[The mechanism of the thymolytic action of anabolic steroids]. / Mekhanizm timoliticheskogo deistviia anabolicheskikh steroidov.

The administration of testosterone and metandrostenolone to male rats in doses of 10 and 20 mg/kg for 10 days produced a decrease of the thymus mass and a reduction of the thymic serum factor content. A phytoecdisteroid ecdisterone not possessing the androgenic activity fails to influence the thymus mass and the content of the thymic serum factor.

[The characteristics of the urinary sediment and proteinuria in chronic alcoholics before and during treatment with teturam]. / Osobennosti mochevogo osadka i proteinurii u bol'nykh khronicheskim alkogolizmom do i v protsesse lecheniia teturamom.

Proteinuria, hematuria and leukocyturia in chronic alcoholics were mostly pronounced in abstinence, particularly in those with a long-term alcoholism. In proportion to alcohol d s-intoxication treatment, their urinalyses normalized. Being hospitalized in a sober state the patients had insignificantly elevated or practically normal urinalyses. Disulfiramum tests performed both in abstinence or sobriety demonstrated pronounced abnormalities in urinalyses. In the course of disulfuramum treatment in the absence of alcohol tests urinalyses normalized completely. Urinalysis follow-up demonstrated the appearance of renal failure due to hemodynamic disorders that ran the pattern of renal sensitization due to the effect of acetaldehyde production in alcohol tests.

[The inaccuracy of Limbeck's method in determining erythrocyte osmotic resistance]. / O netochnosti metoda Limbeka pri opredelenii osmoticheskoi rezistentnosti éritrotsitov.

Limbeck and Ribier's method currently used for the measurements of red cell osmotic resistance is not devoid of shortcomings: it is labor-consuming and visual assessment of hemolysis is inaccurate. Deitche's photometric method or its variant described in this paper are more fit for the determination of red cell osmotic resistance.