Evaluation of Factors Affecting Tree and Shrub Bark's Antioxidant Status.

The importance of using the barks of trees and shrubs as powerful natural antioxidants suggests the necessity to evaluate the effect of different environmental factors on bark extracts’ quality. The determination of total antioxidant activity (AOA) and polyphenol content (TP) in the bark of 58 tree and shrub species from 7 regions differing in mean annual temperature, insolation, humidity, salinity level, and altitude was performed. The above stress factors positively affected bark AOA but did not have a statistically significant effect on TP.

Growth Features of Castanea sativa Mill. in Forest Stands Infected by Cryphoneciria parasitica (Murrill) М. Е. Barr. in Abkhazia.

Currently, the forest plantations of Castanea sativa Mill. are largely damaged by phytopathogenic organisms, of which Cryphoneciria parasitica (Murrill) М. Е.

[The immune status of patients with neurocirculatory dystonia subjected to ionizing radiation exposure during the cleanup of the accident at the Chernobyl Atomic Electric Power Station].

The immune state of 77 cleanup workers of Chernobyl power plant accident suffering from vegetative dystonia was studied. The group of comparison consisted of 10 vegetative dystonia patients, who were not subjected to the ionizing radiation influence. The workers showed no specific changes of immunity, but immune state disturbances among them were more frequent and more pronounced that in ordinary vegetative dystonia patients.

[Separation of adenohypophysis hormones by electrophoresis on a dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel].

Zones of somatotropin, prolactin and subunits of adenohypophysis glycoproteid hormones are identified in dodecyl sulphate-polyacrylamide gel after electrophoretic separation of these hormones in the tris-acetate system; The method is suitable for a quantitative determination of somatotropin and prolactin in adenohypophysis.

[Separation of the hormones of the adenohypophysis of rats by use of electrophoresis in polyacrylamide gel in the presence of sodium dodecyl sulfate].

A comparative study of rat adenohypophysis extract and its alcohol fractions was performed by two variants of the method of electrophoresis in polyacrylamide gel: at pH 9,5 and with the presence of sodium dodecyl sulphate at pH 7.2. With the presence of sodium dodecylsulphate four protein zones are found which in the order from the anode towards the cathode are identified as hemoglobin, somatotropin, lactotropin and albumin.