[The experience of the Department of Industrial Medicine of the Moscow I. M. Sechenov Medical Academy in training specialists at the postgraduate level].

Occupational Medicine Department in Moscow Sechenov Medical Academy is based on RAMSc Research Institute for Occupational Medicine. The Department's general line is postgraduate education with qualification exam and certification in following specialties: industrial hygiene, occupational pathology, clinical laboratory evaluation and prophylactic toxicology. The Department elaborated many methodic documents and study guides, sample educational programs for doctors in industrial hygiene and for residents in occupational pathology.

[Translocation of chromosome 1/29 and its various phenotypic manifestations in Ala-Tau breed cattle].

117 heads of Ala-Tau breed cattle were studied cytogenetically. The 1/29 translocation was present in 13 animals of unusual for this breed light-grey colour. Chimerism 2n = 59/2n = 60 was found in twins.

[Correction of immunologic disorders in patients with burns].

Addition of immunomodulating therapy with Thymalin, a thymus agent, to the multimodality therapy of burnt patients contributes to a rapid normalization of immunological parameters. The most marked immune response was observed 7-10 days after a therapy course initiated in the early periods of burn disease in patients with severely depressed T-system immunity and a high sensitivity to the drug. Inclusion of a donor blood leukomass transfusion course activates the cellular link of the immune system just after the treatment course, but fails to favour a stable normalization of thymus-dependent lymphocyte ratios.

[Chromosome aberrations in hothouse workers coming in contact with pesticides].

The frequency of chromosome mutations in the peripheral blood lymphocytes has been studied in 40 greenhouse workers professionally contacting with a complex of pesticides. The frequency of chromosome aberrations in the group of workers amounts to 6.0 +/- 0.