[Accelerated aging of immune system of the veterans of special risk subdivisions].

Long far after nuclear weapons tests the veterans of special risk subdivisions (SRS) had changes of humoral factors of nonspecific protection, concentration of immunoglobulins in blood serum, lymphocytes sensibleness to respiratory viruses, humoral and cellular autoimmune displacements, raise of turmonecrotic factor content. Some of the revealed changes (complement, lysocim, concentration of immunoglobulins) are bound up with elderly age of examined people and their diseases. The other changes (autoimmune displacements, sensibleness to respiratory viruses) can be bound up with nuclear weapons tests.

[Autoimmune disorders in liqvidators 11 years after the Chernobyl accident].

We studied long-lasting consequences of the low-doses irradiation on the immune system of 71 clean-up workers who participated in the emergency work after the Chernobyl Plant accident in 1986 and 25 healthy donors from Belarus. In sera of the workers the level of autoantibodies to thyroid gland antigens (thyroglobulin and microsomal fraction of thyroid gland) was increased in 48% of cases, the level of autoantibodies to lens oculis antigen was increased in 44% of cases; the level of circulating immune complexes was elevated in 55%, and the serum level of thyroglobulin in 60% of people. Immunological disorders were found without any definite clinical evidences of diseases and this allows us to consider the examined contingent as a group of risk for the development of autoimmune pathology in the future.

[Atherogenesis and the acute-phase reaction of the liver].

Data from literature are given on the role of "acute phase" proteins in inflammation and their connection with lipoproteins. Intensive production of acute phase proteins is shown to take place in modelling of experimental atherosclerosis. The hypothesis is proposed that allows to consider the acute phase reaction of the liver as a very important condition of modified lipoproteins formation acquiring autoantigenic properties.