[Low-frequency vibrations in the treatment of patients with acute maxillary sinusitis and ethmoiditis. Non-specific resistance and immunity]. / Nizkochastotnye vibratsii v lechenii bol'nykh ostrym gaimoritom i gaimoroétmoiditom. Sostoianie nespetsificheskoi rezistentnosti i immuniteta.

The authors present clinicoroentgenological and immunological evaluation of low-frequency mechanical intermittent biovibromassage used in the treatment of acute maxillary sinusitis alone and in its combination with ethmoiditis. The massage provides simple-in-use and effective impact on inflammation in the cells of the ethmoidal labyrinth. It can be practiced both in hospital and outpatiently.

[Topography of the gap junctions in human skin and their possible role in the nonneural transmission of information]. / Topografiia shchelevykh kontaktov v kozhe cheloveka i ikh vozmozhnaia rol' v beznervnoi peredache informatsii.

Localization and distribution of the gap junctions in the human epidermis have been studied. They are mainly concentrated in the area of biologically active (acupunctive) points and in so called meridians connecting these points. A supposition is made that the gap junction system performs certain integration of the information from the skin surface and its aneural transmission to remote areas. Discovery of a regulated gap junction system in relatively low organized animals (previously described by the authors), as well as revealing of such a system in mammals, makes it possible to suppose that the system is phylogenetically the most ancient one performing a directed transmission of an information simultaneously with and besides the neural system.

[Use of vibrostimulating footgear in the complex treatment of stroke patients]. / Primenenie vibrostimuliruiushchei obuvi v kompleksnom lechenii bol'nykh, perenesshikh mozgovoi insul't.

Under observation there were 95 patients with a history of a cerebral stroke. The therapeutic combination given to 65 of them included vibrostimulation of the bearing zones of the soles of both feet. The stimulation was effected inthe rhythm of man's walk with the use of special footwear developed at the Institute of Engineering Science, the USSR Academy of Sciences. The control group consisted of 30 patients with analogous pathology who did not receive the vibrotherapy. In all patients electroencephalographic, echo-encephalographic, rheoencephalographic and thermometric examinations were carried out. External respiration function was examined too. As a result it was found that the use of local vibrostimulation of the feet contributed to earlier (than in the control) activation of the patients with motor defects caused by the cerebral accident.

[The effect of cholinergic substances on individual mechanoreceptors--Pacinian corpuscles]. / Vliianie kholinergicheskikh veshchestv na odinochnye mekhanoretseptory--tel'tsa Pachini

Acetylcholine and nicotine application to the intact pacinian corpuscle failed to stimulate the spike activity, but changed the sensitivity to the mechanical stimulation: low concentration (1.10(-6) g/ml) increased the sensitivity and high concentration (1.10(-4) g/ml) decreased it. This influence can be attributed to the action of these substances on the structures which generate the action potentials. Acetylcholine application to decapsulated pacinian corpuscles stimulated the appearance of the spike activity. This reaction was possibly connected with the acetylcholine influence on the mechanoreceptive zones proper. Tubocurarine or hexonium application of decapsulated pacinian corpuscles led to depression of the sensitivity of the receptor to the mechanical stimulation that can also be explained by the participation of acetylcholine in the process of adequate receptor stimulation.