[Isolation and properties of a biostimulator formed by yeast-like fungi and its effect on levorin biosynthesis].

Experiments on isolation of active substances or biostimulators from the culture fluids of yeast-like fungi of Candida (C. tropicalis, strain 159) were performed. Addition of the biostimulators to the fermentation medium for cultivation of the levorin-producing actinomycete provided the same levels of the antibiotic synthesis as mixed cultivation of the actinomycete and C.

[Glial migration inhibition test in multiple sclerosis patients and its changes during treatment with immunosuppressants].

Results of examining the blood serum of 90 patients with disseminated sclerosis, 94 patients with other nervous diseases, and 20 healthy subjects using the glia migration inhibition test are presented. It is shown that the index of the glia migration inhibition (IGMI) gets higher during exacerbation of the disseminated sclerosis and drops in cases of relative stabilization of the clinical manifestations and remission. In the course of treatment with immunodepressants, such as, prednisolone (alone, or in combination with cyclophosphan) and antilymphocytic immunoglobulin, the IGMI falls down.

[Characteristics of the formation of substances by various microorganisms that stimulate levorin biosynthesis].

Production specific properties of substances stimulating levorin biosynthesis by various microorganisms were studied. It was noted that substances activating the biosynthesis of levorin were produced by various species of yeast-like fungi. Filtrates of the fermentation broths of bacteria, yeasts or filamentous fungi did not contain substances increasing the antibiotic synthesis.

[Effect of the products of the vital activity of yeast-like fungi on levorin synthesis].

The effect on levorin synthesis of the cells and fermentation broth filtrates of Candida tropicalis after their cultivation in the fermentation medium was studied. It was found that the yeast-like fungi belonging to Candida excreted during their development some products capable of stimulating the synthesis of levorin by 40--60 per cent. When the actinomycete producing levorin was grown on the medium containing 80 per cent of the filtrate the level of levorin synthesis was the same as that observed with mixed cultivation of the actinomycete and C.

[State of humoral and cellular immunity in experimental amyloidosis].

On a model of caseine amyloidosis in 52 rabbits it was shown that in the preamyloid phase the humoral immunity was stimulated, but as soon as the first deposits of amyloid appeared, it was inhibited. The cellular immunity was inhibited starting from the 20th day of the experiment. On the 40th day of the experiment the cellular immunity was found to be less inhibited in the animals with initial deposits of amyloid as compared with the animals with no amyloidosis; on the 60--80th day in progressing of amyloidosis differences in the degree of inhibition of the cellular immunity were obliterated.

[Changes in leukocyte enzyme activity during experimental amyloidogenesis and in patients with amyloidosis].

The activity of hydrolytic and redox myeloperoxidase enzymes was determined in the neutrophils and lymphocytes of the peripheral blood of patients with secondary amyloidosis and also of the animals with amyloidogenesis and amyloidosis (caseine model). During the amyloidogenesis the activity of hyocrolytic enzymes and of myeloperoxidase in the neutrophils was found to decrease; this was particularly marked at the stage of the initial amyloid deposition. Changes in the enzyme activity in the animals against the background of already developed amyloidosis coincided with such in the blood cells of patients with secondary amyloidosis.