[Fatal case of rhinocerebral mucormycosis on the background of type II diabetes mellitus]. / Letal'nyi sluchai rinotserebral'nogo mukormikoza na fone sakharnogo diabeta 2-go tipa.

Mucormycosis is a disease caused by fungi of the Mucorales family, widespread in the environment, with pronounced angiotropism and the ability to angioinvasion, leading to thrombosis with surrounding necrosis. The main triggers for the development of mucormycosis are: immunodeficiency states, use of glucocorticosteroid drugs, decompensation of diabetes mellitus, concomitant diseases, age > 65 years. We present a clinical case of rhinocerebral mucormycosis in a 79-year-old patient against the background of uncontrolled type 2 diabetes mellitus with ketoacidosis, a condition after previous glucocorticosteroid therapy for COVID-19 (according to the severity of the disease). After suffering a new coronavirus infection caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus, she was admitted to the hospital with complaints characteristic of mucormycosis. On the 5th day of hospital stay, the patient's condition worsened significantly, despite the correction of the therapy, and on the 12th day the patient died. According to the results of the autopsy, it was established that the rhinocerebral mucormycosis was complicated by thrombosis of the anterior and posterior left cerebral arteries with subsequent infarctions in the frontal lobe and parieto-occipital region of the brain left hemisphere, cerebral edema, which was the immediate cause of death.

Decrease in Bcl-2 Protein Level during the Development of Lewis Carcinosarcome.

We studied the development of Lewis carcinoma and possible antitumor effect of preliminary administered antioxidant anphen. The tumor was intramuscularly transplanted to C57Bl×DBA mice (7×106 cells per mouse). According to immunoblotting results, the content of anti-apoptotic Bcl-2 protein steadily decreased starting from post-transplantation day 11. In few days, its content decreased by 15-20% and soon the animals died. After administration of anphen, the content of Bcl-2 decreased more rapidly than in the control. Atomic force microscopy revealed a decrease in the mean volume of erythrocytes and then increase in this parameter at the terminal stage of tumor growth. These findings suggest that anphen does not affect the tumor growth rate and mouse lifespan, but enhances apoptosis of blood cells of animals with Lewis carcinoma at the terminal stages of tumor growth.

[Antileukemic activity and development of resistance to cisplatin (CPT) and platinum (IV)-nitroxyl complex VS118].

Treatment with low doses (1/10 of LD50) of cisplatin and platinum (IV)-nitroxyl complex VS118 [e-ammin-d-(4-amino-2,2,6,6-tetramethylpiperidine-1-oxyl)-a,f-bi s(acetate)-b,c-dichlorplatinum (IV)] was followed by a synergistic therapeutic effect (a 100% cure of animals) as compared with monotherapy with either drug. There was no synergistic increase in toxicity. The rates of resistance development decreased in the following order: P388/cPt+VS118, P388/cPt, P388/VS118. Resistant strains P388/cPt+VS18 and P388/VS118 were highly sensitive to doxorubicin, etoposide and cyclophoshamide. Further research in cPt+VS 118 combinations should be continued.

Thermodynamics of solution in liquid crystalline poly(propyleneimine) dendrimers by inverse gas chromatography.

Thermodynamic characteristics of infinitely diluted solutions of n-alkanes and n-alcohols in the columnar and isotropic phases of poly(propyleneimine) dendrimers, generations 1-3 (G1-G3), have been investigated by inverse gas chromatography (IGC). Effects of the dendrimer structure, the chemical nature and molecular size of the non-mesogenes on the ability to get dissolved in the liquid crystalline phases are discussed. The compatibility of the low-molecular compounds with the anisotropic phases is stated to increase with generation G.