[Soil pollution influenced by chemical hazards releases into atmosphere].

The article covers a problem of soil pollution degree, that can be caused by industrial releases into atmosphere.

[Hygienic evaluation of environment, morbidity among pregnant women and newborns within social hygienic monitoring system].

Hygienic evaluation covered health state of pregnant women and newborns, subjected to chemical pollution of environment by aluminium industrial enterprises. The data obtained helped to suggest methodic approach to selection of priority territories, environmental and health state parameters within social hygienic monitoring system, to form recommendations on creation of system supporting management decisions to lower negative influence of chemical environmental factors on health of pregnant women and newborns.

[Cytotoxicity of cytosine deaminase and herpes simplex virus thymidine kinase genes in melanoma cells is independent on promoter strength].

In preparation of the therapeutic genetic constructs aimed to the gene-programmed enzymatic transformation of the non-toxic prodrug into toxin within cancer cells the right choice of regulatory elements (promoters and enhancers) is essential. This is widely accepted that the efficiency of the gene therapy constructions is dependent, in particular, on the strength of promoters driving the expression of the therapeutic genes. In this work we demonstrated, using the melanoma-specific promoters and enhancers of human melanoma inhibitory activity and mouse tyrosinase gene, that for the development of cytotoxic effect the promoter strength is not of primary importance.

[Comparison of reabsorption of osmotically free water in the bud and energy of interaction of vasotocin analogs with a V2-receptor].

The calculated values of the binding energy of nonapeptides with receptors in docking with their influence on reabsorption of osmotically free water in a rat bud in vivo were compared. Vasotocin and some its analogs were intramuscularly introduced to non-narcotized rat females of the Wistar line in doses from 0.1 pmol to 0.