[Complement componenets, C3 and factors B, in the blood of patients with acute ischemic stroke].

Several studies suggest that activation of compliment cascade contributes to the development of the inflammatory immune response in ischemic stroke and results in tissue injury by initiating apoptosis and necrosis. It is proposed that suppression of the compliment activation may have positive effect on stroke severity and outcome. However, the majority of data relevant to involvement of the compliment in the pathogenethic mechanisms of stroke have been obtained in animal models of stroke that does not allow to extrapolate these data to humans.

[Concentration and protein composition of circulating immune complexes in the blood of patients with schizophrenia and subjects with positive familial history of disease].

A comparative study of blood serum concentrations and pathogenic properties of circulating immune complexes (CIC), along with identification of their protein composition, was conducted in 45 patients with schizophrenia, 15 their healthy relatives and 39 normal controls. In patients and their relatives, mean concentration of small CIC was within the normal range, while concentrations of giant, large and middle CIC were higher than those of the controls (p<0.001).

[Characteristics of cyclodextrin production using cyclodextrin glucanotransferases of various groups of microorganisms].

Cyclodextrin glucanotransferases (CGTases; EC 2.4.1.

[New cyclomaltodextrin-glucanotransferases, produced by Bacillus macerans].

For the first time, microorganisms producing cyclomaltodextrin glucan transferases (CGT, EC 2.4.1.