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The paper substantiates a possibility of eye protection for military men in combat with special glasses and corrective spectacles. It shows that explosive shrapnel wounds dominate over the gunshot ones of visual organs. In the overwhelming majority of cases they are produced by small splinters with kinetic energy less than 18 J. It is found that the high-impact resistant polymeric optical material can be used for effective eye protection, which should result in a considerable reduction of eye wounds.

The elevation of LINE-elements' DNA level was revealed in blood plasma of rats exposed to electromagnetic waves. The amount of full-size 5'-containing LINE-elements copies was increased especially. Connection of this effect with retrotransposon activation and genetic instability condition of organism development is supposed.

A rate of lipid peroxidation, content of biogenic amines and cyclic nucleotides were studied in various brain structures of 168 rats under conditions of microwave irradiation within 24 min at 46 mW/cm2. Total irradiation of animals was shown to result in distinct inhibition of monoaminergic activity of brain, especially of hypothalamus, in impairment of metabolic reactions, in exhaustion of the lipid antioxidative system of brain cortex and in stimulation of the contrainsular apparatus functions.

Skin and eye injuries induced by solar UV-radiation are discussed. Penetration of this radiation into the skin, mechanisms of skin erythema and pigmentation as well as skin burns are described. The spectral sensitivity of the skin to UV-rays of different wavelengths as well as threshold doses are presented. Emergence of UV-radiation induced eye injuries, their clinical picture and threshold doses of deleterious effects which produce injuries of the eye conjunctiva, cornea, and core are described.

The action was studied of synthesized acoustic signals, similar to the natural invocatory ones by their characteristics, on the level of sexual hormones in male and female mature laboratory mice, and also the dependence of these hormonal shifts on rhythmic organization of the artificial sound signals. As a result of the experiments it was convincingly shown that synthesized acoustic signal with the frequency of 3500 Hz (S-1) caused a functional load on the glands of internal secretion which was testified by statistically significant increase in the level of sexual hormones in the blood of males (by testosterone and extradiole) and female mice (by extradiole and progesterone). In order to clear up the role of rhythmic organization of signal studies were conducted with the application of synthetic acoustic signal (S-2), different from S-1. The analysis of the data revealed the absence of significant changes in the level of sexual hormones both in males and in females during S-2 sounding.

Intensity of ascorbate-, NADPH-dependent and spontaneous lipid peroxidation were studied in mice brain and liver tissues after intravenous administration of middle molecular mass peptides, isolated from blood serum of animals with thermic burns. Positive effect of these peptides on lipid peroxidation was detected in tissues of animals with altered rate of lipid peroxidation (strong burns of 10-12% of body surface served as a biological model). The data obtained suggest that individual components of blood serum middle molecular fraction appear to exhibit the regulating effects on lipid peroxidation in animal tissues.

Dynamics of lipid peroxidation was studied in blood serum of patients with burns of various severity and degree. The burns development was accompanied by syndrome of lipid hyperperoxidation, the intensity and duration of which correlated with the disease severity. The procedure of UV-irradiated blood autotransfusion was used to correct the impairments detected. High efficiency of the procedure was demonstrated by reduction of the lipid hyperperoxidation syndrome in patients with burns.