[Synaptic plasticity of neocortex of albino rats in diffuse-focal injuries of the brain].

In an experiment conducted using mature albino rats, the regularities of reorganization of synaptic architectonics of cortical layer I of the brain were studied in the areas of diffuse-focal injuries. The models of acute break of systemic circulation (clinical death) as a result of 6-minute-long mechanical asphyxia, compression of common carotid arteries for 20 min (ischemia) and rotatory sublethal injury according to Noble-Collip method (cranial trauma), were used. Using the methods of electron microscopy and morphometric analysis, it was shown that a reduction in a general numerical density of synapses was accompanied by the changes in relative and absolute numbers of major variants of synaptic organization.

[Ultrastructural changes in organelles of the dog cerebral cortex astrocytes in post-ischemic period (morphometric analysis)].

Morphometric analysis of volume density of mitochondria, rough endoplasmic reticulum (RER), Golgi complex, vacuoles, lysosomes, fibrils, superficial density of mitochondria and RER, postischemic mitochondria/RER superficial and volume ratio and astrocyte ultrastructure was carried out experimentally in dogs. The findings obtained indicate that in early postischemic period (5-10 min-3-7 d) changes in astrocyte were reactive, although since the second wk of postischemic period metabolic processes in astrocytes were disturbed, which were manifested through structural changes maximally pronounced on d 14-21 of reparative period. At late reparative period (first-third month) astrocyte structure was normalised to significant extent.

[A2G--a new system of alpha-2-globulin allotypes in pig blood serum].

Combinations of four alpha-2-globulin allotypes were studied for their distribution in pigs of nine different breeds and hybrid groups. Based on this analysis, a new, previously unpublished polyallelic genetic system designated A2G was postulated. The complex alleles of this system control alpha-2-globulin allotypes and are suggested to be encoded by genes of two subloci.