title: [Department of the molecular bases of semiotics].
abstract: Department of molecular basis of semiotics was organized in 1986. The main task of the department was to work out new approaches in estimation of the state of immune and blood system at the tissue, cell and molecular levels, using biochemical, biophysical and molecular biology techniques. There are several main directions of scientific investigations at the department. Most informational methods were collected in "immunological portrait" for differential diagnostic and complex investigation of the immune system of autoimmune patients. This group of techniques was used to study changes in the immune system of Kievites after the Chernobyl disaster. A decrease of complement and thymic serum activity was detected. Antibodies against nuclear components appeared in 20% of donors. And a higher of circulating immune complex of low molecular weight was observed. Low level of thymic serum activity in blood of autoimmune patients with rheumatoid arthritis, lupus erythematosus, diabetes, herpes and other depends on the appearance of zinc-independent timuline inhibitor less then 2000 D. Another kind of thymic hormone inhibitors was detected in thymectomized adult mice. Its effect disappears when zinc added in blood rather due to competition for lymphocyte surface receptors timuline and its inactive analogue than other mechanism. Therapeutic effect of UV irradiation of patients' blood was shown to be closely connected with the changes in thymic serum activity in respect to stabilization of thymic hormone/inhibitor ratio. The immunochemical techniques were used to detect and investigate tumor-associated chromatin antigens in human and animal tumor cells. Antigens not found in normal tissues were detected when using rabbit antibodies against chromatin of rat hepatocarcinoma and human colon and carcinoma.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
authors.forename: K S
authors.initials: KS
authors.lastname: Ternovyĭ
mesh_terms: D000047:Academies and Institutes; D000818:Animals; D001327:Autoimmune Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000503:physiopathology; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D006402:Hematologic Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000503:physiopathology* / Q000628:therapy; D006801:Humans; D007107:Immune System / Q000502:physiology*; D051379:Mice; D011817:Rabbits; D051381:Rats; D014455:Ukraine
vernacular_title: Viddil molekuliarnykh osnov semiotyky.