The alfalfa (Medicago sativa) TDY1 gene encodes a mitogen-activated protein kinase homolog.

Development of root nodules, specifically induction of cortical cell division for nodule initiation, requires expression of specific genes in the host and microsymbiont. A full-length cDNA clone and the corresponding genomic clone encoding a MAP (mitogen-activated protein) kinase homolog were isolated from alfalfa (Medicago sativa). The genomic clone, TDY1, encodes a 68.

[Comprehensive study of the geometry, surface area, membrane reserve potential, and osmoregulation of blood leukocytes].

Comprehensive method for examining the morphology and function of leukocytes is based on the comparison of the size and count of cells before and after incubation of different duration in media with low osmolarity. The method helps assess the leukocyte geometry, the reserve potential of the cytoplasmatic and nuclear membranes, the regulatory features and osmotic stability of cells.

[Artificial pneumothorax in the combined therapy of destructive pulmonary tuberculosis].

44 patients with destructive pulmonary tuberculosis received chemotherapy (intermittent antibacterial drugs, i.v. isoniazid) and artificial pneumothopax (AP).

[Analysis of lethality in tuberculosis].

The analysis of tuberculosis lethal outcomes occurring in a large antituberculous hospital in 1990-1992 showed that: mean age of the dead made up 49.7 +/- 0.8 years, 70.

[Fetoplacental hormone complex measurements to predict fetal and neonatal viability in insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus].

A dynamic follow-up of 79 pregnant patients with insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus was carried out. Specific fetoplacental hormonal profiles were detected and analyzed in complex with glycemic levels, this permitting the authors obtain new prognostic criteria of fetal and newborn viability. The results helped optimize the policy of following up such patients and the developed prediction regulations allowed preventive measures aimed at improvement of the future baby health status to be carried out before clinical manifestation of fetal intrauterine suffering.

[Characteristics of central and peripheral hemodynamics in infants with hemolytic disease of newborn].

Overall 82 full-term neonates (52 children with hemolytic disease and 30 healthy neonates) were examined. The general circulation was investigated over time (on days 1, 3.5-7 of life).

[Pregnancy and labor in women in the region of the accident at the Chernobyl Atomic Electric Power Station].

The authors analyze the tentative results of a multiprofile study, including a review of labor histories, examinations of pregnant women and parturients, measurements of fetoplacental hormones, study of the immunity status and microbiocenosis of the mothers and newborns, living in the first (up to 15 Ci/km2) and second (15 to 40 Ci/km2) zones of radioactive contamination. The detected shifts of a compensatory nature were found mostly in women living in the first zone. The disorders found in the women living in the second zone evidenced a decrease of the defense potential of the body, this necessitating nonspecific and correcting therapy during pregnancy, in labor and the postpartum period.

[The immune status of nonpregnant and pregnant women living constantly under ionizing radiation exposure conditions].

A total of 455 women, both pregnant and nonpregnant ones, permanently living in zones I and II of ionizing irradiation, were examined in 13 months after the Chernobyl Power Plant accident. Monocyte phagocytic activity and humoral immunity parameters were under study. An imbalance of the immunity parameters were characteristic of all the examinees living in zone I: they presented with disordered phagocytic activity of the monocytes, elevated levels of circulating R proteins, reduced production of natural and specific antibodies, changed concentrations of the principal immunoglobulin classes.

[Possibility of predicting intrauterine fetal growth retardation by a single ultrasonic examination (using varying standards)].

The paper deals with early prediction of fetal growth retardation and its severity in a newborn from single ultrasound fetal biometric findings (biparietal head size, chest and belly diameters) at week 20 of pregnancy. The prediction was made by employing the developed varying standards for these parameters as percentile curves and tables. A stepwise prediction of fetal growth retardation was proposed for obstetric in- and outpatient settings, which was presented as an IBM personal computer dialogue program.

[Means of lowering the perinatal mortality in pregnant women with diabetes mellitus].

The paper gives some current approaches to the management of pregnant women with diabetes mellitus, in terms of perinatal medicine. These are based on a comprehensive detailed clinical examination of 104 patients, which involves the hormonal fetoplacental complex function, hypophyseo-thyroidal system, hemocoagulation system by using ultrasonic tools (fetal biometry and echocardiography, Doppler echometric studies of the fetoplacental blood flow in the umbilical vein, umbilical artery, and fetal aorta). A differential approach was proposed to the management of pregnancy and delivery of patients with diabetes mellitus, which allows perinatal mortality to be reduced.

[Chronic placental insufficiency: incidence and causes].

This population study has examined the incidence and determinants of placental insufficiency. Predictors of placental dysfunction were ascertained. They included somatic diseases, gestational complications, a positive obstetric and gynecologic history and a series of constitutional factors.

[Interrelations of Buddhism and classical Indian medicine].

In ancient India, two branches of knowledge are concerned with human suffering, trying to theoretically explain as well as to practically overcome its reasons: (practical) philosophy and medicine. In spite of being concerned with the same problem, both rest on different premises: philosophy on highly abstract insights into the core of the phenomenal world, the atman, which is a priori free from suffering; and classical (- classical as opposed to modern, westernized -) medicine on concrete daily manifestations of suffering. Both kinds of occupation with human suffering implicitly follow a common method, the abstract, i.

[Swarming and mating of Aedes communis mosquitoes in nature].

The date of the beginning of mating behaviour in males and females, the rate of insemination and the increasing of bloodsucking activity of females were studied in natural environments. Over 80% of females mated on the 3-4th day after emergence; after fertilization their behaviour changed from looking for males for coupling to looking for ones for a prey. The male swarming began on the 5th day after emergence and simultaneously the appearance of inseminated females was observed.