[Redox status parameters in adolescent-mongoloids with exogenously constitutional obesity and fatty hepatosis].

It is assumed that in the progression of obesity, complicated by fatty hepatosis in adolescents, a significant role is given to the reactions of oxidative stress with deficiency of antioxidant factors. However, an important factor that remains outside the field of view of researchers is the ethnicity of the patient, which is an important element in the development of a personalized approach in the treatment and prevention of diseases. In connection with this, the purpose of this study was to study the changes in the lipid peroxidation-antioxidant defense processes in adolescent Mongoloids with exogenously constitutional obesity complicated by fatty hepatosis. 18 adolescent boys with fatty hepatosis were examined on the background of exogenous-constitutional obesity of the first degree; 38 adolescent boys with exogenously constitutional obesity without changes in the liver and 37 practically healthy adolescents (control group). All subjects surveyed for ethnicity belonged to the Mongoloids. Spectrophotometric and fluorometric methods were used in the research. The results of the study indicated a high intensity of lipid peroxidation reactions in Mongoloid boys with obesity and fatty hepatosis relative to control values: an increase in blood plasma content of compounds with unsaturated double bonds (p<0.001), diene conjugates (p=0.0012), ketodienes and conjugated trienes (p<0.0001), in the absence of significant differences in the level of TBA-active products. Increased values of total antioxidant activity in blood plasma (p=0.0023) and erythrocyte superoxide dismutase activity (p=0.0072), decreased levels of fat-soluble vitamins in blood plasma [α-tocopherol (p<0.0001) and retinol (p=0.0011)] and oxidized form of glutathione in erythrocytes (p=0.0083) have been found. The pronounced insufficiency of fatsoluble vitamins - α-tocopherol and retinol in patients of the main group was also noted in comparison with patients without morphological changes in the liver. Thus, in teenage Mongoloids with exogenously constitutional obesity and fatty hepatosis, it is possible to recommend antioxidant drugs in addition to basic metabolic therapy.

[Intracardiac Thrombosis in a Child With Hereditary Thrombophilia].

A child who had undergone subclavian vein catheterization in the neonatal period was hospitalized in a grave condition at the age of 1 year 7 months with echocardiographic signs of right ventricular thrombus. Further examination revealed low level of protein C and mutations in methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase and plasminogen activator inhibitor-1 genes. Basing on this observation, the authors recommend purposeful search for genetic thrombophilia in children with history of prolonged catheterization of veins and prophylactic anticoagulation therapy in case of positive result. article describes a case of intracardiac thrombosis in a child 1 year 7 month having a reduction of protein C and mutations in the genes of methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase and plasminogen activator inhibitor 1. e suffered a subclavian vein catheterization in the neonatal period. The patient was hospitalized in serious condition. According to the results of echocardiography revealed a thrombus in the right ventricle. This case shows that the intracardiac thrombi in children are the result of exposure to many of prothrombotic factors. With this in mind, the authors recommend a survey of genetic thrombophilia children having long vein catheterization and use of anticoagulation therapy as a prophylactic measure.

[The contribution of genes polymorphism of thrombophilia in clinical variability of hemorrhagic vasculitis].

BACKGROUND: The article is devoted to the study of clinical and laboratory characteristics of the current of hemorrhagic vasculitis in children in the Republic of Buryatia. PATIENTS AND METHODS: The study included 27 patients aged 7.6 +/- 4.02 years, who conducted clinical and laboratory tests, immunological study of antiphospholipids of antibodies, genetic testing for thrombophilia markers of candidate genes. RESULTS: The results showed that hemorrhagic vasculitis often affects children of Buryat nationality. In 96% of cases there are mixed clinical forms of the disease. 63% of children of hemorrhagic vasculitis preceded by various factors, a higher percentage of infectious diseases. The first clinical symptom in 63% of patients is a typical purpura hemorrhagic rash. Results of clinical laboratory blood tests revealed no significant deviations. Circulation of lupus anticoagulant was detected in 37% of subjects. The alphaCL IgM detected in 3 children, alphabeta2-GP-I IgA--in 4, alphabeta2-GP-I IgM--in 1 patient. Carriers of thrombophilia polymorphisms were in 95% of children. Noted that homozygous variants of genes polymorphisms of methylenetetrahydrofolatered reductase and plasminogen activator inhibitor-1 correlate with the presence of urinary symptoms and recurrence of the rash. CONCLUSION: The study shows the risk of recurrent flow of hemorrhagic vasculitis and nefritis of Henoch-Schonlein in children with thrombophilia gene polymorphism.

[Cloning of lysozyme and lysostaphin genes of Staphylococcus aureus and their expression in Bacillus subtilis cells]. / Klonirovanie genov lizotsima i lizostafina Staphylococcus aureus i ikh ekspressiia v kletkakh Bacillus subtilis.

The gene of microbial lysozyme (lyz) of S. aureus 118 and the gene of lysostaphin (lzf) of S. aureus RN 3239 were cloned and their expression in B. subtilis cells was shown. Lysozyme production in B. subtilis recombinant clone pLF14-Lyz, obtained as the result of cloning, was 2.5-fold greater than lysozyme production in S. aureus wild strain 118. Lysostaphin production in B. subtilis recombinant strain pLF14-Lzf which had inherited the cloned genes was approximately equal to lysostaphin production observed in S. aureus initial strain RN 3239. The production of lysozyme and lysostaphin in the cells of B. subtilis recombinant strains was observed at 30 degrees C and pH 5.5, while in S. aureus initial strains 118 and RN 3239 bacteria produced lysozyme and lysostaphin at 37 degrees C and pH 7.5 respectively.

[Production of gamma and alpha interferons by human blood leukocytes in sequential induction]. / Produktisiia gamma- i al'fa-interferona leikotsitami krovi cheloveka v usloviiakh posledovatel'noi induktsii.

A schedule for human gamma and alpha interferon production by successive administration, at 2-3-day intervals, of the proper inducers (phytohemagglutinin and Newcastle disease virus (NDV), or staphylococcal enterotoxin A and NDV) into the same suspensions of peripheral blood leukocytes has been proposed. The schedule may be used in laboratory practice and manufacture.

[Action of human leukocyte and immune interferons on the reproduction and cytopathogenic effect of the encephalomyocarditis virus in mice]. / Deistvie leikotsitarnogo i immunnogo interferonov cheloveka na reproduktsiiu i tsitopatogennyi éffekt virusa éntsefalomiokardita myshei.

A comparative study of the antiviral effect of human immune and leukocyte interferons in homologous diploid cells showed that the resistant condition of the cells produced by interferon depended on the type and concentration of the inhibitor, its presence in the culture medium and time of action on the cells. Reproduction of EMC virus and its cytopathic effect were inhibited to a much greater extent when the cells were treated with leukocyte interferon. The resistance of the cells in both cases was evident as early as one hour after their contact with interferon. The resistance of the cells induced by leukocyte interferon was of longer duration than after induction with immune interferon (greater than 72 h and approximately 48 h, respectively).

[Formation of immune (gamma) interferon induced by staphylococcal enterotoxin and phytohemagglutinin]. / Obrazovanie immunnogo (gamma) interferona, indutsirovannogo stafilokokkovym énterotoksinom i fitogemaggliutininom.

Some conditions of production of human and mouse immune interferon induced by phytohemagglutinin and a national preparation of staphylococcal enterotoxin A (SEA) were studied. The latter was shown to be suitable for use as an inducer of this type of interferon. Production of mouse immune interferon could be increased by using a mixture of spleen and peritoneal exudate cells. Interferon production induced by SEA was also higher in spleen cells of mice immunized with BCG.

[Antibodies to fibroblast antigens in the sera of rheumatism patients]. / Izuchenie antitel k antigenam fibroblastov v syvorotkakh bol'nykh revmatizmom.

The sera from patients with active rheumatic fever possess unmarked ability to react with antigens of human fibroblasts. More intense reactions were obtained with guinea-pig fibroblasts. In rheumatoid arthritis, positive reactions with human and guinea-pig fibroblasts were disclosed in half of the test sera. No complement-dependent cytotoxic antibodies were found in the patients' sera.

[The interferon system in children with the initial stages of diabetes mellitus]. / Sistema interferona u detei s nachal'nymi stadiiami sakharnogo diabeta.

The content of interferon in plasma and interferon reaction of leukocytes (IRL) were studied in 28 children with initial stages of diabetes mellitus. IRL in these children was found to be the same as in controls. Some kinds of insulin: zink-insulin, protamine-zink-insulin, insulin-protamine as well as vincristin were capable of reducing in vitro the interferon-producing activity of leukocytes 3--6 fold. The content of interferon in plasma was determined in 22 children: in 20 of them the concentration of interferon was below 10 units/ml, in 2 was 10 units/ml.

[Interferon-producing activity of bone marrow cells treated with mRNA for interferon when transplanted to irradiated mice]. / Interferonprodutsiruiushchaia aktivnost' kletok kostnogo mozga, obrabotannykh iRNK dlia interferona, pri transplantatsii ikh obluchennym mysham.

Inoculation into irradiated (800--850 r) mice of syngeneic bone marrow cells treated with mRNA for interferon (mRNA-If) obtained from chick cells induced with UV-irradiated Newcastle disease virus was accompanied by the appearance in the blood of the animals of a substance with the properties of interferon, inhibiting the cytopathic effect of vesicular stomatitis virus in chick embryo cells but not in mouse L cells. Chicken interferon was detected in the blood of the experimental animals for 7--10 days after transplantation of mRNA-If-treated cells.

[Antiviral activity of preparations of RNA isolated from cells treated with interferon (messenger RNA for an antiviral protein?)]. / Antivirusnaia aktivnost' preparatov RNK, vydelennykh iz kletok, obrabotannykh interferonom (informatsionnaia RNK dlia antivirusnogo belka)

Chick embryo cultures treated with interferon yielded a biologically active RNA which, upon inoculation into chick embryo cells, created an antiviral condition in them. The level of vesicular stomatitis virus reproduction in such cells was 2-30% of that observed in the cells treated with control RNA. The maximum activity of the experimental RNA was seen 3 hours after the treatment with interferon.

[Synthesis of virus-specific RNA under conditions of homologous and heterologous interference by Newcastle disease virus]. / Sintez virusspetsificheskikh RNK v usloviiakh gomologichnoi i geterologichnoi interferentsii, vyzyvaemoi virusom bolezni N'iukasla

Homologous and heterologous interference by Newcastle disease virus (NDV) was manifested in a marked inhibition of virus-specific RNA synthesis of both the interacting viruses. Inactivation of the interfering NDV by irradiation reduced its capacity to inhibit the synthesis of virus-specific RNA of the homologous virus, leaving its effect on the synthesis of RNA of the heterologous virus unchanged. In contrast, treatment of cell cultures with heparin leading to reduced interferon production eliminated the heterologous interference but did not affect the homologous interference.