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Regular physical activity of moderate intensity over a long period (swimming at water temperature of 33-35°C without load, 2 h per day, 5 days a week for 4 months) activated hemopoiesis in mice: stimulation of myelopoiesis in the bone marrow and increase in the percentage of erythropoietic elements in the spleen were observed. In the peripheral blood, the relative content of lymphocytes increased, that of granulocytes decreased, and plasma cells appeared. Stimulation of erythropoiesis in the spleen can be partially responsible for suppression of immune responses during physical exercise.

Disorders in erythro- and immunopoiesis were studied in B6D2F1 mice with immunodeficiency induced by graft versus host reaction and with immunocomplex glomerulonephritis. By the 6th-7th months of the disease the animals developed anemia accompanied by enhanced phagocytic activity of macrophages and production of tumor necrosis factor. Macrophage dysfunction is presumed to be a cause of anemia.

Young and middle-aged CBA mice were injected with "street" heroin in increasing doses for 14 days. Volume density of perisinusoid argirophilic fibers increased in both age groups (the increase being more pronounced in middle-aged mice), while the levels of spontaneous, LPS- and ConA-stimulated splenocyte proliferation decreased in young mice. Six months after heroin discontinuation further progress of liver fibrosis was observed in young mice.

In young, adult, and old mice fibrosis was induced by administration of CC1(4) and treated with IFN-alpha; liver fibrosis was evaluated by morphometry of argyrophilic fibers, immune status by the splenocyte proliferative response. minimum immunosuppression and maximum antifibrotic effect were observed in young mice, while adult mice exhibited pronounced immunotoxicity and weak response to interferon therapy.