RARE AND ENDANGERED ROVE BEETLES OF UKRAINE: EMUS HIRTUS LINNAEUS, 1758 (COLEOPTERA: STAPHYLINIDAE).

In Ukraine, Emus hirtus Linnaeus, 1758 (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae) is protected by the national Red Book. The species is widely distributed in all natural zones of the country but occurs sporadically. Almost everywhere in Ukraine E.

Rove beetle collection (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Aleocharinae) in the State Museum of Natural History (Lviv, Ukraine).

The collection of rove beetles of the subfamily Aleocharinae, stored in the State Museum of Natural History of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (Lviv), has been catalogued. The catalog contains information about 2313 specimens of the collection, which belong to 278 species in 91 genera and 17 tribes. The overwhelming majority of the representatives of the subfamily Aleocharinae represented in the collection were collected on the territory of Ukraine, as well as in the modern territories of Europe, Africa, and Asia.

A catalogue of the types of rove beetles (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae) deposited in the collection of Johan Heinrich Hochhuth in the National Museum of Natural History of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.

Type specimens of Staphylinidae (Coleoptera) from the collection of J.H. Hochhuth (18101872) deposited in National Museum of Natural History of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (Kyiv) are currently being catalogued and illustrated.

[The cough variant asthma].

Cough variant asthma (CVA) was first described by W. Corrao. CVA was described as the isolated chronic cough as the only presenting symptom responsive to bronchodilator therapy.

Opening up new horizons for psychiatric genetics in the Russian Federation: moving toward a national consortium.

We provide an overview of the recent achievements in psychiatric genetics research in the Russian Federation and present genotype-phenotype, population, epigenetic, cytogenetic, functional, ENIGMA, and pharmacogenetic studies, with an emphasis on genome-wide association studies. The genetic backgrounds of mental illnesses in the polyethnic and multicultural population of the Russian Federation are still understudied. Furthermore, genetic, genomic, and pharmacogenetic data from the Russian Federation are not adequately represented in the international scientific literature, are currently not available for meta-analyses and have never been compared with data from other populations.

[About rare causes of the loss of hearing].

The present paper reports a clinical case of local syphilitic meningoencephalitis known as Argyll-Robertson syndrome and manifested in the form of acute sensorineural loss of hearing. The patient was a 46 year old resident of the city of Irkutsk. He experienced the sharp impairment of hearing involving both ears with the accompanying feeling of dizziness, disturbed orientation of the locomotorbehaviour, the lurching gate, subfebrility, the loss of the ability to speak and write.

[Biochip development for polymorphism analysis in biotransformation system genes].

Large-scale population researches, diagnostics of genetic predisposition to multifactorial diseases, screening of the polymorphic loci associated with individual sensitivity to pharmaceutical preparations, require the development of effective, exact and rapid methods of analysis for detection of many mutations simultaneously. One of the most perspective methods to solve these problems is a method of allele-specific hybridization with biochips. Taking the analysis of mutations in genes CYP1A1, CYP2D6, GSTM1, GSTT1, NAT2, CYP2C9, CYP2C19 and MTHFR as an example we showed the efficiency of using the approach for identification of individual genetic polymorphism.