The use of intraoperative electrophysiological monitoring in patients with decompression of the ulnar nerve near the elbow joint.

At the elbow, the ulnar nerve may be compressed either in the retrocondylar groove, in the cubital tunnel, or compressed by Osborne's band. Optimal surgical therapy should be directed at the specific site of involvement. It is more difficult to identify the level of ulnar nerve compression.

Prevention of cicatricial adhecions using biodegradable membrane in lumbar microdiscectomy.

Article focuses on the efficiency improvement of lumbar microdiscectomy by preventing epidural fibrosis. Cicatricial adhesions are known to occur in all operated patients. Clinically significant changes are 5-38%.

[Clinico-experimental basis of application of biodegradable implants in surgical treatment of peripheral nerve lesions].

Aim of this study was to provide clinico-experimental basis of application of biodegradable implants in surgical treatment of peripheral nerve lesions. Experimental investigations were performed on non-pedigree female rats with body weight of 200-250 grams. 10 animals were used, 20 sciatic nerves were operated.

[ATPase subunit 6 gene of Leptomonas seymouri (Trypanosomatidae) is transcribed and edited as a polycistronic transcript].

The maturation of mitochondrial RNA transcripts proceeds through several steps. Here we use insects trypanosomatid Leptomonas seymouri as a model organism for analysis of transcription and posttranscriptional processing of mitochondria encoded gene for the subunit 6 of ATPase (A6). It was shown that Cyt b (cytochrome b) and A6 genes were transcribed and edited as a polycistronic template.

[Reduction of the edited domain of the mitochondrial A6 gene for ATPase subunit 6 in Trypanosomatidae].

The sequence of mitochondrial A6 (MURF4) was compared for several trypanosomatids in order to assess the reduction of the edited domain (ED). The association between the ED reduction and the phylogenetic position of a species proved to be less tight than believed earlier. Compared with digenetic species, monogenetic ones more often displayed ED reduction and had smaller ED.