[The use of apparatus-supported physiotherapy for the accelerated recovery and enhancement of sports performance].

The effects of physiotherapeutic factors such as electric sleep, sinusoidal modulated currents. UV radiation, interference currents, decimeter waves, laser radiation were studied in 600 sportsmen active in cyclic and acyclic sports. Recommended are both single and course procedures because the above factors are found to diminish immunodeficiency and to increase muscular performance in sportsmen.

[The use of balneological factors to accelerate the recovery of physical work capacity in athletes].

The effects of balneological factors on cardiovascular system, external respiration, muscular performance, neuromuscular system and blood biochemistry give grounds to believe that inclusion of these factors in one-year training cycle extends the armery of effective tools recovering and improving muscular performance, preventing diseases and traumas in sportsmen.

[The differential use of electrosleep for restoring the work capacity of athletes].

A comparative study has been made of the effects which might be produced on body functions of athletes by electric sleep. The induction of the sleep was conducted using square electric pulses with 10 and 100 Hz frequencies. The latter frequency (8-10 sleep procedures) stimulated the examinees somatically and psychologically, whereas electrotherapeutic sleep procedures at 10 Hz displayed sedative effects and thus were indicated for overstrained sportsmen and in some diseases.

[The effect of interference currents on the functional status and physical work capacity of athletes].

The authors studied 90 patients going in for cyclic and acyclic sports. All of them were exposed to interference currents given according to the segmentary technique. It was established that such treatment promoted cardiovascular recovery as well as that of neuromuscular system, enhanced physical performance, corrected impaired levels of catecholamines.

[Renal prostaglandins of children and adolescents with nephrogenic arterial hypertension].

Renal prostaglandin activity was assessed in children and adolescents with two forms of secondary (nephrogenic) arterial hypertension: vasorenal and chronic pyelonephritis-associated hypertension. Children with vasorenal hypertension showed renal PG changes, dependent on the duration of the disease. Positive correlation between arterial BP and PGF2 excretion, and negative correlation between PGE excretion and arterial BP are suggestive of the involvement of the renal PG system in vasorenal hypertension.

[Change in the prostaglandin and catecholamine levels in spontaneously hypertensive rats fed diets with different polyunsaturated fatty acid contents].

The authors provide the data on the content of prostaglandins and catecholamines in biological fluids (blood and urine) derived in experiments on 28 rats aged 4 months with spontaneous hereditary hypertension given the diets with varying content of polyunsaturated fatty acids during pre- and postnatal periods. Rats fed the diet containing sunflower and linseed oil manifested a significant decrease in arterial blood pressure and activation of prostaglandin and sympathoadrenal systems.