Interrelationship between cortisol levels in plasma and the circadian rhythm of temperature, pulse and blood pressure in depressed patients with good and disturbed sleep.

Cortisol levels in plasma were measured in 122 depressed patients at 8:00 a.m. and 11:00 p.

[Stomach and duodenal lesions in patients with acute organophosphorus pesticide poisonings].

Gastric and duodenal mucosa changes were studied by means of fibrogastroduodenoscopy and targeted biopsy in 35 patients, 23 men and 12 women, aged 18 to 68 years, with acute poisoning with phosphororganic pesticides. In 33 of the patients the poisoning occurred through oral and in 2 patients through cutaneous route. 13 patients were with a light, 14--with a moderate and 8--with a severe form of poisoning.

[An epidemiological study of bronchial asthma in the Stara Zagora District].

A cohort of 284 persons is included in the epidemiologic study of bronchial asthma 105 men (36.97%) and 179 women (63.03%), mean age 47 +/- 13 years.

[The connective tissue changes in patients with acute poisonings by organophosphate pesticides].

The changes in the derma, selected as a representative of highly organized connective tissue, were studied by 8 types of staining and histochemical reactions in 896 biopsies of macroscopically unchanged skin from the gluteal region of 56 patients with acute phospho-organic pesticide intoxication between the 2d and 15th day after the intoxication. 272 biopsies from 17 healthy persons and the literature data, describing the normal structure of the skin, served as controls. Nonspecific changes affecting mainly the elastic and collagen components, in some cases parallel to the severity of the intoxication, were found.