[Inflammatory reactions in patients suffering from coronary artery disease with concomitant obesity and type 2 diabetes mellitus].

Of late, inflammatory reactions have been considered to play an important part in the development of atherosclerosis. Acute-phase inflammatory reaction, being initially a protective response directed within the homeostasis system towards lesion repair, may by itself due to various factors favor the development of pathological processes. Considering the role played by inflammation in the development of atherosclerosis, and inflammatory activity in obesity and diabetes mellitus (DM), a range of common and interrelated elements of these processes may be marked out. These are acute phase proteins and cytokines. Insulinoresistance, being the common precursor of obesity and DM, plays the key role in vascular lesion. The use of cytokine activity index seems to be a promising method of revealing patients with high risk of atherosclerosis.

[Fermentation products and the pectolytic enzymatic activity in Clostridium felsineum strains differing in intensity of sporulation]. / Produkty brozheniia i aktivnost' pektoliticheskikh fermentov u shtammov Clostridium felsineum, razlichaiushchikhsia po intensivnosti sporoobrazovaniia.

Clostridium felsineum strains differing in the activity of pectolytic enzymes and the rate of spore formation varied also in the synthesis of fermentation products. Strains with the high rate of spore formation synthesized less butyric and propionic acids, but twice as much butanol; as a result, the proportion between butyric acid and butanol was 8 times as low as in the strains forming a small quantity of spores. The strains with the high activity of pectolytic enzymes contained 6.7 times more acetic acid, 3.5 times more ethanol and 2.7 times less propanol.