[Cytogenetic changes of the bone marrow in massive blood loss and their correction with mexidol].

The citogenetic lesions were evaluated in the marrow erythroblasts of 45 anesthetized white nonlinear male rats, weight--200-300 g who were subjected to an acute blood loss with a 1-hour arterial hypotension (ABR = 40 mm Hg); the micronucleus tests was made use of. Two stages of the increase of polychromatophilic erythrocytes with micronuclei in the marrow of the animals, who underwent a massive blood loss, were registered: stage 1--an incomplete marrow ischemia with a subsequent arterial hypotension and with a reliably confirmed formation of cytogenetic lesions in the marrow polychromatophilic erythrocytes; stage 2--the reperfusion period contributed to a 1.7-fold increase of polychromatophilic erythrocytes with micronuclei versus the previous stage.