[The characteristics of the phospholipid composition of the pulp in the milk teeth].

Qualitative and quantitative phospholipid composition of porcine deciduous teeth pulp was studied by microthin-layer chromatography. Basing on the differences in the levels of individual phospholipids in the pulp of deciduous and permanent teeth, the authors come to a conclusion on the inadequate structural organization and functional activity of the pulp of deciduous teeth.

[The characteristics of lectin binding to the surface of differentiated neuroblastoma C 1300 cells].

Peculiarities of the binding of lectins of castor bean, cochlea, soya bean, lime bean and wheat germs to the surface of differential neuroblastoma C 1300 N 18 cells have been studied using the method electron cytochemistry. It is found that the quantity of the bound lectin conjugates with colloidal gold on the surface of differentiated cells varied considerably from that on the surface of nondifferentiated cells.

[Interaction of neuroblastoma C 1300 N18 cells with liposomes and intermembrane metabolism of lipids].

The methods of isotopic and fluorescent labels have shown that interaction of cells of neuroblastoma S 1300 N 18 with small one-layer neutral liposomes prepared of the egg phosphatidyl choline with the addition of different amounts of cholesterol is realized by two mechanisms: the transmembrane transfer of cholesterol by the concentration gradient and membrane lipid metabolism proper, the ratios of cholesterol phospholipids in the biological and artificial membranes being equal. A dependence is established of the neuroblastoma cell viability on the activity of the cholesterol membrane metabolism. A problem on the mechanism which causes the death of cells during the interaction with phosphatidyl-cholesterol liposomes is under discussion.

[Evaluation of the distribution of lectin receptors on the surface of tumor and transformed cells using methods of variation statistics].

Statistical procedures were used to estimate lectin receptor distribution on the surface of ascite lymphoma cells, neuroblastoma C-1300 cells and of transformed human T- and B-derived lymphoid cell lines. Relationships between the arithmetic means and mean square variances for sample populations from each cell and ferritin- or colloidal gold-lectin combination were used to define four types of topographical distributions: uniform-ordered, uniform-random, random and clustered.