[[Length polymorphism of minisatellite repeat B2-VNTR of the bradykinin B2 receptor gene in healthy Russians and in patients with coronary heart disease].

Bradykinin B2 receptor is involved in many processes, including the regulation of blood pressure and smooth muscle contraction, vasodilation, inflammation, edema, cell proliferation, pain. It is suggested that this receptor may be one of the factors that have cardioprotective and infarct-limiting effects. It is assumed that certain genetic variants in both coding and non-coding regions ofBDKRB2 gene may influence its expression.

[The content of glycogen and its fractions in human hepatocytes in traumatic disease].

A cytofluorometric study was made of the total glycogen and its of fractions in liver cells of patients with hard mechanic trauma with or without intoxication. For studying glycogen dynamics in the course of traumatic illness, the aspiration biopsy material was obtained (30 patients) using repeated liver biopsy of one and the same patient. The total glycogen was found to change insignificantly in liver cells of patients with traumatic illness, both under favourable conditions and with intoxication, and at the normal level.

[Method of automated cytomorphological analysis for classifying leukocytes by their stage of destruction].

Destruction of human peripheral blood leukocytes by toxins has been studied with the aid of an automatic microimage analyzer the "Morphoquant". The most informative parameters which define destruction stages have been revealed: the area and number of fragments of nucleus images and their distance to the nucleus centre under different levels of the optical threshold. Software for morphological analysis of leukocytes has been developed in addition to their classification using four destruction stages.