[SQUALENE: PHYSIOLOGICAL AND PHARMACOLOGICAL PROPERTIES].

The review of literature demonstrates that squalene, known to most experts as an intermediate product in the synthesis of cholesterol, has several pharmacological properties including hypolipidemic, hepatoprotective, cardioprotective, antioxidant, and antitoxicant activity. Squalene is effective in the treatment of diabetes mellitus type 2 and can potentiate the activity of some antitumor (antiblastoma) preparations and reduce their undesired side effects. This bioactive substance has low toxicity and, in therapeutic doses, does not produce any damaging action on the human organism.

[PECULIARITIES OF THE MESENTERY MICROCIRCULATORY BED RESPONSE TO ISONIAZID INTOXICATION].

An original technique has been developed for the biomicroscopy of small-intestine mesentery blood vessels in rats. Using this method, specific features of mic- rocirculatory process disturbances caused by isoniazid in high doses have been elucidated for the first time. It is established that intragastric introduction of iso- niazid (single daily dose of 542 mg/kg for 6 days) leads to pronounced disturbances of the microcirculatory process, accompanied by intravascular aggregation of erythrocytes, stasis, destructive changes in vessel walls, diapedesis, and hemorrhage over an area of (1.

[Pharmacological correction of the ulcerogenic action of NSAIDs in rats].

Experimental preclinical investigations on a group of 90 white outbred male rats showed that preliminary preventive introduction of procaine (novocaine, 1.07 mg/kg) or taurine (7.14 mg/kg) during 7 days before the administration of ketorolak trometamine significantly reduced the number of erosive-ulcerous lesions (by more than 87%, p < 0.

[Drug-induced liver damage and the problem of its pharmacological correction].

This review summarizes data on the pathogenesis and diagnostics of drug-induced liver damage. Special attention is paid to the role of individual genetically determined characteristics of drug metabolism in the development of this pathology. Results of experimental and clinical studies of the efficacy of hepatoprotectors in the treatment and prevention of the drug-induced hepatotoxicity are generalized.

[Use of automated bactec MGIT 960 system in the diagnosis of resistance to reserve drugs agents in Samara].

The paper gives the results of a demonstration project to introduce a test for drug sensitivity to second-line antituberculous agents for patients with multidrug-resistant (MDR) tuberculosis at a routine large Russian laboratory. Two hundred and thirty MDR isolates were examined; of them 8.7% had extreme drug resistance.