[Leukocytic shifts following pancreatic resection with a plasma scalpel and cryodestruction].

Two series of experiments were carried out on dogs. In the first series, blood leukocytes count was studied after resection of the pancreas using plasma scalpel. The resection caused two-phase leukocyte reaction: neutrocytosis (phase I) and leukocytosis involving mainly lymphocytes and monocytes (phase II).

[Features of hematological changes after resection of the liver using a plasma scalpel].

The resection of liver was undertaken in two series of experiments in rabbits with plasma and steel scalpels for comparison. After the interventions the haematological changes of stress nature were observed in animals. The changes of leucocytic and erythrocytic pictures and myelograms were more important and steady when the resections was made with plasma scalpel.

[Effect of plasma flow on the regeneration of skin wounds and body reactivity].

The local application of plasma flow to postsurgery wounds in rabbits has revealed accelerated wound healing, reduced perifocal inflammation, the appearance of great numbers of phagocytes and islands of epithelial cells in the wound and certain stimulation of hemopoietic body function. The suppression of free-radical oxidation was accompanied by the activation of the metabolic processes. All this justifies an attempt to apply "plasma methods" in the clinical practice for the treatment of long-healing wounds.

[Structure of the mammillary bodies of the hypothalamus of the bottlenosed dolphin].

In the bottlenosed dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) the hypothalamic corpus mammillaris has been studied using interperpendicular, sagittal, frontal and horizontal serial sections, impregnated in silver and stained with cresil-violet. Comparatively small dimentions of the corpora mammillaria in the bottlenosed dolphin are explained by presence of only two nuclei, medial and lateral. The lateral nucleus is nearly three times as large as the medial one.