The effects of high-energy protons and carbon ions (<Superscript>12</Superscript>C) on the cognitive function and the content of monoamines and their metabolites in peripheral blood in monkeys

Model experiments using monkeys (rhesus macaque monkeys) were performed to investigate the neurobiological effects of two components of galactic cosmic radiation, namely, high-energy protons and carbon (¹²C) ions. It has been demonstrated that the irradiation of a monkey’s head with protons at a dose of 3 Gy did not cause any significant changes in the animal’s cognitive function and in the concentrations of monoamines and their metabolites in the peripheral blood. However, exposure to carbon ions at a dose of 1 Gy resulted in a significant cognitive function impairment and a significant decrease in serotonin metabolite concentrations in the blood in the monkeys with the excitable imbalanced type of higher nervous activity.     

The survival of Diphyllobothrium dendriticum pleurocercoids during the processing of fish and sanitary helminthologic evaluation of the product

Diphyllobothrium dendriticum plerocercoids' survival in salt water solutions of various concentrations and at various temperature was assessed. Conditions of salt treatment and freezing of the Baikal salmon assuring total release of fish from D. dendriticum plerocercoids are determined. The authors suggested differentiation in sanitary helminthological assessment of fish invasion rate by D. latum and D. dendriticum plerocercoids.     

Complex local and central therapy of interstitial cystitis with devices AMUS-01-INTRAMAG and AMO-ATOS-E

A total of 86 females with interstitial cystitis (IC) aged 26-52 years with the disease history over 2.7 years were exposed to intravesical electrostimulation in combination with electromagnetophoresis of heparin-containing mixture of medicines. Relief of pain syndrome and elimination of central hypersensitization were achieved with local procedures on the urinary bladder (UB) alternating (every other day) with procedures of transcranial electrostimulation (TES-therapy, mesodiencephalic modulation). The above treatment proved effective: subjective assessment of pain lowered to "rare" in 60% females, urgency decreased 2-fold, mean effective volume of the bladder increased by 46.2%.