[Monitoring the tritium content in waste waters and objects in the surroundings of Soviet nuclear power plants]. / Kontrol' za soderzhaniem tritiia v sbrosnykh vodakh i ob"ektakh okruzhaiushchei sredy nekotorykh AES SSSR.

As illustrated by experimental data on Rovenskaya atomic power plant (APP) the sources of tritium release into environment have been assessed. The studies show that about 70% of tritium vaporize through cooling towers and the remaining quantity is discharged into the Styr river. In the nearest future it becomes necessary to study tritium discharge from APP equipped with reactors of various types in more detail and analyze its migration path in food chains. Thus it will be possible to specify the contribution of this nuclide into the dose load on the population living near APP. It is demonstrated that under existing levels of tritium content in environment objects (up to 5 Bq/l) it can be quite accurately measured by means of modern sensitive scintillators without preliminary separation.

[Status of the pituitary-adrenal and cholinergic system of patients with a pain syndrome in spinal osteochondrosis before and after a course of reflexotherapy]. / Sostoianie gipofizarno-nadpochechnikovoi i kholinergicheskoi sistemy u bol'nykh s bolevym sindromom pri osteokhondroze pozvonochnika do i posle kursa refleksoterapii.

The pituitary-adrenal and cholinergic systems were studied in 57 patients with chronic pain related to vertebral osteochondrosis before and after an acupuncture course. The degree of the therapeutic effect of electroacupuncture (EAP) was found to correlate with the nature of changes in the level of the spontaneous secretion of aldosterone and intensity of the process of acetylcholine (AC) release. Most patients in whom the treatment was followed by the recovery of the physiologic level of the initially depressed secretion of aldosterone and a clear-cut decrease in the initially elevated AC concentrations showed good clinical response. In patients in whom the initially elevated levels of aldosterone and AC failed to decline or in whom there was an even greater increase in AC concentrations, the therapeutic effect of EAP procedures was insignificant and short-lived.

[Serotoninergic and catecholaminergic indices in patients with neurotic and depressive disorders and changes in them as a result of reflexotherapy]. / Serotoninergicheskie i katekholaminergicheskie pokazateli u bol'nykh s nevroticheskimi depressivnymi rasstroistvami i ikh izmeneniia pod vliianiem refleksoterapii.

The status of the serotoninergic and catecholaminergic systems was studied in patients with neurotic depressive disorders before and after acupuncture (AP). The parameters studied included blood serotonin levels, monoamine oxidase (MAO) activity in the blood serum, as well as urinary excretion of adrenaline, noradrenaline, dopamine, DOPA and 5-HOIAA. Prior to AP patients with anxiety-depressive, depressive-hypochondriac or asthenodepressive manifestations showed different changes in the parameters studied. Following a course of AP they presented a compensatory increase in MAO activity, normalization of blood serotonin levels and of the urinary excretion of noradrenaline, dopamine and DOPA. Improvement in biochemical parameters indicates that this type of therapy is an effective means of the treatment of patients with neuroses with the predominance of depressive disorders.

[Changes in blood serotonin levels in patients with migraine headaches before and after a course of reflexotherapy]. / Izmenenie urovnia serotonina v krovi u bol'nykh migrenoznymi tsefalgiiami do i posle kursa refleksoterapii.

The study of serotonin levels in the blood of 49 patients with migraine and and migrainous headaches revealed both elevations and decreases in its concentrations as compared to the average physiological norm, which seems to be occasioned by various severity of the disease course. In the majority of patients in the period of disease exacerbation prior to the treatment, the initial concentrations of blood serotonin were lowered. Acupuncture normalizes increased and slightly decreased levels of serotonin which is in agreement with a good and stable clinical response. At the same time acupuncture fails to affect considerably reduced levels of serotonin and only transient clinical improvement occurs in such cases. Thus, the determination of serotonin blood levels in patients with migrainous cephalgias may be employed in the assessment of the severity of the disease course and the prognosis of acupuncture effectiveness.

[Effect of reflexotherapy on the functional state of the sympathoadrenal system in patients with bronchial asthma]. / Vliianie refleksoterapii na funktsional'noe sostoianie simpatiko-adrenalovoi sistemy u bol'nykh bronkhial'noi astmoi.

Activity of sympathoadrenal system in patients with infectious-allergic bronchial asthma treated with reflexotherapy by monitoring alterations in spontaneous and L-DOPA stimulated daily excretion of adrenaline, noradrenaline, dopamine and L-DOPA with urine. Before and after the reflexotherapy course spontaneous excretion of catecholamines and L-DOPA with urine was found to be similar to the physiologically normal level. The test with per oral administration of 250 mg of L-DOPA showed that before the reflexotherapy the course of consumption of L-DOPA was impaired and, hence, the functional state of sympathoadrenal system was altered. The reflexotherapy improved the L-DOPA consumption suggesting normalization of catecholamine metabolism. The data obtained suggest that normalization of sympathoadrenal system activity is one of important effects of the acupuncture therapy.

[Etiologic mechanisms of carbohydrate-induced hyperlipemia]. / K voprosu o mekhanizmakh vozniknoveniia giperlipemii, indutsirovannoi uglevodami.

Experiments on rats with hyperlipemia induced by carbohydrates have been shown that synthesis of apoprotein B by the liver and its relative content in very low-density proteins (VLDP) of the liver and blood increase. This is accompanied by accelerated metabolism of C-III in blood VLDP and by hyperinsulinemia suggesting that hyperinsulinemia may be regarded as one of the mechanisms by which there occurs hyperlipemia under high carbohydrate diets.

[Certain mechanisms of the effect of acupuncture on the sympatho-adrenal system of tobacco smokers]. / O nekotorykh mekhanizmakh vliianiia akupunktury na simpato-adrenalovuiu sistemu u kuril'schchikov tabaka.

Daily excretion of adrenaline, noradrenaline, dopamine and dihydroxyphenylalanine (DOPA) was examined in smokers being treated by acupuncture. It was shown that the effect of the acupuncture treatment depended on the initial functional activity of the sympatho-adrenal system. A marked therapeutic effect was observed in patients in whom a 15- to 18-hour-long abstaining from smoking prior to the treatment let to a shift in the ratio between the excreted adrenaline and noradrenaline towards prevalent excretion of the former. It was believed that such a change in the excretion of the catecholamines was due to the emotional disturbances associated with the beginning of the nicotinic abstinence. The positive therapeutic effect of acupuncture consisting in giving up the smoking completely was combined with normalization of the catecholamine excretion.