Changes in coastal ecosystems affected by overburden dumping from amber open-cut mining on the Sambia Peninsula (Baltic Sea).

The Sambia Peninsula (Kaliningrad region) is historically well known for its amber mining. The 2019 year was the last year of direct overburden disposal into the Baltic Sea as a part of technological amber mining process. The extremely high-suspended particulate matter concentrations during that disposal were recorded immediately after the discharge of significant volumes of pulp and reached 200 mg/L.

[Behcet's disease with neurologic manifestations].

Behcet's disease (BD) is a type of systematic chronic inflammatory disease of unknown etiology that is characterized by the combination of recurrent oral aphthous, genital ulcers and uveitis. A damage of the nervous system is observed in 3-9% of patients, in which two variants of the course of the disease are possible: parenchymal in the form of immune-mediated meningoencephalitis, and non-parenchymal, which can be represented by venous sinus thrombosis, intracranial arterial aneurysms and intracranial hypertension. The article presents a clinical case of BD with a dominant nervous system damage in the clinical presentations of the disease.

[Mutation del 1,02kb in the CLN3 gene and extrapyramidal syndrome].

Mutations in the GBA and SMPD1 genes, which lead to the development of lysosomal storage diseases, are high risk factors for Parkinson's disease and dementia with Lewy bodies. We screened the mutations in the GALC and CLN3 genes in patients with Parkinson's disease and control subjects. A heterozygous CLN3 mutation (del 1.

[Cultural Properties and Taxonomic Position of Helminthosporium-Like Fungal Isolates from the White Sea].

Morphological, cultural and physiological characteristics of 19 Helminthosporium-like hyphomycetes isolated from the White Sea were studied. Taxonomic status of the isolates was verified using molecular genetics techniques. One of the isolates was identified as Alternatia sp.