[Thyroid functional activity and hemodynamic parameters in upper-class schoolchildren presenting with endemic goiter].

We studied the relationship between iodine deficiency, blood cortisol levels, andhemodynamicparameters in 536schoolchildren of Vladikavkaz aged 13-17 years. Urine iodine was measured using cerium arsenite reaction, thyroid function was evaluated from thyrotropin, T3, and free T4 levels, blood cortisol was determined by the immonoenzyme assay using Alcor Bio kits. The study group included 24 subjects with endemic goiter, control group was comprised of 14 healthy adolescents.

[Molecular-genetic methods for diagnostics of tumour growth].

Considerable progress has recently been achieved in understanding molecular medicine in general and vell molecular biology in particular. Molecular medicine is a scientific discipline studying man under normal condition and pathological changes at the cellular-molecular level with reference to gene activity and function of protein mediators responsible for delivery of information to various organs or systems of the body and cell-to-cell interaction.