[Effect of a diet containing a protein enteral feeding formulation on pancreatic exocrine function in chronic pancreatitis patients]. / Vliianie diety, soderzhashchei belkovoi énpit, na ékzosekretornuiu funktsiiu podzheludochnoi zhelezy u bol'nykh khronicheskim pankreatitom.

Secretion of enzymes and bicarbonates in the duodenal aspirate was studied in 60 chronic pancreatitis patients with mild, moderate and severe course of the disease after secretin-pancreozymin stimulation. During 4 weeks the patients received two variants of diets: enpit (EP, enteral feeding formula) and diet 5P. The differences in the secretory response of the patients could be explained by the high quality of animal protein and by low content of fat in the diet with EP, that makes this diet more sparing and promotes the improvement of the clinical effect.

[Protein metabolism in obesity patients]. / Sostoianie belkovogo obmena u bol'nykh ozhireniem.

Protein metabolism was studied in patients with alimentary obesity. It was found that the reduction of excessive body weight under the action of a complex of measures, including dietetics, exercise therapy and physiotherapy, induced positive shifts in the amino acid spectrum of blood. The blood serum creatinine content and urinary excretion of creatinine and creatine remained unchanged. The nitrogenous balance was maintained even in cases of highly restricted diets.

[Nitrogen balance of children with fistulae of the small intestine kept on a diet with a protein enteral feeding formula]. / Issledovanie azotistogo balansa u detei so svishchami tonkoi kishki pri vkliuchenii v ratsion belkovogo énpita.

Sixteen children with small bowel fistulas receiving hospital diets and 9 children with the same condition kept on the diets including products for enteral nutrition were examined over time. The use of the hospital diets alone brought about the lowering of the patients' body weight, high protein excretion via fistulas, negative nitrogenous balance, and protracted clinical course of the disease. After the patients were placed on the diet including products for enteral nutrition, the protein content amounting up to 50%, the body weight gain, a 2-times reduction in protein losses with the chyme, establishment of the positive nitrogenous balance, increase in the total blood protein, and a more favourable clinical course of the disease were recorded.

[Endogenous nitrogen losses in rats fed by intravenous and enteral routes]. / Endogennye poteri azota u krys v usloviiakh vnutrivennogo i vnutrizheludochnogo pitaniia.

Endogenous losses of nitrogen were studied under the feeding with isocaloric mixtures containing glucose, polycose, mineral substances, and vitamins. At the end of the first week endogenous losses of nitrogen with urine and feces under both routes of feeding were higher than at the end of the second week of nitrogen-free feeding. Upon intravenous feeding the nitrogen-saving action of the mixture containing glucose was more remarkable at the end of the second week than that of the mixture containing glucose and fatty emulsion. Endogenous losses of nitrogen upon intravenous feeding with a mixture containing fatty emulsion and glucose and losses upon intragastric feeding with a mixture of fatty emulsion and polycose were similar at the end of the second week.

[Protein enpit in feeding of patients after surgery on the stomach]. / Belkovyi énpit v pitanii bol'nykh posle operatsii na zheludke.

Thirty-six patients operated on for peptic ulcer or pyloric stenosis received protein or low-lactose enpit via a probe in the early postoperative period. Twenty-four patients responded well to the intraintestinal nutrition, 6 patients satisfactorily, while the remaining 6 manifested dyspeptic disorders because of dynamic intestinal obstruction. In the control group (given beef-extract broth or decoction of dried apricots), 2 of the 13 subjects had phenomena of intestinal paresis. The nitrogenous balance in the patients given enpits was close to the state of equilibrium, whereas in the controls it was markedly negative. Enpit was found to be assimilable up to 92-95%. The authors discuss the importance of the level of protein and energy supply for reparative processes in the early postoperative period, the quality of the protein and specificity of caseins.

[Evaluation of a pectin with a low degree of esterification as a prophylactic agent in lead poisoning]. / Otsenka pektina s nizkoi stepen'iu ésterifikatsii kak profilakticheskogo sredstva pri svintsovoi intoksikatsii.

In experiments with rats, which were undergoing priming by mouth with an acetic lead solution at the rate of 6 mg/day for 1 1/2 month, the prophylactic effect of apple pectin esterified to the degree of 26 per cent (doses 36 and 72 mg) and of 32 per cent (doses of 216 and 432 mg) was evaluated. The best prophylactic effect was found to produce pectin with a 32 per cent esterification degree, but in some of rats dysfunction of the gastro-intestinal tract was noted.