Publications by authors named "O V Kostina"

The gender specificity of the clinical and psychopathological features of schizophrenia is an important factor in this disease. Gender features of neurocognitive deficit in schizophrenia and associated functional and structural disorders of the brain activity are of particular interest to researchers. There are several potential pathogenetic factors of this disease associated with gender, one of which is considered to be oxidative stress.

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Various aspects of folate and tetrahydrobiopterin (BH4) metabolism disturbances have been detected in patients with schizophrenia.Data were obtained that disturbances in the pterins (folates and BH4) metabolism can be associated with oxidative stress and inflammation, but has not yet been confirmed in clinical studies in schizophrenia. Within the framework of this study, a correlation and factor analysis of biochemical markersof pterin metabolism, inflammation and redox imbalance in patients with schizophrenia was performed in order to test the hypothesis of the single etiopathogenetic node, including the studied biochemical processes.

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Unlabelled: It was reported that the levels of tetrahydrobiopterin (BH4) are reduced in schizophrenia. However, mechanisms of BH4 deficiency in schizophrenia had not been studied precisely.

Objective: the search of the association between BH4 deficiency in schizophrenia and a range of biochemical and clinical parameters for the evaluation of the possible mechanisms of BH4 loss and its role in the development of the symptoms.

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The aim of the study was to assess the zinc content and identify the relationship between the concentration of this element and changes in the biochemical status of patients and markers of inflammation during burn shock. We examined 23 patients aged 45.3±16.

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The state of the hemostasis system was studied in 9 patients of the middle age group (44 ± 9.94 years) who received thermal trauma on an area of more than 32% (49.4 ± 18.

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