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Polyphenol preparation of Poterium sanguisorba was tried for the treatment of experimental pregnancy abnormalities. The teratogenic and embryotoxic effects of the preparation administered in a dose of 0.75 LD50 were studied. The therapeutic doses of the drug are characterized by an immunostimulating effect on the mother and help correct the fetoplacental circulation and improve the fetal morphofunctional status.

Interrelations of the blood and lymphatic systems of the uterus have been examined in rats at pregnancy complicated with the ++phlebo-occlusive syndrome. Blood stream impediment in the caudal vena cava results in increasing diameter of the arterioles, capillaries and venules of the endo- and myometrium. Certain disturbances of blood circulation in the uterus at the ++phlebo-cclusive syndrome in the pregnancy animals, as a rule, reflect in the uterine lymph outflow; this is demonstrated as dilatation and deformity of the lymphatic vessels and capillaries, appearance of protrusions of the lymphatic vessels wall. There is a definite co-ordination in the reaction to the caudal vena cava occlusion in the intra-, ++extra-organic uterine lymphatic bed and in its regional lymph nodes, manifested as the following morphological signs: decreasing relative volume, that the lymphoid tissue occupies and increasing relative volume of the cortical and medullary intermediate sinuses.

By the morphometric method the microanatomical organization of the popliteal and kidney lymph nodes of the type Vi was studied in venous congestion. In the first experimental series (lymph nodes localize in venous congestion area) the venous congestion in the popliteal lymph nodes was created by the ligature of caudal vena cava. In the second experimental series (lymph nodes, which clean the venous congestion area--the kidney vena was tied up. The small and short time increase of the marginal sinus volume and hypertrophy of the medullary cords, which seemed about medullary substance B-zone stimulation were characteristically for the lymph nodes, localize in the venous congestion area. The sharp increase of the marginal sinus volume during the long experimental time and paracortical T-zone hyperplasia were characteristically for the lymph nodes, which clean the venous congestion area.

The littoral cells of the sinuses in the popliteal lymph nodes have been studied in Wistar rats under physiological conditions of hemodynamics and 1 h after ligation of the caudal vena cava. Intercellular clefts (1-4 mcm wide) are demonstrated to exist between the littoral cells of the internal wall of the marginal sinus. Presence of fenestrae in the peripheral thinned areas of cytoplasm is specific for these cells. The diameter of the fenestrae is 60-1,000 nm however, the fenestrae with the diameter up to 100 nm predominate. Lining of the medullar sinuses is also characterized by a high content of fenestrae, the maximal diameter of the fenestrae being the same as in the marginal sinus, although most of the fenestrae have the diameter 50-500 nm. No open intercellular clefts between the littoral cells of the medullar sinuses are revealed. In some cases, penetration of lymphocytes through the lining of the sinuses is observed. Under venous congestion, the diameter and amount of the fenestrae, size and amount of open intercellular clefts in the lining of the lymphatic sinuses increase significantly. This demonstrates its increasing permiability, having an essential importance for compensation of circulatory disturbances in the zone of the venous congestion.

Transmission and scanning electron microscopy was used to study the structural organization of the lymph nodes during venous congestion. At the early period (1 h of venous congestion) one could see an increased number of the fenestrated cells in the venous part of the capillary whereas at the later period (after 6 h to 3 days) a rise of the microvesicular transport via endotheliocytes of the arterial part of the capillary and via fenestras of the venous part. Within 7 to 14 days one could see activation of the microvesicular transport via the indicated parts of the capillary. At all the stages of venous congestion the fluid contained by the parenchyma of the lymph node penetrates via fenestras and intercellular fissures to the marginal sinus, while only via fenestra to the cerebral sinuses.