the regions of industrial pollution, in areas with extreme conditions, where such monitoring was not possible due to lack of funds or difficult access to these locations, and etc.).
-The inverse problem of organic chemical substances determining, the presence of pollutant molecules in the nature by their effects on the CTE-currents were solved. The theoretical dependence of the damaging effect of ecotoxins on their chemical structure was found. Such dependence might be the basis for the development of new technical expert systems for monitoring and analysis of some organic compounds in pollutants.
-There were elaborated the automatized electronic workplaces (ERM) and an improved analytical research complex for scientists of several specialties. Such ERM became interfaces for communication between human and "EcoIS" or other systems from this family.
-The described results in their different parts and at different years were implemented at the National Aviation University, the International Center for Astronomical and Medico-Ecological Studies (ICAMED) of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine in the Caucasus (Russia, the Kabardino-Balkaria Republic), at A. A. Bogomo letz Institute of Physiology and Kavetsky Institute of Experimental Pathology, Oncology and Radiobiology of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Uman State Pedagogical University named after P. Tychyna. The obtained results were also used for monitoring of the bioorganisms of the Donbas -Striltsivskyi Steppe Preserve (Ukraine), at Ukrainian Polissia, in the extreme conditions of Ukrainian Carpathians and the Elbrus region (Caucasus, Russia).
1. The scientific basis was developed and the newest technical system for eco-monitoring was developed. It used a new type of the sensor groups as a technical means for the state of the environment monitoring. Accompanying laboratory, experimental methods and appropriate researches were done. The sensor model as part of a technical system for the diagnosis and testing of ecotoxins was elabrated. The corresponding software was developed.
2. The numerical characteristics of interaction for all studied toxic substances were investigated, mathematical description of the processes of CTE-currents blocking by them were performed. The general laws of the damaging action of toxic substances were established. Due to the phenolic and/or indole fragments of the molecule of a toxic substance, it interacts with the hydrophobic components of the membranes. Due to the polyamine -it interacts with the glutamate receptor (Glu-R), providing the main mechanism of currents' blocking. New methods of quantitative and qualitative analysis of studied toxic and harmful organic compounds in environment were proposed.
3. The method to amplify by 11.8 times the amplitudes of CTE-currents in neuron membranes (MN) was elaborated. It enabled to improve electric signals detection against noise backgrounds. Using the elaborated method, experimental recording of CTEcurrents became more perfect. So, all further electrophysiological recordings became more perfect as well. These methods were patented [172][173][174][175][176][177].
4. The methods of optical registration of processes of neurons excitation at the molecular level of the action of 5 different agonists were elaborated and applied in the experment. The method of retrograd dye axon transport was used for this.
5. Algorithms, mathematical and program approaches for elaboration of the databases (DBs) for the developed "EcoIS" system, ERM, others, taking into account the features of bioobjects were proposed.
6. ERM -automated electronic work places -were developed on the basis of the corresponding databases for use by scientistsbiologists of several specialties (ecologists, neurotoxicologists, zoologists, etc.). They became interface to the system "EcoIS". ERM were elaborated on the basis of network technologies, their structure, functions. The developed ERMs are easy to use and quite satisfactorily meet the requirements of the relevant experts in experimental and theoretical data.
11. An example of a network technical information system based on distributed databases with information on bioindicators Noctuidae (Lepidoptera) (the system "EcoIS") was developed for the purpose of its use for professional monitoring of bioorganisms. This system included DB with the results of ecomonitoring for some regions of Ukraine (Striltsivskyi Steppe Preserve (Luhansk region), Karpathian Mountains) and Russia (Prielbrussie). It is possible to use this system for monitoring with the aim of environmental protection. For this purpose it has to include also environmental monitoring equipment for the detection of polluting organic compounds, ecotoxins, to ensure environmental safety around industrial enterprises, including damaged as a result of accidents, mancaused and ecological disasters, in the areas of military actions, as well as accidents at chemical enterprises, other accident zones with industrial pollution.