The authors made a complex evaluation of the physical development of 7-16-year-old rural schoolchildren from a large administrative territorial entity and developed age-gender-related standards, by using the percentile technique. There were significant morphofunctional differences between the urban and rural schoolchildren at the present stage of a secular trend, which determines the necessity of developing the physical development standards for rural children and adolescents in order to correctly interpret the data on their health status.
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The dose-rate effect of acute and chronic irradiation in the dose of 0.2 Gy in Drosophila melanogaster repair (mei-41, mus209 [Russian character: see text] mus309) and free radicals detoxication (sod) mutant strains was investigated. Was shown the lack of dose rate effect on the rate of dominant lethal mutations in mei-41, mus209 and sod.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe effect of high intensity (photosynthesis-saturating) light on the optical properties of the bacteriochlorophyll and the light-induced H+ uptake by R. rubrum chromatophores was studied. It was shown that under aerobic conditions illumination causes reversible inhibition (in the dark) of the chromatophore ability for the light-induced uptake of H+, a reversible inhibition of the photosynthetical reaction center function and irreversible bleaching of the antennal bacteriochlorophyll.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe effects of detergents (Triton X-100) and solvents (diethyl ether, metanol) on the reversible light-induced proton uptake, photophosphorylation and band shift of the carotenoid in chromatophores from R. rubrum are described. All these compounds were found to stimulate the extent of light-induced proton uptake with subsequent inhibition when the concentrations were increased.
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