T Mapping of Patellar Cartilage After a Single First-Time Episode of Traumatic Lateral Patellar Dislocation.

Background: In most cases, lateral patellar dislocation (LPD) is accompanied by chondral injury and may initiate gradual degeneration of patellar cartilage, which might be detected with a T mapping, a well-established method for cartilage lesions assessment.

Purpose: To examine short-term consequences of single first-time LPD in teenagers by T mapping of the patellar-cartilage state.

Study Type: Prospective.

[Determination of the composition and the allelic state of disease and pest resistance genes in potato parental lines using DNA markers].

The allelic dosage of disease and pest resistance genes was determined in 11 prospective potato varieties and hybrids by means of detecting the corresponding PCR DNA markers in their progeny from crosses with specially selected testers. It was revealed that most (65%) resistance genes in the analyzed parental lines were present as a single dominant allele (simplex). Nevertheless, we were able to find some multiplex lines valuable for breeding.

[The use of hypoxically hypercapnic training for children with the attention deficit syndrome and hyperactivity for the correction of school disadaptation problems].

The problem of rehabilitation of children with the attention deficit syndrome and hyperactivity remains unresolved despite a large number of relevant investigations. The comprehensive rehabilitation of such children requires the use of both medicamental and-non-medicamental factors. The objective of the present study was to address the problem of school disadaptation based on the improvement of memory and attention in children presenting with the attention deficit syndrome and hyperactivity by means of inclusion of hypoxically hypercapnic training in the program of comprehensive rehabilitation with the use ofa Karbonik respiratory training system.

[Impact of small molecules on intermolecular interactions underlying the ligand technologies in laboratory diagnosis].

Hydrogen peroxide has been found to have a distorting effect on the quality of determination of the serological markers of hepatitis B and C, transglutaminase antibodies: an increase in the percent of false higher (anti-HBsAg, HBeAg, anti-HCV) and false lower (anti-HBeAg) values, and on the results of PCR-based diagnosis (PCR inhibition that was more pronounced especially in low viremia). A possibility of interference of measurement results in the blood metabolite pool should be taken into account in the use of high-technology methods of laboratory analysis. In particular, there may be changes in the detection of immunological and molecular biological methods in hyperpyruvatemia and hyperoxaloacetatemia, with elevated peroxide concentrations during pathological processes.

[AB0 blood group-associated biological variability in the content of metabolites].

The performed studies provided new evidence for biological variability in clinically important analytes, estimated a possible association of the metabolic features and the conservative genetic attribute--the ABO blood group. Certain features in the levels of protein, carbohydrate, lipid, and mineral metabolic parameters were revealed in relation to various blood groups.