[Stimulation of proliferation by carnosine: cellular and transcriptome approaches].

Concentration of endogenous dipeptide carnosine in human muscle tissue reaches tens of millimoles. For more than 100 years of research, a lot of data concerning carnosine functions were accumulated, among which anti-aging effects are regarded most important. Heire, effect of carnosine in cell cultures was studied.

[Experimental morphological study of posttraumatic proliferative vitreoretinopathy prevention by cell adhesion peptide Arg-Gly-Asp-Ser].

Proliferative vitreoretinopathy (PVR) was induced in 25 rabbits by injection of autologous adenosine phosphate-activated platelets in the vitreous. Injury to the internal interface retinal membrane as a result of adhesion of aggregated platelets to it, followed by the formation of an epiretinal membrane, underlies the morphogenesis of experimental PVR. Proliferative processes in the retina were paralleled by destructive atrophic changes in it, which might be due to active physiological substances released in the course of aggregation.

[Potentiation by promethazine of hypotensive effects of adrenergic drugs on intraocular pressure].

Experiments including previous installations of promethazine (pipolphen) into the conjunctival sac followed by the topical administration of beta-adrenergic blocker timolol or a sympathomimetic drug isoptoepinal (adrenaline) have been performed on 24 rabbits (48 eyes). The substantial changes in the action mode of the mentioned drugs as the enhancement of their hypotensive effect on the intraocular pressure (IOP) have been demonstrated under the performance of the above mentioned procedure. When applied after promethazine instillations, timolol induced significantly increased outflow facility of the aqueous humor that was not usually noted in the cases of timolol topical instillations without a pretreatment of the eye with promethazine.