Changes in serum enzyme activities in splanchnic ischemia shock.

Wistar male rats underwent a midline ventral abdominal incision under pentobarbital anaesthesia and were divided into two groups: the experimental rats were injected with 0.04 ml.kg-1 bodyweight Ethibloc (Ethicon-FRG) into a tributary of the superior mesenteric vein, close to the hepatic portal vein and the control, saline.

[Rapid and early determination of pregnancy by laboratory methods].

The first morning urine in 206 women with pregnancy or no pregnancy was examine for and increase of chorionic gonadotropic hormone by means of three tests: Sevatest HCG latex, Gravimmun 2 (imported by first direction) and Gravindex HCG (imported by second direction). Diagnostic reliability of the tests was studied in women to establish early pregnancy. It was fond that the tests, imported by the first direction, could successfully substitute those, imported by the second direction, in the routine diagnostic practice.

[Changes in the rat endocrine pancreas under the effect of urbazon].

Hypertrophy and hyperplasia of islet tissue, established by morphometry, were proved in the pancreas of rats, treated chronically for a period of 2 months (with urbason-50 mg/kg of body mass). B-cells were granulated. Structures with myelin-like form of membranes were observed in some of them by electron microscope.