["Dry" immersion and prospects of its use in clinical practice].

This paper presents a review of reported data about physiological responses of the human body to hypokinesia and discusses physiological, particularly hemodynamic, effects of dry immersion. The paper also describes clinical applications of the method and emphasizes the need for further study of the effects of dry immersion on normal and pathological processes accompanied by hemodynamic changes.

Monosomy 21 in a human spontaneous abortus. Morphogenetic disturbances and phenotype at the cellular level.

Complex investigation of a spontaneous abortus with monosomy 21 was carried out. Phenotypic expression at the organism and tissue level was characterized by the pathology of the external form of the embryo and by abnormalities of the embryonic facial structures, the stomodeum, the anterior part of the primary gut, and neural tube development. The anomalies found in the embryo indicate primary morphogenetic disturbances arising at the initial stage of organogenesis.

[Duchenne's muscular dystrophy in a girl with 45,X/46,XX chromosomal mosaicism].

The paper is concerned with a case history of a girl with a rare combination of 2 rare anomalies (only 4 cases in the world literature); monosomia by X chromosome and Duchenne's muscular dystrophy. Mosaicism 45,X/46,XX in a 5 year old girl with a mild picture of Duchenne's muscular dystrophy was confirmed by a study of the kariotype in lymphocytes of the peripheral blood and skin fibroblasts. The authors indicate to a necessity of a thorough cytogenetical study in girls, if there is a clinical picture of Duchennes muscular dystrophy.