[Detection of the nuclear polyhedrosis virus DNA in samples from eggs and caterpillars at different stages of the gypsy moth Lymantria dispar (L.) population dynamics].

The nuclear polyhedrosis virus (NPV) DNA was detected in samples from eggs and caterpillars of the gypsy moth collected in natural populations of the Western Siberia and Ural by means of PCR with primers corresponding to the polyhedrin gene. According to censuring data, the gypsy moth populations of Western Siberia were at the depression stage. The NPV DNA detection frequencies in eggs (8.

[Clinico-pathogenetic significance of enzymes regulating nucleic metabolism in erythrocyte lysates and sera of patients with osteoarthrosis].

Lysates of erythrocytes and sera of 52 patients with osteoarthrosis (OA) and 30 healthy subjects were used used to determine adenosine deaminidase (ADA, AMP deaminase (AMPDA) and adenine deaminidase (AD). Their activities were unrelated to the age and sex of the patients. At admission, patients with OA showed enhanced activity of ADA in sera and reduced activity of AMPDA and AD in lysates compared with normal values.

[The clinical diagnostic value of a study of the activity of enzymes of the guanyl branch of purine metabolism in patients with ankylosing spondyloarthritis].

Aim: To assess the diagnosis of the activity of a pathological process in patients with ankylosing spondyloarthritis (AS) and to reveal purine metabolic (PM) changes in relation to the clinical features of AS.

Materials And Methods: The serum activities of the PM enzymes: xanthine oxidase (XO), guanine deaminase (GDA), guanosine deaminase (GSDA), purine nucleoside phosphorylase (PNP), guanosine phosphorylase (GP), and adenosine deaminase (ADA) were determined in 55 patients (51 males and 4 females) aged 36.0 +/- 1.

[Phenotypic and genetic characterization of nuclear polyhedrosis virus isolated from gypsy moth (Lymantria dispar L.) larvae from the natural populations of Western Siberia].

Six nuclear polyhedrosis virus (NPV) isolates have been isolated from dead larvae of gypsy moth in Western Siberia. Heterogeneity of virulence and reproduction activity was revealed for the NPV isolated by bioassay with Lymantria dispar L. larvae.

[The dynamics of phenolic compounds and soluble sugars in the leaves of the silver birch (Betula pendula Roth) after defoliation and their significance in entomological plant resistance].

The dynamics of phenolic compounds, flavonols, catechines, tannins, and soluble sugars in the leaves of the silver birch Betula pendula Roth after strong (75%) and total (100%) artificial defoliation was studied. It was shown that the flavonol content in the leaves did not change after strong and total defoliation, while the amount of tannins did not change during the first 15 days but increased later on 1 and 2 years after 75% and 100% defoliation. The catechine content did not change during the first 15 days and increased later on 1 year after strong and total defoliation; however, it returned to the level of control plants 2 years after both types of defoliations.

[The effect of entomopathogenic fungi on the activity of detoxicating enzymes of larvae of bee pyralid Galleria mellonella L. (Lepidoptera, Pyralidee) and the role of detoxicating enzymes in the formation of the insect' resistance to entomopathogenic fungi].

In the work it was shown that fungal infection of insects increased the total esterase and glutathione-S-transferase activities of hemolymph. Acid and alkaline phosphatase activity in infected larvae remained at the same level as in intact larvae. Fungi-infected bee pyralid larvae turned out to be 1.

[Bishofit in the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis].

Aim: To evaluate effectiveness of a natural mineral bishofit in combined treatment of rheumatoid arthritis (RA).

Material And Methods: The study included 71 RA patients with minimal activity of the pathological process and articular disorders of stage II. Bishofit was used in baths and compresses.

[Purine metabolism enzymes in diagnosis and differential diagnosis of osteoarthritis and gout arthritis].

Aim: To characterize purine metabolism in osteoarthritis (OA) and gout arthritis (GA) diagnosis and differential diagnosis of these diseases.

Materials And Methods: We estimated xanthine oxidase (XA), xanthine dehydrogenase (XDG), 5'-nucleotidase (5'-NT) activity, esoenzymes of XDG and content of uric acid (UA) in the sera of 44 patients with osteoarthritis and 34 patients with gout arthritis.

Results: Hyperuricemia was revealed in 25 percent of patients with osteoarthritis, in 64.

[Bischofite in the treatment of patients with osteoarthrosis deformans].

Bishofit baths and compresses on affected joints were added to combined treatment of 43 patients with dystrophic metabolic arthritis (DMA). Twenty control DMA subjects received. nonsteroid antiflammatory drugs without bishofit.

[The clinico-diagnostic significance of determining creatine kinase activity and isoenzymes in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus].

Creatine kinase (CK) activity was assessed in the direct and reverse tests and CK isoenzymes in agar gel for 41 patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). With growing activity of the process, there was a decline of CK activity in the reverse test though in the direct test this activity was scarcely changeable allowing a shift to predominance of the direct response. Significant differences were found in CK reverse reaction which correlated with SLE activity and pattern.

[Changes in the electrolyte composition of the blood and muscles in carp infection with Ichthyophthirius multifiliis (Ciliata, Ophryoglenidae)].

A study of the electrolytic contents of blood serum, erythrocytes and muscles of carp infected with Ichthyophthirius multifiliis was carried out. Whatever the infection intensity, a characteristic increase in the cations K+ and Na+ ratio in the plasma and muscles of infected fishes takes place. The above dependence, which is expressed in the intensification of active ions transport, is associated with mobilization of organism's protective functions.