[Xenon effects on cells and receptors].

Xenon (Xe) is being more widely used in medicine owing to its unique physical-and-chemical properties of a noble gas. However, the knowledge about the physiological and patho-physiological changes occurring in the organism and in its separate structures during the interaction with Xe is still scanty. The aim of this survey was to briefly describe the presently known Xe biological-and-medical properties and certain mechanisms of Xe impact produced on cells and receptors as well as on the release of mediators and hormones.

[Risk of thromboembolic complications in cancer patients].

A study of blood coagulation homeostasis in 24 cases of stage IV stomach cancer established grave disorders involving activation of stage II and III coagulation, inhibition of stage II and depletion of the compensatory potential of the fibrinolytic system. Functional tests using highly-specific and standardized methods of contact and phospholipid activation showed malignancy generalization process to be a thrombosis hazard.