220-Rn retention in mouse bone

Conclusions The experiment has shown that about half of the²⁰⁰Rn produced from²²⁴Ra in mouse bone escapes before decay in the period up to 8 days following injection. It is expected that the radiation dose delivered to structures within bone will be reduced in consequence.     

AMP photophosphorylation and binding by chloroplasts

Stoichiometric amounts of chloroplast thylakoids photophosphorylate free AMP to tightly bound ADP. Free ADP is a poor competitor for this AMP photoreaction, which saturates below 16 micronAMP. The inhibitor, diadenosine pentaphosphate, abolishes AMP photophosphorylation, and inhibits dark ADP binding. Taken together, these data imply that this photoreaction involves the high affinity nucleotide binding site(s) of chloroplast coupling factor CF1, and that little mixing with free nucleotides occurs.     

Industrial toxicology of metals of the platinum group

Metals of the platinum group have found important application in technology and industry. Compounds of these metals display a broad spectrum of toxic effects on the organism. In persons dealing with them in the production, they induce allergic occupational diseases of the respiratory passages, dermatoses, affections of the eyes. Their resorptive chronic effect in experiment is characterized by reduction in the body mass of the animals and the content of haemoglobin in the blood, by disturbances of the protein-synthesizing function of the liver, decreased cholinesterase activity in the blood, impaired carbohydrate and lipid metabolism, reduced concentrating capacity of the liver, development of glomerulonephritis. Platinum and platinoids irritate mucous membranes and skin. They penetrate the organism through intact skin. Data on the distribution of the metals in the organs and on their elimination from the organism are reported. Toxicity of the metals of the platinum group is correlated with valence of the compounds and with electron structure. MAC for milling and condensation aerosols of poorly soluble compounds (metal and its oxides) are recommended at 0.1 mg/m3. For aerosols of all soluble compounds of platinum and platinoids, MAC of 0.001 mg/m3 are recommended.     

Nonspecific and antigen-specific adhesiveness of circulating lymphocytes in dysentery patients undergoing combined therapy using thymalin and indomethacin

Nonspecific adhesiveness of lymphocytes to polyacrylonitrile fiber and the antigen-specific adhesiveness of T-lymphocytes to Shigella flexneri pellicular immunosorbent have been studied in dysentery patients. Short courses of treatment with indomethacin, but not with thymalin (the preparation of thymic hormones), used for immunomodulation, have accelerated the normalization of nonspecific lymphocyte adhesiveness during regression of the disease, while indomethacin, in contrast to thymalin, inhibits antigen-specific T-lymphocyte adhesiveness which increases with the development of immune response.     

Glucocorticoid-mediated degradation of DNA in thymocytes of rats with transplantable Zajdela ascites hepatoma

Tumour growth was shown to be associated with DNA breakdown in thymocytes of rats bearing Zajdela ascites hepatomas. The tumour action on the thymus is mediated through adrenal glands since bilateral adrenalectomy completely prevents DNA breakdown in thymocytes. Using Southern hybridization of DNA genome with probes for histone, ribosomal and heat shock gene (hsp 70), it was shown that the degradation products of specific DNA sequences are as heterogenous as those of total DNA, although marked differences in appearance of nucleosomal ladder were seen. These data were interpreted to indicate different patterns of DNA breakdown in dying thymocytes. DNA breakdown in thymocytes in vivo and in isolated rat liver nuclei in vitro seems to proceed by similar mechanisms.