[The verification possibilities of immunochips under low content of antibodies to Core-antigen of virus of hepatitis C].

The detection of antibodies to Core-antigen of virus of hepatitis C in test-systems for solid-phase immune-enzyme analysis with low optical density can be a result not only of true availability of antibodies but an effect of nonspecific reaction of blood serum. The diagnostic possibilities of immunochips to be used in immune-enzyme analysis for verification of availability of markers of viral hepatitis C were investigated in conditions of low positive reaction of blood serum to core-antigen. It is established that immunochips and immunoblots have similar specificity concerning detection of antibodies to Core-antigen. At that, in immunochips antibodies to nonstructural antigens of virus of hepatitis C were additionally detected in more than 90% of samples.

[Procedures for optimizing the intralaboratory quality control in mass screening for hepatitis C virus antibodies].

The paper presents data on the optimization of intralaboratory quality control of tests for hepatitis C virus antibodies by enzyme immunoassay in the mass screening scope of studies. It is concluded that the control material prepared without assistance is suitable only to assess the convergence of the results of a study. The problems in the monitoring of the reproducibility of study results and in the standardization of on-line quality control involving the construction and keeping of control charts are solved by using standardized commercial materials and a computer-based data processing system.

[The results of determining compatibility in the MLC reaction in hemoblastosis patients undergoing bone marrow transplantation from HLA-identical siblings]. / Rezul'taty opredeleniia sovmestimosti v reaktsii MLC bol'nykh gemoblastozami pri transplantatsii kostnogo mozga ot HLA-identichnykh sibsov.

Compatibility in mixed lymphocyte culture (MLC) test was determined for 60 hemoblastosis patients with their 71 HLA-identical sibs to transplant allogenic syngeneic bone marrow. A protocol for the MLC radioisotope micromethod with culturing in plates is described for the pair donor-recipient in the direct and reverse variants covering about 20 variants of mixed cultures. This secures the results' reliability. Plotting of the MLC compatibility results for each pair has been proposed. Incompatibility by MLC was revealed in 5 out of 71 pairs (7%). Bone marrow transplantation was performed in 30 patients from their HLA-identical/MLC-compatible sibs. The secondary disease due to incompatibility missed in the MLC reaction occurred in 5 cases (16.7%), transplant rejection in 2 cases (6.7%), which is less in number than literature data. It was established that determination of compatibility by MLC may serve a reliable criterion of assessing a genotypic pair HLA identity and should be conducted before each allogenic and syngeneic transplantation of bone marrow. The protocols of the method performance and compatibility parameters evaluation warrant high significance of the compatibility definition confirmed by clinical responses with minimal probability of secondary disease.

[Age related changes in the glycosidases of chick embryo eye tissues]. / Vozrastnye izmeneniia glikozidaz tkanei glaz kurinykh émbrionov

Studies have been made on the activity of glycosidases from eye tissues of developing chick embryos and adult hens. The enzymes of carbohydrates metabolism (hyaluronidase, beta-glycosidase and beta-galactosidase) from the sclera, cornea and ciliary body were examined. It was demonstrated that the distribution of glycosidases in different tissues of the eye is not identical. The activity of beta-glycosidase and beta-galactosidase in all the tissues of 14-day embryos is higher than in adult hens; sharp reduction of the activity was observed at the stage of eye opening. The activity of hyaluronidase in the sclera and cornea of chick embryos is maintained at a low level up to the stage of eye opening, being subjected to minor changes.