[The role of disturbances of lipid metabolism in pathogenesis of allergic rhinitis].

Physiological normal levels of total cholesterol, total lipids, total protein, superoxide dismutase, catalase, malonic dialdehyde, and total antioxidant activity were determined for the first time in nasal secretion of volunteer donors (n = 24). Excessive lipid peroxidation and suppression of antioxidant protection system were documented in 70 patients with round-the-year allergic rhinitis of whom 26 and 44 presented with the mild and moderately forms of the disease, respectively. The clinical efficiency of polyoxidonium (Russia) in the treatment of allergic rhinitis has been demonstrated.

[Humoral immunity to diphtheria and tetanus in pregnant women and newborn infants].

Pregnant and parturient women have been examined in different regions of the USSR: Moscow, the Turkmen SSR, the Azerbaijan SSR and the Uzbek SSR. Altogether 720 placental sera and 522 funic sera have been checked for the presence of antibodies to diphtheria and tetanus toxoids in the passive hemagglutination test. Considerable groups of women with the insufficient level of immunity to diphtheria (40-66%) and tetanus (42.

[Epidemiological and immunological assessment of a schedule of prophylactic inoculations].

The epidemiological and immunological evaluation of two immunization schedules approved by the Orders of the USSR Ministry of Health No. 322 of April 24, 1973, and No. 50 of January 14, 1980, has been made on the basis of the results obtained in the Brest region of the Byelorussian SSR and in the Turkmen SSR.