Effects of Dietary Limonene Supplementation on Growth Performance and Immunological Parameters of Common Carp, , Challenged by .

This study examined the impact of dietary limonene treatment on the growth performance, immune response, and disease resistance of common carp, . The fish were fed with either a control diet (CTL; no limonene supplementation) or four experimental diets containing 50 (50 L), 100 (100 L), 200 (200 L), and 400 (400 L) mg/kg limonene over a 70-day period, followed by challenge. The 200 L treatment resulted in a significant decrease in FCR compared to the CTL treatment.

Therapeutic Drug Monitoring in Arterial Hypertension.

(1) Background: This study was planned to assess the concentration of antihypertensive drugs (AHD) in the blood serum in patients with controlled and uncontrolled arterial hypertension (AH). (2) Methods: We assessed 46 patients with AH. Based on the results of 24 h blood pressure monitoring (ABPM), the patients were randomized into two groups.

Effects of dietary Hyssop, , extract on physiological and antioxidant responses of rainbow trout, , juveniles to thermal stress.

The present study aimed at assessing the effects of dietary Hyssop, , extract on rainbow trout, , responses to thermal stress. The juveniles (69.8 ± 0.

Influence of hepatic neoplasia on life expectancy in dogs.

Background And Aim: The present study investigated the influence of liver tumor structure on life expectancy in dogs. Diseases of the liver comprise 5-25% of all non-communicable diseases in dogs, and primary hepatic tumors account for 0.6-1.

[MODIFIED INTRAVESICAL CHEMOTHERAPY OF BLADDER CANCER].

This paper gives an account of an experimental and clinical application of super-low frequency scanning magnetic field in patients with noninvasive bladder cancer treated with adjuvant intravesical gemcitabine chemotherapy. Treatment of isolated bladder cancer cells incubated with gemcitabine by this physical factor increased the permeability of cell membranes to the chemotherapy drug. This effect was demonstrated by increased fluorescence intensity of cancer cells.

[Practical value of certain prognostic scales in wound dystrophy].

The authors gave comparative characteristics of the data available in literature and the scales of evaluation of the severity and prognosis of wound dystrophy used by them.

[Selenium provision in heart failure of different aetiology].

Determination of selenium status of patients with chronic heart failure of various etiologies showed reduced provision of selenium compared with the control group. Statistically significant increased serum levels of selenium have occurred on average 35,9% after the correction. Intake of sea cabbage jam led to a significant increase in the level of selenium in serum only at patients with deficiency of this trace constituent.

[Application of the principles of the systemic approach to interpretation of the pathogenesis of traumatic shock and traumatic disease].

Experimental and clinical studies for many years led the authors to the conclusion that systemic approach seems most adequate for current interpretation of pathogenesis of traumatic disease (TD) and its component--traumatic shock (TS). It seems valid to assess TD and TS severity and dynamics by the proportion of pathological and adaptive reactions. Drugs should be used for maintenance and stimulation of adaptive reactions.

[The surgical operation as a component in the resuscitation assistance in severe combined chest trauma].

Assessment of the relationship between the total system and local pathological processes in patients with grave combined thoracic injuries and analysis of the efficacy of various therapeutic measures included in the intensive care complex brought the authors to a conclusion about the efficacy of surgical interventions, including repair of the thoracic carcass, in the early periods after the injury. They claim that artificial ventilation of the lungs is permitted, if necessary, during a limited period, and an intervention should be performed as early as possible in order to attain the recovery of spontaneous respiration.

[Evaluation of lung surfactant function in terms of lipid monolayer micromechanics].

The analysis of compression isotherms of lipid monolayers and thermodynamical estimation of the conditions of the formation of layered systems underlies the explanation of some details of lung surfactant work. When the chemical potential of the monolayer during compression reaches the value of the chemical potential of the liquid bilayer membrane free of the mechanical stress, the conversion of monolayer into bilayer phase commences by means of squeezing out of monolayer in subphase creating bilayer ripples. During inspiration when alveolar surface expands, ripples turn back.

Origin of amphiphilic molecules and their role in primary structure formation.

Attempts to solve two fundamental questions are described: the first concerns which mechanisms were responsible for the self-assembly of membrane structures on the prebiotic Earth, and the second concerns the routes by which considerable amounts of membrane amphiphiles formed from simpler hydrocarbons. The physicochemical properties of several amphiphilic compounds extracted from the Murchison carbonaceous chondrite were studied, using infra-red and fluorescent spectroscopy, measurements of surface activity, chromato-mass spectrometry, and polarization and electron microscopy. The results supported previous observations that amphiphilic and aromatic hydrocarbons were present in significant quantities, and the first demonstration of surface activity among a number of acidic derivatives of hydrocarbons is reported.

[Common and peculiar features of the interaction of hemoglobins with hydrated dipalmitoyllecithin].

It was demonstrated that human and horse hemoglobin variants having quantitative difference in the interaction with dipalmitoyllecithin exhibit features of generality. The latter is manifested in the established hydrophobic contacts between protein and lipid in hydrated films discovered by IR spectroscopy. The arrangement of hydrophobicity profiles of hemoproteins demonstrated in amino acid sequences of chains the existence of intermittent hydrophobic and hydrophilic regions.

[Effect of levamisole on nonspecific resistance of patients in the early post-shock period].

The authors consider that the application of Levamisol in the treatment of patients decreases the amount of complications if the degree of shock was not great. In greater degree of shock Levamisole failed to exert a favorable effect.

[Basis for choosing the surgical treatment method in intracranial hematomas in combined craniocerebral injury and concomitant shock].

A comparative evaluation of the antishock effectiveness of the ablation of intracranial hematomas by means of various surgical accesses was made. The method of mathematical analysis based on the principle of "moving averages was used. It was shown that the potential antishock effectiveness of the ablation of intracranial hematomas was maximum after using cutter openings and minimum after using the osteoplastic access.

[Low-angle x-ray diffraction of the erythrocyte membrane].

Using low-angle X-ray diffraction technique it has been shown that preparing procedures can induce the phase separation in red blood cell membranes in the course of which proteins are removed from lipid bilayers. The latter form rather extensive regions and the diffraction pattern of asymmetric type changes to a symmetric one.

[A model of lipid and cholesterol interactions in hydrated phases: formation of linear cholesterol multimers].

On the ground of Martin and Yeagle's model based on the possibility of formation of cholesterol dimers in the course of its interaction with lipids, the scheme of lipid cholesterol interaction is presented. Its essence is connected with possible formation of linear cholesterol multimers circled by unshared aliphatic chains.

[Preservation of liver mitochondria function in hemorrhage-resistant rats during severe long-term hypotension].

In contrast to the reported data evidencing early impairment of the liver mitochondrial function in the Wiggers model of hemorrhagic shock at the arterial blood pressure 30-40 mm Hg, lasting not over 6 h, a group of hemorrhage-resistant rats was discovered. In these rats, the lifetime was about 20 h, with the blood pressure being the same as indicated above. Rectal temperature decreased to 24-25 degrees C during shock.