ABSTRACT
During 50 days a group of 23 volunteers received lunches prepared on the basis of textured proteins of soy beans. Each lunch included 50 g of proteins. Laboratory investigation was carried on dynamic values of lipid metabolism, cell-mediated, humoral and local immunity. A total of more than 30 tests were made. The analysis of immunological reactivity in volunteers has revealed the immunomodulatory activity of soy bean protein similar to the reference modulator with known quantitative estimation of effects on cell mediated, humoral and local immunity. Statistic analysis of preliminary individual laboratory results and plotting of prognostic curves allowed to develop an original method of volunteer selection for whom soy bean diet may bring positive or negative results.
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Diet , Glycine max , Immunity/drug effects , Soybean Proteins/pharmacology , Adjuvants, Immunologic/physiology , Adult , Antibody Formation/drug effects , Female , Humans , Immunity, Cellular/drug effects , Lipid Metabolism , Male , Middle Aged , Prognosis , Soybean Proteins/metabolismABSTRACT
The results of a 10-year experience in surgical treatment of supraventricular tachyarrhythmias in 258 patients are analysed. Invasive and noninvasive methods of electrophysiological studies with the predominant use of Soviet-produced apparatuses were employed in establishing the diagnosis. Surgery of arrhythmias included catheter destruction, cryosurgery on a working heart, but the prevailing methods were various types of destruction of anomalous conducting paths under conditions of extracorporeal circulation. The authors suggest a method for dosed electrocoagulation of paranodal tissues in atrioventricular nodal tachycardias. The results of the operation were positive in over 90% of cases. Three fatal outcomes in operations with extracorporeal circulation occurred during the first years of accumulation of experience in the method. It is concluded that the operation is highly effective in severe tachyarrhythmias.