[The role of nutritional factors in intensive physical activities of sportsmen].

The analysis on the role of major nutrients (proteins, fats and carbohydrates), micronutrients (vitamins and minerals) in a diet of sportsmen is adduced. Requirements for nutrients depend on the volume and intensity of physical exertion during training and competition, not only on the qualifications of sportsmen.

[Characteristic of nutrition for young sportsmen].

Contemporary domestic and international experience of forming a diet for young athletes involved in various kinds of sport was considered at the article.

[Dynamics of immunological indices in patients with chronic viral hepatitis B and the effect of thymalin therapy]. / Dinamika immunologicheskikh pokazatelei u bol'nykh khronicheskim virusnym gepatitom B i vliianie timalinoterapii.

The work deals with the results of the study of T-lymphocytes and their subpopulations (active, thermostable, theophylline-sensitive and theophylline-resistant) in 102 children with chronic viral hepatitis B, depending on the effectiveness of thymalin therapy. The sensitization of lymphocytes to specific antigens was studied. Among patients with chronic viral hepatitis B and cirrhosis of the liver the homozygous phenotype of haptoglobin is registered essentially more frequently (63.6% and 82.4% respectively) than among healthy persons (44.0%). The patients of this group showed a decrease in the number of T-lymphocytes, disturbances in the suppressor/helper ratio: hypersuppression in persisting hepatitis and hyposuppression in active hepatitis. In 71.6% of cases thymalin therapy produced an effect manifested by clinico-biochemical remission, an increase in the number of T-lymphocytes, thermostable cells and the normalization of the T-suppressor/T-helper ratio. In these patients sensitization to HBsAg essentially decreased (from 30.5% to 13.9%), while sensitization to human liver lipoprotein retained its high level even after treatment with thymalin.