[Effect of various physical factors on clinical and laboratory indicators and on nonspecific resistance of the body in reactive arthritis]. / Vliianie nekotorykh fizicheskikh faktorov na kliniko-laboratornye pokazateli i nespetsificheskuiu rezistentnost' organizma pri reaktivnykh artritakh.

Application of UV-therapy and acupuncture in the complex therapy and rehabilitation of reactive arthritis patients had a positive effect on the disease course. The clinical efficacy of the compared physiotherapy methodologies is determined, to a certain degree, by the increase in the nonspecific resistance of the organism in this category of patients.

Serum proteins in rats irradiated continuously over a long period at diminishing radiation dose rates.

The authors studied changes in serum protein concentrations in rats exposed 10 days to continuous irradiation at progressively diminishing dose rates imitating the radioactive decay of a fissile mixture, up to a total dose of 9 Gy, both during and up to 240 days after discontinuing irradiation. The prealbumin concentration (from the 6th day) and the A1-globulin concentration (from the 1st day) fell to 70% during irradiation. Afterwards, the A1-globulin level fell significantly up to the 28th day and then, from the 60th to the 240th day, rose again. During irradiation the serum haptoglobin concentration rose significantly from the 1st to the 10th day and the ceruloplasmin concentration on the 10th day. An increase in both protein concentrations (to 172% and 190%) was also observed on the 14th postirradiation day, after which the serum haptoglobin, ceruloplasmin and A1M concentration fell abruptly up to the 60th day.

[Plasmocyte reaction in intact and irradiated mice after administration of native globulin and globulin denatured by gamma rays]. / Plazmotsitarnaia reaktsiia u intaktnykh i obluchennykh myshei posle vvedeniia nativnogo i denaturirovannogo gamma-luchami globulina.

In studying the plasmocyte reactions in the regional lymph nodes of intact and irradiated mice immunized with native and irradiated globulin it was established that the preparation exposed to 60Co-gamma-rays exhibited an increased capacity of activating the plasma cell proliferation.