[Body mass, population density, and offspring number in mammals].

The negative relationship between population density and body mass with the body mass exponent of -0.75 implies that the energy flow through populations of small- and large-bodied species is the same, for individual metabolism scales to body mass raised to the power of +0.75.

[Spatial structure of a vasoactive peptide--a fibrin fragment].

Empirical energy calculations were used to determine all low-energy conformations of vasoactive pentapeptide Ala-Arg-Pro-Ala-Lys, thereby three most stable conformations were distinguished. Biological testing of conformationally restricted analogs allowed to delineate the most probable "biologically active" conformation of the molecule.