[The optimization of the corticosteroid therapy of patients with destructive pulmonary tuberculosis]. / Optimizatsiia kortikosteroidnoi terapii bol'nykh destruktivnym tuberkulezom legkikh.

Corticosteroids were administered in 120 patients with active pulmonary tuberculosis during the morning hours every other day in association with tuberculostatic agents. It was found that corticosteroids in a dose similar to 15 mg of prednisolone did not influence the efficacy of antibacterial agents while an increase to 20 mg used for not less than 2 months increases the treatment efficacy to 83.3% and over 3 months--to 89.5%.

[Cytochemical study of the RNA in rat adenohypophysis cells during mammary carcinogenesis induced by 7-12-dimethyl-(a)-benzanthracene (DMBA)]. / Tsitokhimicheskoe izuchenie RNK v kletkakh adenogipofiza krys v protsesse razvitiia raka molochnoi zhelezy, indutsirovannogo 7-12-dimetil-(a)benzantratsenom (DMBA).

A cytochemical study of RNA was carried out in gonadotropic basophils and oxyphils of adenohypophysis of albino nonstrain rats during DMBA-induced mammary cancer growth. A stage character is found for changes in the RNA content depending on the mammary carcinogenesis phase. This shows that DMBA carcinogenic action besides a direct damage effect on the mammary gland is realized to a considerable extent through the endocrine system.