[Long-term storage of industrial microbial strains].

Morphofunctional characteristics of industrial microorganisms belonging to different genera, species, and strains were investigated after 15 to 20 years of storage in liquid nitrogen. The taxonomic position of microorganisms, the cell physiological state prior to storage, and the cryoconservation regime were found to affect microbial cryoresistance. Protective media, density of cell suspensions, freezing rate, and heating temperature are the parameters important for development of efficient technologies for cryoconservation of industrial microorganisms at -196 degrees C.

[The characteristics of the morphofunctional status of the adenohypophysis in lethally irradiated recipients after bone marrow transplantation].

The effect of lethal irradiation and transplantation of syngenic bone marrow in a dose of 1 x 10(7) cell/ml on the morphofunctional state of hypophysis at various stages of the posttransplantation period has been studied for 3 months using 100 linear male mice of a F1 (CBA x C57 B) line. The experiments conducted have shown that bone marrow transplantation reduces the intensity of the negative effect of irradiation on hypophysis and facilitates normalization of its histological structure. There was a correlation between changes in the number of secretory cells in the anterior lobe of the hypophysis and the level of corticosterone in irradiated and bone marrow-protected animals.

[The effect of bone marrow transplantation on the dynamic recovery of the morphofunctional properties of the pancreas in irradiated recipients].

Effect of transplantation of syngeneic bone marrow in the dose of 1 X 10(7) cell/ml on the state of pancreatic gland in lethally irradiated recipients has been studied at different stages of posttransplantation period for 3 months using 250 linear male rats G (CBA x C57B). Histological and biochemical investigation, conducted in dynamics, have shown that transplantation of native and cryopreserved bone marrow to lethally irradiated animals facilitates activation of compensatory-restoration processes manifesting themselves in mitotic division of glandular and epithelial cells, as well as optimizes exchange of carbohydrates in the irradiated organism.

[The effect of initial bioenergetic state on the cryostability of yeast cells].

The cryostability of Saccharomyces cerevisiae cells decreased when they were cultivated under anaerobic conditions in a liquid growth medium YEPD as compared to the culture grown under aerobic conditions. The effect of cultivation conditions on the different cryostability of S. cerevisiae cells is discussed.

[The dynamic morphofunctional state of the adrenals in irradiated recipients following bone marrow transplantation].

The influence of syngenic bone marrow transplantation in the dose of 1.10(7) cell/ml upon the adrenal gland state of lethally irradiated recipients at various stages of posttransplantation period during 3 months has been studied at 150 linear F1 (CBA x C57B) male mice. Histological and histochemical studies conducted have shown the transplantation of native and cryopreserved bone marrow of the lethally irradiated recipients to result, depending upon observation time, in undulating change in adrenal gland weight, cortex thickness and lipid content in spongiocytes, which testifies to the certain dynamics of processes, occurring in recipients' adrenal gland.