[Some biochemical parameters of the synovial liquid for estimation of effectiveness of the treatment of the knee joint osteoarthrosis].

The knee joint osteoarthrosis is accompanied by activation of the oxidative stress in the synovial liquid. Specific treatment decreased or even normalized such biochemical parameters of the synovial liquid as the carbonyl groups, thiobarbituric acid reactive substances (TBARS) and total protein content. The most demonstrative changes were found for early and late markers of the oxidative modification of proteins.

[Erythropoietin possible influence on the cellular renovation processes of exocervical epithelium in norm, in case of chronic cervicitis and cervical intraepithelial neoplasia 1 and 2].

The blood plasma erythropoietin content, erythropoietin content, erythropoietin and cellular renovation markers expression in exocervical epithelium in reproductive aged women with normal peripheral red blood values were studied. It was determined that erythropoietin expression increased in exocervical epithelium activity (cervical intraepithelial neoplasia 1 and 2), combined with the increase of blood plasma erythropoietin level, activation of pro- and antiapoptosis programs and cellular proliferation processes in cervical epithelium.

[Blood erythropoietin level in female reproductive age (can the reproductive tissue be the source of erythropoietin in blood?)].

Blood erythropoietin level was investigated in females of reproductive age, who had normal peripheral red blood findings. It was determined that blood erythropoietin level was 1.5-2 times higher (20.

[Effects of a number of cytokines on the proliferation of mesangial cells and the production of extracellular matrix in anti-GBM nephritis].

The interaction of IL-1 and TNF alpha in the autolous phase of anti-GBM nephritis was studied. The influx of mononuclear leukocytes into the glomerulus and high cytokine levels induced a decrease in mesangial cell proliferation and an increase in extracellular matrix production. The methylprednisolone suppression of mononuclear leukocyte infiltration caused the autocine cytokine secretion of mesangial cells.

[Qualification characteristics of specialists--graduates of medical and pharmaceutical institutes].

The development of medical education is associated with scientific elaboration of a system of periodically renewed requirements for specialists training quality, introduction of new methods and means for objective assessment of their professional competence. The present dectarative, non-constructive and non-classifying nature of qualification characteristics for graduates of medical and pharmaceutical institutes necessitated the carrying out of investigations aimed at the elaboration of a new system of qualification characteristics capable to fulfill the function of scientifically substantiated quality standards of higher medical education for every specialty. The paper describes the evolution of methodological approaches to the making of these documents, considers their new structural peculiarities, provides the technology of their projecting, determines their place in the target system of continuous medical education.