International legal standards for conducting biomedical experiments on animals: status and prospects of development.

Introduction: The article highlights the basic principles of the use of animals in biomedical research raised the main problems of vivisection. It also suggests specific steps to enhance the humanization of this process. The conclusions are the following: it is very important to prevent cruelty to animals in the context of resolving bioethical and legal problems associated with the implementation of the principle of humanism and the protection of animal rights.

[Anatomical variants of the lymphatic bed of the human epididymis].

In a series of 59 male subjects aged between 1 to 86 years, the human epididymis intraorgan lymphatic bed was studied using subserosal injection of Herot's mass. It is shown that the epididymal lymphatic bed consists of the surface- and intraorgan plexuses of lymphatic vessels. The surface plexus is represented by subserosal, surface and deep intracapsular networks of lymphatic vessels.

[Effect of "Naftusia" water on some indicators of metabolism in rats].

It is shown that giving rats natural water "Naftusya" to drink during 5 days initiated a complex of variations in change of substances, conditioned by general adaptational reaction. Ultraviolet radiation of water has no effect on its balneoactivity while ultrafiltration attenuates it a little.

[The microcirculatory bed of the human epididymis].

Based on the material of 24 human epididymides at ages 18 to 54, hemomicrocirculatory bed was studied of epididymis in man with the aid of a complex of morphologic techniques (injection of 20% Chinese ink-gelatine suspension, injection of a weak solution of caustic silver, transmission electron microscopy). It has been ascertained that architectonics and ultrastructural features of various links of the hemomicrocirculatory bed have signs of regional specificity for the subcapsular vascular network, small seminal ducts of caput epididymidis, ductus epididymidis of the head, body and tail of the organ. Reasons are discussed why specific hemomicrocirculatory bed should be caused to develop in different parts of the organ.

[The characteristics of disorders of general adaptation reactions in people who suffered as a consequence of the accident at the Chernobyl Atomic Electric Power Station and their correction by means of balneo- and phytotherapy].

Pathological general adaptive reactions of the body (GARs) were found out to occur on 33.8 +/- 5.0 of patients with chronic pathologies of the urinary and digestive organs, arriving at the Truskavets health resort from the areas contaminated with radionuclides, compared with 7.