Floating marine macro litter in the Black Sea: Toward baselines for large scale assessment.

The Black Sea is a semi-enclosed basin subject to major anthropogenic pressures, including marine litter and plastic pollution. Due to numerous large rivers draining into the basin and a population settled along the coast, the region could accumulate significant amounts of floating litter over time. Until now, only limited field data were available, and litter quantities and distribution remained unknown.

[Surgical treatment of the plexus brachialis injury using long-lasting electrostimulation].

The results of surgical treatment were analyzed in 103 patients, suffering consequences of the plexus brachialis injury, using the system for long-lasting electrostimulation, called "Henci 3M". The system of a domestic manufacture is an individual one, permits to perform the direct electrostimulation seances in a home conditions several times a day for a long time. There were positive results noted: an enhancement in volume and strength of movements in upper extremity of various degree, restoration of sensitivity and disappearance or reduction of a pain syndrome intensity in 90.

[Modified lipoproteins--their types and role in atherogenesis].

In the performed clinical and experimental investigation there were determined the significance of lipoprotein modification in atherogenesis and the mechanisms of blood atherogenicity development. The pronounced changes of total blood cholesterol and the spectrum of lipoproteins in patients with coronary atherosclerosis were not regular and were noted only in 40-55% cases. The most regular was the increasing of blood atherogenicity, reflecting the appearance of the great amount of modified lipoproteins.

[The role of a systemic inflammatory process in the atherogenic modification of lipoproteins and the development of hypercholesterolemia].

The aim of the investigation was the determination of the systemic inflammatory process significance as a casual factor of the atherogenic blood lipoprotein (LP) modification and hypercholesterolemia (HCE) development. The availability of the HCE and atherogenic LP in blood of the patients with chronic coronary disease was established to coincide with the distinct sighs of the inflammatory process such as monocytes activation and oxidative stress development. Under the primary character of the inflammation--in children with acute respiratory infectious diseases and in conditions of experimental rendering of acute inflammation in rabbits by the intravenous injection of latex microspheres or pyrogenal there was also determined the distinct dependence between monocytes activation, increasing in blood free radical processes intensity, LP atherogenic modification and HCE development.