[The neurochemical, molecular and ultrastructural mechanisms of the formation of latent postresuscitation encephalopathy].

The content of total RNA and DNA, activity of Ca2+, Mg(2+)-dependent DNA endonuclease, and ultrastructural changes in nerve tissue cells were examined in the brain cortex of narcotized dogs 1 to 3 months after a 4-hour hemorrhagic shock (arterial pressure 40 mm Hg). A new variant of reconstruction of cell membranes and organelles formed by them was revealed, developing in the brain neurons in the course of adaptation during the first-third months of the postshock period. Evidently, the molecular base of development of an atypical variant of cell structure rearrangement in the remote period after shock is the internucleosomal fragmentation of a part of the DNA of nerve cells resultant from DNA endonucleolysis and subsequent information disintegration of a cell as a system.

[Significance of DNA endonucleases in the pathogenesis of ischemic lesion of the brain during massive hemorrhage].

Experiments on dogs exposed to hemorrhagic shock demonstrated a direct relationship between the duration of arterial hypertension and activities of Ca(2+)-Mg(2+)-dependent DNA-endonucleases in the cellular nuclei of the cerebral cortex. Appreciable differences in the kinetics of accumulation of acid-soluble products of DNA chromatin in the cellular nuclei of the cerebral cortex were detected: chromatin DNA degradation was the most rapid in the nervous tissue of dogs exposed to 6 h hemorrhagic shock. Verapamil, a Ca blocker, injected to animals 30 min before massive hemorrhage in a dose of 0.

[Molecular and cellular mechanisms of ischemic damage of the brain in hemorrhagic shock].

General lightening of caryoplasma, the appearance of destructive areas in which electron-optic density was undetectable, ruptures in chromatin chains, changes in the nature of structural organization of euchromatic areas at the expense of density redistribution have been found in the nuclei of brain cortex oligodendrogliocytes and astrocytes by electron microscopy of caryoplasma of the nuclei from light neurons during experiments on anesthetized adult mongrel dogs weighing 9 to 26 kg recovered after a 4-hour hemorrhagic shock (BP 40 mm Hg). The nuclei of dark neurons and oligodendrogliocytes had matrix structure similar to control. The nuclei of astrocytes had marked matrix lightening with the formation of large zones in which electron-optic density was undetectable.

Metabolic and ultrastructural characteristics of biosynthetic processes in the cerebral cortex at 3 months following a prolonged hemorrhagic shock.

Biochemical indicators (the content of ATP, total RNA and DNA, acid and alkaline phosphatase activity) and ultrastructural changes in cells of the nerve tissue were studied in the cerebral cortex of anesthetized dogs 3 months after they had sustained a 4-h hemorrhagic shock (arterial pressure = 40 mmHg). A new variant of reconstruction of cell membranes and organelles that develops in neurons and gliocytes of the brain in the process of adaptation 3 months after resuscitation is identified. This reconstruction variant is described by (a) the presence of a monolayer of a substance with a medium electron density with the incorporated dense granules instead of the common three-layer organisation; (b) the ability displayed by the organellar structure to detect "errors" in its organisation; (c) changes in the character of intercellular relations.

[Ultrastructural localization of lactate dehydrogenase activity in the brain cells of human embryos].

Results of studying the ultrastructural localization of lactate dehydrogenase (LDH) in the brain neuroectodermal cells of 7-11-week-old human embryos are presented. Young neurons and glioblasts display marked LDH activity. The reaction product is more frequently found in young neurons as compared to glioblasts.

[Relationship between ultrastructural pathology of the embryonal brain and features of the course and treatment of schizophrenic mothers].

Evaluation of the ultrastructural changes in embryonic brain cells was made according to the intensity of two complexes--destructive and compensatory-proliferative. They were correlated with a number of clinical parameters (features of mother's disease, the condition at the moment of abortion, peculiarities of treatment, etc.).

[Lamellar formations in the brain cells of embryos of schizophrenic mothers].

Studies of the embryo brain obtained during abortions in schizophrenic mothers detected certain ultrastructural traits in the nervous tissue cellular elements. One of the most striking traits is the general increase in the surface of the intracellular membrane which appears due to the premature development of the usually present cell organellas (cytoplasmatic network, lamellar apparatus, mitochondria) and as a result of the increased proliferation of the membranes leading to formation of peculiar membrane structures--lamellasomes. The enhanced membrane proliferation gives grounds to assume that the increase in the general synthetic activity is due to the development in pathological conditions of adaptational reactions, which however are quite distinctive.

[Microglia-type cells in normal and pathologic human embryonic brains].

The brains of 7--12 week embryos, developing in normal and mentally ill females (normal--14, schizophrenia--12, other mental disorders--10) were studied by means of electron microscopy. It was established that the cells of the microglia type may be encountered in the brain of embryos beginning from 7 weeks. In the brain of embryos from normal females these cells had mainly a round or oval form (globose microglia).

[Certain structural details of developing in vitro human embryonal brain explants studied with the aid of fluorescence and scanning electron microscopy].

The bundles growing away from the explants were mainly formed by neuroblast processes. It has been shown that the degree of differentiation of neuroblasts depends on "the age" of embryonal brain. The bundles of neuroblasts are accompained by slightly differentiated cells, having their own processes descending to the surface of the lining.

[Changes in the ultra-fine structure of capillaries of the embryonic brain in the presence of schizophrenia in the mother].

The report is concerned with a study of fine structures of brain capillaries in 9 embryos received during medical abortions from schizophrenic mothers. The authors established some traits in the ultrastructure of endothelial cells in most of the studied cases--an increase of the surface of endothelial cells at the expense of a tortuosity of their plasmatic membranes and a formation of growths, vacuolization of the cytoplasma. There were also some changes in the structure of basal membranes.

[Ultrastructural features of brain cells from the embryos of schizophrenic women].

With the use of the electron microscope the authors studied the embryonic brain tissue obtained during medical abortion of 6 female schizophrenic patients. Ultrastructural peculiarities of the cell elements in the embryonic brain in theses cases were estimated in comparison with those found in the embryonic brain of 14 mentally healthy women. There is a description of damages of membranes, mitochondrias and accumulation of granular material in the cytoplasma.