[Thyroid gland function and intrapulmonary temperature in tuberculosis].

The experiment on 140 albino mice examined the relationship between the pulmonary thermogenesis and the functional activity of the hypophyseal-thyroid system at different stages of pulmonary tuberculous inflammation development, during Staphylococcus-induced pneumonia, aseptic inflammation in lung tissue. Deep abnormalities of the heat-generating function of the lung were revealed just at the early periods of specific inflammation. The degree of hypothermal reactions of lung tissue correlated with the inhibition of hypophyseal-thyroidal function at all developmental stages of a tuberculous process.

[The method of endobronchial thermometry in the evaluation of the activity of tuberculosis of the respiratory organs].

Local temperature reactions were studied in 72 patients with intrathoracic tuberculosis (64 of them had active tuberculosis and 8 residual pulmonary changes after prior tuberculosis). Endobronchial thermometry in the dynamics of a specific process was conducted in 7 patients with pulmonary tuberculosis. Bronchial temperature was measured during fibrobronchoscopy under local anesthesia by a device of an original design.

[Study of the mucociliary transport rate in evaluating the effectiveness of the treatment of suppurative endobronchitis by CO2 laser].

The rate of mucociliary transport (MCT) in dogs with an experimental pulmonary tuberculosis and concurrent suppurative endobronchitis (SEB) and just with the latter was measured. The treatment effect was achieved by an endobronchial radiation with a CO2-laser unfocused beam of 3.56 and 5.

[Variants of the ultrastructure of bronchial ciliary cells].

The structure of the ciliated epithelium and its regeneration under normal conditions were studied using biopsy specimens of the trachea and extrapulmonary bronchi from healthy dogs. The specimens were processed with the routine methods for electron microscopy. Along with the typical structure of the ciliated cells there were observed various deviations considered earlier as consequences of bronchopulmonary pathology: changed cytoplasm of the ciliated cells in the form of cytoplasmic processes or follicles.

[Absorption by rat fetal tissues of 14C-labeled phospholipids injected into the rat body in the late stages of pregnancy].

The authors studied the possibility of 14C-phospholipid transplacental penetration after 15C-phospholipid injection into rats at the 20th day of pregnancy. The preparation of 14C-phospholipids (total phospholipids) was isolated by thin-layer chromatography from the liver of rats injected with 2-14C-sodium acetate. One hour after its injection into the rat, 14C-phospholipids were detectable in total phospholipids of the pulmonary and cerebral fetal tissues.