[The possibility of using carbon enterosorbents for normalizing cholesterol metabolism]. / O vozmozhnosti ispol'zovaniia uglerodnykh énterosorbentov dlia normalizatsii kholesterinovogo obmena.

The kinetics of bile acids (BA) and cholesterol adsorption from biological fluids (bile) and reference solutions on carbon SCN were compared with conventional medical carbon with the view of elucidating the role of adsorption in improving cholesterol metabolism. It was found that the adsorptive capacity of carbon adsorbents is determined, primarily, by their porous structure as well by the chemical properties of the adsorbing surface. The enterosorbents were tested both in experimental animals and in clinical trials and are now successfully employed for preventing and treating atherosclerosis as well as for normalizing lipid metabolism. A procedure for surgical treatment combined with adsorptive detoxication (enterosorption) for patients with obstructive jaundice has been developed.

[Physiological assessment of the method of autohemoperfusion through activated carbon]. / Fiziologicheskaia otsenka metoda autogemoperfuzii cherez aktivirovannyi ugol'.

The results of study of the sorption properties of phenolformaldehide-activated coal in respect of several physiologically active substances from the physiological saline under static conditoins and under conditions of autohemoperfusion of the limb vessels in experimental animals are presented. Phenolformaldehide-activated coal proved to sorb actively serotonin, adrenaline and noradrenaline, and--to a lesser extent--histamine from physiological saline. Serotonin, adrenaline, noradrenaline, and acetylcholine are sorbed well, histamine--less, papaverine--very weakly from the flowing blood. No alteration of the systemic arterial blood pressure was noted with the inclusion of phenolformaldehide-activated coal into the animal's arterial circulation; a fall of perfusion pressure associated with the decreased vascular resistance occured in a number of cases.