Rheological properties of mild pharmaceutical formulations (creams) with glucocorticosteroids, such as Triderm (Belgium), Akriderm GK (Russia) and Kanizon plus (India) were studied. The study revealed differences in the structural-strength properties of the medicines (viscosity, critical shear stress). The necessity of rheological investigations during development of generic medicines was shown.

The pediatric dosage form of Egroferon - a drug indicated for the treatment of influenza and acute respiratory infections (ARIs)

Clinical and immunological efficacy of meglumine асridonасеtаtе (cycloferon) tablets was evaluated in complex treatment of patients with newly diagnosed advanced pulmonary tuberculosis. It was shown that the use of cycloferon according to our scheme increased the efficacy of the therapy (earlier disappearance of the disease symptoms and bacteria isolation, shorter terms of cavern healing, more pronounced positive radiographic dynamics vs. the patients under the etiotropic therapy). The use of cycloferon normalized the number of gamma interferon receptors, increased the gamma interferon serum levels, reduced the incidence of the side effects (liver damage) due to the use of TB drugs. Such a use of cycloferon was cost effective. The use of sycloferon is possible in the complex treatment of outpatients with advanced pulmonary tuberculosis.

The dynamics of the redox-dependent processes in blood plasma, neutrophils and erythrocytes of the patients with ovary cancer of the IIIrd clinical stage by FIGO after polychemotherapy according to the CAP scheme is considered. In the blood plasma and erythrocytes there were estimated the values of protein oxidative modification: carbonyl derivatives at λ=346 nm, 370 nm, 430 nm and 530 nm; the lipid peroxidation parameters: malonic dialdehyde, dienic conjugates, ketodiens, shiffs bases; the fermentative chain of the antioxidant system: activities of catalase, glutationtransferase and superoxide dismutase. In the peripheral blood neutrophils there were cytochemically determined the myeloperoxidase activity and the number of the active neutrophils in the spontaneous NBTR-test. After the polychemotherapy there were detected higher levels of the protein oxidative modification products and the products of the lipid peroxidation in the blood plasma and erythrocytes of the patients. Simultaneous increase of the activity of the antioxidant enzymes in the blood plasma could be evident of a high level of the lipid antioxidants peroxidation system functioning, whereas the simultaneous decrease of the activity of the antioxidant enzymes in the erythrocytes was indicative of passible development of oxidative stress in them. After the chemotherapy there was observed a significant and reliable decrease of the total number of the neutrophils. After the second course of the chemotherapy the activity of myeloperoxidase in them in the spontaneous NBTR-test as well decreased. Such a dynamics of the redox-depended processes in various components of the blood in the tumour carrier was characteristic of the tumor biological picture and required the use of differential multicomponent antioxidant therapy in patients with ovary cancer.

Microbial endophytes present a rich and not fully studied source of novel natural biologically active compounds of wide interest all over the world. The research of natural compounds with various biological effects produced by endophytes are described in the review.

The molecular imprinted polymers (MIPs) for penicillins and tetracyclines described in the literature were analysed with a purpose of evaluating their possible use for the antibiotic sorption isolation.

The publication Is concerned with development of the technological processes for submered production of the first domestic antibiotics 70 years age. The literature data on the contribution of the microbiologists of the Kirov City and mainly the workers of the Red Army Research Institute of Epidemiology and Hygiene (nowadays Central Research Institute No. 48 of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, Kirov), to development of the manufacture processes for production of penicillin and streptomycin are reviewed.