[Functional activity of metal contained enzymes with antioxidant activity in blood of patients with stomach cancer and during the use of anticancer autovaccine].

The authors presented in the article results of assessment of metal contained enzymes with antioxidant activity, ceruloplasmin (CP) in plasma blood, Cu-Zn superoxide dismutase (SOD) and catalase in red blood cells of patients with I-IV stage stomach cancer during surgical treatment and application of anticancer autovaccine (AAV) to prevent relapses and methastases. It was revealed compared with the donors that at stages of the treatment, before operation and after resuscitation, the level of activity of CP was higher in 1,3 times and in 3 times was higher the level of SOD. The change of catalase activity was within the limits of physiological values.

[Ratio of low- and high-spin cytochrome P-450 in liver microsomes of N-nitrosodiethylamine-induced hepatomas].

Content of high- and low-spin oxidized CYP was determined in liver microsomes and NDEA-induced hepatomas by method of optic spectrofotometry. Value of spin states ratio in hepatoma was shown to be greater then in liver. It increased under the action of inductors, which caused the synthesis of isoforms in high-spin configuration.

[Role of protein receptors of Vitamin A in the mechanism of antitumor action of retinoids].

Data on protein receptors of vitamin A participating in retinoid metabolism, storage, transport and action are presented. Information about cytosolic protein receptors of vitamin A exerting hormone-like action on the cell proliferation and differentiation is considered in detail. Data concerning the presence of protein receptors in normal and tumour tissues, correlation between protein receptors and biological retinoid effect are analyzed.

[The role of membranes in the mechanisms of the anti-carcinogenic effect of retinoids].

The role of cell membrane structures in the mechanism of anticarcinogenic and antiblastic action of retinoids was reviewed on the basis of the authors' results and data from literature. The retinoid action induced a delay and prevention of malignant neoplasms development, which is shown by various experimental models of carcinogenesis and tumour growth. The regulatory effect of retinoids on the membrane-bound enzymic processes was analyzed as very important in the clarification of the retinoid action mechanisms not only as antipromotor agents, but also as those influencing immediately the initiation stage of the tumour process.

[Anti-carcinogenic and anti-blastic effect of vitamin A in various modes of its administration to random-bred rats during carcinogenesis of the mammary gland, induced by 7,12-dimethylbenz(a)anthracene].

The dependence of the anticarcinogenic and antiblastic effect of retinoid on the regime of its inoculation and on the process stage has been established using the 7,12 dimethylbenz(a)anthracene-induced mammary carcinogenesis of rats. The prophylactic administration of retinoid alone and its therapeutic inoculation against a background of hormonal correction resulted in the most expressed effect that was estimated by the elongation of the latent period, incidence and growth rate of tumours, lifespan of treated animals as well as by the distribution of malignant and benign tumours.