[Effect of low-intensity 900 MHz frequency electromagnetic radiation on rat liver and blood serum enzyme activities].

The comparative analysis of the rat liver and blood serum creatine kinase, alanine aminotransferase, aspartate aminotransferase, alkaline phosphatase and purine nucleoside phosphorylase post-radiation activity levels after a total two-hour long single and fractional exposure of the animals to low-intensity 900 MHz frequency electromagnetic field showed that the most sensitive enzymes to the both schedules of radiation are the liver creatine kinase, as well as the blood serum creatine kinase and alkaline phosphatase. According to the comparative analysis of the dynamics of changes in the activity level of the liver and blood serum creatine kinase, alanine aminotransferase, aspartate aminotransferase and purine nucleoside phosphorylase, both single and fractional radiation schedules do not affect the permeability of a hepatocyte cell membrane, but rather cause changes in their energetic metabolism. The correlation analysis of the post-radiation activity level changes of the investigated enzymes did not reveal a clear relationship between them.

Association between dietary conjugated linoleic acid and bone mineral density in postmenopausal women.

Objective: To determine if dietary conjugated linoleic acid (CLA) is associated with bone mineral density (BMD) of different skeletal sites in postmenopausal women.

Methods: A cross-sectional analysis in 136 Caucasian, healthy, postmenopausal women, mean age 68.6 years.

[Gestagenic and contraceptive activity of new synthetic progesterone analogs in experimental animals].

The gestagenic activity of new 17alpha-hydroxyprogesterone analogs was studied in experiments on infantile female rabbits (Clauberg-McPhail assay) and ovariectomized animals (Comer-Allen assay). The new steroidal preparations produced significant secretory transformations in immature rabbit endometrium. The maximum gestagenic activity was observed for butagest, while the minimum effect was produced by duhydrogesterone (dufaston).

[Experimental progestogenic activity of novel derivatives of 17alpha-hydroxyprogesterone].

Experiments on infantile female rabbits showed that new 17a-hydroxyprogesterone derivatives (AMOL phenyl propionate, AMOL isopropyl ester) possess a pronounced gestagenic activity. In particular, AMOL isopropyl ester is capable of maintaining pregnancy in ovariectomized animals (Corner-Allen assay).

[Therapeutic efficacy of novel 17alpha-hydroxyprogesterone derivatives in experimental preterm labor].

The ability of a series of new 17 alpha-Hydroxyprogesteron derivatives (acetomepregnol, AMOL phenyl propyoate, butagest) in preventing the prostaglandin-induced preterm labor was experimentally studied in mice. It was found that all the synthetic gestagens studied, especially butagest, maintained pregnancy in all test animals on the model of enzaprost F induced abortion. The proposed progestogens can be used to prevent abortion in pregnancies in cases of risk from diseases connected with excess prostaglandin secretion.

[Sanitary standardization of 1-carbamoyl-3(5)-methylpyrazole, N-hydroxymethyl-3(5)-methylpyrazole and 4-amino-1,2,4-triazole in the water of reservoirs].

Since there is a problem in the sanitary protection of water reservoirs, nitrification inhibitors (NI), such as CMP, HMMP, ATG, were tested for their effects on the organoleptic properties and sanitary regimen of model water basins. The threshold concentrations of the inhibitors were found to be 0.49, 230, and 229 mg/l, respectively.

[Diagnostic significance of evaluating erythrocyte membrane permeability as an intoxication syndrome criterion].

Twenty-five patients with pyoinflammatory maxillofacial diseases treated in an inpatient setting in the Regional Dentistry Clinic of Krasnodar and 8 healthy volunteers were examined. After opening and draining of the purulent focus the patients were divided into 2 groups. Group 1 consisted of 21 patients treated by intravenous 0.

[Effect of instenon on the uterine contractile activity].

The effect of instenon upon the uterine contractile activity was studied in pregnant rats. The drug administration at a dose resulted in significant suppression of the myometrium contractility. The effect was not decreased when instenon was injected against the background of oxytocin.

[Effect of low-molecular peptides on the transformation of fibrinogen into fibrin].

The influence of synthetic peptides on fibrinogen transformation to fibrin under the action of thrombin and fibrin-monomer polymerization was investigated. Peptides Gly-Pro-Arg-Pro; Gly-Pro-Arg-Pro-Lys; Gly-Pro-Arg-Pro-Lys-Boc; Gly-Pro-Arg-Pro-Arg are specific inhibitors of fibrin formation. These peptides interfere with the hydrolysing effect of thrombin due to binding to the central domain of fibrinogen.

[Allelic exclusion in hybridomas. I. Isolation and properties of a hybrid clone producing two allelic variants of light chain immunoglobulins in the rat].

Expression of RI-1a and RI-1b allelic genes controlling the production of rat lg kappa L-chains by hybridoma cells in vitro was studied. By fusing mouse myeloma cells with RI-1a/RI-1b heterozygous rat splenocytes the unique cloned hybrid cell line secreting both allelic variants has been established. This line may have appeared because cell hybridization made it possible to fix the rare case of correct rearrangement of the kappa chain gene segments on both homologous chromosomes.

[Interaction of synthetic peptides with the individual components of the blood coagulation system].

Spectrophotometry and viscosimetry were used to examine the interaction of taftcin and its decomposition products with individual components of the blood coagulation system. Peptides with free amino groups at the N-end were found to form complexes with heparin. The presence of free carboxylic groups at the C-end provided for their interaction with fibrinogen.

[Immunochemical study of the conformational properties of the variable and constant domains of the light chain of mouse MOPC myeloma immunoglobulin].

The antigenic activity of variable (V) and constant (C) domains of mouse myeloma MOPC 21 light (L) chain has been used as a probe of their conformational state. The conformational properties of L-monomers, L-dimers and native IgG1 MOPC 21 protein were investigated by the reaction of inhibition of radioimmunoadsorbtion. Antibodies against the C-domain and different regions of V-domain were used in these experiments.

[Antigenic markers of variable region of mouse myeloma MOPC 21 light chain].

Monospecific antibodies against V-region of the L-chain of the mouse myeloma protein MOPC21 (VK 15 group) were obtained and used for preparation of antibody-immunoadsorbents. By means of the immunoadsorbents the content of normal immunoglobulins with antigenic markers of VK 15 group in the serum of mouse strains BALB/c, CBA and C57BL/6 was determined. The least quantity of the proteins determined by this method was estimated to be 1.