[Methods of early detection of diabetes mellitus in children].

The diagnostic value of a method for determination of glycosylated hemoglobin (HbA1) and glucose in the ear wax of children under risk of diabetes mellitus comparing with the efficiency of glucose tolerance test has been studied. It has been shown that the methods of constitutional anthropometry are efficient for determining the contingents of people under risk of development of diabetes mellitus at pre-clinical phase of the disease.

[The clinico-biological aspects of transsexualism].

A complex constitutional-endocrinological investigation of persons of both sexes with clinical diagnosis of transsexualism (TS) has been held. On the basis of original data some peculiarities of somato- and cerebrotypes of transsexuals have been revealed, the formation of these peculiarities is significantly connected with the action of sexual hormones. A disturbance in ratio of male and female sexual hormones in the direction of predominance of the hormones corresponding to the patient's sexual autoidentification despite their biological sex has been marked.

[Cyanide-resistant oxygen consumption of the lysine-synthesizing bacteria Brevibacterium flavum 22 LD].

The growth of the culture and biosynthesis of lysin were studied in Brevibacterium flavum 22 LD cultivated in a chemostat. During cultivation the flow rate of the medium and the partial pressure of oxygen dissolved in the medium were varied. The maximum yield of lysine, calculated in respect to the sucrose consumed, (Yp = g lysine .

[Sensitivity of the oxygen absorption process in Brevibacterium flavum to pH changes in the medium and the action of an oxidation and phosphorylation uncoupler].

The rate of oxygen uptake (QO2) was shown to increase in the chemostat culture of a Brevibacterium flavum 22 LD auxotrophic strain at D = 0.13 h-1 after addition of chlorocarbonylcyanide phenylhydrazone. The index of respiration control reached 1.