[Role of sympatho-adrenomedullar system in adaptation to cold].

It was persuasively shown that norepinephrine released from sympathetic nervous endings plays an important role in the adaptation to cold and epinephrine secreted by adrenal medulla. After acclimatization calorigenic effect of norepinephrine is enhanced. Catecholamines stimulate nonshivering thermogenesis in brown adipose tissue and apparently in white adipose tissue and in skeletal muscles.

[Endoscopy for gastrointestinal bleeding in patients with pelvic and leg bones trauma].

The results of 36 endoscopic procedures performed because of clinical signs of the gastrointestinal bleeding to the patients, hospitalized with traumatic fractures of pelvis and lower limbs, were analyzed. The acquired data allowed to reveal the terms of bleeding development and the efficacy of the endoscopic hemostasis, as well as substantiate the need of antisecretory treatment for the curtain age category of patients.