[Anatomical parameters determining somatotype of inhabitants of Southern regions of Russia of juvenile and first mature age in the norm and in scoliosis]. / Kharakteristiki anatomicheskikh komponentov, opredeliaiushchikh somaticheskii tip zhitelei iuga Rossii iunosheskogo i pervogo zrelogo vosrasta v norme i pri skolioze.

With the purpose of study of a degree of an expressiveness and character of mutual relation of fabric components of a soma (osteal, muscular and fatty) at the people of youthful and first mature age in norm and at a scoliosis I-II of a degree is surveyed on a method R.N. Dorohov (1994) 2756 men--inhabitants of the South of Russia. The received results specify that for the people with a scoliosis I-II of a degree are characteristic micro-(person of a female) and macrosomn (person of a male) types at the low contents of muscular and fatty masses of a body in a combination with grasilisation of a skeleton and prolate extremities. Taking into account a rather high degree of a hereditary determination of the dimensional characteristics of an organism it is possible to consider (count) fixed somatotipic of feature as morphological markers of predisposition to scoliotic deformation.

Isolation and characterization of AFP-binding proteins from tumor and fetal human tissues.

The AFP receptor (rAFP) was discovered in embryonal and tumor tissues with a high level of proliferation. The AFP-binding protein (AFPbp) possibly containing the AFP-receptor (rAFP) was isolated from human embryos and human breast cancer tissue using affinity chromatography on an AFP-Sepharose column. The similarity of molecular weight, subunit composition, and immunological characteristics was shown for embryonal and tumor AFPbp using immunoblotting, gel-filtration, and PAAG electrophoresis. Judging from Superose-12 gel-filtration data, the protein molecular weight made up to 320-380 kDa. The presence of an IgG-binding site was detected in embryonal and tumor AFPbp by Western blot analysis.