[Infection syndrome in acute radiation sickness patients subjected to Chernobyl accident].

In spite of intensive antimicrobial prophylaxis and therapy, most patients with acute radiation sickness I-IV severity grade (dose of 0.1-13.7 Gy) developed infections caused by bacteria, fungi and viruses. Frequency and intensity of those infections were proportional to the radiation dose and severity grade of radiation sickness.

[Influence of the indometafen radioprotector on the immune reactivity]. / Vliianie radioprotektora indometofena na immunologicheskuiu reaktivnost' organizma.

In the experiments on dogs and mice it was shown that indometophene could modify the immune status of the body. Specific and non-specific resistance of mice to E. coli infection increased after indometophene administration. At the same time higher titers of normal anti-salmonella antibodies in mice serum and a higher phagocytic activity of neutrophils in the peripheral blood in dogs were found. The influence of the preparation on the content of the complement and normal antibodies-hemagglutinins was less pronounced. It was suggested that the indometophene ability to bustle immune reactivity of the body played a certain role in the mechanism of its radioprotective effect.

[Radiation damage to the hemopoietic system of mice, carriers of the leukemia virus]. / Radiatsionnoe porazhenie sistemy gemopoéza u myshei--nositelei virusa leikoza.

The experiments with AKR mice, that are carriers of the T-cell leukemia virus showed their higher radiosensitivity as compared to (CBA x C57Bl)F1 mice in respect of survival and hemopoietic status. The regular patterns observed are presumed to result from lower ability of AKR mice to repair radiation damage and provide resistance to infections.

[Comparative analysis of 2 sanitary-bacteriological methods of detecting bacteria of the Escherichia coli group in the environment]. / Sravnite'lnyi analiz dvukh sanitarno-bakteriologicheskikh metodov opredeleniia bakterii gruppy kishechnoi palochki v okruzhaiushchei srede.

A total of 965 parallel tests for coli bacilli were carried out using the wash-out or print methods in the course of sanitary and epidemiologic inspection of different objects. The methods used in the study were equally sensitive and provided compatible results which were in good correlation. The print method with bacterial tests is more rapid (by 24 hours) and helps detect other bacteria which grow in Endo's medium; moreover, it is three times cheaper than the labor-consuming wash-out method.

[Immunopharmacological analysis of secondary postradiation immunodeficiency]. / Immunofarmakologicheskii analiz vtorichnogo postluchevogo immunodefitsita.

A model for secondary postradiation immunodeficiency of mice has been used to compare immunocorrective activities of some new immunomodulators (arbidol, cagocel, myelopid, proleukinferon and fragmine) administered at late times (2-3 months) after exposure to a nonlethal radiation dose (4.0 Gy). The highest immunocorrective effect has been shown with fragmine and proleukinferon.

[Polyethylene oxide-based artificial antigens. An experimental study of the kinetics of the distribution of polyethylene oxide derivatives]. / Iskusstvennye antigeny na osnove polietilenoksida. Eksperimental'noe izuchenie kinetiki raspredeleniia proizvodnykh polietilenoksida.

125I-labeled derivatives of iodaryl-polyethylene oxide with mol. wt. equal to 3 X 10(3), containing and not containing dinitrophenyl (DNP) residues (haptens), were obtained. The capacity for anti-DNP response was shown to be unaffected by the presence of the iodaryl group. The pharmacokinetics of both derivatives of polyethylene oxide were studied in experiments on noninbred white rats receiving these derivatives intravenously in doses of 0.53-0.80 mg/kg. These experiments revealed the following differences in the pharmacokinetics of the derivatives under study: the presence of the DNP group led to an increase in the level of polymer fixation in the body of the animals, particularly in their blood, liver and spleen. Differences in the content of radioactive substances in other organs were not statistically significant.