Comparative studies on radon seasonal variations in various undeground environments: Cases of abandoned Beshtaugorskiy uranium mine and Kungur Ice Cave.

It is well known that one of the most important risk factors in underground environment is the harmful effects of radon. The reasons for strong seasonal fluctuations in radon content in underground environments remain not fully understood. The purpose of this article is to improve existing ideas about this phenomenon.

[The correcting effects of dihydroquercetin in cerebral ischemia-reperfusion injury].

The dynamics of changes in the mitochondrial respiratory function, changes in the parameters of carbohydrate metabolism and some parameters of oxidative stress in the brain tissue have been investigated under conditions of ischemia-reperfusion and administration of dihydroquercetin. Dihydroquercetin (65 mg/kg) was administered per os 1 h before modeling of ischemia-reperfusion. Studies were carried 1 h after reperfusion.

[Blood oxygen transport, prooxidant -- antioxidant status, and vasoactive characteristics of vascular endothelium in rats treated with endotoxin and taurine].

Experiments on a group of 74 pregnant rats upon intramuscular introduction of E. coli lipopolysaccharides during pregnancy revealed the correction effect of taurine on the blood oxygen transport function, prooxidant - antioxidant status, and vasoactive characteristics of vascular endothelium.

S-nitroso human serum albumin given after LPS challenge reduces acute lung injury and prolongs survival in a rat model of endotoxemia.

Endotoxemia leads to the induction of inducible nitric oxide synthase (NOS-2) and increased expression of numerous inflammatory mediators contributing to endotoxin-induced acute lung injury. We tested the hypothesis that supplementation of nitric oxide (NO) by the novel NO donor S-nitroso human serum albumin (S-NO-HSA) given after lipopolysaccharide (LPS) challenge may reduce NOS-2 expression, lung inflammation and acute lung injury. Rats were divided into four groups: sham-operated (no treatment), LPS, LPS+HSA (human serum albumin), and LPS+S-NO-HSA.

The degree of oxidative stress in the rat brain during ischemia and reperfusion in conditions of correction of the L-arginine-NO system.

The aim of the present work was to evaluate oxidative stress in the brains of rats during ischemia/reperfusion in conditions of correction of the L-arginine-NO system. Experiments on 128 rats with brain ischemia/perfusion in conditions of modulation of the L-arginine-NO system were used to study changes in the concentrations of (a) lipid peroxidation products, i.e.