Effect of medicinal leeches' antigens on the proliferative response of human blood mononuclear cells and cytokine production in vitro.

Unlabelled: The purpose of research is to study the influence of plant mitogens and antigens of the water-salt extract from the bodies of Hirudo verbana, H. medicinalis, H. orientalis on the reaction of lymphocyte blast-transformation and the synthesis of pro-inflammatory cytokines (IL-1β, IL-8, TNF-α) in patients' cell culture supernatants before and after hirudotherapy.

Basic morphofunctional features of pharmaceutic leech (Hirudo verbana Carena, 1820) tissues in various forms of response after hirudotherapeutic procedures.

It is analyzed morphofunctional features of Hirudo verbana tissues on histological sections in order to determine the possible causes of their partial death after hirudotherapeutic procedure. In the study was taken 4 groups of leeches: hungry (control), healthy well-fed, well-fed that vomited blood and well-fed dead. Morphofunctional changes in midgut of healthy well-fed H.

[Capabilities of stress echocardiography in diagnosis of cardiovascular pathology and estimation for military service].

Annually about 6,5 thousands of military servicemen retire due to cardiovascular diseases, every second serviceman retires before superannuation. Stress echocardiography in comparison with other imaging studies is cheaper, safer and matches in sensibility and specificity. The prevalence of stress echocardiography and stress systems can make it available in district, central and main hospitals, and clinics of the Kirov Military Medical Academy.