[The use of transcutaneous electrostimulation in the treatment of diabetic angioneuropathy]. / Ispol'zovanie chreskozhnoi élektrostimuliatsii v lechenii diabeticheskoi angioneiropatii.

Transcutaneous electrostimulation (Amplipul's-4 unit) was used in 29 patients with diabetes mellitus and diabetic angioneuropathy. The impact was directed to three fields a session: paravertebral, musculus gastrocnemius, feet. Rheographically, a good clinical response with improvement of peripheral circulation was achieved.

[Residential colonization of orbital complex "Mir" environment by penicillium chrysogenum and problem of ecological safety in long-term space flight]. / Rezidentnoe zaselenie sredy na orbital'nom komplekse "Mir" penicillium chrysogenum i problema ékologicheskoi bezopasnosti v dlitel'nom kosmicheskom polete.

Results of many years of the survey of highly specific evolution of quantitative and species composition of microflora of the MIR environment are reviewed. Analysis of the data enabled listing of microorganisms-declinous fungi with the ability of residential colonization of structural materials of the interior and equipment of habitable modules of the space station. Results of the studies of variability and level of similarity/affinity on the basis of DNA, polymorphism of strains isolated in space flight, convincingly confirmed this characteristic in the Penicillium chrysogenum cultures. In view of the common origin determined from the signs of genetic alliance, the P. chrysogenum strains isolated on MIR in 1995 can be considered descendants of the cultures found at the beginning of the MIR operation. This ecological expansion of P. chrysogenum in the space station environment gains in prominence due to the fact that representative of this particular species known for its active biodestructive nature were, as a rule, detected in the areas where structural materials of the SALYUT and MIR space stations incurred biological degradation.