The analcime-bearing rock immobilized microalgae: Stress resistance, psychrotolerance, phenol removal.

The development of synergetic biogeocomplices for biodegradation of recalcitrant organic pollutants is an urgently needed to achieve the environmental sustainability. The biogeosorbent based on the analcime-bearing rock immobilized Chlorella vulgaris f. globosa was developed to remove phenol from polluted waterbodies.

Biosorbents based on esterified starch carrying immobilized oil-degrading microorganisms.

The complex sorbents based on hydrophobized starch, which contain oil-degrading microorganisms, have been proposed for effective sorption and utilization of petroleum-related pollutants. The sorbents were made on the base of benzoic, lauric and stearic acid esters of starch with degrees of substitution of 0.4-1.

[Acupuncture therapy in the treatment of patients with bronchial asthma].

Erythron membrane impairment was investigated using membrane -active drugs (obsidan, delagil, morphium, ethanol) to specify indications to acupuncture in bronchial asthma (BA). The patients were studied during the treatment and followed up for a year. It was found that both immediate and long-term results of acupuncture were related to patterns of the membrane impairment.

[The results of the dynamic observation of bronchial hyperreactivity in risk-group subjects and in bronchial asthma patients. Some corrective procedures].

The following bronchial provocation tests were carried out: 310 with acetylcholine, 216 with submaximal physical exercise, 246 with cold air inhalation, and 103 with aspirin in healthy subjects, relatives of bronchial asthma patients, in patients with preasthma and asthma in a stage of exacerbation abatement or remission. Based on the data obtained the authors show nonspecific hyperreactivity of the bronchi in healthy relatives of bronchial asthma patients, heterogeneity and a high incidence of responses to acetylcholine, cold air and physical exercise, augmentation of the reaction intensity to different stimuli in all asthma patients. The follow-up of bronchial hyperreactivity discovered its progression in the absence of the treatment and the lowering of its intensity as a result of the treatment with calcium antagonists, magnesium sulfate, punctate massage, sublaminal physical exercise, ultraviolet radiation of autologous blood, specific desensitization with aspirin.

[The clinico-functional effectiveness of calcium antagonists in correcting the bronchial hyperreactivity of bronchial asthma patients].

In 46 bronchial asthma (BA) patients, a study was made of the effects of calcium antagonists (CA) (corinfar, perdipine) on bronchial sensitivity and reactivity determined on bronchospasm induction with the increasing doses of acetylcholine. A single intake of 20 mg of a CA in BA patients significantly improved bronchial sensitivity and reactivity (the rise of the PD25 and the decline of the alpha angle). 20 patients were treated with corinfar for two weeks after administration of the basic therapy.