[Validation of the Russian version of the Fugl-Meyer Assessment of Physical Performance for assessment of patients with post-stroke paresis].

Objective: To perform linguistic and cultural adaptation of the Fugl-Meyer Assessment of Physical Performance.

Materials And Methods: The study for assessment of psychometric properties included 53 post-stroke patients with neurological deficit presented by hemiparesis of different severity. The patients were assessed twice: at admission and after 14 days of treatment and rehabilitation procedures.

A Russian validation study of the Coma Recovery Scale-Revised (CRS-R).

Introduction: The aim of the study was to develop and validate a Russian adaptation of the Coma Recovery Scale-Revised (CRS-R).

Subjects And Methods: We evaluated 58 patients with chronic disorders of consciousness (> 4 weeks post-injury, DOC) of various etiology and two patients in a locked-in state at different stages after coma. We tested sensitivity for changes over 1 week, reliability, criterion validity and diagnostic sensitivity of the Russian adaptation of the CRS-R in comparison with the Russian adaptations of Full Outline of UnResponsiveness Score (FOUR), and Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS).

[The comparative evaluation of the effectiveness of the treatment of the patients presenting with the sub-compensated form of chronic tonsillitis making use of the antiseptic herbal medicinal product in the combination with the standard conservative therapy: the results of the open randomized study].

The objective of the present study was the comparison of the effectiveness of the application of tonsilgon-N in the combination with the physical methods for sanitization of the palatine tonsil lagunes with that of the standard conservative treatment. A total of 60 patients having the confirmed diagnosis of sub-compensated form of chronic tonsillitis were recruited to participate in the study. All the patients were divided into two groups.

[The Russian version of Coma Recovery Scale-revised - a standardized method for assessment of patients with disorders of consciousness].

The authors officially present for the first time the Russian version of Coma Recovery Scale-Revised (CRS-R). Today CRS-R is the only validated scale in Russian for assessment of patients with chronic disorders of consciousness (DOC). The study showed high consistency for different researchers, high sensitivity in the evaluation of patients over time as well as high concurrent validity.

Attenuated transforming growth factor beta signaling promotes metastasis in a model of HER2 mammary carcinogenesis.

Introduction: Transforming growth factor beta (TGFβ) plays a major role in the regulation of tumor initiation, progression, and metastasis. It is depended on the type II TGFβ receptor (TβRII) for signaling. Previously, we have shown that deletion of TβRII in mammary epithelial of MMTV-PyMT mice results in shortened tumor latency and increased lung metastases.