[Enteral oxygenation in complex treatment of anaerobic septic shock in postpartum woman].

Purpose of the clinical case demonstration is to attract the professionals' attention to the method of enteral oxygen therapy successfully used in the complex intensive therapy of septic shock in young postpartum woman.

Apoptosis phenomenon in the selected neoplasms of the glial origin.

Gliomas cause a therapeutic problem because of their localization and asymptomatic growth in the initial phase. Neoplastic growth is connected with disturbance between proliferation and apoptosis. In the study, we assessed the Bcl-2 family proteins involved in apoptosis in gliomas.

Effect of thymus factor and levamisole treatment in patients with persistent nephrotic syndrome.

The effects of thymus factor (TFX) and levamisole on the clinical picture and some indices of cellular immunity have been evaluated in 10 patients with nephrotic syndrome due to membranoproliferative glomerulonephritis Type I. The patients revealed decreased T-lymphocyte number and impaired responsiveness to phytohaemagglutinin (PHA) stimulation before treatment. An association between the slight diminution of proteinuria and the increase of E-rosette forming lymphocytes, increased responsiveness to PHA and return to normal of previously elevated B-cell percentages, was observed in four patients treated with TFX and one patients treated with levamisole.

Effect of refeeding after starvation on basal and tolbutamide-stimulated insulin secretion and beta-adrenergic receptor function in the regulation of insulin release and lipolysis in obese patients.

Serum insulin, blood glucose and plasma free fatty acids (FFA) were determined in 14 subjects with a simple obesity under basal conditions and during the tests with tolbutamide, propranolol and epinephrine before and after fasting of 14 days duration, on restricted diet of 1300 kcal. After refeeding some changes in pancreatic B cells reactivity and an altered metabolic responsiveness to epinephrine and propranolol were found as compared to prefasting values. It may be concluded that after refeeding a further increment of beta-adrenergic function seems to contribute to accelerated lipid mobilisation and partly to increased insulin secretion.