[An electron microscopic study of neocortex of Syrian hamsters () infected with SARS-CoV-2 (Coronaviridae: )].

Introduction: Convalescent COVID-19 patients have various signs of central nervous system damage, including those directly associated with SARS-CoV-2. Hence, studies of SARS-COV-2 related morphological changes in neocortex are particularly relevant for understanding the mechanisms of their formation and development of approaches to preclinical evaluation of the effectiveness of antiviral drugs. The purpose of the research is a longitudinal study of the ultrastructural alterations in Syrian hamsters neocortex after experimental SARS-CoV-2 infection.

[Specific features of the pathology of the respiratory system in SARS-CoV-2 (Coronaviridae: Coronavirinae: Betacoronavirus: Sarbecovirus) infected Syrian hamsters (Mesocricetus auratus)].

Introduction: Verification of histological changes in respiratory system using Syrian (golden) hamsters (Mesocricetus auratus) as experimental model is an important task for preclinical studies of drugs intended for prevention and treatment of the novel coronavirus infection COVID-19.The aim of this work was to study pathological changes of pulmonary tissue in SARS-CoV-2 (Coronaviridae: Coronavirinae: Betacoronavirus; Sarbecovirus) experimental infection in Syrian hamsters.

Material And Methods: Male Syrian hamsters weighting 80-100 g were infected by intranasal administration of culture SARS-CoV-2 at dose 4 × 104 TCID50/ml (TCID is tissue culture infectious dose).

Some aspects of psychophysiological support of crewmember's performance reliability in space flight.

Crewmembers play an important role in ensuring the efficiency of "crew-spacecraft" system. However, despite of the fact that crewmembers are well trained and highly motivated persons, extreme flight factors may influence negatively on their reliability, and lead to human error occurrence. Therefore, working out methods of human error prevention is very significant to increase crewmember's performance reliability.

Methodological approach to study of cosmonauts errors and its instrumental support.

The methodological approach to the study of cosmonauts errors is discussed in the paper. Within its framework an error is considered in psychophysiological aspect as consequence of cosmonaut "psychophysiological troubles" caused by combined effect of flight extreme conditions on his/her organism. This approach was used for the investigation of interrelation between cosmonauts errors, their psychophysiological state and work-rest schedule peculiarities.

Substitution of 2-aminoadenine and 5-methylcytosine for adenine and cytosine in hybridization probes increases the sensitivity of DNA fingerprinting.

An oligonucleotide (m5C-am2A-m5C)5 containing 2'-amino-deoxyadenosine (am2A) and 5-methyldeoxycytidine (m5C) residues has been synthesized and compared with unsubstituted pentadecadeoxyribonucleotide (CAC)5 as a hybridization probe for DNA fingerprinting. It was shown that considerably higher sensitivity can be achieved with the modified analog.

Strings of contiguous modified pentanucleotides with increased DNA-binding affinity can be used for DNA sequencing by primer walking.

Modified oligonucleotides containing 5-methylcytidine and/or 2-aminoadenosine form tighter hybrids with DNA and are, therefore, more efficient primers for DNA sequencing as compared to their natural counterparts. Strings of contiguous modified pentanucleotides can be used for DNA sequencing by primer walking.

Ethical problems of interaction between ground-based personnel and orbital station crewmembers.

Manned missions onboard orbital stations Salyut-6 and Salyut-7 have led us to the conclusion that a long-term space mission can be viewed as a complex socio-man-machine system whose effectiveness largely depends on the quality of interaction between its subsystems. When analyzing and assessing the reliability of this system, it is important to consider ethical aspects, because they concern human relations, permeating its very component and in the long run determining its efficiency. Psychological and medical examinations before, during and after manned missions have helped us to identify the major points of interaction of the subsystems which require adequate monitoring and optimization using socio-psychological and organization-technical approaches: arrangement and evaluation of the quality of work, arrangement of proper leisure, psychological comfort in the interpersonality and intergroup relations during prolonged space missions.

Effect of vitamin and amino acid supplements on human performance during heavy mental and physical work.

This paper presents data describing the effects of vitamin and amino acid supplements on the health state and performance of men doing heavy mental and physical work. Experiments on seven test volunteers showed that a 20-d intake of a mixture of vitamins, amino acids, and mineral substances optimized the health state and increased the performance of test subjects doing heavy work.

Characteristics of postural self-regulation in complex spatial environments and after-effects of weightlessness.

The structure of the postural-spatial activity of parachuters, high-board divers and volunteers has been studied during postural tests on sports towers and that of cosmonauts before and after space flight. The experimental results give evidence that the stabilographic pattern shows several different types which correspond to the fixed, "searching" and pliable models of postural self-regulation, regardless of professional experience. During postural tests the cosmonauts exhibited deformation of the stabilographic pattern which lost its individual features and was converted into a stable curve which was represented by unmodulated fluctuations with a period of 0.

Characteristics of the sleep of men in simulated space flights.

A study of the sleep of men in simulated space flight has shown that, during different effects (diminished motor activity, noise, rotation), monotony and time of the exposure is the general pathogenetic factor producing sleep disturbances. The monotony factor was responsible for typical changes in sleep function (difficulty involved in falling asleep, disturbed continuity of sleep as a process, decline in the depth, etc.), whose degree was related not only to the professional importance of the experiment but also to the individual intolerance to the main exposure.