ABSTRACT
The article deals with problems of optimizing sanatorium-and-spa programs to better health in workers exposed to vibration, through using panto-magnesium pearl baths. Examinations covered 49 individuals exposed to local vibration at work, who underwent health programs including magnetotherapy, manual massage and exercise therapy. The authors conclude that maximal effect of improved life quality was seen after panto-magnesium gas baths course auxiliary to the programs.
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Autonomic Nervous System Diseases/prevention & control , Occupational Diseases/prevention & control , Occupational Health Services , Physical Therapy Modalities , Vibration/adverse effects , Adaptation, Physiological , Adult , Ambulatory Care/methods , Ambulatory Care/organization & administration , Antioxidants/metabolism , Autonomic Nervous System Diseases/etiology , Autonomic Nervous System Diseases/physiopathology , Baths/methods , Erythrocytes/metabolism , Health Resorts , Humans , Male , Malondialdehyde/blood , Occupational Diseases/etiology , Occupational Diseases/physiopathology , Occupational Health Services/methods , Occupational Health Services/organization & administration , Risk , Siberia , Treatment OutcomeABSTRACT
In acute experiments on dogs, stimulation of the hypothalamic ventromedial nucleus induced changes of hepatic circulation and increased the rate of O2 consumption by the liver. In stimulation of supraoptic and lateral hypothalamic nuclei the hepatic O2 consumption changed insignificantly. The hypothalamic effects on the liver tissue respiration was blocked by obsidan (propranolol) but not by atropine. A correlation exists between shifts of the O2 consumption rate and those of temperature in the liver. The data suggest that hypothalamus can modify the liver oxidative metabolism through the sympathetic nervous system and beta-adrenergic receptors of the hepatocytes and redistribute the energy of this metabolism between processes of thermogenesis and endothermic reactions in the liver.
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Liver/metabolism , Oxygen Consumption , Animals , Atropine/pharmacology , Body Temperature/drug effects , Dogs , Electric Stimulation , Female , Hypothalamus/physiology , Liver/drug effects , Liver Circulation/drug effects , Male , Oxidation-Reduction/drug effects , Oxygen Consumption/drug effects , Partial Pressure , Propranolol/pharmacologyABSTRACT
A total of 150 patients with renal pathology (chronic glomerulonephritis, pyelonephritis, urolithiasis, etc.) accompanied by the development of psychoneurological disturbances were examined. In the initial stage of the renal insufficiency the authors observed neurasthenic, radicular, polyneuritic, renovisceral syndromes, in a more remote stage--encephalopathies and disturbances of the brain circulation. The important part in the above-mentioned disturbances is played by azotemia, metabolic acidosis, disturbances of fluid-electrolyte and albumine balance, as well as arterial hypertension.
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Kidney Diseases/complications , Nervous System Diseases/etiology , Neurasthenia/etiology , Acute Kidney Injury/complications , Adolescent , Adult , Aged , Brain/pathology , Brain Diseases/etiology , Cerebrovascular Disorders/etiology , Female , Gastrointestinal Diseases/etiology , Glomerulonephritis/complications , Heart Diseases/etiology , Humans , Hypertension, Renal , Kidney Calculi/complications , Kidney Diseases/pathology , Male , Middle Aged , Pain , Peripheral Nervous System Diseases/etiology , Pyelonephritis/complications , Spinal Nerve Roots , Syndrome , Uremia/complicationsABSTRACT
This study presents the results of a number of serological tests, in particular the plate agglutination test using acid antigen stained with rose bengal, in the examination of 440 human sera for brucellosis. In addition, the sera were examined for the presence of specific antibodies of various classes (IgM and IgG). These investigations showed the rose bengal plate agglutination test to be highly specific and sensitive as a rapid method for the diagnosis of human brucellosis.
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Agglutination Tests/methods , Brucellosis/immunology , Rose Bengal , Antigens, Bacterial , Brucella/immunology , Coombs Test , Cysteine , Hemagglutination Tests , Humans , Immunoglobulin G/isolation & purification , Immunoglobulin M/isolation & purificationABSTRACT
Strains of the causative agent of tularemia were for the first time isolated by the authors from the objects of the external environment in the tundra zone of Eastern Taimir; this indicates a possibility of preservation of the microbe under conditions of the extreme north.
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Francisella tularensis , Tularemia/epidemiology , Animals , Francisella tularensis/isolation & purification , Mice , SiberiaABSTRACT
New materials are presented on the presence of the foci of anthropozoonozes in the Extreme North. For the first time there was established the existence in the subarctic tundra of the Taimyr peninsula of the arbovirus foci of the tick-borne encephalitis complex. A virus of the tick-borne encephalitis complex was isolated in 1973 from the gamasida ticks Haemogamasus ambulans Thorel. and Hirstionyssus isabellinus Oudms. and the nests of the Siberian lemming Lemmus lemmus L. This pointed to the existence in the Transpolar region of the foci or arboviruses in the nest-hole biocenoses of the lemmings outside the bird colonies. Cultures of tularemia bacilli (which proved the etiology of the epizootic among the lemmings observed in 1973 and also the presence of the lemming natural foci of tularemia and their combination with the arbovirus foci) were isolated from the lemmings at the same territory. The results of serological examination of the local population and of the animals pointed to the circulation in the Transpolar region of the causative agents of leptospirosis, toxoplasmosis, Q-fever and of the Asian tick-borne rickettsiosis.
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Rodent Diseases/epidemiology , Zoonoses/epidemiology , Animals , Arboviruses/isolation & purification , Encephalitis, Tick-Borne/epidemiology , Leptospirosis/epidemiology , Rickettsia Infections/epidemiology , Siberia , Ticks/microbiology , Toxoplasmosis, Animal/epidemiology , Tularemia/epidemiology , West Nile Fever/epidemiologyABSTRACT
Musk-rats were infected simultaneously and at three-day interval with tularemia and Omsk hemorrhagic fever (OHF); the course of this mixed infection under the mentioned conditions were studied. Virological, microbiological and morphological data indicated that infection of musk-rats with OHF and tularemia caused development of mixed infection in them. A more severe course of mixed infection was associated with enhanced vascular affections caused by the action of the OHF virus. An inhibition of tularemia caused by the OHF development was noted in the course of mixed infection.
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Arboviruses/growth & development , Arenaviruses, New World/growth & development , Francisella tularensis/growth & development , Hemorrhagic Fevers, Viral/microbiology , Tularemia/microbiology , Animals , Disease Models, Animal , Hemorrhagic Fevers, Viral/complications , Hemorrhagic Fevers, Viral/pathology , Rodentia , Tularemia/complications , Tularemia/pathologyABSTRACT
The authors present the results of bacteriological and serological study for tularemia of 498 lemmings caught in Taimyr. Positive results were revealed in 4 out of 98 sera examined in the indirect hemagglutination test. In carrying out 67 biological tests on albino mice there were isolated for the first time in the Soviet Union 6 cultures of the causative agent of tularemia from the spleen of lemmings. By morphological, cultural and virulent properties the cultures obtained failed to differ from those isolated in other regions of the Soviet Union, and, consequently, we referred to the holoarctic race. Thus, it was established by the authors (both serologically and bacteriologically) that there existed tundra foci of tularemia.
