[Immunoenzyme technique for analysis of cystatin C in serum of patients with hemoblastosis].

Cystatin C is a low-molecular endogenous inhibitor of cysteic proteinases. Sets for immune-enzyme assay of cystatin C in human blood serum (KRKK, Slovenia) were made used of in the case study. The concentration of cystatin C (CCC) in blood serum was found to be higher in cases of certain hemoblastoses (Non-Hodgkin's disease, lymphogranulomatosis and multiple myeloma), with the highest concentration of the inhibitor being observed in patients with resistance to the conducted polychemotherapy and a poor prognostication.

[Development of embryonal brain synapses in the normal state and in maternal alcoholism].

Electron microscopy was used to study embryonal brains (n-10) of 7-12-week gestation from mothers abusing alcohol at the time of medical abortion. Control group consisted of 20 embryos from healthy women. The study group demonstrated delayed formation of synaptic structures, a great number of extrasynaptic contacts, sings of clear-type degeneration of some mature synapses.