[The use of the medicine Ophtalmoferon for the treatment of conjunctivitis in patients with HIV-infection and tuberculosis].

Purpose: To assess the effectiveness of the medicine Ophtalmoferon (eye drops) in the treatment of conjunctivitis of mixed aetiology in patients with first-time tuberculosis (TB) and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection, who have been treated at the Clinical Anti-tuberculosis Hospital No. 4.

Material And Methods: The study included 60 patients (42 men and 18 women with mean age of 41.

The Effects of Repeated Administration of the Micellar Complex of Methylprednisolone on the Locomotor Activity of a Terrestrial Snails.

We studied the effects of repeated injections of methylprednisolone and its micellar complex with block-copolymer on locomotor activity of a terrestrial snail. It was shown that methylprednisolone solution injected into the hemolymph of the animal produced a direct effect on the muscle system of the animal as soon as 1 h after administration: it slowed down snail locomotion and reduced contractile activity of the foot muscles. The micellar complex of methylprednisolone with block-copolymer prevented this effect during the first 2 days of injection and negatively affected locomotion only in 2 days after injection, the decrease in locomotion in this case was not accompanied by a decrease in contractile activity of the foot muscle.

[Neutralization of hepatitis B virus surface antigen with immunoglobulin preparations].

The in vitro experiments with immunoglobulin and blood plasma containing hepatitis B virus (HBV) markers, revealed that the control of immunoglobulin preparations for the presence of hepatitis B virus surface antigen (HBsAg), mandatory for Russia, was not sufficiently informative. The neutralization of HBsAg with specific antibodies to the level, not determined by the EIA method, reached not less than 24 ng/ ml in 2 hours of incubation and not less than 49 ng/ml in 24 hours of incubation, which, when evaluated in 1 lU of anti-HBs, was 34.6 +/- 0.

[Questionnaire survey of patients with tuberculosis: bioethical aspects].

An anonymous questionnaire was filled by 129 patients with pulmonary tuberculosis to study bioethical aspects. It contained questions concerning a patient's attitude to obtaining full information on his/her disease, treatments, and physician-patient relations, keeping his/her disease confidential from the relatives, controlled and obligatory treatments.

[Morphological characteristics of the thymus gland of albino rats after prenatal administration of indomethacin].

By means of histological, histochemical and electron microscopical methods the thymus of white rat fetuses and offspring has been investigated during various age periods after indomethacin++ influence (2.5 mg/kg). In the fetuses retardation in separation of the gland parenchyma into lobules has been revealed.