[The effect of geophysical and meteorological factors on the course of chronic obstructive lung diseases at a low-mountain altitude]. / Vliianie geofizicheskikh i meteorologicheskikh faktorov na techenie khronicheskikh obstruktivnykh zabolevanii legkikh v usloviiakh nizkogor'ia.

In the climate of north Kirghizia meteoropathologic reactions arise in patients with chronic obstructive bronchitis in the time of cold atmospheric front passing, are spastic, phasic, associated with pulmonary circulation and growing generalized bronchial obstruction. Prefrontal period (weather hypoxia) is meteoropathogenic for asthmatics who are responsive to geophysical disturbances influencing obstruction of the small bronchi.

[The circadian rhythmicity of human orthostatic tolerance]. / Sutochnaia ritmichnost' ortostaticheskoi ustoichivosti cheloveka.

The results of studying the daily rhythmicity of orthostatic tolerance of blood system in practically healthy men are presented. The orthostatic test was performed 6 times a day with a 4-hour interval. The parameters of systemic, cerebral and peripheric hemodynamics have been recorded. It is found that a degree of a change in an intensity of cerebral blood supply experiences the marked variations depending on time of day. The day-night cycling of orthostatic tolerance of cerebral circulation is greatly determined by the biorhythm of the responses of arterial vessels of the lower extremities, i.e., by the natural periodization of blood redistribution processes. The highest orthostatic tolerance is noted at 3 to 11 a.m. and the lowest one at 3-7 p.m.

[Characteristics of the immune response to staphylococcal anatoxin in healthy persons]. / Osobennosti immunnogo otveta k stafilokokkovomu anatoksinu u zdorovykh lits.

The immunization of young healthy males with adsorbed staphylococcal toxoid revealed the existence of two main types of postimmunization humoral response. One of them was characterized by an early (on days 7-14 after immunization) rise in the titer of antibodies with the subsequent gradual decrease of their content, while the number of circulating T-suppressors remained unchanged. The characteristic feature of the other type was a slow rise in the level of antitoxins by day 21 after immunization with the subsequent drop of their titers, preceded by a considerable increase in the number of circulating T-suppressors. The maximum antibody titer was definitely higher in the first type of response than in the second type (14.8 +/- 1.41 and 9.0 +/- 1.53 I. U./ml respectively). A single plasmapheresis procedure on day 21 after immunization produced no essential effect on the dynamics of the characteristics of cell-mediated and humoral immunity.