[Means and methods of acoustic protection in aviation: current status and outlook for development].

Analysis of the current status of acoustic protection in aviation shows that despite the material progress in the field, risk of professional pathologies in flying and technical personnel is still high. The situation is dramatized by the lack of effective personal and crew acoustic protectors. The authors speculate on applicability of innovative materials and technologies, ingenious designs of earphones and modular prefabricated demountable structures.

[Criteria of noise pathologies in aviation specialists and their prognostic implications].

The paper outlines the criteria of noise pathologies in aviation specialists after extended period of exposure to high-intensity noise and infrared sound. Analysis of morbidity and clinical researches shows prevalence of such pathologies as neurosensory deafness, hypertension and discirculatory encephalopathy. These disorders were correlated with career length.

[Current problems of nuclear medicine in immunology].

The authors describe in a systemic order the potentialities of the use of nuclear medicine methods in immunology. Two fields of their application were singled out: experimental and clinical immunology, each one including in vivo and in vitro methods. The authors cited examples of their use, emphasizing the importance and prospects of radioimmunoassays for determination of the level of hormones in patients with various immunological pathology.

[Study of cellular immunity and the opioid peptide system in patients with multiple sclerosis].

Twenty-five patients with chronic progressing multiple sclerosis were examined for the content of beta-endorphin in blood serum, supernatants of activated lymphocytes and CSF by RIA. At the same time the parameters of cellular immunity were appraised. Different relations were discovered between cellular immunity and the content of beta-endorphin in biological fluids which may play a material part in the pathogenesis of multiple sclerosis.