[The functioning of call-center in conditions of COVID-19 pandemic].

Unlabelled: In conditions of persisting high morbidity of COVID-19, issues related to prompt and timely medical care of population remains actual ones. The purpose of the study to analyze activities of the call-center of the Ministry of Health Care of the Udmurt Republic related to organization of medical care of COVID-19 patients in the Udmurt Republic.

Materials And Methods: The statistical (descriptive statistics) and descriptive methods were applied.

[Blood coagulating properties of the copperhead Agkisrodon halys halys venom and its thrombin-like fractions].

Venom and its fraction with hemocoagulation properties from Agkistrodon halys halys exhibited dissimilar effects on blood plasma and fibrinogen preparation. The major component of this fraction proved to be a thrombin-like enzyme, properties of which were studied by means of several coagulation tests. Dissimilarity in coagulating effects of the venom and its thrombin-like fraction as well as different physical properties of blood clots formed after their action suggest that the venom from Agkistrodon halys halys contained other protein factors affecting blood coagulation besides the thrombin-like proteases.

[The use of Soviet substitutes for batroxobin in the determination of fibrinogen].

Plasma fibrinogen was measured by kinetic photometry with two Soviet analogs of the foreign agent batroxobin: ancistron-N and agichal, obtained from Central Asian Aspidelaps lubricus venom by different techniques. Both the preparations of thrombin-like enzyme from the venom have proved to be adequate substituents of batroxobin; the optimal concentration of ancistron-N for this test was found to be 20 micrograms/ml or 0.04 U/ml, that of agichal 0.