Early differential diagnosis of congenital and birth injuries of the brain

The presented paper is a comparative study of clinico-immunological data with neuro-roentgen contrast methods (pneumoencephalography) in 156 newborns. The obtained data with a highly significant result permit to claim that the neuroimmune reactions up to the 7th day of life and even later, may reflect pathological changes of the brain in the newborn. Quite possibly they may be actively involved in the pathological process not only in the prenatal, but also in some cases in the postnatal ontogenesis.     

An Injection and Acceleration System of a Pulsed Race-Track Microtron

A pulsed race-track microtron (RTM) with a maximum beam energy of 70 MeV [1] is described. This device was developed at the Research Institute of Nuclear Physics of Moscow State University (Russia) in cooperation with World Physics Technologies Inc. (USA). For this project, several new elements, including bending magnets (based on rare-earth permanent magnets) [2], a system for injection of the bunched electron beam through a compact -magnet (also based on permanent magnets [3]), and a rectangular cavity biperiodic structure (RCBS) [4, 5], were developed. Unlike axially symmetric accelerating structures, the RCBS has small transverse dimensions and, as a result, does not present an obstacle for the electron beam traveling in the first orbit. Moreover, the RCBS possesses a quadrupole focusing with the value and sign of the focal power depending on the relationship between the size of the drift aperture and the dimensions of the microtron cavity and on the phase of the microwave field. These properties substantially simplify the RTM design and tuning. Tests, the tuning procedure, and measured characteristics of the injection and acceleration systems of the race-track microtron are described.     

Reaction of Tungsten with Melts in the Cu - Co System

We have studied the solubility at 1200°C of tungsten in Cu - Co melts and the growth kinetics of a W₆Co₇ layer at the tungsten — melt interface. We have established the composition of the melt in the three-phase equilibrium tungsten — W₆Co₇ — melt: 0.0195 Co, 4.8 · 10⁻⁵ W, the rest is Cu (in atomic fractions). In the studied composition range for the melt, the solubility of tungsten is described well by the expression: lgX_W = −7.117 + 25.7 · X_Co ^1/2 − 41.06 · X_Co, where X_W and X_Co are the atomic fractions of the corresponding elements in the melt. We have determined the correlation between the growth rate for a layer of tungsten-containing phase at the tungsten — melt interface and the thermodynamic characteristics of the melt. __________ Translated from Poroshkovaya Metallurgiya, Nos. 5–6(443), pp. 81–86, May–June, 2005.     

Effect of sarcolysin and asalin on the incorporation of thymidine-H3 in the DNA of sarcoma 45 and tissues of tumor-bearing rats

A comparison was made of the action of sarcolysin and asalin on the synthesis of DNA in sarcoma 45, the spleen, thymus, bone marrow and liver of tumour-bearing rats depending of the time of administration of the preparation. There was seen a direct relationship between the selectivity of sarcolysin and asalin action with a different bearer structure and the capacity of these perparations to depress DNA synthesis in the tumour and in normal tissues.     

Plasma renin activity in patients with coronary arteriosclerosis with different types of hyperlipoproteinemia

The examination was conducted in 142 patients with coronary atherosclerosis, aged 33 to 74 years, and in 40 normal persons, aged 25 to 48 years. The pain form of the disease was observed in 96 patients, the arrhythmic one--in 38, the painless one--in 8 patients. The arterial pressure was within the normal limits in the examined patients. In 67.6% of the patients hypercholesterolemia was diagnosed, in 47.3%--hypertriglyceridemia. Type II hyperlipoproteinemia was found in 67.6% of the cases, types III and IV--in 5.3 and 9.1%, respectively, type V--in 0.5% of the patients; the type of hyperlipoproteinemia could not be identified in 10.6%, and in 6.9% of the cases the blood level of lipoproteins did not differ from the normal. The plasma renin activity examined by the radioimmunoassay in normals comprised 1.26 +/- 0.21 ng/ml/hour; in patients with the pain form of coronary atherosclerosis--6.67 +/- 0.72 ng/ml/hour; in those with arrhythmias--6.89 +/- 1.20 ng/ml/hour; in those with the painless form--2.39 +/- 1.02 ng/ml/hour. The highest renin activity was revealed in types IIa, IIb and III hyperlipoproteinemia, as well as in paroxysmal arrhythmia and cardiac fibrillation.