[Interdepartmental division of functional biochemistry].

The Department of Functional Biochemistry was organized at the Institute of Biochemistry of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine in 1990. Since that time the collaborators of the Department develop the aldehyde hypothesis of pathogenesis of chronic alcoholism and new high effective methods of its treatment; they have found certain adaptation mechanisms arising in the organism under stress states and pathogenetic mechanisms of formation and development of the radiation encephalopathy in victims of the accident at the Chernobyl NPP. The department researchers have published 92 works.