[The pineal gland's peptides factors and the rhythms of functions of the thymus and bone marrow in animals during aging]. / Peptidnye faktory épifiza i ritmy funktsii timusa i kostnogo mozga u zhivotnykh pri starenii.

It was investigated the influence of pineal peptides on the aging changes both circadian rhythm of thymic serum factor (FTS) titer in male rats Wistar and circannual rhythms of FTS, the amount of stromal cells-precurcors (CFC-F), granulocyte-macrophage cells-precurcors (CFC-GM), CD4+, Mac-1+ and CD19+-cells in bone marrow of male mice CBA. Epithalamin was injected chronically beginning from 6 month in rats and 4 month in mice. In old animals the rhythmical disturbancers of the indices characterized by loss of fluctuations, displacement of seasonal acrophase, increased or diminished amplitude, inversion of rhythm and desynchronization. After epithalamin injections in rats of 11, 17, 27 months the FTS titer at night increased and in old mice of 23-24 months appeared the peak of hormone level in summer-autumn, restored the difference between the amount of CD4+, Mac-1+-cells in bone marrow in spring and autumn, increased CFC-GM amount in spring, diminished CFC-F in autumn and increased this indice in winter. Epithalon also diminished of CFC-GM and CFC-F amount in old mice in autumn. The retarding age-related disturbances of suprachiasmaticus nucleus of hypothalamus structure, the diminishing corticosterone and testosterone levels at night, the increasing hormones level in summer and the falling in winter plays role in the improvement of thymus and bone marrow rhythmical function in old animals, reseaved epithalamin. The rhythms of most indices rhythms in old animals showed a pattern of adult.

[Molecular and cellular aspects of radiation hormesis in Drosophila melanogaster]. / Molekuliarnye i kletochnye aspekty radiatsionnogo gormezisa u Drosophila melanogaster.

The long-term effects of the R-irradiation of D. melanogaster at the 1-hour egg stage with the dosages of 0.25, 0.50, 0.75, 1.0, 2.0 and 4.0 Gy were investigated. DNA samples were isolated from whole 5-6-days adult males. The aliquots of DNA were digested by S1-nuclease. Preimaginal stage lethality increased with irradiation dose increasing. At the same time, decrease in imaginal LS (life span) was observed after irradiation with the greatest dose (4 Gy) only. Moreover, hormesis by LS has revealed: in males irradiation with 0.25, 0.75 and 1 Gy increased the mean LS, and with 0.25 and 0.5 Gy caused the maximum LS; in females exposures with 0.25, 0.75 and 2 Gy increased the maximum LS. The densitometric assay of DNA electrophoregrams showed decrease by 39.2% of the part of high-molecular-weight DNA in control as a result of S1-nuclease action. Samples of DNA from the irradiated flies were more stable to enzyme action. The higher stability of DNA originated from the irradiated flies could be the result of reparation system activation. Ultrastructural changes induced at the egg stage by irradiation at the dose of 0.75 Gy testify the increased transcriptional activity of the brain cells.