[Impact of bacterial lectin on functional activity of lymphocytes].

Impact of Azospirillum brasilense Sp7 lectin with carbohydrate specificity to L-fucose on T- and B-lymphocytes production, activity of IL-1alpha, and TNF-alpha was studied in vitro and compared with influence of red kidney bean phytohemagglutinin (PHA) on the same parameters. Increase of growth of T- and B-cells subpopulations has been shown that point to stimulatory effect of the bacterial lectin. Bacterial lectin of A.

[Decision for the method of surgical treatment of acute destructive pancreatitis].

The work presents results of treatment of 375 patients with acute pancreatitis, 93 patients with destructive pancreatitis were operated upon. Minimally invasive and traditional technologies were used. Postoperative lethality was 6.

[Diagnosis and choice of the method of surgical treatment of pancreatic cysts using ultrasonic examination].

A more than 10 year experience of using operative interventions under the control of ultrasound has shown that in order to solve the task of improving the results of surgical treatment of cysts of the pancreatic gland it is necessary to improve a number of diagnostic and organizational measures allowing to perform the early and effective diagnosis of the cysts and their timely treatment. The percutaneous puncture-drainage operations with sclerotherapy are indisputably considered to be highly effective in treatment of cysts of the pancreas. In most patients, however, the clinical and ultrasonic signs of pancreatitis are still retained.

[Dynamics of physical development of Chuvash rural school children (1884-1999)].

Analysis of the statistic indices height and body weight in schoolchildren has demonstrated their positive changes in all age and sex groups for 115 years. The maximum height and body weight increases are observed in the time intervals 1962-1966, 1966-1982 which show statistically significant increases in the indices in virtually age-sex groups. In the past 15 years height increases have preserved; however, their increase rate has decreased; there is a negative trend for body weight to change, which is more pronounced in girls.

[Effect of preparations of protein Yop encoded by Yersinia pestis calcium-dependence plasmid on mice].

The impact of the preparations of Y. pestis secreted proteins Yop (YopH-M, YopB, YopD-N, YopE) on mice immunized with 3 s.c.

[The effect of Yersinia pestis antigens and strains on the level of lymphocyte blast transformation].

Lymphocytic blast-cell transformation (LBCT) is shown to be related both to the genotype of a macroorganism and to the genetically determined expression of individual antigens by the plague microbe. The correlation of LBCT with the level of antiinfectious resistance suggests that this index is of high informative value and that it can be effectively used for testing the cellular immunity and the characteristically biological properties of the plague causative agent and its antigens.