[Brain benzodiazepine receptors in humans and rats with alcohol addiction].

Objective: Benzodiazepine receptors (BDR) in synaptosomal and mitochondrial membranes from different brain areas of alcohol abused patients (postmortem) and the brain cortex of male rats (Vistar line) with different preference to alcohol were studied.

Methods: Synaptosomal and mitochondrial receptors of membranes from different brain areas of patients with alcohol addiction and controls were explored using radioreceptor analysis with selective ligands [3H]flunitrazepam and [3H]PK-11195. BDR in the rat brain were studied using [3H]flunitrazepam and [3H]Ro5-4864.

Effects of neuroprotector cortexin on the dynamics of neuroendocrine system parameters in patients with organic emotionally labile (asthenic) disorders.

Addition of neuroprotector Cortexin to standard drug therapy of patients with organic emotionally labile (asthenic) disorders had a great influence on the neuroendocrine system and neurosteroid content: normalization of blood concentration of cortisol, dehydroepiandrosterone sulphate, and thyroid hormones was observed. Clinical improvement was associated with the recovery of organism homeostatic systems.

[Characteristics of oxidative stress in mental maladaptation].

Changes in the balance of pro and antioxidant systems were studied in persons in state of mental maladaptation, developed under the influence of emotional stress. Activation of lipid peroxidation has been revealed associated with increase of amount of malondialdehyde in erythrocytes and blood serum in persons surveyed. Activity of catalase and glutathione peroxidase in erythrocytes in persons in state of mental stress was increased and glutathione preductase, glutathione-S-transferase and glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase has been reliably reduced as compared with group of healthy people.

Psychoimmune interactions in women of reproductive age with endometriosis.

Psychoimmune interactions were studied in women of reproductive age with endometriosis. Pronounced immunological shifts manifested in a shift of the T-cellular immunity, resulting in imbalanced production of pro- (IL-1β, IL-2, IFN-γ) and anti-inflammatory (IL-4) cytokines. Significant correlations between the severity of mental shifts and immunopathogenetic factors in the studied patient population demonstrated the psychoneuroimmune nature of endometriosis.

[Therapeutic efficiency of cytoflavine solution for infusion in emergency conditions].

The author reports results of clinical assessment of cytoflavin for injections in the treatment of different pathological condition including critical ones. It was shown that therapy reduces mortality among patients with acute disturbances of cerebral circulation to 4.8-9.