[Effect of ouabain, iodoacetamide, and pH on the human erythrocyte hemolysis induced by calcium ions in the presence of ionophore A23187].

The effect of inhibitors of Na+, K(+)-ATPase (ouabain) and glycolysis (iodacetamide) as well as pH on calcium ion-induced erythrocyte hemolysis in the presence of ionophore A23187 is first described. Hemoglobin release decreases under the influence of ouabain, iodacetamide, and low pH, which is commonly observed at low temperature and in the samples studied in spring and summer. Active hemoglobin release through defects of the erythrocyte membrane under the influence of the transmembrane electrical potential was proposed to mediate hemolysis.

Adaptive changes of membrane lipid composition in humans living in the north.

Some parameters of red cell membrane lipid composition as well as intensiveness of lipid peroxidation and activity of its regulatory factors were assessed in northern aborigines, newcomers and alcohol abusers. It is proposed that the increased lipid peroxidation is responsible for the cholesterol and monoenic fatty acid accumulation in membranes of all groups studied. The data obtained make it possible to consider the lipid peroxidation as a mechanism for adaptive membrane lipid modification in humans.

[Myocardial catecholamine levels in patients with congenital and acquired heart defects].

Catecholamine levels were determined in the myocardial slices from 66 patients with congenital and acquired heart diseases by the trihydroxyindole++ method on a Lumilan fluorescence spectrophotometer. The patients were found to have greatly varying epinephrine and norepinephrine levels. The accumulation of catecholamine reflected, to a certain extent, the occurrence of disorders in relation to the functional load, hyperfunctions of the myocardium.

[Use of normobaric oxygenation for preventive and therapeutic purposes].

Courses of normobaric oxygenation were performed in 72 healthy males (residents of the city of Arkhangelsk) and in 91 patients suffering from chronic nonspecific pulmonary diseases with respiratory insufficiency of I-II degree. Normobaric oxygenation led to the optimization of the CVS activity of northerners and an increase in their working capacity. The corrective role of oxygenation was more noticeable in persons with signs of dysadaptation.

[Status of erythrocytes and erythropoiesis in alcoholics].

To identify changes in the status of red blood and erythropoiesis in alcoholism, the authors examined three groups of patients aged 18 to 60 years: (1) 146 patients with stage II alcoholism; (2) 97 patients with acute alcoholic hallucinosis; and (3) 76 patients with delirium tremens. The examination revealed a considerable tension of erythropoiesis and erythrodieresis, this being a compensatory response to prolonged and severe hypoxia. At the beginnings of the disease the amount of erythrocytes and total hemoglobin tended to increase, then with the development of psychoses it dramatically decreased resulting in anemia.

[Use of a colorimetric method employing rhodamine 6G for determining the free fatty acid content in biological membranes].

An improved modification of the Anderson-Chakrabarty method for demonstration of free fatty acids in the membranes of enterocytes, erythrocytes and mitochondrial fractions is described. The method includes the use of rhodamine 6G as a stain.

[Morphologic changes in erythrocytes during exposure of the body to cold].

Study of morphology of erythrocytes in residents of the Extreme North of the USSR and in experimental rats after prolonged effect of low temperatures established that the red blood system undergoes considerable rearrangement with the appearance of more marked polymorphism of erythrocytes. Adaptation reactions of the organism are accompanied by juvenation and increased destruction of erythrocytes simultaneously.