[The use of the preparation defedrin in the therapy of bronchial asthma patients].

The therapeutic efficacy of the Soviet drug Dephedrin was tried in patients with mild and moderate form of bronchial asthma. The drug was administered in a dose of 0.03 g 3 times daily for a period of 15 days.

[Androstenedione, DHEA sulfate, cortisol, aldosterone and testosterone in bronchial asthma patients].

The basic level and the 24 h rhythm of secretion of cortisol, aldosterone, androstanedion, DHEA-sulfate and testosterone were determined in 26 men with bronchial asthma, 19 up to 50 years of age, in a free from attacks period. 20 of the patients had never been treated with corticosteroids and 6 patients had used corticosteroid drugs. In 26.

[Multicausality in the pathology of commercial swine breeding].

Studied were more than 100,000 samples of pathologic tissue material, 1,900 whole blood and blood serum samples, 8,000 fecal samples, 2,600 washings samples, swab samples, and other sampled material via the employment of a number of bacteriologic, virologic, morphologic, hematologic, biochemical, parasitologic, and other routinely applicable laboratory methods over a period of 5 years. All materials were taken from 15 stock swine breeding complexes, 3 reproduction and 2 nucleus bases for hybrid pigs, and 3 swine breeding farms with a practice of extensive raising technology. It was demonstrated that the adaptive capacity of the animals of the Camborough hybrid sharply dropped when the pigs were kept under unconventional conditions of raising, leading to deviations in the application of industrial technology methods.