COMPARISON OF THE OSCILLOMETRICALLY MEASURED AORTIC PULSE WAVE VELOCITY, AUGMENTATION INDEX AND CENTRAL SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE BETWEEN PATIENTS WITH ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROME AND CHRONIC CORONARY SYNDROME.

Recent studies have revealed a strong association between Coronary Artery Disease (CAD) severity and arterial stiffness parameters, such as Pulse Wave Velocity (PWV). The majority of studies mainly using carotid-femoral PWV (cfPWV) or brachial-ankle PWV (baPWV). The emerging data have indicated that oscillometrically PWVao proved to be an independent marker of atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (ASCVD), as well.

[Changes of local resistance of oral cavity and humoral immunity among workers of metallurgical and chemical production during parodontitis].

On the basis of the data of immunological investigations of 142 workers of metallurgical (melting shops of Zestaphoni's Farroalloy Plant) and chemical (electrolytic shops of manganese and dioxide manganese of Farroalloy Plant and "Azoti") production it was found that during parodontitis among studied contingent local resistance of mouth cavity and humoral immunity are changed, the compound of lysozyme and amylase in saliva is lowered, in the layers of saliva and blood is revealed the misbalance of immunoglobulin's system. First of all was established, that during parodontitis among the studied workers autoimmune processes are developed directed against the I-st type collagen and the tissue of gum. Changes of local and common homeostasis as well as the changes of intensity of autoimmune process are in direct correlation with the severity of parodontitis and the pollution of production environment with the spray of manganese dioxide.

[Low affinity human IgE receptor: cloning cDNA from B-lymphocytes of cell line 1B and study of its expression in peripheral blood B-cells].

Previously, the cDNA coding for human low-affinity receptor for IgE (FcERII/CD23) was cloned by three independent groups. Using oligonucleotide probes corresponding to the published cDNA sequence of CD23, we have isolated cDNA clones encoding FcERII from the cDNA library of B-lymphoblastoid cell line 1B obtained in our laboratory. Cloned nucleotide sequences of FcERII were shown to be identical to those from the RPMI8866 cell line.