[Cyclic fasting as a factor of higher body resistance to acute lymphoid leukemia]. / Tsiklicheskoe golodanie kak faktor uvelicheniia rezistentnosti organizma k ostromu limfoidnomu leikozu.

In experiments on mice AKR the authors investigated the effects which could be produced by cyclic fasting on the mice survival. It was found that one of the variants of this fasting noticeably prolongs the survival of the animals. The proportion of the animals that died of acute lymphoid leukemia among other causes of death declined.

[Polyamines as a prognostic criterion of the duration of clinico-hematologic remission in acute leukemia in children]. / Poliaminy kak prognosticheskii kriterii dlitel'nosti kliniko-gematologicheskoi remissii pri ostrom leikoze u detei.

The authors reported the results of retrospective analysis of the level of polyamines in urine and the duration of clinicohematological remission in 25 AL children aged 3 to 14. Of this number 23 patients suffered from acute lymphoblastic leukemia, 2--from acute myeloblastic leukemia. Direct correlation between polyamine changes during a course of chemotherapy and the duration of remission was established. Longer duration was observed in the patients in whom a 2-fold rise of the level of all polyamines, especially spermidine, followed the administration of a cytostatic within the first 24-72 h. On the discontinuation of therapy a certain decrease in polyamine excretion with urine was observed in these children as compared to the level determined on their admission to hospital.

[Effect of aseptic inflammation on the course of transplantable leukemia in C-58 strain mice]. / Vliianie asepticheskogo vospaleniia na techenie perevivnogo leikoza u myshei linii C-58.

An investigation was carried out on 59 mice of high leukemic line C-58. It is shown that aseptic inflammation inhibited the leukemic process in mice with transplantable leukemia, stimulated the myeloid sprout of hemopoiesis and suppressed the lymphoid one, and also decreased the spleen and thymus mass.