[Aminotransferase and dehydrogenase activity in human brain tumours].

Asparate and alanine aminotransferase activity is approximately the same in different lobes of cerebral hemispheres of people with an uninjured central nervous system. The maximal activity of lactate, malate and succinate dehydrogenase is in the temporal lobes and thalami, the minimal one is in the corpus callosum. The activity of aminotransferases in the brain tumour lowers: in the dedifferentiated tumour the asparate aminotransferase shows a 23-24% decrease; in the case of the meningeal sarcoma it is 2.

[Visceral pathology in severe cranio-cerebral injuries and its pathogenetic mechanisms].

Pathological conditions of the internal organs and their innervation apparatus, including the limbic cortex, reticular formation, vegetative nuclei of the vagus nerves and spinal cord, peripheral ganglia, and intramural plexuses, in severe craniocerebral trauma were studied by the clinico-physiological, clinico-morphological, and neurohistological methods. The innervation apparatuses of the organs were also studied in experiments with a purposeful effect exerted on the hypothalamus. Peculiarities in the manifestation of visceral pathology in diencephalic and mesencephalobulbar forms of brain lesions were established.