Age Pathognomonic Indicators of Injury Predisposition as a Basis for Public Health Preservation during Physical Activity.

A necessary condition for public health maintenance is regular physical activity. A significant increase in the number of musculoskeletal injuries, occurring during physical education and sport activities, actualizes the development of effective measures for their prevention. Early diagnosis of injury predisposition, based on identification of connective tissue dysplasia indicators specific for different age periods, is of particular importance for the prevention of such injuries.

Streamlining the screening cascade for active Hepatitis C in Russia: A cost-effectiveness analysis.

Objective: Screening for hepatitis C in Russia is a complex process that involves several visits and stepwise testing, limiting adherence and substantially reducing the yield in the identification of active infections. We aimed to evaluate the cost-effectiveness of different screening algorithms from a health system perspective.

Methods: A decision analytic model was applied to a hypothetical adult population eligible to participate in a general screening program for hepatitis C in Russia.

[Increase in radiation resistance of an organism after administration of metabolic drug MR-33].

Original MP-33 metabolic drug has inductive action on intracellular levels of glutathione (GSH) and GSH-related enzymes (glutathione peroxidase-GPx, glutathione S-transferase-GST) of animals and human (liver, heart, erythrocytes). Treatment of Wistar male rats with MP-33 per os (6 mg/kg) 30 min before gamma-irradiation with a dose of 7 Gy results in 35% survival and increasing of mean life. In "mother-foetus" system the induction of intracellular level of GSH, GST and GPx by MP-33 leads to enhancement of foetus radioresistance.

[The corrective action of limontar in metabolic disorders in the mother-fetus system caused by ethanol exposure during pregnancy].

It was established in experiments on nonbred albino rats that injection of limontar (1 mg/kg) in the fetal period of pregnancy in alcoholic intoxication (6 g/kg) leads to weight loss by the female, normalization of the character of behavior and metabolic shifts in the organism, and removal of the symptoms of excitation of the sympathetic link of cardiovascular system regulation. No harmful effect of limontar on the mother-fetus biosystem was detected.

[New possibilities for metabolic protection from hypoxia in pregnant rats and their progeny].

Individual resistance of pregnant rats and the newborns to acute hypoxic hypoxia was studied. It was found that individual resistance of the organism to hypoxia significantly decreases in the last period of pregnancy. A new drug limontar proved to possess the properties of an active antihypoxia agent.