[Investigations into post-traumatic complications in the practice of forensic medical expertise of living people].

Statistical data on the incidence and spectrum of thrombotic complications presented in this paper are based on the materials collected by the Department of Expertise of Living Subjects, Rostov Regional Bureau of Forensic Medical Expertise, during 2004-2010. The cases of interest were analysed by age, sex, time of injury, character of traumatic impact, and time of surgical intervention. It is concluded that such cases require forensic medical expertise by standardized methods.

[Methods of in vitro assessment of the degree of complement activation by the classical pathway].

A sensitive a simple method is proposed for assessing the complement activation degree by the monospecific classical route. The alternative pathway of the complement activation proposed by Adachi et al. in 1990 is taken account of.

[Immunosuppressive hybridomas in the pathogenesis of malignant tumors and their metastases in humans and animals (hypothesis)].

The author proposes that the formation of immunosuppressive hybridomas resultant from fusion of transformed tumor cells and immune reaction suppressor cells precedes the development of malignant tumors and cancer in man and animals. Physical and chemical carcinogens and oncogenic and nononcogenic viruses act not only as transforming agents in this process, but directly induce these cells' fusion to form immunosuppressive hybridomas. The resultant hybridomas retain the tumor cell capacity to unlimited division and growth and suppressor cell capacity to overcome the immune barrier, and thus form the base for malignant tumors and their capacity to metastasizing.

Attraction of male turnip mothsAgrotis segetum (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) to sex pheromone components and their mixtures at 11 sites in Europe, Asia, and Africa.

Selected combinations of (Z)-5-decenyl, (Z)-7-dodecenyl, and (Z)-9-tetradecenyl acetates, the pheromone components of the turnip mothAgrotis Segetum were tested for field attractancy at six, two, and three sites in Europe, Asia, and Africa, respectively. At all of the sites in Eurasia and in northern Africa the ternary mixture of the acetates captured most males, while at the sites south of the Sahara in Africa, (Z)-5-decenyl acetate alone was responsible for attraction. Differences in male attraction among the populations studied confirm the existence of significant population variation in the pheromone ofA.