Systemic Amyloidosis Model on Young Mice.

Subcutaneous daily injection (with neglect of aseptics) of 0.5 ml solution of soybean cream substitute (10% volume in distilled water) during 30 days caused systemic amyloidosis in 30-day-old mice. All the known methods for induction of systemic amyloidosis are based on the use of old animals, as senile tissue bradytrophy allows effective simulation of amyloidosis.

[The influence of alcohol consumption on the chronological patterns of sudden cardiac death].

The objective of the present study was the retrospective analysis of the materials collected by the Republican Bureau of Forensic Medical Expertise, Ministry of Health and Social Development of Chuvash Republic, during the period from 1997 till 2002 for the elucidation of the chronological patterns of sudden cardiac death (SCD) associated with alcohol consumption depending on the sex and age of the victims, days of the week and months of the year as well as weather conditions. It was shown that the peak of mortality among men and women taking no alcohol fell on Monday. It was highest in May and decreased by February.

Response of glandular organs to experimental macroglossia.

Response of glandular organs to tongue enlargement was studied in 16 outbred male rats; each of them received injections of hydrophobic polyacrylamide gel (0.05 ml) in midline of the tongue. Changes in the studied glandular organs of external secretion (salivary glands) and internal secretion (thyroid and adrenal glands) were morphometrically detected.

[Morpho-functional changes of splenic autotransplants at the different time intervals after the operation].

This investigation was aimed at the study of splenic autotransplant cytoarchitectonics and cellular structures functional activity 3-60 days after the operation. The studies were carried out in 70 albino male rats including intact animals (n-10) and rats subjected to splenectomy and subsequent spleen heterotopic autotransplantation (n-60). Cryostat sections of transplants were processed for Falc and Cross luminescent-histochemical methods and were stained with hematoxylin and eosin.