Global warming scenarios for the Eastern Adriatic Sea indicate a higher risk of invasiveness of non-native marine organisms relative to current climate conditions.

Unlabelled: Globally, marine bioinvasions threaten marine ecosystem structure and function, with the Mediterranean Sea being one of the most affected regions. Such invasions are expected to increase due to climate change. We conducted a risk screening of marine organisms (37 fishes, 38 invertebrates, and 9 plants), both extant and 'horizon' (i.

[Telemedicine with respect to telepathology in Bosnia-Herzegovina].

Telemedicine is rather new activity covering various approaches in order to fulfill the main task which can be expressed in more comprehensive words such as "remote medicine" or "medicine on distance". One of definitions of the telemedicine given by the European Commission for Telemedicine says that "telemedicine is fast access to distributed medical expert knowledge using telemedicine and information technologies regardless of actual location of a patient or relevant information". The first connection has been established with Zagreb, Croatia in September by means of PHAROS.

[Telemedicine with emphasis on telepathology--its beginnings and future prospects in Bosnia-Herzegovina].

Telemedicine is a rather new activity which covers various approaches in order to fulfill the main task which can be expressed in a more comprehensive way such as "remote medicine" or "medicine on distance". The first telemedical relation has been established with Zagreb, Croatia in November 1996 by means of PHAROS. One month later the Institute of Pathology together with the Radiology and Ophthalmology Clinic of University Hospital of Sarajevo joined the experimental project "SHARED" (a telemedicine initiative to support remote health care structure, proposed by the San Raffaele International, Biomedical Science Park with Stato Maggiore della diffesa and European Space Agency).

[Telepathology and present experience based on use of the SHARED telecommunication project].

Telemedicine is rather new activity covering various approaches in order to fulfill the main task which can be expressed in more comprehensive words such as "remote medicine" or "medicine on distance". One of definitions of telemedicine given by the European Commission for Telemedicine says that "telemedicine is fast access to distributed medical expert knowledge using telemedicine and information technologies regardless of actual location of a patient or relevant information". The first connection has been established with Zagreb, Croatia in September by means of PHAROS.

[Respiratory symptoms and pulmonary ventilatory function in greenhouse workers].

Respiratory symptoms and ventilatory capacity were studied in a group of 135 women employed in greenhouses. In addition, a control group of 51 unexposed women were studied. Greenhouse workers had significantly higher prevalence of chronic cough, dyspnea, chest tightness and rhinitis (p < 0.

[The effect of calcium antagonists on the cardiotoxic effects of isoprenaline in rats].

Rats were pretreated with either verapamil or nifedipine five minutes prior to isoprenaline injection in order to prevent the development of myocardial necrosis which was verified by biochemical, electrophysiological and histological changes in the control animals. Verapamil embolised completely the elevation of creatine-kinase, lactate-dehydrogenase and alpha-hydroxybutyrate-dehydrogenase plasma activity, Q-waves and ST-segment elevations in ECG as well as the coagulation necrosis and myocytolysis. Nifedipine failed to exerts any protective effect, making the biochemical alteration even more pronounced.

[Efficacy of pretreatment with adrenergic beta-receptor blockers in the prevention of cardiotoxic effects of isoprenaline in rats].

Protective effects of beta-blockers, propranolol and atenolol, have been investigated in rats treated with cardiotoxic dose of isoprenaline. In saline-pretreated animals isoprenaline produced all morphological, biochemical and electrophysiological signs of myocardial necrosis: massive coagulation necrosis of cardiomyocytes, 2.6 to 3.

[Isoproterenol toxicity in the myocardium in an experiment].

The effect of toxic doses of isoproterenol (ISP) on total activities and isoenzyme patterns of creatine kinase (CK) and lactate dehydrogenase (LDH) in rat sera was investigated and correlated with histopathological changes in the myocardial tissue. A single dose of 25 mg ISP per 100 g body weight caused a statistically important elevation of CK and LDH total activities and of the activities of cardiospecific isoenzymes CK-MB, LDH-1 and LDH-2 six hours after intraperitoneal administration. The isomorphic LDH isoenzyme pattern, which was also observed, was taken to be a proof of the ISP-induced cardiogenic shock.