Delta sleep-inducing peptide and Deltaran: potential approaches to antistress protection.

The aims of the present work were to perform a comparative study of the effects of delta sleep-inducing peptide and Deltaran on neurons in emotiogenic brain structures and to address the question of whether it is possible to prevent or decrease the negative influences of stress loads on the severity of subsequent cerebral ischemia in rats, using glycine with delta sleep-inducing peptide combined in the neuroprotective formulation Deltaran. The results showed that Deltaran and delta sleep-inducing peptide had largely the same actions on the nature of spike activity of neurons in the dorsal hippocampus, paraventricular nucleus of the hypothalamus, and ventral anterior nuclei of the thalamus, evoking activation of some of the neurons in these brain structures. The dorsal hippocampus was dominated by activation of spike activity in response to administration of delta sleep-inducing peptide; Deltaran produced activation mainly in the paraventricular nuclei of the hypothalamus.

[Cell-free plasmic DNA as a blood factor determining hemodynamics in health and in vascular pathology].

The article reviews investigations performed in the Research Neurology Institute on blood flow biomechanics which resulted in discovery of a universal permanent theological blood factor--circulating cell-free plasmic DNA reducing hydrodynamic blood resistance in accordance with Toms' effect. In vitro and in vivo experiments were made with use of drag-reducing polymers for correction of circulation. Basic mechanisms were discovered by which cell-free DNA regulates normal and affected circulation.

Effect of emotional stress on hemoglobin oxygen affinity in low resistant animals under normal conditions and during cerebral ischemia.

Hemoglobin oxygen affinity within the estimated physiological range plays an adaptive antioxidant role during acute cerebral ischemia. This range depends on individual emotional resistance. Brain ischemia induced by common carotid artery occlusion in low resistant Wistar rats increased hemoglobin oxygen affinity by 12% during the acute period.

[A role of the adhesive properties of leucocytes and blood serum in the pathogenesis of multiple sclerosis].

Adhesive properties of leucocytes were studied using an original technique based on the leukocyte adherence inhibition reaction and measuring the values of spontaneous adhesion index (SAI) and adhesion-strengthening effect (ASE) under the influence of autoserum. One hundred patients with multiple sclerosis (MS) and 53 controls were included in the study. Immunophenotyping of lymphocytes (LP) with monoclonal antibodies--markers CD3, CD4, CD8, CD16, CD20, CD25, HLA-DR and CD95--and determination of IgG, IgA, IgM and content of immune complexes were carried out in parallel.

[Delta-sleep inducing peptide and the drug deltaran: possible approaches to antistress protection].

An aim of the present study was a comparative investigation of a delta-sleep inducing peptide and the drug deltaran on the neural activity of the brain structures involved in emotional processing. Another goal was to analyze the possibility to prevent negative effects of emotional stress on brain ischemia using, along with deltaran, glycine and a delta-sleep inducing peptide. Deltaran and the delta-sleep inducing peptide exert in general similar effect on the burst activity of neurons in the dorsal hippocampus, hypothalamic paraventricular nucleus and ventral anterior thalamic nucleus, inducing amplification of the majority of recorded units.