Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis in the Kharkiv Region, Ukraine.

To document the level of drug resistance in MDR-TB patients and to characterize management capacities for their medical care and MDR-TB treatment outcomes in the Kharkiv region of Ukraine. This area has one of the highest frequencies of MDR-TB worldwide. A retrospective observational cohort study was performed on registry data from the regional anti-TB dispensary in Kharkiv.

[Role of the family in shaping the health behavior of an adolescent].

Sponsored by the Committee for Healthcare of the City of Moscow, we conducted an anonymous, cross, educational questioning of 250 families of teenage-schoolchildren (in Moscow), who used to have sexually transmitted infections (STI), and a questioning of teenage-schoolchildren without the STI history (controls). The questioning program of teenagers and of their parents was split into 5 units based on 3 basic components covering the health state of any population category, i.e.

[Pharmacological efficacy of delta sleep-inducing peptide in experimental acute pancreatitis].

The development of experimental acute pancreatitis (EOP) in rats is accompanied by (i) intensification of the lipid peroxidation (LPO) process and the accumulation of malonic dialdehyde (MDA, an LPO product) in the tissues of pancreas, liver, and kidney and in the blood serum, (ii) destabilization of membranes and reduction of the osmotic resistance of erythrocytes (ORE), (iii) increase in the concentration of extracorpuscular hemoglobin (ECH) and medium-molecular-weight molecules (MWM) in the blood serum, and intensification of protein autolysis in tissues. Preliminary triple intraperitoneal administration of a delta-sleep-inducing peptide (DSIP) in a dose of 12 micrograms/100 g body weight to the test rats with EOP stabilized LPO, improved the erythrocyte membrane structure, reduced the MDA level in tissues and blood serum, increased ORE, reduced the ECH and MWM level in the blood, and decreased the protein autolysis rate in tissues.

[The diagnosis of a hemorrhagic syndrome in chronic myeloleukemia].

A study was performed of 40 patients with chronic myeloid leukemia. Clinicohematological, radionuclide (51CR), electron-microscopic methods and examinations of plasma and platelet components of hemostasis were applied to elucidate stage-specific relationships between functional-morphological changes in platelets and early manifestations of hemorrhagic syndrome (HS). The latter was directly related to platelets functional activity and their ultrastructure.

[The thresholds of discriminating the duration of frequency-modulated signals by cats behaving freely].

Threshold values of duration if frequency modulated signals (sweeps) were measured under the free behaviour conditions in cats. Modulation of the sweeps was carried out linearly in a diapason of 2-100 ms with both increasing and decreasing frequency and embedded in tone stimuli with central frequency of 2.5 kHz and total duration of 0.