Are species-pairs diverging lineages? A nine-locus analysis uncovers speciation among species-pairs of the Lobaria meridionalis-group (Ascomycota).

In spite of considerable effort to verify the theory of species-pairs, uncertainty still exists about the relationship between sexually or vegetatively reproducing populations of morphologically indistinguishable, sympatric lichen species. The current paper studies putative species-pairs within the Asian Lobaria meridionalis-group, using a nine-locus and time calibrated species-tree approach. Analyses demonstrate that pairs of sexually or vegetatively reproducing lineages split into highly supported monophyletic clades-confirming molecularly the species-pair concept for the L.

[Combined effect of musically-modulated electrical current and mineral drinking water from Khadyzhensky spring in experimental atherosclerosis].

Male rats with experimental atherosclerosis drank mineral water (Khadyzhensky spring) and were exposed to music-modulated electric current. This combined treatment showed synergism of physical (current) and balneological (mineral water) factors providing lipolytic, antioxidant, stress-limiting and antiinflammatory intravascular effects and recovery of microcirculatory processes.

[Experimental study of the role of essential trace elements of mineral waters in prevention of atherosclerosis risk factors].

Hormonal and lipid spectra of the blood serum; antioxidant, biosynthetic, microcirculatory and elastic-inhibitory activity in the myocardium and liver; proliferative and genetic activity in the thymus; microcirculation and destruction in rats with atherosclerosis drinking Khadyzhenskaya mineral water and solution of natural macro- and trace elements in the spring water (temarox) in two dilutions. It was found that elimination of atherosclerosis risk factors in rats was most complete in a course temarox drinking in dilution 1/8000.

[Effect of infrared radiation and combination of it with constant and alternating magnetic fields on the recuperative processes in the thymus, liver, and blood of stressed rats].

Changes in thymic cells activity in stressed animals were compared to the level of 11-oxycorticosteroids in the blood and antioxidant hepatic activity in exposure of the hepatic projection region and solar plexus to varying doses of infrared radiation and its combination with constant or alternating magnetic fields. It was shown that combined action of constant or variable (pulsed with negative semiperiods) magnetic fields and infrared radiation in the above exposure promotes optimal conditions for regeneration in stressed rats.

[The physiological and physicochemical mechanisms of the therapeutic and prophylactic actions of a musically modulated electrical current in experimental atherosclerosis].

In experimental atherosclerosis it is shown that frontomastoid course application of music-modulated electric current prevents oxidant modification of low density lipoproteins in the myocardium, cerebral cortex and liver. This antioxidant effect eliminates one of the principal risk factors of atherosclerosis.