[G. A. Miterev, the director of the Erisman Central Research Sanitary Institute].

Georgy Andreyevich Miterev, after leaving the post of Minister of Health of the USSR, worked as Director of the F. F. Erisman Central Research Sanitary Institute from 1947 to 1954.

[The History of International Associations of Museums of Medicine].

The article considers history of activity of international associations of museums of Europe and North America from the moment of organization of the first International Association of Medical Museums existed from 1907 to 1955 and to the European association of Museums of History of Medical Sciences (since 1983) and the Association of Medical Museums (since 1985) both existing at the present time. The analysis is presented concerning their role in unification of scientific community, development of research methods, determination and reconsideration of professional concepts and also alterations of functions of medical collections and museums with the course of time and new trends in medical education, clinical and fundamental medicine and museum business. The existence and development of museum associations is compared with concept of three "museum revolutions": professionalization of museum sector (at the turn of XIX-XX centuries), orientation on education of broad masses of population (second half of XX century), establishment of principles of social inclusion and multi-culturality (beginning of XXI century).

[TECHNIQUE OF EXPERIMENTAL STENTING OF VESSELS FOR INVESTIGATIONS IN VIVO].

Introduction of a new systems for the vessels stenting into clinical practice demands conduction of preclinical investigations in vivo. The method of vascular stents implantation into abdominal aorta of a rabbit, using peripheral vascular catheter, was presented. Successively were presented surgical aspects of the vessels stenting in experiment, estimation of functional state of the heart and aorta, morphometric indices of the stent in 30 days after operation.

Genetic diversity of Dirofilaria spp. isolated from subcutaneous and ocular lesions of human patients in Ukraine.

This short communication describes the phylogenetic analysis of 48 Dirofilaria worms isolated from human patients in Ukraine. 102 cases were both of subcutaneous (47; 46.1%) and ocular (54; 52.