[MECHANISM OF PUBLIC PROCUREMENTS IN THE HEALTHCARE SPHERE IN THE EUROPEAN UNION AND UKRAINE: FINANCIAL AND LEGAL ASPECT].

The objective of the article is a comparative and legal study of the models for the organization of public procurements in the healthcare field in the EU and Ukraine. Theoretical and empirical methods of cognition were used to achieve this goal, namely, methods of analysis, synthesis, generalization, as well as comparative and legal method in analyzing the experience of the EU countries in organizing public procurements. The conducted study suggests that the public procurement mechanism in the healthcare sector exists in most states.

Medicinal clays improve the endurance of loaded inspiratory muscles in COPD: a randomized clinical trial of nonpharmacological treatment.

Background: Inspiratory resistive breathing (IRB) challenges affect respiratory muscle endurance in healthy individuals, which is considered to be an interleukin 6 (IL-6)-dependent mechanism. Whether nonpharmacological thermal therapies promote the endurance of loaded inspiratory muscles in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is unclear. The objectives of this study were to compare the effects of two thermal interventions on endurance time (ET) and plasma IL-6 concentration following an IRB challenge.

Compartment-specific tyrosine hydroxylase-positive innervation to AII amacrine cells in the rabbit retina.

Tyrosine-hydroxylase-positive (TH(+)) amacrine cells release dopamine in a paracrine manner and also form GABA-ergic contact sites with inner retinal neurons. The best known sites are formed by TH(+) fibrous rings and AII amacrine cell somata in stratum 1 of the inner plexiform layer (IPL). An AII amacrine cell is a highly compartmentalized neuron with relatively large soma, a stout dendritic stalk and two sets of processes, one showing lobular appearance and extending horizontally in stratum 1 and a second transversally elongated group of fibers in strata 4 and 5.