[Circadian rhythm of intestinal glucose absorption in fasting and fed rats]. / Sutochnye kolebaniia skorosti vsasyvaniia gliukozy v tonkoi kishke golodnykh i sytykh krys.

Under conditions of chronic experiment the circadian cycle of glucose transport was determined. An isolated proximal area of the small intestine was perfused by glucose, fructose, medical bile and Ringer's solutions in various intervals of the 24 hour period. The circadian cycle of glucose absorption is disturbed in the fasting rats. Various substrates differently alter their amplitude and acro-phase of absorption. Ringer's solution perfusion shifts the acro-phase absorption to evening time, while that of fructose occurs during day time and that of bile takes place at night. The circadian cycle of the fed rats is less subject to shifts. Fasting is a powerful exogenous factor causing structural changes in the small intestine and altering the circadian cycle of glucose absorption.

[Specific dynamic action of food in obese patients]. / Spetsificheskoe dinamicheskoe deistvie pishchi u bol'nykh ozhireniem.

Certain features of the body hormonal system participation in the realizing of the specific dynamic action of food (SDAF) were studied in 26 patients with exogenous constitutional obesity. The radioimmunoassay was used to estimate the levels of a number of hormones (gastrin, insulin, glucagon, triiodothyronine, thyrotrophin, adrenocorticotrophin and hydrocortisone) in the peripheral blood of the patients on an empty stomach (the basal level) and 1,2 and 4 hours after food protein intake. The control group consisted of 20 normal subjects. It has been shown that SDAF is a complex process of changing from the state of hunger to satiation that involves many regulatory components, both nervous and humoral. The study of the features of the SDAF development in health and disease presents valuable information on the mechanisms of metabolic disorders in the body in varying pathologic states including obesity.