[Peculiarities of modifying influence of the factors forming the functional status of the central nervous system on dynamics of the rat higher nervous activity disturbances totally exposed to electron and gamma-radiation at a dose of 100 Gy].

The dynamics of using a stabilized motor defensive conditioned reflex of active avoidance in "shuttle-box" in rats after the total influence of high energy electrons and gamma-rays at a dose of 100 Gy and a modifying influence of the two most important factors forming the functional status of the central nervous system: the stage of the conditioned reflex consolidation and typological peculiarities of the higher nervous activity have been investigated. The influence of both types of ionizing radiation has been shown to cause far more profound disturbances of non consolidated conditioned reflexes in comparison with the automatized conditioned reflexes and provoke an inverted picture of disturbances in the animals with opposed peculiarities of the higher nervous activity. The qualitative picture of the dynamics of disturbances that are caused by these types of radiation is identical.

[Teratogenic effect of the fungicide calixin].

Experimental studies on Wistar rats revealed that the fungicide calixin (N-tridecyl-2.6-dimethylmorpholine) has a teratogenic effect. This effect manifested in edemas, hemorrhages, hematomas, abnormal development of the brain (hydrocephalia), visceral cranium (micrognathia, cleft palate) and genitourinary system (hydronephrosis), in decreased size of pelvic bones, shoulder girdle, front and hind limbs, etc.

[State of rat embryogenesis and progeny during exposure to foreign substances contained in the food].

Examination of the action of different xenobiotics (pesticides, heavy metals) on embryogenesis and progeny allowed the methodological approaches to this line of research to be suggested. It is recommended that xenobiotics be administered in different periods of embryogenesis: from day 1 to day 7, from day 7 to day 15 and from day 1 to day 20. It has been established that at cross mating the most pronounced alterations arose in the progeny of experimental males.

[Effect of small amounts of methylmercury on embryogenesis and certain biochemical indices].

It was established in experiments on Wistar rats that oral methyl mercuric iodide at doses of 0.85, 0.64, 0.

[Hazard criteria and the evaluation of the overall toxic and specific effects of chemical compound exposure].

A differentiated establishment of a chronic action threshold for a population and especially of a subthreshold is a basic hygienic parameter necessary for substantiating safe concentrations of chemical substances. Investigations aimed at detecting the penetration of substances into the cells, their intracellular distribution and ascertaining the extent of deranged biochemical processes localized in subcellular formations are of crucial importance in toxicological experiment.

[Adaptation to the action of several teratogens as a consequence of preliminary administration of pesticides to females].

The effect of DDT and lindane pesticides on the intensity of the teratogenic action of sodium acetylxalicylate (SA) and of the cabomate benlate group of pesticides was studied on Wistar rats given the mentioned pesticides from the onset of pregnancy. The teratogens were administered on the 10th and the 12th days of gestation, respectively. Preliminary administration of these pesticides was found to weaken the teratogenic and the embryotoxic action of benlate given in a dose of 250 mg/kg, and of SA administered in a dose of 400 mg/kg.

[Principles of the hygienic standardization of extraneous substances (food additives and admixtures) in food products].

At the root of hygienic standardization of extraneous substances on the ground toxicological experimentation there lies the notion of the noxious action threshold and of the maximum permissible concentration of the substance (MPC). The influence of diverse environmental factors of low intensity on man should not bring forth even temporary disturbances of the homeostasis, including the reproductive function, as well as the strain on defensive and adaptive compensatory mechanisms during the whole of the life span. There arises the need for elaborating indicators that might characterize the "viability" of the organism, or, in other words, the possibility of its performing all the functions that are inherent in a given species.