When disaster becomes commonplace reaction of children and adolescents to prolonged terrorist attacks in Israel.

The aim of this study was to examine, in conditions of prolonged terror, the possible influences of yet another terrorist attack as an additional traumatic event on children's reactions in the emotional, behavioral, and cognitive spheres, and to identify any mediating factors. The sample included 747 students in junior high schools in three Israeli cities. None of the participants was directly exposed to terrorist attacks, but they all lived with the possibility of daily terror.

Children's feelings toward parents in the context of parental disability.

The purpose of the study was to examine the influence of parents' disability on children's feelings toward their parents. The paper focuses on the comparison of children's feelings toward their parents among school-age children with disabled parents (research group, n=45) and without disabled parents (control group, n=46). A two-dimensional approach was used.

[Characteristics of the method and reagents in fluorescent determination of effective and total concentration of serum albumin].

The characteristics of fluorescent essay of total and effective albumin concentrations by Zond-Albumin kit (experimental lot) were as follows: intraseries reproducibility in measurements not more than 1.6%, the error in serum dosage being mainly responsible for the total error. After unsealing the ampules the reagents may be stored at 5 degrees C for at least a week.

Biospecific haemosorbents based on proteinase inhibitor. III. Biospecific antiproteinase haemosorbent 'Ovosorb' in complex therapy of acute destructive pancreatitis.

Analysis was carried out of the results of complex therapy in 32 patients with acute destructive pancreatitis for which haemosorbtion on Ovosorb, a biospecific antiproteinase haemosorbent containing an immobilized ovomucoid, was used. The clinical efficiency of haemosorbtion was displayed as a decrease in gravity of endogenous intoxication and related functional and metabolic disturbances, as well as in a reduction of lethality from 24.7% to 6.

Biospecific haemosorbents based on proteinase inhibitor. II. Efficiency of biospecific antiproteinase haemosorbent 'Ovosorb' in complex treatment of experimental generalized purulent peritonitis and acute destructive pancreatitis in dogs.

The biospecific antiproteinase haemosorbent (BAH) 'Ovosorb' containing, in the bulk of polyacryamide gel, the ovomucoid from whites of duck eggs, was used for a complex treatment of the experimental generalized purulent peritonitis and acute destructive pancreatitis in dogs. The efficiency of BAH was manifested in the significant reduction of lethality of the experimental animals, a more rapid liquidation of proteinasaemia, normalization in plasma of alpha 1-proteinase inhibitor and protein metabolism. Thus, by eliminating proteinases from circulation, Ovosorb contributes to the cessation of imbalance in the proteinase-inhibitor system and is efficient in the therapy of pathological states related to this imbalance.